Title:Re-thinking the political : political theory and the pursuit of stability (a liberal republican perspective)
Author(s):BALCELLS, JoanDate:2010Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This thesis analyzes the role of 'stability' in political theory, from the perspective of liberal-republican debates. The thesis is structured in three different parts. Part I is a systematic reconstruction of historical ...
Title:Reconstructing national boundaries : debates on national identities and immigration in France and in Denmark
Author(s):ZOLNER, MetteDate:1998Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Why are national identities imagined in one way rather than in another? The book analyses national imaginations as an on-going reconstruction process in a political and social context in which several imaginations of the ...
Title:Redefining Nations: Nationhood and immigration in Italy and Spain
Author(s):FREITAS CORREIA, AnyDate:2010Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:In the early 1990s, Italy and Spain, traditional labor exporters, started to acknowledge their new position as ‘immigration countries’. This dissertation examines how both states have coped with the consequences of this ...
Title:The Reform Generation: 1960s' Czechoslovak sociology in a comparative perspectives
Author(s):VORISEK, MichaelDate:2009Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The thesis deals with the 1960s’ sociology in Czechoslovakia, rapidly launched around 1964-1965, and rapidly finished, as a discourse, with the end of the reform era in 1969/1970. The approach is that of disciplinary ...
Title:Reforming transport in Italy : a case study in Europeanisation
Author(s):KERWER, DieterDate:1999Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The question this thesis attempts to answer is summarized as follows: what accounts for the amazing stability of Italian transport policy in the face of European challenges, given the fact that - as most national and ...
Title:Regulating Social Membership and Family Ties: Policy frames on spousal migration in Germany
Author(s):BLOCK, LauraDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Migration policy-making in liberal democracies has long been explained by highlighting how “liberal constraints” compel governments to respect individual rights when devising migration policies. Family-related migration ...
Title:The Reshaping of Gender Relations in Wartorn Societies: Women's movements in Guatemala and Nicaragua 1980-2010
Author(s):DESTROOPER, TinekeDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The thesis revolves around the question of how the history of the Guatemalan and Nicaraguan women’s movements influences their approach of women’s empowerment, and evaluates alternative approaches to women’s empowerment. ...
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 ...