Browsing SPS Articles by Issue Date

Title: Planting the Seeds of Change Inside? Functional cooperation with authoritarian regimes and socialization into democratic governance Author(s): FREYBURG, Tina Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Article Abstract: Is functional cooperation with authoritarian regimes a blessing or a curse for democratization? Scholars predominantly view cooperation with authoritarian regimes as counterproductive in terms of democratization because ...

Title: État des savoirs et pistes de recherche sur la violence politique Author(s): BOSI, Lorenzo Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Article

Title: Bringing the Bureaucrats Back In: Neoliberal tax reform in New Zealand Author(s): CHRISTENSEN, Johan Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Article Abstract: New Zealand moved further in neo-liberal tax reform than most other advanced economies over the last three decades. The article investigates this extreme case to address the question of what explains major neo-liberal ...

Title: Debating the Sources and Prospects of European Integration Author(s): KROTZ, Ulrich; MAHER, Richard; MCCOURT, David M.; GLENCROSS, Andrew; RIPSMAN, Norrin M.; SHEETZ, Mark S.; HAINE, Jean-Yves; ROSATO, Sebastian Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Article

Title: Competitive and Coherent? Profiling the Europarties in the 2009 European Parliament elections Author(s): BRESSANELLI, Edoardo Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Article Abstract: 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: Patterns of Radicalization in Political Activism: An introduction Author(s): DELLA PORTA, Donatella; HAUPT, Heinz-Gerhard Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Article Series/Report no.: [COSMOS] Abstract: Research on political violence occurs in waves, generally corresponding to the successive swells of violence that in many ways define modern society. Critically, this violence is characterized as much by diversity as by ...

Title: Explaining Pathways to Armed Activism in the Provisional Irish Republican Army, 1969–1972 Author(s): BOSI, Lorenzo Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Article Abstract: In this article three pathways into armed activism are identified among those who joined the Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA) in Northern Ireland between 1969 and 1972. The accounts of former volunteers generally ...

Title: Relational Dynamics and Processes of Radicalization: A comparative framework Author(s): ALIMI, Eitan Y.; BOSI, Lorenzo; DEMETRIOU, Chares Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Article Abstract: We propose an explanatory framework for the comparative study of radicalization that focuses on its “how” and “when” questions. We build on the relational tradition in the study of social movements and contentious politics ...

Title: Perpetual What? Injury, sovereignty, and a cosmopolitan view of immigration Author(s): VALDEZ, Inés Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Article Abstract: Can Kantian cosmopolitanism contribute to normative approaches to immigration? Kant developed the universal right to hospitality in the context of late eighteenth-century colonialism. He claimed that non-European countries ...

Title: Institutions and Sectoral Logics in Creative Industries: The media cluster in Cologne Author(s): APITZSCH, Birgit; PIOTTI, Geny Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Article Abstract: Institutional actors at the regional or local level increasingly see the development of the creative industry sector as a means of improving local competitiveness. However, research on relations between institutions and ...

Title: Zur Auswirkung marktwirtschaftlicher Beschleunigung auf Jugendliche in Osteuropa Author(s): REITER, Herwig Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Article Abstract: The issue of acceleration, which with regard to Eastern Europe is well captured in the notion of “catchup modernization“ (Zapf) together with the idea of a normative movement of change, is crucial to the transformation of ...

Title: On Biographical Alienation Author(s): REITER, Herwig Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Article

Title: Interdisciplinarity and Tax Law: The case of legal autopoiesis Author(s): VASCONCELOS VILAÇA, Guilherme Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Article Abstract: This paper critically evaluates interdisciplinary research in tax law. The strategy I follow runs at two levels of abstraction. First, I examine a concrete example of interdisciplinary research in taxation. More precisely, ...

Title: Guest Editorial: Processes of radicalization and de-radicalization Author(s): DELLA PORTA, Donatella; LAFREE, Gary Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Article Series/Report no.: [COSMOS] Abstract: The study of radicalization and de-radicalization, understood as processes leading towards the increased or decreased use of political violence, is central to the question of how political violence emerges, how it can be ...

Title: Interactive Diffusion: The coevolution of police and protest behavior with an application to transnational contention Author(s): DELLA PORTA, Donatella; TARROW, Sidney Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Article Series/Report no.: [COSMOS] Abstract: In this article, the authors focus attention on a poorly understood aspect of contentious politics: the interaction between the transnational diffusion of new forms of protest behavior and police practices in response to ...

Title: Presentación. Desafíos metodológicos en la investigación de la participación Author(s): FONT, Joan; DELLA PORTA, Donatella; SINTOMER, Yves Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Article Series/Report no.: [COSMOS] Abstract: Participation is a well-established subject in the social sciences. Individual participation, non-governmental organizations, interest groups, and social movements have all been important fields of research for years, at ...

Title: Desperately Seeking Politics: Political attitudes of participants in three demonstrations for worker's rights in Italy Author(s): DELLA PORTA, Donatella; REITER, Herbert Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Article Series/Report no.: [COSMOS] Abstract: Social conflicts tend to take different forms. This article compares three demonstrations on issues of social justice in Italy: a traditional Labor Day demonstration, a march supporting a general strike called by the largest ...

Title: What Determines Change in the Division of Housework Over the Course of Marriage? Author(s): GRUNOW, Daniela; SCHULZ, Florian; BLOSSFELD, Hans Peter Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Article Abstract: 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: An Anglophone Invention? The difficult emergence of a French Security sector reform practice Author(s): BESANCENOT, Sophie Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Article Abstract: The concept of security sector reform (SSR) was first formulated by UK development actors. Since 2008, France has officially adopted an SSR strategy and promoted the concept at the European level during the country's 2008 ...

Title: Changes in the Economy, the Labor Market, and Expectations for the Future: What might Europe and the United States look like in twenty-five years? Author(s): BUCHHOLZ, Sandra; BLOSSFELD, Hans Peter Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Article Abstract: In times of globalization, modern societies' labor markets have been marked by an increasing segmentation and growing social inequality. Youths in particular have experienced a worsening of their employment chances in the ...

Browsing SPS Articles by Issue Date

DSpace/Manakin Repository

Browsing SPS Articles by Issue Date

Browse

All of Cadmus

This Collection

My Account

Statistics

About the EUI

Programmes & Fellowships

Departments & Centres

Research

Services & Admin