Title:Care for the Elderly in Spain during Democracy. New social risks, welfare modernisation and territorial politics
Author(s):RODRIGUEZ GARCIA, CarlaDate:2007Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This thesis highlights the importance of new social risks, welfare modernisation, and territorial changes on current welfare states. The interaction of these factors, which I have decided to label as “Tris Syndrome”, is ...
Title:Carrots or Sticks? EU and US reactions to Human Rights violations (1989-2000)
Author(s):HAZELZET, HadewychDate:2001Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The dissertation shows that countries with severe human rights violations and/or dictatorships are likely to be subjected to sanctions, irrespective of their strategic or economic importance to the West. A considerable ...
Title:Changes from below : intergovernmental politics in democratizing federations
Author(s):FERREIRA DO VALE, HélderDate:2011Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Who are more powerful in a federation, national or subnational politicians? As the cases of democratic Brazil, Spain and South Africa show, there is no straightforward answer to this question. As the power of politicians ...
Title:Changing Choices, Changing Elections: A study of volatility and vote-switching in six Western European countries
Author(s):GOMEZ MARTINEZ, RaulDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:It is often argued that elections in established Western European democracies have become more unstable during recent decades. Much scholarly work has thus focused on the study of changes in election results in order to ...