Title:The moral economy of welfare states : Britain and Germany compared
Author(s):MAU, SteffenDate:2002Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The welfare state can be regarded as the major institutional arrangement of western societies that contributes to a socially accepted allocation of resources amongst the members of a given society. It is a means by which ...
Title:Multi-level Party Politics in Italy and Spain
Author(s):WILSON, AlexDate:2009Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This thesis undertakes an empirical exploration of multi-level party politics in Italy and Spain since the 1990s, with a particular focus on the regional level of party organisation and electoral competition. It finds that ...
Title:Multidimensional poverty and social exclusion in Europe: A cross-national perspective
Author(s):TOMASZEWSKI, WojciechDate:2009Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The main scope of this dissertation is the analysis of multidimensional poverty and social exclusion in Europe from a cross-national perspective. The multidimensional approach means that in addition to income, other more ...
Title:Multiple media practices in Italian mobilizations against precarity of work
Author(s):MATTONI, AliceDate:2009Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The dissertation addresses the general question of how social movements interact with the media in contemporary, media-saturated societies. The basic assumption is that visibility in the media is crucial to become recognized ...
Title:Nationalism and the International Order: Re-interpreting the politics of Banal Croatia, 1908-1918
Author(s):VELIZ, FernandoDate:2010Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The subject of this thesis is the fundamental alteration of state allegiance, political claims and their respective legitimating arguments by political elites in Banal Croatia during the last ten years of the Habsburg ...
Title:Nationality, Citizenship and Ethno-cultural Membership: Preferential admission policies of EU Countries
Author(s):DUMBRAVA, CosticaDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:In this thesis, I analyse justifications for preferential admission to citizenship based upon ethno-cultural grounds. My point of departure is the puzzling observation that, in matters of membership, states not only ...
Title:NATO Enlargement and Security of Central Europe: A declining security community
Author(s):OSICA, OlafDate:2007Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The central argument of the study is that the NATO enlargement of 1999 failed to meet its strategic purpose. First, it has not removed the ‘eastern security dilemma’ which underpinned Polish, Czech and Hungarian quest for ...