Title:Selective Flexibilization and Deregulation of the Labor Market: The answer of Continental and Southern Europe
Author(s):BLOSSFELD, Hans Peter; BUCHHOLZ, Sandra; HOFÄCKER, Dirk; BERTOLINI, SoniaDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:In this article, we reconstruct the institutional responses of different European welfare states and their implications for individual life course and employment trajectories and the related nation-specific patterns of ...
Title:L’Europa nella post-globalità: dal multipolarismo al multilateralismo 2.0
Author(s):FERRARA, PasqualeDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Proprio nel momento in cui gli assetti internazionali stanno cambiando e l’Europa avrebbe bisogno di unità per imporsi nel panorama internazionale, si assiste a una nuova ondata neosovranista. Se l’Unione vuole riabilitare ...
Title:Classifying an Anomaly
Author(s):SCHMITTER, Philippe C.Date:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Opening a symposium on Perry Anderson's The New Old World, Philippe Schmitter records its divergences from the existing EU literature. How should the Union itself be categorized, and what futures await it?
Title:Il carisma politico
Author(s):PAPPAS, Takis S.Date:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This paper seeks to bring political charisma back into the study of comparative politics by reconstructing the concept and rendering it applicable to empirical research. Unlike previous approaches, the present study examines ...
Title:La perception de la pauvreté dans un monde globalisé
Author(s):BEDOCK, Camille; DURU-BELLAT, Marie; TENRET, EliseDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:En s’appuyant sur les données de la dernière enquête du World Value Survey, le texte explore ce que les individus d’une cinquantaine de pays considèrent comme les problèmes les plus importants du monde. On se focalise sur ...
Title:Insecure Alliances: Risk, inequality, and support for the Welfare State
Author(s):REHM, Philipp; HACKER, Jacob S.; SCHLESINGER, MarkDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Popular support for the welfare state varies greatly across nations and policy domains. We argue that these variations—vital to understanding the politics of the welfare state—reflect in part the degree to which economic ...
Title:The Transformation of the Arab World
Author(s):ROY, OlivierDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Something irreversible happened in the Arab Spring. Whatever ups and downs may follow, we are witnessing the beginning of a process by which democratization is becoming rooted in Arab societies.The article explores the ...
Title:International Relations, Irrelevant? Don’t blame theory
Author(s):REUS-SMIT, ChristianDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:It is now commonplace to bemoan our field’s lack of practical relevance, and to blame this sorry situation on our penchant for ever-more abstract theorising over the analysis of real-world phenomena. This article challenges ...
Title:National Parties and Group Membership in the European Parliament: Ideology or pragmatism?
Author(s):BRESSANELLI, EdoardoDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This contribution investigates the factors behind political group membership in the European Parliament. In June 2009, more than 150 national parties, from the 27 member countries, joined one of the seven transnational ...
Title:Fresh Views on the Old Past: The postage stamps of the Mexican bicentennial
Author(s):HOYO, HenioDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The year 2010 in Mexico marked both the 200th anniversary of the start of its independence movement and the 100th anniversary of its revolution. Besides several public events, a number of items including commemorative ...
Title:What Determines Change in the Division of Housework Over the Course of Marriage?
Author(s):GRUNOW, Daniela; SCHULZ, Florian; BLOSSFELD, Hans PeterDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article analyses the changing division of housework between husbands and wives in western Germany. Using representative longitudinal data from the Bamberg Panel Study of Married Couples, the authors analyse how the ...
Title:The Negotiated Revolution in Hungary
Author(s):BRUSZT, LaszloDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The paper is an updated version of a piece that I wrote about the Hungarian regime change of 1989 with some cautious parallels to the North African regime changes. It analyses the strategies of the opponents and the ...
Title:Towards an Institutionalized Language Policy for the French Basque Country? Actors, processes and outcomes
Author(s):HARGUINDEGUY, Jean-Baptiste; ITÇAINA, XabierDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This paper focuses on the progressive institutionalization of the Basque language policy (also called Euskera) in the French Basque Country (Iparralde) since the Second World War. In view of this, it questions how such a ...
Title:Economie sociale et solidaire et territoires : un couple allant de soi ?
Author(s):PECQUEUR, Bernard; ITÇAINA, XabierDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:L’ancrage territorial constitue, avec le fonctionnement démocratique et la solidarité économique, l’une des caractéristiques majeures de l’économie sociale et solidaire (ESS). Loin de postuler une territorialité spontanée ...
Title:Parliamentary Informatics Projects: Who are their users and what is their impact?
Author(s):OSTLING, AlinaDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The past decade has brought a boom of online initiatives that monitor performance of parliaments – a practice commonly referred to as ‘parliamentary informatics’. A recent survey identified 191 organisations monitoring ...
Title:Religion and Democracy: International, transnational and global issues
Author(s):FERRARA, PasqualeDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Growing attention is given in IR theory and diplomatic circles to the ambivalent role of religion in world politics. However, there is a need for more analytical clarity, identifying at least four different domains: religions ...
Title:The Study of the Consequences of Armed Groups: Lessons from the social movement literature
Author(s):BOSI, Lorenzo; GIUGNI, MarcoDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Despite the development of the political violence and terrorism literature, which has taken a strong forward movement in the past decade, scientific works on the consequences of armed groups are still rare. This article ...