Title:Transnational Policies of Emancipation or Colonization? Civil society promotion in post-communist Albania
Author(s):CHIODI, LuisaDate:2007Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The thesis discusses whether the western aid policy of Civil Society Promotion (CSP) in postcommunist Albania constituted a policy of colonization with its direct penetration of the local public sphere or one of emancipation ...
Title:Tunisian New Entrepreneurs and their Past Experiences of Migration in Europe: The formation of network mechanisms
Author(s):CASSARINO, Jean-PierreDate:1998Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This text concentrates on the economic sociology of return migration, with specific reference to Tunisia. As such, it aims to analyze, on the one hand, the patterns of resource mobilization and the strategies for survival ...
Title:Two Faces of Authority: The leader's tragic quest
Author(s):BESSELINK, ThieuDate:2009Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This thesis observes how modern leaders of Western society publicly engage in an unrewarding quest for a durably authoritative identity and it asks why rulers are so troubled in cultivating a credible role of authority. ...
Title:Una nueva cristalización social: Las élites urbanas y el Estado en Valladolid y Magdeburgo (ca. 1770-1870)
Author(s):LUENGO SÁNCHEZ, JorgeDate:2011Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This thesis aims to examine the process of elite formation in a provincial European town in the 18th and 19th centuries. The Spanish town of Valladolid is the case study chosen for this purpose, and it has been compared ...
Title:Uncertainty, expectations, and the business cycle
Author(s):LANG, Jan HannesDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This thesis adds to the recent quantitative literature that considers variations in uncertainty as impulses driving the business cycle. In chapter one a flexible partial equilibrium model that features heterogeneous firms, ...
Title:Understanding and Assessing the EU-Russia Legal Approximation Process: The case study of competition law
Author(s):MATTA, AaronDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Following the Europeanisation studies ‘top-out’ approach in this thesis I analyse the legal approximation process with Russia as a mechanism of acquis export in the backdrop of the various European economic integration ...
Title:Understanding Individuals' Beliefs
Author(s):GRANADOS ZAMBRANO, PaulinaDate:2011Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:We live in a world surrounded by uncertainty and within this uncertainty human beings have to decide every action, every turn of life. When individuals take decisions the true value of parameters relevant for that decision ...