Title:Imagining war and keeping peace? : military cultures and peace operation effectiveness
Author(s):RUFFA, ChiaraDate:2010Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Why do similar armies deployed in the same peace mission with a similar level of material resources behave differently? Why are they effective in different ways? According to conventional wisdom, an army’s material resources, ...
Title:Immigrant Political Mobilisation in Portugal and Italy
Author(s):PIRES, SoniaDate:2010Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Political mobilisation of immigrants has been a subject of research throughout Europe with different sorts of approach. In this thesis, we make a revision of the extensive literature on the issue. Several perspectives have ...
Title:The Impact of Implementing Eastern enlargement: Changing the European Commission’s Action Capacity
Author(s):HEIDBREDER, Eva GabrieleDate:2008Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:How does policy implementation impact on the institutionalised capacities of political agents? This question about the link between policy-making and institutional development lies at the heart of the study. It is inspired ...
Title:An Imperative to Adjust? Skill formation in England and Germany
Author(s):WENTZEL, JoachimDate:2009Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This dissertation deals with education systems and the change observed within them alongside changes in the wider political economy. The research is conducted by way of a comparative case study of England and Germany, two ...
Title:The Impressionable Years: The formative role of family, vote and political events during early adulthood
Author(s):DINAS, Elias; NTINAS, IliasDate:2010Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Young adults are deemed to possess common characteristics that make them a relatively homogeneous group, rightly distinguishable from older cohorts. Having as a main toolkit the partisan influence from their family ...
Title:In the Corridors and in the Streets: A comparative study of the impacts of social movement campaigns in the EU
Author(s):PARKS, LouisaDate:2009Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This doctoral thesis aims to trace the impacts of campaigns carried out by coalitions of social movement organisations in the transnational arena of the EU. In order to accomplish this task, an original approach to process ...
Title:Individual and systemic determinants of electoral abstention in Western Europe
Author(s):ANDUIZA PEREA, EvaDate:1997Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Este libro analiza las causas de la abstención electoral en el marco de las elecciones parlamentarias considerando simultáneamente las variables individuales y las características del sistema político y de la elección como ...