Title:State and Civil War: A comparative analysis of the political thought of Carl Schmitt and Vladimir I Lenin
Author(s):BOLSINGER, EckardDate:1999Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The end of the Cold War has seen the resurgence of old patterns of internal and external armed conflicts. War and civil war as factors in the process of the dissolution and formation of political structures have reappeared ...
Title:Statist Cosmopolitanism
Author(s):YPI, Lea LemanDate:2008Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The thesis defends a particular version of cosmopolitanism: statist cosmopolitanism. Its point of departure is the current debate in international political theory on the moral standing of boundaries and the scope of ...
Title:Stealing the fire: A study of emancipatory practices in the field of communication
Author(s):MILAN, StefaniaDate:2009Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This research addresses the emergence of emancipatory practices in the field of communication, as part of the growing mobilisations on media and communication issues. By emancipatory communication practices (ECP) I mean ...
Title:Stratégies de survie de l'autoritarisme : gestion de l'élite gouvernante dans l'Irak de Saddam Hussein
Author(s):CHAMS EL DINE, ChérineDate:2007Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Au début du 21ème siècle l’autoritarisme semble perdurer dans quelques régions du globe, notamment le monde arabe, où il résiste aux vagues de démocratisation successives. Ce travail s’interroge sur les mécanismes de ...
Title:The structure of political reason
Author(s):RINDERLE, PeterDate:1995Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD theses
Title:The Structuring Effect of Electoral Competition
Author(s):WEBER, TillDate:2011Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Democratic politics are structured by elections. Governments come and go, campaigns come and go, policies come and go, and so forth. In representative democracy, the mere existence of elections strongly alters the behavior ...
Title:Symbolic orders of childbirth
Author(s):HAENSCH, AnjaDate:2000Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD theses
Title:The Symbolic Value of Descriptive Representation: The case of female representation
Author(s):ESPÍRITO-SANTO, AnaDate:2011Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Most of the studies on political underrepresentation have tried to explain the factors that account for the underrepresentation of some groups in political power. The present research project focuses on the link between ...
Title:Taking People As They Could Be: A defence of ideal political theory
Author(s):EFTHYMIOU, DimitrisDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The object of this thesis is to defend ideal political theory from a series of objections that question its theoretical and practical soundness. My preliminary thesis is that ideal political theory is theoretically as well ...