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Title: Trade Unions and New Member State Workers in Germany and the UK Author(s): ZAHN, Rebecca Date: 2011-01-01 Type of Publication: Article Abstract: This article compares German and British trade union responses in a European context following the European enlargements in 2004 and 2007 that are unprecedented in the history of the European Union (EU). In particular, ...

Title: Transformations of German Civil Society: Milieu Change and Community Spirit Author(s): JOAS, Hans; ADLOFF, Frank Date: 2006 Type of Publication: Contribution to book

Title: Transforming Memories: Workers’ Recollection of the Socialist Regimes in East Germany and Hungary Author(s): BARTHA, Eszter Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: 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: Transgovernmental Networks as Catalysts for Democratic Change? EU Functional Cooperation with Arab Authoritarian Regimes and Socialization of Involved State Officials into Democratic Governance Author(s): FREYBURG, Tina Date: 2011 Type of Publication: Article Abstract: With the European Neighbourhood Policy, the European Union (EU) intensified functional cooperation in a wide range of sectors. This contribution investigates whether this kind of transnational exchange can trigger subtle ...

Title: Transnational Employer Lobbying when one Size does not fit all: Anglo-German Wrangles under the UNICE Umbrella, 1970-2003 Author(s): CALLAGHAN, Helen Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: Transnational interest groups can lobby forcefully if and only if national member associations agree on a policy stance. This paper explores the conditions for transnational cohesion by examining German and British employer ...

Title: Transnational spaces in history Author(s): JONES, Heather; STEFFEN, Katrin; KOHLRAUSCH, Martin; TOKIĆ, Mate Nikola; LEBOUTTE, Rene; MULLER, Michael; TORP, Cornelius; GRELL, Ole Peter; TERRASA-LOZANO, Antonio; CRANG, Philip; ASHMORE, Sonia; LINDNER, Ulrike Date: 2009 Type of Publication: Article

Title: Trends in Income Inequality, Intertemporal Variability, and Mobility Risk in Thirty Countries Author(s): NICHOLS, Austin; REHM, Philipp Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: We apply a novel decomposition of panel data on individual incomes in 30 countries and find the US is exceptional in its increases of income risk over the last decades. Income risk is decomposed into long-run inequality, ...

Title: Turnout and Policy: The role of candidates Author(s): VALASEK, Justin Mattias Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: Turnout is an important determinant of which candidate wins an election. Since candidates know this, it follows that they will consider turnout when choosing their policy platforms. In this paper I formally examine the ...

Title: The Two Sides of Functional Cooperation with Authoritarian Regimes: A multi-level perspective on the conflict of objectives between political stability and democratic change Author(s): FREYBURG, Tina Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Article Abstract: Development cooperation exemplifies the conflict of foreign policy objectives between short-term political stability and long-term democratic change that international actors face in their relations with authoritarian ...

Title: Una Conciliazione Impossibile? Famiglia e Lavoro nell’Inghilterra del Secondo Dopoguerra Author(s): BERNINI, Stefania Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Contribution to book

Title: The Uncertain Future of Slovenian Exceptionalism Author(s): GUARDIANCICH, Igor Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Article Abstract: The political-economy literature has so far almost unanimously regarded Slovenia as the social-democratic exception in Central and Eastern Europe, due to a combination of highly consensual democratic institutions, low party ...

Title: Uncool Passion: Nietzsche Meets the Pentecostals Author(s): COMAROFF, Jean Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI MWP LS

Title: Understanding ‘Chance and Uncertainty’ in Clausewitz’s On War: Reflections on the Balkan Wars (1991-1995) Author(s): FLEMING, Colin M. Date: 2010 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: In the opening chapter of Carl Von Clausewitz’s On War (1831), he explains to readers that ‘only one more element is needed to make war a gamble 'chance'. No other human activity is so continuously or universally bound up ...

Title: Unemployment Insurance and Home Production Author(s): TASKIN, Temel Date: 2011-01-01 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: In this paper, we incorporate home production into a quantitative model of unemployment and show that realistic levels of home production have a significant impact on the optimal unemployment insurance rate. Motivated by ...

Title: The ‘Union’ as a Seed of Dissension between Serbs and Croats Author(s): ALEKSOV, Bojan Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Contribution to book

Title: Universal crime, particular punishment : trying the atrocities of the Japanese occupation as treason in the Philippines, 1947-1953 Author(s): LAWSON, Konrad M. Date: 2013 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: Trials against both war crimes and treason were held in the Philippines after the end of the Japanese occupation in 1945. In the former, a universalistic category of crimes were punished, while in the latter, the crime was ...

Title: Valeur et pratiques de la propreté dans l'armée au XVIIIe (France) Author(s): SERIU, Naoko Date: 2009 Type of Publication: Contribution to book

Title: Varieties of Capitalism: Trajectories of liberalization and the new politics of solidarity Author(s): THELEN, Kathleen Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI MWP LS Abstract: This essay reviews recent literature on varieties of capitalism, drawing on insights from existing studies to propose a new, more differentiated way of thinking about contemporary changes in the political economies of the ...

Title: Varieties of Legacies: A Critical Review of Public Administration Reform in East Central Europe Author(s): MEYER-SAHLING, Jan-Hinrik Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: This paper examines the status of historical legacies in debates on the reform of public administration in East Central Europe. It identifies limitations of existing accounts and derives three dimensions for the further ...

Title: Varying Hurdles for Low-Skilled Youth on the Way to the Labour Market Author(s): AYBEK, Can Date: 2011-01-01 Type of Publication: Contribution to book

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