Title:Guide to reform of higher education: a European perspective
Author(s):JACOBS, Bas; VAN DER PLOEG, FrederickDate:2006Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Although there are exceptions, most European universities and institutions of higher education find it difficult to compete with the best universities in the Anglo-Saxon world. Despite the Bologna Agreement and the ambitions ...
Title:High exchange-rate volatility and low pass-through
Author(s):CORSETTI, Giancarlo; DEDOLA, Luca; LEDUC, SylvainDate:2008Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Two specifications of an open-economy model are shown to generate high exchange-rate volatility and low exchange-rate pass-through (ERPT). In the model, price discrimination causes ERPT to be incomplete in both the short ...
Title:How do Candidates Spend Their Money? Objects of campaign spending and the effectiveness of diversification
Author(s):SUDULICH, Maria Laura; WALL, MatthewDate:2011Type of Publication:ArticleSeries/Report no.:[EUDO Public Opinion Observatory]Abstract:We present a novel approach to the study of campaign effectiveness using disaggregated spending returns from the 2007 Irish general election. While previous studies have focused on overall levels of expenditure as a predictor ...
Title:'I have a Child and a Garden': Young people’s experiences of care giving in transnational families
Author(s):PANTEA, Maria-CarmenDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article concerns young people's experiences with care giving when their parents migrate. Drawing on qualitative interviews with 21 young people from Transylvania (Romania), the article examines their accounts of living ...
Title:Ideology and History
Author(s):STRATH, BoDate:2006Type of Publication:Article
Title:Il moderno movimento repubblicano irlandese fra passato e futuro
Author(s):BOSI, Lorenzo; ENGLISH, Richard; MCINTYRE, Anthony; WILSON, RobinDate:2007Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The Peace Process opened a new season in the history of Northern Ireland. Yet acts of violence continue, and the leadership of the main parties involved is in deep crisis. After offering an historical overview of the main ...
Title:Imagining European Identity: French Elites and the American Challenge in the Pompidou-Nixon Era
Author(s):GFELLER, Aurélie ElisaDate:2010Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Charles de Gaulle has cast a long shadow over French political history and history writing. In exploring the French response to the United States' 1973 'Year of Europe' initiative, this article challenges the dominant ...
Title:Immigration and the Transnational European Centre-Right: A Common Programmatic Response?
Author(s):DUNCAN, Fraser; VAN HECKE, StevenDate:2008Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:As aspects of immigration policy are brought into the competence of the EU, the role of transnational parties in co-ordinating policy choices across national boundaries grows in importance. Yet immigration is often seen ...
Title:Immigration Policies and the Ecuadorian Exodus
Author(s):BERTOLI, Simone; FERNÁNDEZ-HUERTAS MORAGA, Jesus; ORTEGA, FrancescoDate:2011Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Ecuador recently experienced an unprecedented wave of emigration following the severe economic crisis of the late 1990s. Individual-level data for Ecuador and its two main migration destinations, Spain and the United States, ...
Title:Immigration Without Inclusion: Non-nationals in nation-building in the Gulf States
Author(s):FARGUES, PhilippeDate:2011Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Migrants represent between one-third and four-fifths of the population in the Gulf States. Despite their sizable numbers, migrants can only have temporary residency, they have no access to citizenship, and they have limited ...