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Title: Caring Migrants in European Welfare Regimes: The policies and practice of migrant labour filling the gaps in social care Author(s): VAN HOOREN, Franca Janna Date: 2011 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses Abstract: This study analyses the role of migrant workers in social care and the policy responses to this phenomenon in Italy, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands. In contrast to previous research on migrant care work, this study ...

Title: Carrots or Sticks? EU and US reactions to Human Rights violations (1989-2000) Author(s): HAZELZET, Hadewych Date: 2001 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses Abstract: The dissertation shows that countries with severe human rights violations and/or dictatorships are likely to be subjected to sanctions, irrespective of their strategic or economic importance to the West. A considerable ...

Title: Changes from below : intergovernmental politics in democratizing federations Author(s): FERREIRA DO VALE, Hélder Date: 2011 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses Abstract: Who are more powerful in a federation, national or subnational politicians? As the cases of democratic Brazil, Spain and South Africa show, there is no straightforward answer to this question. As the power of politicians ...

Title: Changing Choices, Changing Elections: A study of volatility and vote-switching in six Western European countries Author(s): GOMEZ MARTINEZ, Raul Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses Abstract: It is often argued that elections in established Western European democracies have become more unstable during recent decades. Much scholarly work has thus focused on the study of changes in election results in order to ...

Title: Changing security policy in Finland and Sweden Author(s): POLVI-LOHIKOSKI, Johanna Date: 2003 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses

Title: Changing the world : explaining successes and failures of international campaigns by NGOs in the field of human security Author(s): ALCALDE, Javier Date: 2009 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses Abstract: The thesis examines the global institutional responses to the peace movement demands after the Cold War. The primary analysis revolves around several international campaigns carried out by coalitions of NGOs and other civil ...

Title: Charisma und Bürokratie: Die Spitzenorganization der Fuehrerdiktaturen im Dritten Reich und im italienischen Faschismus Author(s): BACH, Maurizio Date: 1989 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses

Title: Childcare politics in the west german and swedish welfare states from the 1950s to the 1970s Author(s): NAUMANN, Ingela Date: 2006 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses

Title: Choice: An essay on pluralism, value conflicts and decision-making Author(s): HERLITZ, Per Anders Kristian Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses Abstract: This thesis examines decision-making in value conflicts, and argues in favor of a unified approach to decision-making that accepts partial success of a plurality of decision-making methods, and that uses these as alternative ...

Title: Choosing lesser evils: The role of business in the development of the German welfare state from the 1880s to the 1990s Author(s): PASTER, Thomas Date: 2009 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses Abstract: This thesis is an empirical study of the role of organized business in the formation of marketcorrecting industrial relations and welfare state institutions, relying on a historical-diachronic case study of welfare state ...

Title: Cities and the structural funds : the domestic impact of EU initiatives for urban development Author(s): KOUTALAKIS, Charalampos Date: 2001 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses

Title: Civil Society: Theory and practice in East-Central Europe Author(s): FORBRIG, Joerg Date: 2004 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses Abstract: This study examines the concept of civil society from three distinct, yet interrelated, angles taking their departure from several shortcomings characteristic of current discourse on civil society. Firstly, the recent ...

Title: Class, power and the Fianna Fail Party: a study of hegemony in Irish politics, 1923-1948 Author(s): DUNPHY, Richard Date: 1988 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses

Title: Co-ordination in context : institutional choices to promote exports Author(s): WALZENBACH, Gunter P. E. Date: 1996 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses

Title: The colours of my classroom : a study into the effects of the ethnic composition of classrooms on the achievement of pupils from different ethnic backgrounds Author(s): WESTERBEEK, Karin Date: 1999 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses

Title: Community after totalitarianism. The Eastern Orthodox intellectual tradition and the philosophical discourse of political modernity Author(s): STOECKL, Kristina Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses Abstract: Starting with a definition of political modernity from the angle of its greatest trial, namely totalitarianism, this study pursues two questions: How to conceptualize community after the experience of totalitarianism? And, ...

Title: Comparative Pathways of Belarus and Ukraine (1991-2007) Author(s): PIKULIK, Alexei Date: 2010 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses Abstract: This thesis explains the divergent outcomes in the evolution of political and economic institutions in two neighboring countries : Belarus and Ukraine between 1991 and 2007. Beyond the principal focus on these two pathways, ...

Title: Comparing institutional change : a study of partnership in the implementation of European Union structural funds in Brittany and the Mid-West of Ireland Author(s): MCCARTHY, Rosarie E. Date: 2000 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses

Title: Comparing legislatures : institutional constraints and legislative efficiency in EU national parliaments Author(s): ZENNARO, Sara Date: 2005 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses

Title: Competing Ideas: The religious foundations of the German and Italian welfare states Author(s): HIEN, Josef Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses Abstract: This thesis investigates the influence of political Catholicism and Catholic social doctrine on the evolution of the continental European welfare regimes. Paradoxically it finds that the doctrine had less influence on the ...

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