Title:Scienza Politica
Author(s):COTTA, Maurizio; DELLA PORTA, Donatella; MORLINO, LeonardoDate:2008Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Il volume, qui presentato in una nuova edizione aggiornata, offre una panoramica completa delle tematiche costitutive della scienza politica. I primi capitoli propongono una definizione della disciplina, delineandone ...
Title:Scottish Social Democracy
Author(s):KEATING, MichaelDate:2007Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Scotland is a country of strong progressive traditions and could be a model
for a renewed social democracy. Devolution has given it a chance to show
what a small self-governing nation, within a wide British and ...
Title:Set-Theoretic Methods for the Social Sciences: A guide to qualitative comparative analysis
Author(s):SCHNEIDER, Carsten Q.; WAGEMANN, ClaudiusDate:2012Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) and other set-theoretic methods distinguish themselves from other approaches to the study of social phenomena by using sets and the search for set relations. In virtually all social ...
Title:Simone Weil: Die Politik der Askese
Author(s):MOULAKIS, AthanasiosDate:1981Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Simone Weil (1909-1943) ist bislang vor allem als religiöse Denkerin bekannt. Ihr politisches Denken wurde, soweit man sich überhaupt systematisch damit beschäftigte, entweder in der polemischen Absicht untersucht, sie als ...
Title:The Social Construction of an Industry: A world of chemical fibres
Author(s):KENIS, PatrickDate:1992Type of Publication:BookAbstract:The systematic study of collective action by business is an "enfant industry" in the scholarly enterprise. Compared to the thousands of volumes devoted to describing, explaining, and (often) extolling the action of trade ...
Title:Social Movements and Europeanization
Author(s):DELLA PORTA, Donatella; CAIANI, ManuelaDate:2009Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Are social movement organizations euroskeptical? Or do they accept the EU as a new level of governance to place pressure on? Do they provide a critical capital, necessary for the political structuring of the EU? This book ...
Title:Social Movements in a Globalizing world (second expanded edition)
Author(s):DELLA PORTA, Donatella; KRIESI, Hanspeter; RUCHT, DieterDate:2009Type of Publication:BookAbstract:The growing interdependence on a global scale constitutes a challenge for both the mobilization of social movements and social movement theory. This volume, now available in paperback, attempts to adjust the perspective ...
Title:A Social Psychology of Party Behaviour
Author(s):TRIANDAFYLLIDOU, AnnaDate:1997Type of Publication:BookAbstract:This book offers a new approach for the analysis of party campaigning. The author reviews critically social-psychological theories regarding social influence and inter-group relations in order to construct new analytical ...
Title:Socioeconomic Differences in Old Age Mortality
Author(s):HOFFMANN, RasmusDate:2008Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Social differences in health and mortality constitute a persistent finding in epidemiological, demographic, and sociological research. This topic is increasingly discussed in the political debate and is among the most ...
Title:Sociologia dei movimenti globali
Author(s):DELLA PORTA, DonatellaDate:2005Type of Publication:BookSeries/Report no.:Rassegna italiana di sociologia
Title:Sopprimere la lontananza uccide: Donald Davidson e la teoria dell'interpretazione
Author(s):SPARTI, DavideDate:1994Type of Publication:BookAbstract:La metafora che da il titolo a questo saggio su Davidson vuole sottolineare l’importanza delle differenze culturali nel processo interpretativo. Partendo da un’analisi attenta e rigorosa della teoria davidsoniana ...
Title:Sovereignty and European Integration: Towards a post-Hobbesian order
Author(s):WIND, MarleneDate:2001Type of Publication:BookAbstract:From the point of departure of international relations theory it is not an easy task to come to grips with the European integration process. We are faced with a situation where some of the world's oldest and traditionally ...
Title:Special Responsibilities: Global problems and American power
Author(s):BUKOVANSKY, Mlada; CLARK, Ian; ECKERSLEY, Robyn; PRICE, Richard; REUS-SMIT, Christian; WHEELER, Nicholas J.Date:2012Type of Publication:BookAbstract:The language of special responsibilities is ubiquitous in world politics, with policymakers and commentators alike speaking and acting as though particular states have, or ought to have, unique obligations in managing ...
Title:Stability without Statehood. Lessons from Europe's History before the Sovereign State
Author(s):HALDÉN, PeterDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:BookAbstract:The way the sovereign state is taken for granted in political theory prevents an explanation of historical and contemporary organizations and phenomena different from this ideal type. Peter Haldén bypasses the state and ...
Title:State Reform and Development in the Middle East: Turkey and Egypt in the post-liberalization era
Author(s):ADLY, AmrDate:2012Type of Publication:BookAbstract:The economies of Turkey and Egypt, remarkably similar until the early 1980s, have since taken divergent paths. Turkey has successfully implemented a policy of export led industrialisation whilst Egypt’s manufacturing ...