Title:Power, realism, and constructivism
Author(s):GUZZINI, StefanoDate:2013Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Framed by a new and substantial introductory chapter, the book collects Stefano Guzzini's reference articles and some less well known publications on power, realism and constructivism. By analysing theories and their ...
Title:Private interest government : beyond market and state
Author(s):STREECK, Wolfgang; SCHMITTER, Philippe C.Date:1985Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Market liberalism and state interventionism are both challenged as modes of democratic government by this book. It suggests that the development of private interest governments might be a more viable policy alternative for ...
Title:The Problem-Centred Interview: Principles and practice
Author(s):WITZEL, Andreas; REITER, HerwigDate:2012Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Interviewing is among the most commonly used methods in qualitative research. It is a pragmatic and reliable tool for collecting information and can be adapted to diverse situations and purposes. The discursive-dialogic ...
Title:Promises and Limits of Web-deliberation
Author(s):KIES, RaphaëlDate:2010Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Does the increasing usage of online political forums lead to a more deliberative democracy? This book answers to this question by presenting the evolution of the public spaces in a historical perspective, by defining and ...
Title:Protection for Exporters: Power and Discrimination in Transatlantic Trade Relations, 1930–2010
Author(s):DÜR, AndreasDate:2010Type of Publication:BookAbstract:The liberalization of transatlantic trade relations since the Great Depression is one of the key developments in the global political economy of the last hundred years. This period has seen the negotiated reduction of both ...
Title:Public Broadcasting and Political Interference
Author(s):HANRETTY, ChrisDate:2011Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Public broadcasters, like the BBC and the Italian broadcaster RAI, are some of the most important media organisations in the world. Politicians are often tempted to interfere in the workings of these broadcasters and when ...
Title:The Puzzles of Politics: Inquiries into the genesis and transformation of international relations
Author(s):KRATOCHWIL, FriedrichDate:2011Type of Publication:BookAbstract:The Puzzles of Politics brings together for the first time a collection of his key essays to explain his approach to international relations and how his thinking has developed over the last 30 years. It addresses topical ...
Title:Quality and Inequality of Education
Author(s):DRONKERS, JaapDate:2010Type of Publication:BookAbstract:This cogent analysis of data on education and society from a variety of sources sets out to provide answers to scientific and policy questions on the quality of education and the way it relates to various forms of inequality ...
Title:Quiet Politics and Business Power: Corporate Control in Europe and Japan
Author(s):CULPEPPER, Pepper D.Date:2011Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Does democracy control business, or does business control democracy? This study of how companies are bought and sold in four countries – France, Germany, Japan and the Netherlands – explores this fundamental question. It ...
Title:Re-imagining the Nation: Debates on immigrants, identities and memories
Author(s):ZOLNER, MetteDate:2000Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Why are national identities imagined in one way rather than in another? The book analyses national imaginations as an on-going reconstruction process in a political and social context in which several imaginations of the ...