Title:The new spirit of technocracy? Ordering practice in United Nations Peacebuilding
Author(s):BÜGER, ChristianDate:2010Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Whether global order is drifting towards democratic or technocratic modes of governing is a contested issue. This thesis takes up the challenge of investigating how trends towards global democratization or technocratization ...
Title:NGOs in the UN System : a study of institutionalised relations between societal actors and the United Nations
Author(s):MARTENS, KerstinDate:2003Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:NGOs and the United Nations reveals how NGOs have changed their interaction with the UN since the mid-1990s. It also looks at how their representation to the UN, their consultative status and their characteristic features ...
Title:Orientations towards motherhood and childlessness, and social pressures to conform
Author(s):CONDY, AnnDate:1991Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The research explores women’s attitudes towards and motivation to remain childless or childfree. In the mid 1980s, most research including much feminist literature assumed that all women desired children. And yet there was ...
Title:Overcoming division in Bosnia and Cyprus : the limits of international intervention
Author(s):RUGE, MajdaDate:2011Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The thesis provides a critical assessment of international involvement in the task of postconflict state consolidation of Bosnia and Cyprus. It aims to account for the inconsistent record of success of international actors ...
Title:Party Responses to Social Movements: A comparative analysis of Italy and The Netherlands in the 1970s and 1980s
Author(s):PICCIO, Daniela RomeéDate:2011Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The independent and spontaneous mobilization of social movements during the late 1960s challenged political parties in their very fundamental function of political linkage and has often been deemed a symptom of a crisis ...
Title:Patterns of associational life in Western Europe, 1800-2000: A comparative and historical interpretation
Author(s):FERNANDES, Tiago LuisDate:2009Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This dissertation addresses the problem of the sources of associational life and civic engagement. I develop a new theory of the origins of associational life by a comparative historical study of popular sector/lower class ...