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Title:Open parliaments : technological enactment in state legislatures Author(s):PEIXOTO, Tiago CarneiroDate:2013Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2013Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; SPS; PhD ThesisAbstract:This thesis starts with a simple research question, asking why parliaments that share the same level of functions and competencies produce different results in terms of the level of development of their websites. The ...
Title:Opening the urban 'black box' : the role of the local context in the mobilisation of urban movements Author(s):SUBIRATS, Anna Date:2020Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2020Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; SPS; PhD ThesisAbstract:This thesis analyses urban protest actions in the context of austerity urbanism in Southern Europe, attempting to better understand the conditions that lead to the mobilisation of urban protestors. To date, the literature ...
Title:Opening up Hungary to the world market : external constraints and opportunities 1982-1992 Author(s):LORENTZEN, JochenDate:1993Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 1993Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; SPS; PhD Thesis
Title:Opposition politics from afar : the case of the Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora Author(s):GUYOT, Lola Date:2021Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2021Version:Chapter 3 ‘The LTTE and the subordination of the diaspora' of the PhD thesis draws upon an earlier version published as an article 'Les pratiques répressives des LTTE : dispositifs spatialisés de purification de la nation tamoule' (2020) in the journal ‘Pôle Sud’Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; SPS; PhD ThesisAbstract:This thesis theorises and analyses the ways in which diasporas oppose authoritarian regimes from afar. Transcending the traditional debate about diasporas as radical or pacifying actors, and understanding diaspora politics ...
Title:Organised labour : an actor of euro-democratisation, euro-technocracy or re-nationalisation? : trade-union strategies concerning the European integration process Author(s):ERNE, RolandDate:2004Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2004Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; SPS; PhD ThesisAbstract:This thesis addresses two questions: first, has there emerged in Europe a system of industrial relations which crosses national boundaries? Secondly, does organised labour contribute to the process of democratisation of ...
Title:Organising for victory ... and defeat? : the organisational strategy of the Spanish workers' socialist party (1975-1996) Author(s):MENDEZ LAGO, MonicaDate:1998Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 1998Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; SPS; PhD ThesisAbstract:Este libro estudia el desarrollo organizativo del Partido Socialista Obrero Español durante el período comprendido entre la reconstrucción de su organización en las postrimerías del franquismo y su derrota en las elecciones ...
Title:Organising the South American space : regionalism in times of transnationalisation Author(s):PALESTINI CÉSPEDES, Stefano Date:2015Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2015Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; SPS; PhD ThesisAbstract:What makes governments decide to engage in cooperation with their neighbours to deliver regional public goods? Under which conditions do they decide to keep this cooperation informal, and when do they instead prefer to ...
Title:Organizational change in business associations of the dairy industry : lessons from PIGs for COWs and beyond Author(s):WAGEMANN, Claudius Date:2005Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2005Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; SPS; PhD Thesis
Title:Organizzazioni politiche clandestine : Il terrorismo di sinistra in Italia durante gli anni Settanta Author(s):DELLA PORTA, Donatella Date:1987Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 1987Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; SPS; PhD Thesis
Title:Orientations towards motherhood and childlessness, and social pressures to conform Author(s):CONDY, AnnDate:1991Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 1991Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; SPS; PhD ThesisAbstract: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:The origins of overthrow : hegemonic expectations, emotional frustration, and the impulse to regime change Author(s):GHALEHDAR, Payam Date:2015Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2015Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; SPS; PhD ThesisAbstract:Why has regime change, defined as military intervention aimed at forcibly transforming a target state's domestic political authority structure, been a long-standing practice in US foreign policy, used roughly two dozen ...
Title:Origins of the uneven state : land use and state-making in Colombia Author(s):ZULUAGA BORRERO, Paula Date:2021Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2021Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; SPS; PhD ThesisAbstract:While some countries succeed and others fail to build capable states, many developing countries exhibit uneven patterns of state power within their territory. Territorial pockets where the state exercises authority and ...
Title:Overcoming division in Bosnia and Cyprus : the limits of international intervention Author(s):RUGE, MajdaDate:2011Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2011Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; SPS; PhD ThesisAbstract: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:Ozone thieves and hot house paradise epistemic communities as cultural entrepreneurs and the reenchantment of sublunar space : a sociological analysis of the media discourse on the greenhouse effect in the Federal Republic of Germany 1970-1995 Author(s):VIEHOEVER, WillyDate:1997Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 1997Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; SPS; PhD Thesis
Title:Paradoxes of the public purse : how and why West European democracies introduced public funding for political parties (1945-2021) Author(s):VERMORKEN, Christiaan Emmanuel Date:2022Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2022Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; SPS; PhD ThesisAbstract:The present doctoral dissertation consists in a comprehensive historical-institutionalist study of the development and regulation of subsidies to political parties across the six founding Member States of the European ...
Title:Parenthood effects on career outcomes : does fertility timing matter? Author(s):VECGAILE, Linda Date:2022Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2022Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; SPS; PhD ThesisAbstract:Even though gender equality in the labour market has improved in recent decades, parenthood induced income inequalities are still present. Moreover, income disadvantages accumulate over time, leading to income disparities ...
Title:Pariah parties : on the origins and electoral consequences of the ostracism of political parties in established democracies Author(s):VAN SPANJE, JoostDate:2009Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2009Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; SPS; PhD ThesisAbstract:Party politics is about cooperation and conflict between political parties. At certain times, a party may rule out all political cooperation with a particular other party. In these cases, there is only conflict between the ...
Title:Parlamento e politica di difesa in Italia: 1948-1992 Author(s):D'AMORE, Ciro Date:1998Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 1998Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; SPS; PhD Thesis
Title:Parties and protests in crisis-hit Europe : continuity and change in the structure of political conflict Author(s):BORBATH, Endre Date:2018Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2018Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; SPS; PhD ThesisAbstract:Post-2008 developments in European politics have reopened the debate on the extent to which we are witnessing a fundamental transformation of patterns of party competition and protest mobilization. Two phenomena in particular ...
Title:Partisan, not ignorant : citizens' use of arguments and justifications in direct democracy Author(s):COLOMBO, CélineDate:2016Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2016Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; SPS; PhD ThesisAbstract:A competent citizenry is the key to the legitimacy of direct democratic decisions, but just how competent are citizens in direct democracy? Understanding how citizens reason and how they make their decisions is ever more ...