Title:The Parameters of Party Systems
Author(s):BARDI, Luciano; MAIR, PeterDate:2008Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Despite the scepticism that increasingly surrounds their role and standing in contemporary democracies, scholarly interest in political parties continues unabated. But this interest is also proving uneven, with relatively ...
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:Participatory budgeting in Europe: potentials and challenges
Author(s):SINTOMER, Yves; HERZBERG, Carsten; RÖCKE, AnjaDate:2008Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The 'transfer' of participatory budgeting from Brazil to Europe has been a highly differentiated process. In Porto Alegre, this innovative methodology enabled democratization and social justice to be articulated. In Europe, ...
Title:Patterns of Radicalization in Political Activism: An introduction
Author(s):DELLA PORTA, Donatella; HAUPT, Heinz-GerhardDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleSeries/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:Pensions and Social Inclusion in Three ex-Yugoslav Countries: Slovenia, Croatia and Serbia
Author(s):GUARDIANCICH, IgorDate:2010Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Building upon the research by Meyer et al. (2007), this study employs risk biographies to evaluate how three ex-Yugoslav pension systems cope with the social exclusion of the elderly. The article simulates pension entitlements ...
Title:Perpetual What? Injury, sovereignty, and a cosmopolitan view of immigration
Author(s):VALDEZ, InésDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract: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 ...