Title:Embedding "political consumerism" : a conceptual critique
Author(s):BALSIGER, PhilipDate:2013Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:This paper develops a theoretically and empirically founded critique of the concept of political consumerism. In the course of the last decade, political consumerism was “discovered” as a new form of political participation, ...
Title:Escaping Low-Wage Jobs: Wealth, Low Wages, and the Black-White Entrapment Gap
Author(s):MORILLAS, Juan RafaelDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:The aim of this paper is to analyze individuals’ opportunities to escape low-wage jobs. More specifically, relying on an assets or wealth (as a distinct variable from income) theoretical framework, I provide an explanation ...
Title:Europe Through the Borders? The Implementation of INTERREG III-A France-Spain
Author(s):HARGUINDEGUY, Jean-BaptisteDate:2005Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI SPSAbstract:Assuming that structural funds are the catalyser of new forms of governing within the member states, this paper focuses on the Europeanisation process through the comparison of three cases of implementation of the INTERREG ...
Title:European citizenship and identity after enlargement
Author(s):THOMASSEN, Jacques; BACK, HannaDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI SPSAbstract:In this paper we distinguish two rival theories on the relationship between European citizenship in the sense of a legal construct on the one hand and a European collective identity on the other hand. According to the first ...