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 ...
Title:Patterns of Change. A Study of the Relation Between Political Participation and Institutions
Author(s):PETERS, YvetteDate:2011Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This thesis aims to explain levels and changes in levels of political participation through institutions and institutional change. Three general trends have been distinguished; a decline in ‘representative’ participation, ...
Title:Patterns of consolidated democracies : Europe and Latin America compared
Author(s):SCHNEIDER, Carsten Q.Date:2004Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This dissertation investigates the successes and failures in consolidating those democratic regimes that emerged in Europe and Latin America in the last quarter of the 20th century. The theoretical approach developed ...
Title:Patterns of policy evolution in the EU: The case of research and technology development policy
Author(s):CITI, ManueleDate:2009Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The literature on the policy-making of the European Union (EU) has trouble understanding the long-term evolution of EU policies. While numerous accounts exist that analyze EU policies from a historical, analytical-descriptive ...