Title:HIV, mortality and the self
Author(s):RINKEN, SebastianDate:1996Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD theses
Title:How Caste Works: Forging new identities in a Punjabi ex-untouchable community in Catalonia, Spain
Author(s):LUM, KathrynDate:2011Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This thesis is an ethnographic study of an ex-untouchable group from the Punjab region of India known as the Ravidassias. Its aim is twofold: on the one hand to elucidate the mechanisms of caste in social life and in ...
Title:How International Actors Interact: Explaining China's engagement with the EU, 2002-2007
Author(s):GAENSSMANTEL, FrankDate:2009Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This thesis investigates how Chinese decision-makers deal with the complexities of EU foreign-policy making. Which of the many entities within in the EU, among Brussels-based institutions and in member states, do they ...
Title:How voters process information: an inquiry into the formation of electoral preferences
Author(s):CAMPUS, DonatellaDate:1997Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:L'aumento dell'astensionismo elettorale, fenomeno oggi attuale in Italia così come in molti altri paesi occidentali, e più in generale lo scarso interesse dei cittadini verso la politica generano dubbi e perplessità ...
Title:Human Rights and the City: Anti-discrimination laws and policies in New York and Barcelona
Author(s):GRIGOLO, MicheleDate:2009Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This thesis investigates the political and legal dimensions of human rights policies enacted by cities in order to respond to one main research question: how are these policies enacted and what is their outcome? Drawing ...
Title:Ideas, rules, and agency: Public bureaucrats and the evolution of family policies in Hungary and Poland
Author(s):SZELEWA, DorotaDate:2009Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The starting point for the thesis is the striking difference between the mixes of family policies in the two post-communist countries: Hungary and Poland. I argue that Poland can be best viewed as a case of implicit ...
Title:Identification and the Politics of Information Security
Author(s):BRIGHT, JonathanDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The security of identification systems such as passports and national identity cards is a current policy priority for many governments. False identities allow criminals to cross borders, launder money, claim benefits and ...
Title:Ideologia libertaria y movilización clandestina: El anarquismo español durante el franquismo (1939-1975)
Author(s):ROMANOS FRAILE, EduardoDate:2007Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Este trabajo examina el conjunto de creencias, valores e ideas políticas de los libertarios que en España se movilizaron contra la dictadura franquista entre 1939 y 1975. La tesis principal de la investigación es la ...
Title:Imagining war and keeping peace? : military cultures and peace operation effectiveness
Author(s):RUFFA, ChiaraDate:2010Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Why do similar armies deployed in the same peace mission with a similar level of material resources behave differently? Why are they effective in different ways? According to conventional wisdom, an army’s material resources, ...
Title:Immigrant Political Mobilisation in Portugal and Italy
Author(s):PIRES, SoniaDate:2010Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Political mobilisation of immigrants has been a subject of research throughout Europe with different sorts of approach. In this thesis, we make a revision of the extensive literature on the issue. Several perspectives have ...