Title:Responsibility, equality, and unemployment insurance
Author(s):CAPPELEN, CorneliusDate:2010Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:It is a central political goal to secure involuntarily unemployed individuals the same opportunities as others to pursue their conception of a good life. This goal reflects an ambition to combine an egalitarian and a liberal ...
Title:Rethinking targeted sanctions
Author(s):ERIKSSON, MikaelDate:2009Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Despite having been in the political and scientific limelight for nearly two decades, the question of the effectiveness of targeted sanctions continues to puzzle and engage practitioners and scholars. Having been previously ...
Title:Revisiting the Debate on Inequality: A longitudinal study using the British Cohort Study 1970
Author(s):PENSIERO, NicolaDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This dissertation aims at reassessing of impact of family background, education and abilities on the educational and occupational outcomes of a British cohort sample (British Cohort Study 1970). This is pursued in three ...
Title:The role of political parties in democratization in Turkey
Author(s):TURSAN, HuriDate:1999Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Party politics has been undergoing a revival in many democracies. However, parties are much less studied in countries with unstable political regimes. Party interactions can help to provide explanations for the emergence ...
Title:The Roles Nations Play: A Study of Britain on the International Stage, 1962 – 1999
Author(s):MCCOURT, DavidDate:2008Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This thesis is a theoretical study of the roles nations play in international politics, with a particular focus on Britain’s changing engagement with the international system since the Second World War. It notes the ...
Title:Schools of Democracy: How ordinary citizens become competent in participatory budgeting institutions
Author(s):TALPIN, JulienDate:2007Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:A widespread theme pervades both political theory and the social sciences, in which participation in certain types of democratic institutions could create a more competent, active and public-spirited citizenry. While the ...
Title:Seeking the Political Role of the Third Government Branch: A comparative approach to high courts in Central America
Author(s):MARTINEZ BARAHONA, ElenaDate:2007Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Until recently, Courts were not an important component of political science research on Latin America. The quantity of research on the judiciary does not compare even remotely to the vast literature on others institutions. ...
Title:Selection, appointment and redeployment of senior Commission officials
Author(s):FUSACCHIA, AlessandroDate:2009Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:After the fall of the Santer Commission in 1999, the new college undertook an in-depth internal administrative reform under the political leadership of Romano Prodi and Neil Kinnock. One big chapter of this reform dealt ...