Title:Do Deliberative and Participatory Processes Matter? Crafting trust in political institutions
Author(s):NIELSEN HASSING, JulieDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Why do people trust certain political institutions and not others, and how best to account for trust’s relationship with democratic participation? This dissertation focuses on the relationship between democratic participation ...
Title:The Domestic Impact of Europe: Institutional adaptation in Germany and Spain
Author(s):BORZEL, Tanja A.Date:1999Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Tanja Borzel argues that the effect of Europeanization on the politics and institutions of the EU's member states depends on the degree of conflict between European and domestic norms and rules. The thesis examines the ...
Title:E Pluribus Europa? Assessing the Viability of the EU
Author(s):GLENCROSS, AndrewDate:2007Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:As a novel and complex polity, also subject to endless proposals for institutional reform, the viability of the EU is an open but under-theorized question. This thesis conceptualizes EU viability from an internal perspective, ...
Title:Economic Disadvantage in Central and Eastern Europe: What difference does social assistance make?
Author(s):AVRAM, SilviaDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The present study analyses the impact of social assistance programs on poverty, broadly construed as economic disadvantage, in eight Central and East European countries during the mid-2000s. It does that by examining ...
Title:The Economic Returns of Immigrants' Bonding and Bridging Social Capital
Author(s):LANCEE, BramDate:2010Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This thesis aims at analyzing to what extent different forms of social capital can help immigrants in the Netherlands and Germany to make headway on the labour market. Two forms of social capital are identified. Bonding ...
Title:The Efficacy of Sanctions of the European Union: When and why do they work?
Author(s):PORTELA, ClaraDate:2008Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The present investigation analyses the efficacy of sanctions imposed by the European Union against third countries. It looks upon measures imposed after, or in force by 1992, year of the signing of the Treaty on European ...