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Title:Cost and time escalation in UK defence procurement programmes Author(s):HUTTON, RogerDate:1989Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 1989Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; SPS; PhD Thesis
Title:Counter-terrorism from Afar : policies, governance and challenges in the prevention of radicalization and countering violent extremism (P/CVE) in the European Union Author(s):BOLAÑOS SOMOANO, Inés Date:2023Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2023Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; SPS; PhD ThesisAbstract:In the 21st Century, P/CVE has become one of the most popular counter-terrorism policy areas. P/CVE, Preventing and/or Countering Violent Extremism, is a pre-emptive approach to impede mobilization against political violence ...
Title:Cracking meritocracy from the starting gate : social inequality in skill formation and school choice Author(s):GIL-HERNÁNDEZ, Carlos J.Date:2020Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2020Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; SPS; PhD ThesisAbstract:In post-industrial societies, a college education is the main channel for upper classes to prevent their children falling down the social ladder, while, for working classes, it is the best bet for upward mobility. Despite ...
Title:Creating 'the Self' by Outlawing 'the Other'? EU foreign policy sanctions and the quest for credibility Author(s):HELLQUIST, ElinDate:2012Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2012Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; SPS; PhD ThesisAbstract:The European Union (EU) turns increasingly to negative sanctions - a classical tool of international relations and the sharpest expression of the EU’s common foreign and security policy (CFSP) - in response to a variety ...
Title:Creating capitalist labour markets : a comparative-institutionalist analysis of labour market reform in the Czech Republic and Hungary, 1989-2002 Author(s):KEUNE, MaartenDate:2006Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2006Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; SPS; PhD ThesisAbstract:The present study presents a comparative neo-institutionalist analysis of labour market institutions in the Czech Republic and Hungary in the period 1989-2002. It aims to contribute to the contemporary debates on institutional ...
Title:Cultures and institutions in transboundary relations : the environmental protection of the Rhine and the great lakes Author(s):VERWEIJ, MarcoDate:1998Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 1998Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; SPS; PhD ThesisAbstract:Marco Verweij presents a new and challenging theoretical framework within which to understand international relations, based on the cultural theory developed by Mary Douglas, Michael Thompson, Aaron Wildavsky, and others. ...
Title:The curious prevalence of austerity : economic ideas in public debates on the Eurozone crisis in Ireland and Finland, 2008-2012 Author(s):SALO, SannaDate:2017Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2017Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; SPS; PhD ThesisAbstract:This thesis explores why, and in what political process, austerity became the uniformly accepted policy response of Eurozone governments in the economic crisis of 2008–2012. It traces the path to austerity in two distinct ...
Title:Dangerous transitions in the 'new West' : youth, work and unemployment in post-Soviet Lithuania Author(s):REITER, HerwigDate:2008Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2008Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; SPS; PhD ThesisAbstract:Unemployment is one of the most important new features of the post-communist world of work. Following the collapse of the communist regimes, the socio-economic reorientation of these societies towards market democracy ...
Title:Das regulative Netzwerk Risiko und regulative Politik im bundesdeutschen Kernenergiekonflikt Author(s):HUBER, MichaelDate:1991Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 1991Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; SPS; PhD Thesis
Title:David and Goliath : power politics and military conflict in the backyards of major states Author(s):DRIEDGER, Jonas Date:2020Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2020Version:Chapter 5 ‘Russo-Ukrainian Relations since 1992 and the Outbreak of War in 2014' of the PhD thesis partially draws upon an earlier version published as an article 'Conflict between Russia and its neighbors since 1992 : the cases of Belarus and Ukraine' (2018) in the ‘UPTAKE Working Paper, 2018/10'. ’Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; SPS; PhD ThesisAbstract:The dissertation assesses the causes of peace and armed conflict between major powers and nearby states with inferior military capabilities. Although such conflicts have decisively shaped modern history, existing research ...
Title:Dead end : Israeli militarism and the dynamics of state retribution Author(s):DOROT, RoniDate:2013Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2013Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; SPS; PhD ThesisAbstract:Based on sociological and historical research centered in Israel this dissertation interrogates the centrality of retaliatory practices in Israeli security policy and culture of militarism. More specifically I ask how is ...
Title:Dealing with dependency differently : the political economy of policy deviations in the Visegráds Author(s):SIMONS, Jasper Paul Date:2021Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2021Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; SPS; PhD ThesisAbstract:Why have the Visegráds – i.e. Czechia, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia – dissimilarly deviated from the political economy status quo of the early 2000s, even though their transition to liberal market democracy and FDI-led ...
Title:Deciding to migrate : the role of social preferences, biased beliefs and superstition in a risky choice Author(s):GEREKE, JohannaDate:2016Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2016Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; SPS; PhD ThesisAbstract:This dissertation explores how individuals understand and evaluate risks when making migration decisions. Migration entails serious financial risks, including upfront payments to labour brokers or human smugglers whose ...
Title:Decision making under risk in organisations: the case of German waste management Author(s):KÄMPER, EckardDate:1999Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 1999Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; SPS; PhD Thesis
Title:The defence and security of Western Europe in a new era : breaking the vicious circle of paradox in the European security and defence identitycommon defence policy process? Author(s):LINDLEY-FRENCH, JulianDate:1997Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 1997Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; SPS; PhD Thesis
Title:Defending Democracy: reactions to extremist parties in interwar European democracies Author(s):CAPOCCIA, GiovanniDate:2000Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2000Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; SPS; PhD ThesisAbstract:How does a democracy deal with threats to its stability and continued existence when those threats come from political parties that play the democratic game? In Defending Democracy, political scientist Giovanni Capoccia ...
Title:Degrees of ethno-national violence : the cases of Kosovo, Macedonia and Bulgaria after the end of communism Author(s):KOINOVA, MariaDate:2005Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2005Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; SPS; PhD Thesis
Title:Dehumanisation and moral silencing : a normative account with illustrations from the refugee crisis Author(s):DE RUITER, Adrienne Desirée Date:2019Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2019Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; SPS; PhD ThesisAbstract:What does it mean to fail to treat, perceive, or portray people as human? This is the central question of scholarship on dehumanisation. While empirical studies describe the process of dehumanisation in its practical facets, ...
Title:Delayed transitional justice : accounting for timing and cross-country variation in transitional justice trajectories Author(s):MENDES, Mariana S. Date:2019Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2019Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; SPS; PhD ThesisAbstract:This dissertation aims, first, at accounting for the timing of implementation of Transitional Justice (TJ) policies and, second, at comparing TJ trajectories and outcomes in countries that had negotiated transitions from ...
Title:Democracy in the shadow of the deep state : guardian hybrid regimes in Turkey and Thailand Author(s):WATMOUGH, Simon PaulDate:2017Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2017Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; SPS; PhD ThesisAbstract:This dissertation takes as its focus the emergence of guardian political order – a hybrid political system in which elected officials must contend with non-elected ‘reserved domains’ dominated by state elites that exercise ...