Title:Governing urban diversity : immigrant integration policies and discourses in Dublin and Vienna
Author(s):HADJ-ABDOU, LeilaDate:2013Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD theses; Department of Political and Social SciencesAbstract:This thesis explores how city governments respond to the presence of immigrants and the increasing ethno-cultural difference that comes with it, seeking to explain these responses. The thesis analyses discourses about ...
Title:How Caste Works: Forging new identities in a Punjabi ex-untouchable community in Catalonia, Spain
Author(s):LUM, KathrynDate:2011Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD theses; Department of Political and Social SciencesAbstract:This thesis is an ethnographic study of an ex-untouchable group from the Punjab region of India known as the Ravidassias. Its aim is twofold: on the one hand to elucidate the mechanisms of caste in social life and in ...
Title:How International Actors Interact: Explaining China's engagement with the EU, 2002-2007
Author(s):GAENSSMANTEL, FrankDate:2009Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD theses; Department of Political and Social SciencesAbstract:This thesis investigates how Chinese decision-makers deal with the complexities of EU foreign-policy making. Which of the many entities within in the EU, among Brussels-based institutions and in member states, do they ...
Title:How voters process information: an inquiry into the formation of electoral preferences
Author(s):CAMPUS, DonatellaDate:1997Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD theses; Department of Political and Social SciencesAbstract:L'aumento dell'astensionismo elettorale, fenomeno oggi attuale in Italia così come in molti altri paesi occidentali, e più in generale lo scarso interesse dei cittadini verso la politica generano dubbi e perplessità ...
Title:Human Rights and the City: Anti-discrimination laws and policies in New York and Barcelona
Author(s):GRIGOLO, MicheleDate:2009Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD theses; Department of Political and Social SciencesAbstract:This thesis investigates the political and legal dimensions of human rights policies enacted by cities in order to respond to one main research question: how are these policies enacted and what is their outcome? Drawing ...
Title:Ideas, rules, and agency: Public bureaucrats and the evolution of family policies in Hungary and Poland
Author(s):SZELEWA, DorotaDate:2009Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD theses; Department of Political and Social SciencesAbstract:The starting point for the thesis is the striking difference between the mixes of family policies in the two post-communist countries: Hungary and Poland. I argue that Poland can be best viewed as a case of implicit ...
Title:Identification and the Politics of Information Security
Author(s):BRIGHT, JonathanDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD theses; Department of Political and Social SciencesAbstract:The security of identification systems such as passports and national identity cards is a current policy priority for many governments. False identities allow criminals to cross borders, launder money, claim benefits and ...
Title:Imagining war and keeping peace? : military cultures and peace operation effectiveness
Author(s):RUFFA, ChiaraDate:2010Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD theses; Department of Political and Social SciencesAbstract: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, ...