Title:Scottish Independence
Author(s):KEATING, MichaelDate:2009Type of Publication:Article
Title:Searching for the Right Organization - Ideology and Party Structure in East-Central Europe
Author(s):ENYEDI, Zsolt; LINEK, LukasDate:2008Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The article examines four centre-right parties in East-Central Europe in order to assess the impact of ideology on party organization and revisit the thesis of organizational weakness in the region. The data collected ...
Title:Searching the net: Websites’ qualities in the Global Justice Movement
Author(s):DELLA PORTA, Donatella; MOSCA, LorenzoDate:2009Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Notwithstanding a growing interest in online politics, the analysis of web sites’ qualities by social movement organizations (SMOs) has received little attention in social research. In creating their sites, SMOs often ...
Title:Second of the two special issues: empirical approaches to deliberative democracy
Author(s):CONOVER, Pamela Johnston; SEARING, Donald D.; FISHKIN, James S.; LUSKIN, Robert C.; KRIESI, Hanspeter; JANSSEN, Davy; KIES, Raphaël; DELLA PORTA, Donatella; ULBERT, Cornelia; RISSE, Thomas; NANZ, Patrizia; STEFFEK, Jens; HABERMAS, JürgenDate:2005Type of Publication:Article
Title:Secondary Vocational-Education and the Transition From School to Work
Author(s):ARUM, Richard; SHAVIT, YossiDate:1995Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article reevaluates the effects of high school vocational education on students' odds of being unemployed and students' occupational attainment in the transition from school to work. The question posed is whether ...
Title:Security Expertise in the European Union: The Challenges of Comprehensiveness and Accountability
Author(s):SCHROEDER, Ursula C.Date:2006Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Abstract
This article examines the role of expert knowledge for security political decision-making in the European Union. It observes that due to the pressures of an increasingly complex and uncertain security environment, ...
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:Self-Rated Health and Sickness-Related Absence: The Modifying Role of Civic Participation
Author(s):LANCEE, Bram; TER HOEVEN, Claartje L.Date:2010Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:In this study, we examined civic participation as an effect modifier between self-rated health and absence from work. Building on the theoretical framework of social exchange, we use German data to test a conceptual model ...
Title:Self-Regulation by Associations. Collective Action Problems in European Environmental Regulation
Author(s):HERITIER, Adrienne; ECKERT, SandraDate:2009Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:How and to what effect do firms coordinate their actions to deal with the negative external effects of productive activity? Under which conditions do associations engage in self-regulation and how do they tackle the specific ...