Title:L’impact du mode de scrutin sur l’élection des femmes à l’Assemblée fédérale
Author(s):BÜTIKOFER, Sarah; ENGELI, Isabelle; BALLMER-CAO, Thanh-HuyenDate:2008Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article analyses the effect of the electoral system on the election of women to the Swiss Federal Assembly (1995-2003). The respective literature has often emphasised how important proportional representation is for ...
Title:Marcel Mauss — Durkheimien oder eigenständiger Klassiker der französischen Soziologie?
Author(s):ADLOFF, FrankDate:2007Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Seit etwa Mitte der 1990er Jahre wird in Frankreich eine intensive Debatte über den eigenständigen Beitrag
Marcel Mauss’ zur soziologischen Theorie geführt. An diese Debatte anschließend zeigt der Aufsatz,
dass Mauss, ...
Title:Modeling and Forecasting Stock Return Volatility Using a Random Level Shift Model
Author(s):LU, Yang K.; PERRON, PierreDate:2010Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:We consider the estimation of a random level shift model for which the series of interest is the sum of a short-memory process and a jump or level shift component. For the latter component, we specify the commonly used ...
Title:National Security and Expulsion to a Risk of Torture
Author(s):LETNAR CERNIC, JernejDate:2008Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:In Saadi v Italy, the European Court of Human Rights held that article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights prohibits expulsion of individuals to states where they would face a "real risk" of torture, inhuman or ...
Title:Neue Beschäftigungsstrategien jenseits von externer und interner Flexibilisierung
Author(s):TÜNTE, Markus; APITZSCH, Birgit; SHIRE, Karen A.Date:2011Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Recent research about regular employment in core areas of high qualified service work in Germany yields contradictory findings about continuities and changes in employment stability. In addressing current debates about ...
Title:(Non-)retours à l’Église gréco-catholique roumaine, entre adhésion et transmission religieuse
Author(s):MAHIEU, StephanieDate:2006Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The author analyses the individual and collective motives which have pushed some of the Greek-Catholics to Join their former Church since 1989. The Romanian Greek-Catholic Church, founded in 1687, was outlawed by the ...
Title:O'Gorman, lecteur d’Acosta
Author(s):DELMAS, AdrienDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Ne serait-ce que du point de vue de sa réception, La invención de América est la partie la plus marquante de l’œuvre d’O’Gorman. Cet ouvrage synthétique, bref, marque l’aboutissement d’un long et patient travail d’analyse ...
Title:On Cosmopolitan Occupations: The case of the World Tribunal on Iraq
Author(s):CUBUKCU, AycaDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Within the tradition of ‘civil society tribunals’, the World Tribunal on Iraq (WTI) was an unprecedented endeavour in global scale, scope, structure and sophistication. Embedded within the global antiwar movement from 2003 ...
Title:On Pain and the Privation Theory of Evil
Author(s):SAMET, IritDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The paper argues that pain is not a good counter-example to the privation theory of evil. Objectors to the privation thesis see pain as too real to be accounted for in privative terms. However, the properties for which ...
Title:On the Meta-ethical Status of Constructivism: Reflections on G. A. Cohen’s ‘Facts and Principles’
Author(s):RONZONI, Miriam; VALENTINI, LauraDate:2008Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:In his article `Facts and Principles', G.A. Cohen attempts to refute constructivist approaches to justification by showing that, contrary to what their proponents claim, fundamental normative principles are fact-insensitive. ...
Title:On the Meta-Ethical Status of Constructivism: Reflections on G.A. Cohen's 'Facts and Principles'
Author(s):RONZONI, Miriam; VALENTINI, LauraDate:2008Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:In his article 'Facts and Principles', G.A. Cohen attempts to refute constructivist approaches to justification by showing that, contrary to what their proponents claim, fundamental normative principles are fact-insensitive. ...
Title:Pan-European Pension Funds: Current Situation and Future Prospects
Author(s):GUARDIANCICH, IgorDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The competitive pressures arising from European economic integration increasingly challenge the territorial sovereignty of national welfare states. This generates the need to situate domestic social security schemes amid ...
Title:Perpetual What? Injury, sovereignty, and a cosmopolitan view of immigration
Author(s):VALDEZ, InésDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Can Kantian cosmopolitanism contribute to normative approaches to immigration? Kant developed the universal right to hospitality in the context of late eighteenth-century colonialism. He claimed that non-European countries ...