Title:A Threatening Horizon? Social concerns, the welfare state and public opinion towards Europe
Author(s):BEAUDONNET, LaurieDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:European integration challenges the social boundaries of nation states and this phenomenon is not without consequences for individual attitudes. Within public debate, the impact of European integration on the welfare states ...
Title:Three Studies on the Sources and Consequences of Social and Cultural Capital among European Adolescents
Author(s):PROKIC-BREUER, TijanaDate:2011Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This dissertation has two main themes. First, it studies the role of social and cultural capital in educational achievement from a comparative perspective. Second, it investigates determinants of social trust among ...
Title:To Liberalise or Not to Liberalise? Explaining European shipbuilding policy
Author(s):WU, Po-KuanDate:2011Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Why did European member states agree to liberalise an industrial sector by decreasing the level of state aid allocated to it? In this thesis, I aim to research the neglected study of the European shipbuilding industry from ...
Title:Transnational capitalism and the struggle over European order
Author(s):VAN APELDOORN, BastiaanDate:1999Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This thesis presents an analysis of the transnational social forces in the making of a new European socio-economic order that emerged out of the European integration process during the 1980s and 1990s. Arguing that the ...
Title:Transnational European citizenship. Tracing conceptions of citizenship in the European integration process
Author(s):OLSEN, Espen D. H.Date:2008Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This thesis asks what kind of conception(s) of citizenship that have emerged over time within the European integration process. The starting point for this research aim is a critique of the existing literature on European ...
Title:Transnational Policies of Emancipation or Colonization? Civil society promotion in post-communist Albania
Author(s):CHIODI, LuisaDate:2007Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The thesis discusses whether the western aid policy of Civil Society Promotion (CSP) in postcommunist Albania constituted a policy of colonization with its direct penetration of the local public sphere or one of emancipation ...
Title:Tunisian New Entrepreneurs and their Past Experiences of Migration in Europe: The formation of network mechanisms
Author(s):CASSARINO, Jean-PierreDate:1998Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This text concentrates on the economic sociology of return migration, with specific reference to Tunisia. As such, it aims to analyze, on the one hand, the patterns of resource mobilization and the strategies for survival ...