Browsing Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSC) by Title

Title:Pension reform in Spain (1975-1997) : the role of organized labour Author(s):GUILLÉN, Ana MartaDate:1999Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 1999Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:European Forum; 1999/06

Title:Pensions and Children Author(s):CORSETTI, Giancarlo

Date:2009Citation:Seppo HONKAPOHJA and Frank WESTERMANN (eds), Designing the European Model, Houndmills/Basingstoke/Hampshire, Palgrave MacMillan, 2009, 399-446Type:Contribution to book

Title:People and Parliament in the European Union : participation, democracy, and legitimacy Author(s):BLONDEL, Jean

; SINNOTT, Richard; SVENSSON, PalleDate:1998Citation:Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1998Type:BookAbstract:The power of the European Parliament has been steadily and visibly increasing in recent years. This arises from EU treaty changes and from the fact that more and more decisions are being made at the European level. At the ...

Title:People haven't had enough of experts : technocratic attitudes among citizens in nine European democracies Author(s):BERTSOU, Eri; CARAMANI, Daniele

Date:2022Citation:American journal of political science, 2022, Vol. 66, No. 1, pp. 5-23Type:ArticleAbstract:Political representation theory postulates that technocracy and populism mount a twofold challenge to party democracy, while also standing at odds with each other in the vision of representation they advocate. Can these ...

Title:People on the move: human trafficking and migration in Jordan, Lebanon and Syria Author(s):KANE, JuneDate:2011Type:Technical ReportSeries/Number:[Migration Policy Centre]; [CARIM-South]; CARIM Research Report; 2011/04

Title:'The people, year zero' : secessionism and citizenship in Scotland and Catalonia Author(s):ARRIGHI, Jean-Thomas

Date:2019Citation:Ethnopolitics, 2019, Vol. 18, No. 3, pp. 278-297Type:ArticleSeries/Number:[Global Governance Programme]; [Global Citizenship Governance]Abstract:The article compares how secessionist elites in Scotland and Catalonia discursely and legally constituted the people that is the subject of their claim of self-determination in relation to immigrant and emigrant populations ...

Title:Per una sociologia della mobilità umana Author(s):RECCHI, Ettore

Date:2023Citation:Mondi migranti : rivista di studi e ricerche sulle migrazioni internazionali, 2023, Vol. 3, pp. 9-29Type:ArticleAbstract:Migration studies focus on two distinct objects: on the one hand, the geograph-ic mobility of people; on the other, their incorporation in the receiving socie-ties. The latter is the prevailing focus, in academic and public ...

Title:Perceived legitimacy of normative expectations motivates compliance with social norms when nobody is watching Author(s):ANDRIGHETTO, Giulia; GRIECO, Daniela; TUMMOLINI, LucaDate:2015Citation:Frontiers in psychology, 2015, Vol. 6, Article 1413Type:ArticleSeries/Number:[EUDO]Abstract:Three main motivations can explain compliance with social norms: fear of peer punishment, the desire for others' esteem and the desire to meet others' expectations. Though all play a role, only the desire to meet others' ...

Title:The perception of inequality of opportunity in Europe Author(s):BRUNORI, Paolo

Date:2015Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI SPS; 2015/02Abstract:Does the way scholars measure inequality of opportunity correspond to how people perceive it? To answer this question we must first clarify how scholars define and measure inequality of opportunity, we will then discuss ...

Title:The Perception of the EU as an Emerging Security Actor in Media Debates on Humanitarian and Military Interventions (1990-2006) Author(s):KANTNER, Cathleen; KUTTER, Amelie; RENFORDT, SwantjeDate:2008-01-01Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:RECON Online Working Paper; 2008/19Abstract:Next to states and established international organisations, the European Union is emerging as an actor in the realm of international conflict management. Has the media in the EU Member States reflected this change? Our ...

Title:Perceptions and misperceptions of EU conditionality in the Western Balkans : a case of a 'capability-expectations gap'? Author(s):DZANKIC, Jelena

Date:2023Citation:Milica UVALIĆ (ed.), Integrating the Western Balkans into the EU : new perspectives on South-East Europe, Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2023, pp. 199-222Type:Contribution to bookAbstract:Over three decades have passed since the Western Balkan states disembarked from the socialist route, yet they still seem off-track on the European one. At the same time, this European route is becoming increasingly tangled ...

Title:Perceptions of anti‐Semitism among Turkish Jews Author(s):TOKTAS, SuleDate:2006Citation:Turkish studies, 2006, Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 203-223Type:ArticleAbstract:It is commonly believed that there is little or no anti-Semitism in Turkey. For this reason, the Turkish Jewish community is considered to be fortunate. The 1942 Capital Tax, the September 6–7 Events in 1955, and even the ...

Title:The perceptions of European Union–Western Balkan integration prospects : introduction and overview Author(s):UVALIC, Milica

Date:2023Citation:Milica UVALIĆ (ed.), Integrating the Western Balkans into the European Union : overcoming mutual misperceptions, Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2023, pp. 1-24Type:Contribution to bookAbstract:The main motivation for this book derives from a simple fact: the process of political integration into the European Union (EU) of the six Western Balkan countries—Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North ...

Title:Performance Informed Budgeting in Europe: The Ends Justify the Means, Don't They? Author(s):VAN NISPEN, Frans; POSSETH, JohanDate:2009Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI RSCAS; 2009/39Abstract:The last few decades a revival of the performance budgeting generating a complete performance industry. Initiated by the Anglo-Saxon countries, notably New Zealand, the performance movement is widespread today. In this ...

Title:The performance of British business in the twentieth century Author(s):CASSIS, Youssef

; GOURVISH, TerryDate:2016Citation:Youssef CASSIS, Andres COLLI and Harm G. SCHRÖTER (eds), The performance of European business in the twentieth century, Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016, pp. 72-80Type:Contribution to bookAbstract:During the first two-thirds of the twentieth century, British big business reached a degree of modernity and maturity not yet attained elsewhere in Europe: Britain’s largest companies were significantly larger than their ...

Title:The performance of European business in the twentieth century Editor(s):CASSIS, Youssef

; COLLI, Andrea; SCHRÖTER, Harm G.Date:2016Citation:Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016Type:BookAbstract:This book originated from the idea that performance is what really matters in business and thus in business history. Yet, surprisingly, the analysis of performances has been neglected by economic and business historians. ...

Title:The performance of European enterprise during the twentieth century : general overview Author(s):CASSIS, Youssef

; COLLI, Andrea; SCHRÖTER, Harm G.Date:2016Citation:Youssef CASSIS, Andres COLLI and Harm G. SCHRÖTER (eds), The performance of European business in the twentieth century, Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016, pp. 3-20Type:Contribution to bookAbstract:This chapter provides an introduction to and summary of the first attempt at measuring European business performance over the entire twentieth century on a common basis of data. In doing so, it adopts a new approach to ...

Title:The performance of European enterprise during the Twentieth century : general overview Author(s):CASSIS, Youssef

; COLLI, Andrea; SCHRÖTER, Harm G.Date:2016Citation:Youssef CASSIS, Andrea COLLI and Harm G. SCHRÖTER (eds), The performance of European business in the Twentieth century, Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016, pp. 3-20Type:Contribution to bookAbstract:This chapter provides an introduction to and summary of the first attempt at measuring European business performance over the entire twentieth century on a common basis of data. In doing so, it adopts a new approach to ...

Title:The performance of French business in the twentieth century Author(s):CASSIS, Youssef

; DALMASSO, Anne; VERNUS, PierreDate:2016Citation:Youssef CASSIS, Andres COLLI and Harm G. SCHRÖTER (eds), The performance of European business in the twentieth century, Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016, pp. 81-90Type:Contribution to bookAbstract:Development of big business in France in the twentieth century followed a similar pattern to that in Britain and Germany. One specificity was the early development of service industries, including railways, before the First ...

Title:Performance review commission : in search of flagships for air traffic management Transformation Author(s):FINGER, Matthias

; SERAFIMOVA, Teodora

Date:2023Type:OtherSeries/Number:EUI; RSC; Policy Brief; 2023/06; Florence School of regulation; [Transport Area]Abstract:The Performance Review Commission (PRC) is an independent body supported by EUROCONTROL with a remit to review and report on the performance of European air traffic management (ATM). While performance has improved over ...