Title:Mobilizing on the Extreme Right: Germany, Italy, and the United States
Author(s):CAIANI, Manuela; DELLA PORTA, Donatella; WAGEMANN, ClaudiusDate:2012Type of Publication:BookSeries/Report no.:[COSMOS]Abstract:Research on the extreme right is rare, and the extreme right has even more rarely been analysed as a social movement. In this volume, the extreme right is compared in Italy, Germany, and the United States using concepts ...
Title:The Moral Economy of Welfare States: Britain and Germany compared
Author(s):MAU, SteffenDate:2003Type of Publication:BookAbstract:The welfare state can be regarded as the major institutional arrangement of western societies that contributes to a socially accepted allocation of resources amongst the members of a given society. It is a means by which ...
Title:Moral Responsibility and Global Justice. A Human Rights Approach
Author(s):CHWASZCZA, ChristineDate:2007Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Arguing for a dual role of human rights as legal rights and moral standards
of legitimacy, Chwaszcza extends their role as normative correctives of the
achieved status quo in law and political practice to international ...
Title:Movimenti sociali e violenza politica
Author(s):BOSI, Lorenzo; DELLA PORTA, DonatellaDate:2011Type of Publication:BookAbstract:This special issue of the Italian journal devoted to political participation and social movement studies collects essays on different forms of political violence in Greece, Ireland, Egypt, Cyprus and Italy. Looking at the ...
Title:Movimento sindacale e società italiana
Author(s):ACCORNERO, Aris; PIZZORNO, Alessandro; TRENTIN, Bruno; TRONTI, MarioDate:1977Type of Publication:Book
Title:The Myth of the Clash of Civilizations
Author(s):BOTTICI, Chiara; CHALLAND, BenoîtDate:2010-01-01Type of Publication:BookAbstract:While globalization unifies the world, divisions re-emerge within it in the form of a spectacular separation between Islam and the West. How can it be that Huntington's contested idea of a clash of civilizations became ...
Title:National Governments and the Control of the Internet: A digital challenge
Author(s):GIACOMELLO, GiampieroDate:2005Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Over the last decade, the Internet has transformed how information can be made available-it is now used to transfer information about things as varied as financial transactions and celebrity gossip and to link and coordinate ...
Title:Nationalism in Italian Politics: The stories of the northern league, 1980-2000
Author(s):TAMBINI, Damian AngeloDate:2001Type of Publication:BookAbstract:This book is the first full-length study available in English to trace the extraordinary history of the Italian Northern Leagues during the 1980s and 1990s. At a time when the postwar First Republic entered a crisis amid ...
Title:Nationalism in the Troubled Triangle: Cyprus, Greece and Turkey
Author(s):AKTAR, Ayhan; KIZILYUREK, Niyazi; OZKIRIMLI, UmutDate:2010-01-01Type of Publication:BookAbstract:This is the first systematic study of nationalism in Cyprus, Greece and Turkey to date in the English language. Bringing scholars from Greece, Turkey and both sides of the dead zone in Cyprus (and beyond) together, the ...
Title:New Instruments for Environmental Policy in the EU
Author(s):GOLUB, JonathanDate:2000Type of Publication:BookAbstract:This item is printed on demand. Please allow up to 10 days extra for printing & delivery. New Instruments for Environmental Policy in the EU provides a comprehensive analysis of the debate over new forms of environmental ...
Title:New Modes of Governance in Europe: Governing in the Shadow of Hierarchy
Author(s):HERITIER, Adrienne; RHODES, MartinDate:2011Type of Publication:BookAbstract:The contributors to this volume define governance as a specific mode of production of norms and public goods created via co-production; where the co-producers transcend different levels in Europe's multi-level polity. These ...
Title:New Xenophobia in Europe
Author(s):BAUMGARTL, Bernd; FAVELL, AdrianDate:1995Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Predominantly within Europe, there has been a dramatic upsurge in xenophobic attitudes and ethnic violence. This work analyzes most European countries for the treatment of, and the action against foreigners. It describes ...