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 ...
Title:Performing the Past. Memory, History, and Identity in Modern Europe
Author(s):TILMANS, Karin; VAN VREE, Frank; WINTER, JayDate:2010Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Performing the Past is an investigation of the multiple social and culture practices through which Europeans have negotiated the space between their history and their memory over the past 200 years. In museums, in opera ...
Title:Perspectives on Power. An Inter-Disciplinary Approach
Author(s):MORGAN, Heather M.; LETNAR CERNIC, Jernej; MILLIGAN, LindsayDate:2010Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Although ‘power’ can appear a vague term, the dichotomy between haves and have-nots, the desire to gain autonomy, and the dire consequences of subjugation, are three issues that resound across the arts and social sciences. ...
Title:The Politics and Memory of Democratic Transition: The Spanish Model
Author(s):ALONSO, Gregorio; MURO, DiegoDate:2011Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Spain's political transition to democracy is often lauded as the benchmark by which many other countries explicitly declared to have measured their own democratic progress. 2008 marks the 30th Anniversary of the Spanish ...
Title:A Recuperação Judicial de Sociedade por Ações: A preservação da empresa na lei de recuperação e falência
Author(s):NEDER CEREZETTI, Sheila ChristinaDate:2012Type of Publication:BookAbstract:O tema da recuperação da empresa apresenta algumas peculiaridades e diversos dilemas. Pode-se optar por uma sociedade - e uma empresa - que se preocupa com sua autopreservação. Nessa hipótese, não há como não advertir e ...
Title:Richelieu
Author(s):D'ALBIS, CécileDate:2012Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Il est très difficile de connaître un homme dont ses flatteurs ont dit tant de bien, et ses ennemis tant de mal », écrivait Voltaire. Cardinal et ministre de Louis XIII pendant près de vingt ans, Richelieu a dirigé la ...