Title:Do all Good Things Go Together? Conflicting objectives in democracy promotion
Author(s):FREYBURG, Tina; GRIMM, Sonja; LEININGER, JuliaDate:2012Type of Publication:BookAbstract:The promotion of democracy in post-conflict or transition countries often does not prove to be successful. Trying to achieve peace, security, prosperity and other desirable goals at the same time often leads to conflicting ...
Title:EU Law in Ireland
Author(s):FAHEY, ElaineDate:2010Type of Publication:BookAbstract:There is a rapid increase in the amount of case law on EU law in the Irish legal order. EU Law in Ireland attempts to analyse key case law, text and commentaries in a diversity of EU law-related subject areas and will ...
Title:Family Life and Individual Welfare in Post-war Europe. Britain and Italy Compared
Author(s):BERNINI, StefaniaDate:2007Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Throughout the postwar period, changes in individual behaviour and legal reforms have transformed traditional notions of family life throughout Western Europe. However, interpretations of what constituted a desirable family ...
Title:Global Democracy and the World Social Forum
Author(s):SMITH, Jakie; DELLA PORTA, Donatella; MOSCA, Lorenzo; [et al.]Date:2007Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Contents
List of Tables and Figures
Preface and Acknowledgments
About the Authors
1 Globalization and the Emergence of the World Social Forums
2 What is the World Social Forums?
3 Who Participates in the World Social ...
Title:Hans Kelsen’s Pure Theory of Law. Legality and Legitimacy
Author(s):VINX, LarsDate:2007Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Sheds new light on the relationship between positivist theories of law and political philosophy, by rooting Kelsen's Pure Theory of Law in the context of his understanding of political legitimacy
Offers an original ...
Title:History of Concepts: Comparative Perspectives
Author(s):HAMPSHER-MONK, Iain; TILMANS, Karin; VAN VREE, FrankDate:2010-01-01Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Although vastly influential in German-speaking Europe, conceptual history (Begriffsgeschichte) has until now received little attention in English. This genre of intellectual history differs from both the French history of ...
Title:La Invención de Edmundo O’Gorman
Author(s):AVILÉS FLORES, Pablo; CHEIRIF WOLOSKY, Alejandro; DELMAS, AdrienDate:2012Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Il y a certainement quelque chose d’ironique à organiser un colloque sur Edmundo O’Gorman à Paris, Paris qu’il qualifiait volontiers de temple de l’orthodoxie de l’histoire pour mieux se déclarer lui-même hétérodoxe. Non ...
Title:Le choix rationnel en science politique. Débats critiques
Author(s):DELORI, Mathias; DESCHAUX-BEAUME, Delphine; SAURUGGER, SabineDate:2009Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Les sciences politiques françaises et, plus largement, continentales sont restées largement imperméables à une dynamique théorique majeure de ces dernières années : la montée en puissance du paradigme du choix rationnel ...
Title:Les politiques du genre
Author(s):ENGELI, Isabelle; BALLMER-CAO, Thanh-Huyen; MULLER, PierreDate:2008Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Les relations entre hommes et femmes ont toujours fait l'objet de régulations politiques. Même dans les réglementations apparemment les plus neutres, les effets de l'action publique diffèrent selon le genre des individus. ...
Title:A Life-Course Perspective on Migration and Integration
Author(s):WINGENS, Matthias; WINDZIO, Michael; DE VALK, Helga; AYBEK, CanDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Over the last four decades the sociological life course approach with its focus on the interplay of structure and agency over time life course perspective has become an important research perspective in the social sciences. ...
Title:Lo spirito polemico del diritto europeo. Studio sulle ambizioni costituzionali dell'Unione
Author(s):MARTINICO, GiuseppeDate:2011Type of Publication:BookAbstract:According to many scholars, the rejection of the Constitutional Treaty and the disappointment caused by the contents of the Lisbon Treaty –- defined by Somek (2007) as a mere post-Constitutional Treaty – mark the failure ...
Title:L’archivio antiebraico. Il linguaggio dell’antisemitismo moderno
Author(s):LEVIS SULLAM, SimonDate:2008Type of Publication:BookAbstract:La Shoa è l'apice di una lunga storia di discriminazione e persecuzione che, alla fine del XIX secolo, raggiunge un cruciale punto di svolta: per l'Europa lacerata da crisi e tensioni l'antisemitismo svolge la funzione di ...
Title:Our Man in Rome: Henry VII and his Italian Ambassador
Author(s):FLETCHER, CatherineDate:2012Type of Publication:BookAbstract:1527. Gregorio 'The Cavalier' Casali is Henry VIII's man in Rome. An Italian freelance diplomat, he charmed his way into the English service before he was twenty. But now he faces an almighty challenge. Henry wants a divorce ...