Title:The Welfare State we're in: Organisations of the unemployed in action in Paris and Berlin
Author(s):ZORN, AnnikaDate:2010Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The following thesis looks at the contentious action of the unemployed in Paris and Berlin. The thesis investigates the role of local organisations of the unemployed in contentious activities. More specifically, it looks ...
Title:Western Europe and the breakup of Yugoslavia : a political failure in search of a scholarly explanation
Author(s):LUCARELLI, SoniaDate:1998Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:On June 26, 1991, after some 46 years without a war in Europe, violent conflict erupted in the territory of what used to be the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. It took more than four years of atrocities before a ...
Title:What drives entrepreneurs?: A study of business formation by young people in Poland and Ireland
Author(s):KRZYZANOWSKA, OlgaDate:2009Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Extant research that explores the motivations for self-employment has tended to focus on the motivational determinants of men’s self-employment decisions or that of the general population and there is a distinct lack of ...
Title:What is international stability? : towards revitalising an abused concept
Author(s):MCCARTHY, Patrick A.Date:1997Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This text attempts to halt and roll back the confusion surrounding the concept of international stability. It is based on the premise that if we cannot agree upon what constitutes a stable international system, then we ...
Title:A Widening Generational Divide? Assessing the Age Gap in Voter Turnout Between Younger and Older Citizens
Author(s):SMETS, KaatDate:2010Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This thesis departs from the observation that in some countries such as Canada the age gap in voter turnout between younger and older citizens is widening. It does so because of a rapid turnout decline among the youngest ...
Title:Wider Europe. The influence of the EU on neighbouring countries: The case of Russia and Ucraine
Author(s):MELONI, GabriellaDate:2007Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The EU has engaged in the promotion of an unprecedented process of policy export which involves not only candidates to enlargement, but also a wide range of countries beyond the Union’s present and future expected (at least ...
Title:Women's employment over the life course: Changes across cohorts in Italy and Great Britain
Author(s):SOLERA, CristinaDate:2005Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Over the last fifty years women's employment has increased markedly throughout developed countries. Women of younger generations are much more likely than their mothers and grandmothers to enter the labour market and stay ...
Title:The World Is My Workplace? The meaning of locality and distance for Finnish professionals in Silicon Valley
Author(s):KIRIAKOS, Carol MarieDate:2010Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The study explores the meaning of locality and distance in the global world. Prominent social theorizations have declared locality and distance dead in the global era, which is characterized by the widespread use of virtual ...
Title:The WTO and Domestic Coalitions: The effects of negotiations and enforcement in the European Union
Author(s):DE BIEVRE, DirkDate:2002Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:In this PhD dissertation I explain how different forms of international trade institutions affect domestic coalition patterns. Negotiated trade policy instruments create incentives for sector-wide interest representation, ...
