Title:Collusion, Competition and Democracy - Part II
Author(s):BARTOLINI, StefanoDate:2000Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:In the first part of this work, published in the Journal of Theoretical Politics 11(4), I discussed the nature of competitive interaction as opposed to other types of social interaction such as conflict, negotiation and ...
Title:Colored Semantic Networks For Content-Analysis
Author(s):MALRIEU, Jean-PierreDate:1994Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This paper adapts a widespread formalism of Knowledge Representation known in the Al literature as J. Sowa's Conceptual Graphs to the purposes of Content Analysis. It is proposed that instead of nested contexts, negation ...
Title:Communications in Movements. Social Movement as Agents of Participatory democracy
Author(s):DELLA PORTA, DonatellaDate:2011Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Literature on social movements, mass media and democracy have rarely interacted. More recently, however, in all three fields of knowledge, some opportunities for reciprocal learning and interactions developed, moved by ...
Title:Competitive and Coherent? Profiling the Europarties in the 2009 European Parliament elections
Author(s):BRESSANELLI, EdoardoDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:On the bases of the new EU Profiler data for the 2009 European Parliament elections, this work looks at two basic criteria to assess the representative potential of the EU party system: its competitiveness and the policy ...
Title:The Concept of Power: A constructivist analysis
Author(s):GUZZINI, StefanoDate:2005Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Rather than exploring once again what the concept of power can mean for constructivists, this article analyses what constructivism implies for doing a conceptual analysis; here, of power. It will try to show that besides ...
Title:Conclusion: Evaluating the Forces of Interstitial Institutional Change
Author(s):FARRELL, Henry; HERITIER, AdrienneDate:2007Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The articles in this volume provide evidence supporting the claim that organisational actors within the EU do engage in contestation over competences over a wide variety of legislative and policy-making procedures. Far ...
Title:Confrontation Still? Examining Parties' Policy Positions in Greece
Author(s):GEMENIS, Kostas; DINAS, Elias; NTINAS, IliasDate:2010Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Recent research has shown that, in several countries, the Comparative Manifestos Project (CMP) estimates of party positions do not seem to perform well in terms of face validity and reliability. A fairly typical example ...
Title:Confrontation still? Examining parties’ policy positions in Greece
Author(s):GEMENIS, Kostas; DINAS, EliasDate:2010Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Recent research has shown that, in several countries, the Comparative Manifestos Project (CMP) estimates of party positions do not seem to perform well in terms of face validity and reliability. A fairly typical example ...
Title:Consensus Democracy and Support for Populist Parties in Western Europe
Author(s):HAKHVERDIAN, Armen; KOOP, ChristelDate:2007Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Inspired by a previous debate in Acta Politica between Rudy Andeweg and Arend Lijphart on the pros and cons of consensus democracy, this article explores whether support for populist parties is traceable to the institutional ...
Title:The Constitution and Mobilisation of Political Power through Utopian Narratives in the Arctic
Author(s):DAHL, JustiinaDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Since the fifteenth century, a series of similar utopian discourses, understood as the expressions of social, technical and material desires for the unknown, have surrounded the European, Russian, and later the North ...