Title:The Sustainability of Pension Reforms in Central, Eastern and South-eastern Europe
Author(s):GUARDIANCICH, IgorDate:2008Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The World Bank has supported the fundamental reform of unfair and wasteful Pay-As-You-Go (PAYG) systems around the world since 1994. It sponsors a systemic overhaul that involves the dual paradigmatic shift from collective ...
Title:Sweden: The Fall of the Strong State
Author(s):LINDVALL, Johannes; ROTHSTEIN, BoDate:2006Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:From the 1930s to the 1980s, Swedish politics was based on the assumption that social change could be accomplished through a specific political and administrative process. National politicians decided the aims of policy, ...
Title:Taking Evolution Seriously in Political Science
Author(s):LEWIS, Orion; STEINMO, SvenDate:2010Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:In this essay, we explore the epistemological and ontological assumptions that have been made to make political science scientific. We show how political science has generally adopted an ontologically reductionist philosophy ...
Title:Talking Europe in the Italian Public Sphere
Author(s):DELLA PORTA, Donatella; CAIANI, ManuelaDate:2007Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Italy has been considered an Euro-enthusiastic country. On the basis of claims analysis as well as semi-structured interviews with key political actors, this article presents a more nuanced image. Permissive consensus has ...
Title:Temporary Migrants, Partial Citizenship and Hypermigration
Author(s):BAUBOCK, RainerDate:2011Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Temporary migration raises two different challenges. The first is whether territorial democracies can integrate temporary migrants as equal citizens; the second is whether transnationally mobile societies can be organized ...
Title:Territorial policy communities and devolution in the UK
Author(s):KEATING, Michael; CAIRNEY, Paul; HEPBURN, EveDate:2008Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Devolution in the UK forms part of a wider process of spatial rescaling across Europe. Little
work has been done on its effect on interest articulation. The literature on policy communities
treats them as sectoral in ...
Title:Territoriality and Mobilization: The Civil Rights Campaign in Northern Ireland
Author(s):Ó DOCHARTAIGH, Niall; BOSI, LorenzoDate:2010-01-01Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article assesses how the concept of territoriality can expand our understanding of the relationship between space and political mobilization. While the spatial aspects of social movement mobilization have received ...
Title:The Autopoiesis of Administrative Systems: Niklas Luhmann on Public Administration and Public Policy
Author(s):BRANS, Marleen; ROSSBACH, StefanDate:1997Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article offers an introduction to Niklas Luhmann's theory of social systems as it pertains to public administration and policy, as a first step towards both a critique and its empirical application to empirical reality. ...
Title:The Body of the Woman Artist - Paula Modersohn-Becker and Rainer Maria Rilke on Giving Birth and Art
Author(s):HAENSCH, AnjaDate:1997Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The painter Paula Modersohn-Becker died in 1907, a fortnight after she had given birth to her daughter Mathilde. In 1908, Rainer Maria Rilke dedicated to her the, in the aftermath very famous, poem 'Requiem for a Friend', ...
Title:The Business Firm Model of Party Organisation: Cases From Spain and Italy
Author(s):HOPKIN, Jonathan; PAOLUCCI, CaterinaDate:1999Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Discussion of new forms of party organisation have largely focused on the ways in which institutionalised parties have adapted to pressures towards `catch-all' or `electoral-professional' behaviour. This article examines ...