Title:The Europeanisation of Refugee Policies: Between human rights and internal security
Author(s):LAVENEX, SandraDate:2001Type of Publication:BookAbstract:From the beginnings of intergovernmental co-operation in the 1980s to the Amsterdam Treaty and the Charter of Fundamental Rights, the developing EU refugee policies have oscillated between the conflicting policy frames of ...
Title:Europolis: Constitutional patriotism beyond the nation-state
Author(s):NANZ, PatriziaDate:2006Type of Publication:BookAbstract:In the growing literature on European integration there is still a lack of understanding of the key political elements of this integration. In this study the author takes what is one of the most obvious assumptions about ...
Title:Evaluative Semantics: Language, cognition, and ideology
Author(s):MALRIEU, Jean-PierreDate:1999Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Evaluation, from connotations to complex judgements of value, is probably the most neglected dimension of meaning. Calling for a new understanding of truth and value, this book is a comprehensive study of evaluation in ...
Title:Evolution of Institutions
Author(s):BLYTH, Mark; HODGSON, Geoffrey M.; LEWIS, Orion; STEINMO, SvenDate:2011Type of Publication:Book
Title:The Evolution of Modern States: Sweden, Japan, and the United States
Author(s):STEINMO, SvenDate:2010Type of Publication:BookAbstract:The Evolution of Modern States is a significant contribution to the literatures on political economy, globalization, historical institutionalism, and social science methodology. The book begins with a simple question: why ...
Title:Explaining Institutional Change in Europe
Author(s):HERITIER, AdrienneDate:2007Type of Publication:BookAbstract:How and why do institutions change? Institutions, understood as rules of behaviour constraining and facilitating social interaction, are subject to different forms and processes of change. A change may be designed intentionally ...
Title:The Family in the Mediterranean Welfare States
Author(s):NALDINI, ManuelaDate:2003Type of Publication:BookAbstract:This work analyses in a historical and comparative perspective the relationship between the family and the welfare state in two Mediterranean countries: Italy and Spain. Two aims form the focus of the book. Firstly, to ...
Title:Family, kinship and state in contemporary Europe, Vol. 3: Perspectives on theory and policy
Author(s):HEADY, Patrick; KOHLI, MartinDate:2010-01-01Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Kinship is at the heart of European society, sharing with the state responsibility for welfare and social reproduction. But the workings of kinship and their connection to state policies remain controversial. Received ...
Title:Fertility in the History of the 20th Century: Trends, theories, policies, discourses
Author(s):EHMER, Josef; EHRHARDT, Jens; KOHLI, MartinDate:2011Type of Publication:BookAbstract:In this special issue, a pluridisciplinary group of scholars discuss the complex interrelationship among fertility trends, population theories, policies and public discourses. Whereas the three former fields have been ...
Title:Fighting Discrimination in Europe. The case for a race-conscious approach
Author(s):MOSCHEL, Mathias; HERMANIN, Costanza; GRIGOLO, MicheleDate:2012Type of Publication:BookAbstract:The member states of the EU have only very recently begun to consider race and racism in the framework of equality legislation and policies. As opposed to an established Anglo-Saxon tradition of naming races and using ...
Title:Flexibility and European Unification: The logic of differentiated integration
Author(s):KOLLIKER, AlkuinDate:2006Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Flexibility and European Unification identifies legal differentiation (flexibility) as the European Union's key mechanism for overcoming deadlock during the past two decades. Based on a newly developed theory of differentiated ...
Title:Flying Tiger: International Relations theory and the politics of advanced weapons
Author(s):KROTZ, UlrichDate:2011Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Flying Tiger takes a relatively obscure episode—the joint Franco-German production of a state-of-the-art and very expensive military helicopter, the Tiger Helicopter (used in the James Bond film Goldeneye, incidentally)—to ...
Title:Fondamenti di scienza politica
Author(s):DELLA PORTA, Donatella; COTTA, Maurizio; MORLINO, LeonardoDate:2004Type of Publication:BookSeries/Report no.:Strumenti
Title:Fratelli di mafia: Cosa Nostra e 'Ndrangheta
Author(s):PAOLI, LetiziaDate:2000Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Cosa Nostra e 'Ndrangheta sono fratellanze segrete e polifunzionali composte ciascuna da un centinaio di famiglie. Queste ultime si fondano su rapporti di parentela artificiali creati attraverso una cerimonia di affiliazione. ...
Title:The Gender Division of Welfare: The impact of the British and German welfare states
Author(s):DALY, Mary E.Date:2000Type of Publication:BookAbstract:The Gender Division of Welfare is an ambitious new study that raises interesting and important questions concerning the relationship between welfare states, gender differentiation and social inequality. The book traces the ...
Title:Gender, Generations and the Family in International Migration
Author(s):KRALER, Albert; KOFMAN, Eleonore; KOHLI, Martin; SCHMOLL, CamilleDate:2011Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Over the past decade, family migration has moved to the centre of political debates on migration, integration and multiculturalism in Europe. This has occurred both in national contexts and at the European Union level. In ...
Title:Giovani politici
Author(s):RECCHI, EttoreDate:1997Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Perché si entra in politica? Dove e quando nasce questa vocazione? E proprio di vocazione si tratta? In risposta a queste domande, sociologia e scienza politica offrono ipotesi troppo spesso prive di riscontri sistematici, ...