Title:Accounting for nationalist violence in affluent countries
Author(s):DE LA CALLE ROBLES, LuisDate:2009Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This thesis seeks to explain the determinants of resilient nationalist violence in Western Europe since World War II. Despite being one of the most affluent regions in the world, several episodes of nationalist violence ...
Title:Adapting the welfare state : privatisation in health care in Denmark, England and Sweden
Author(s):OLESEN, Jeppe DørupDate:2010Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This dissertation deals with the following question: In the past decades some of the countries most dedicated to the universal public welfare state have privatised many of their welfare service provisions. Why is this so? ...
Title:After the Eastward Enlargement: The institutionalization of the Europarties and the EU party system
Author(s):BRESSANELLI, EdoardoDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:In the long debate about the EU constitutional and institutional reform which accompanied the Central and Eastern enlargement of the Union, political parties at the European level – in brief: Europarties – have rarely ...
Title:Ageing and Political Institutions: Comparative political economy of long-term care for frail older people
Author(s):HIEDA, TakeshiDate:2010Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Despite common socio-demographic pressures such as longer longevity, lower fertility rate, and feminization of labor market, public elderly care policy is remarkably diverse across advanced industrialized countries. This ...
Title:Alla ricerca del consenso : il mercato elettorale visto dai parlamentari italiani
Author(s):LEGNANTE, GuidoDate:2002Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Questa tesi, che si colloca all'interno del filone di studi sul voto, costituisce il primo lavoro sistematico che cerca di rispondere all'interrogativo "che idea hanno i politici degli elettori e del mercato elettorale?". ...
Title:Alterglobalism in Postsocialism: A study of Central and Eastern European activists
Author(s):PIOTROWSKI, GrzegorzDate:2011Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Alterglobalism in Postsocialism. A Study of Central and Eastern European Activists' is a doctoral thesis that presents the development and the characteristic of the Global Justice Movement in Poland, the Czech Republic and ...
Title:Being Moral: Moral competence and the limits of reasonable doubt
Author(s):HERMANN, JuliaDate:2011Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:In this thesis, I argue that we should conceive of morality as a set of overlapping practices and of moral knowledge first and foremost as the competence to participate in these practices. On the basis of a Wittgensteinian ...
