Title:Law as Ouroboros
Author(s):VASCONCELOS VILAÇA, GuilhermeDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Despite law’s many failures, we see it being deployed everywhere both at the domestic and the international level. This thesis approaches that puzzle and attempts to provide a better understanding of the role of law in ...
Title:Legislative Organisation of the European Parliament: The role of committees
Author(s):YORDANOVA, NikoletaDate:2010Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The European Parliament (EP) now acts as an equal co-legislator with the Council of Ministers in adopting many policies that affect 500 million European citizens on a daily basis. However, the parliamentary legislative ...
Title:Listen carefully: democracy brokers at the European social forums
Author(s):DÖRR, NicoleDate:2009Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Interested in activists’ practices of translation as a potentially innovatory method of participatory democracy in a multilingual polity like the EU, my Dissertation explores the European Social Forum (ESF) process, a ...
Title:A Living Tradition: The Holy See, catholic social doctrine, and global politics, 1965-2000
Author(s):STUMMVOLL, A. AlexanderDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:In this thesis I explore the question of how the Holy See translates its own normative vision into concrete diplomatic practice. Drawing upon Alasdair MacIntyre’s concept of a ‘living tradition’, I argue that Catholic ...