Title:Symbolic orders of childbirth
Author(s):HAENSCH, AnjaDate:2000Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD theses
Title:The Symbolic Value of Descriptive Representation: The case of female representation
Author(s):ESPÍRITO-SANTO, AnaDate:2011Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Most of the studies on political underrepresentation have tried to explain the factors that account for the underrepresentation of some groups in political power. The present research project focuses on the link between ...
Title:Systematisation in European Risk Regulation
Author(s):PURNHAGEN, Kai PeterDate:2011Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This thesis explores the impact of the increasing role of systematisation in European law on the example of EU risk regulation as a reference area. It argues that systematisation in European law has a much wider impact ...
Title:Taking People As They Could Be: A defence of ideal political theory
Author(s):EFTHYMIOU, DimitrisDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The object of this thesis is to defend ideal political theory from a series of objections that question its theoretical and practical soundness. My preliminary thesis is that ideal political theory is theoretically as well ...
Title:Tarocchi as Renaissance Memory Places
Author(s):NEDELEA, PatriciaDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Why were the Tarocchi cards invented? Historiography gives two disjunctive answers: gaming and fortunetelling. This thesis offers a third original answer. Tarocchi as Renaissance Memory Places shows that these figurative ...