Title:Transforming Memories: Workers’ Recollection of the Socialist Regimes in East Germany and Hungary
Author(s):BARTHA, EszterDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:This paper analyzes and compares workers’ memories of the late socialist regimes in
East Germany and Hungary. It presents the results of an oral history project conducted
in two factories, Rába MVG in Győr (Hungary) and ...
Title:Translating modernity : visions and uses of Europe in Finland
Author(s):NYGÅRD, StefanDate:2013Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:Translating modernity to the periphery is a recurring theme in the discussions on Europe at its geocultural margins. In small and young countries such as Finland, “Europe” has been mobilized for nation-building in terms ...
Title:"Transnations" among "Transnations"? The Debate on Transnational History in the US and Germany
Author(s):PATEL, Kiran KlausDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:Harvard University Center for European Studies Working Paper SeriesAbstract:Comparing the rise of transnational history in the United States and Germany is difficult, mainly because of the many connections between these historiographies. Still, the article argues that the paths into a transnational ...
Title:Why do People Choose to be Silent? Simulating Electoral Behaviour
Author(s):BARTHA, Eszter; WOLSZCZAK-DERLACZ, JoannaDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:This paper investigates opinion contagion in collective behaviour, using an extension of
Granovetter’s (1978) and Krassa’s (1988) threshold models. The theoretical background
is the spiral of silence concept developed ...
Title:Women Rulers in Europe: Agency, Practice and the Representation of Political Powers (XII-XVIII)
Author(s):CALVI, GiuliaDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI HECAbstract:New interpretations of state formation processes include gender as a category of historical analysis and tackle notions of royalty and royal power, focusing on regency and women as regents in the process of consolidating ...
