Title:How International Actors Interact: Explaining China's engagement with the EU, 2002-2007
Author(s):GAENSSMANTEL, FrankDate:2009Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This thesis investigates how Chinese decision-makers deal with the complexities of EU foreign-policy making. Which of the many entities within in the EU, among Brussels-based institutions and in member states, do they ...
Title:How voters process information: an inquiry into the formation of electoral preferences
Author(s):CAMPUS, DonatellaDate:1997Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:L'aumento dell'astensionismo elettorale, fenomeno oggi attuale in Italia così come in molti altri paesi occidentali, e più in generale lo scarso interesse dei cittadini verso la politica generano dubbi e perplessità ...
Title:Human Rights and the City: Anti-discrimination laws and policies in New York and Barcelona
Author(s):GRIGOLO, MicheleDate:2009Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This thesis investigates the political and legal dimensions of human rights policies enacted by cities in order to respond to one main research question: how are these policies enacted and what is their outcome? Drawing ...
Title:Human Rights and Transnational Corporations: For a multi-level governance approach
Author(s):O'BRIEN, ClaireDate:2009Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The thesis argues for adoption of a multi-level governance perspective with regard to the problematic of the regulation the human rights impacts of transnational business, on three main grounds. First, that the multi-level ...
Title:Human Rights as the Business of Business: The application of human rights standards to the oil industry
Author(s):HERNANDEZ URIZ, GenovevaDate:2005Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This thesis explores the challenges posed by greater public demands placed upon transnational corporations to improve their human rights records. Its focus is placed on the oil industry because it epitomises the archetypical ...
Title:Human Rights Protection Against Private Expropriation: The case of a squeeze-out rule
Author(s):MARCISZ, Ewa MariaDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI LLM thesesAbstract:The thesis below provides a study on a squeeze-out rule. It is analyzed in the context of other rules of modern private law which allow for deprivations of property rights for the benefit of private individuals. A squeeze-out ...