Title:E-politics in a Global Context
Author(s):LIVERMORE ROMM, Celia; CALDERARO, AndreaDate:2010Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Scholars researching the field of E-politics have been interested in the potential of the Internet to enable individual self-expression, as well as, to facilitate the linking of citizens and political institutions by ...
Title:Ehrenamt: Formen, Dauer und kulturelle Grundlagen des Engagements
Author(s):EHRHARDT, JensDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Ehrenamtliches Engagement ist ein Grundpfeiler unserer Gesellschaft. Trotzdem ist bislang unbekannt, über welche Zeiträume Ehrenämter ausgeübt werden. Anhand empirischer Analysen zeigt Jens Ehrhardt, dass sich Freiwillige ...
Title:Elections and Voters
Author(s):VAN DER EIJK, Cees; FRANKLIN, Mark N.Date:2009Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Provides a state-of-the-art assessment of what we know about voting behavior and the character, consequences and significance of elections in democratic states. Uniquely broad-ranging in scope, it shows how patterns of ...
Title:Electoral Change: Responses to evolving social and attitudinal structures in western countries
Author(s):FRANKLIN, Mark N.; MACKIE, Thomas; VALEN, Henry; [et al.]Date:2009Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Until the last quarter of the 20th Century, Western party systems appeared to be frozen and stability was generally taken to be the central characteristic of individual-level party choice. But during the 1970s and 1980s, ...
Title:Emerging Diplomatic Elites in Post-communist Europe: Analysis of diplomats
Author(s):DIGOL, DianaDate:2010-01-01Type of Publication:BookAbstract:This book presents the results of a study of the process of diplomatic elite transformation in post-communist countries. The study aims to analyse whether circulation or reproduction processes prevailed among diplomatic ...
Title:Enfoques y metodologías en las ciencias sociales : una perspectiva pluralista
Author(s):DELLA PORTA, Donatella; KEATING, MichaelDate:2013Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Este es un nuevo y revolucionario manual que ofrece a profesores y estudiantes de ciclos superiores los principales enfoques y metodologías de investigación en el campo de las ciencias sociales. Escrito por un destacado ...
Title:Ethical Traceability and Communicating Food
Author(s):KORTHALS, Michiel; COFF, Christian; BARLING, David; NIELSEN, ThorkildDate:2008Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Traceability – the ability to track a product from farm to plate – is now widely used in the food sector for a range of purposes: it allows companies to improve efficiency, facilitates product recall, and helps producers ...
Title:EU Federalism and Constitutionalism. The Legacy of Altiero Spinelli
Author(s):GLENCROSS, Andrew; TRECHSEL, Alexander H.Date:2010Type of Publication:BookAbstract:This work represents the first book-length study of the travails of the implementation of federalism at the European level from the perspective of Altiero Spinelli's ideas and his political life, which were both devoted ...
Title:Europa: l'impossibile status quo
Author(s):CRESPO, Enrique BaronDate:1996Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Nel 1993 un gruppo di studiosi e politici di diversi paesi, con diverse esperienze professionali, si sono spontaneamente uniti, sotto la presidenza di Kohnstamm, con l'intento di contribuire a una riflessione sistematica ...
Title:Europe and the Breakup of Yugoslavia: A political failure in search of a scholarly explanation
Author(s):LUCARELLI, SoniaDate:2000Type of Publication:BookAbstract:On June 26, 1991, after some 46 years without a war in Europe, violent conflict erupted in the territory of what used to be the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. It took more than four years of atrocities before a ...
Title:European Crisis Management in the 1980s
Author(s):WINN, NeilDate:1996Type of Publication:BookAbstract:This study traces three episodes in west European approaches to international crises in the early-to mid-1980s, with a particular emphasis on foreign policy co-ordination between France, West Germany and the United Kingdom, ...
Title:European Foreign and Security Policy: States, Power, Institutions, and American Hegemony
Author(s):GEGOUT, CatherineDate:2010Type of Publication:BookAbstract:The European Union's (EU) Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) stipulates that all member states must unanimously ratify policy proposals through their representatives on the EU Council. Intergovernmentalism, or the ...
Title:European foreign policy making toward the Mediterranean
Author(s):BICCHI, FedericaDate:2007Type of Publication:BookAbstract:A comprehensive and theoretically informed examination of European foreign policy making towards the Mediterranean, from 1957 to nowadays. The book focuses on the reasons and the patterns of Europeans’ actions, with a ...