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Title:The State of the Union 2013 : collected perspectives Editor(s):European University InstituteDate:2013Citation:
- Florence : European University Institute, 2013
Type:BookSeries/Number:The State of the Union Conference; 2013Abstract:'State of the Union 2013: Collected Perspectives' brings together some of the keynote lectures, speeches, and papers presented at the 2013 State of Union conference. While Europe is the concern of the whole book, part I ...
Title:Beck back in the 19th century: towards a genealogy of risk society Author(s):FRESSOZ, Jean-BaptisteDate:2007Citation:
- History and technology, 2007, 23, 4, 333-350
Type:ArticleAbstract: technologies and tries to imagine a safer way of governing science and nature. I contextualize this work by providing a series of case studies on various 19th-century technological controversies (ranging from deforestation ...
Title:The Gas Lighting Controversy - Technological Risk, Expertise, and Regulation in Nineteenth-Century Paris and London Author(s):FRESSOZ, Jean-BaptisteDate:2007Citation:
- Journal of Urban History, 2007, 33, 5, 729-755
Type:ArticleAbstract:Is the risk society exclusively postmodern? This article addresses this question by examining the controversy on gas lighting in nineteenth-century Paris and London. Unlike other technologies of that time, gas light was ...
Title:Schools of democracy : how ordinary citizens become competent in participatory budgeting institutions Author(s):TALPIN, JulienDate:2007Citation:
- Florence, European University Institute, 2007
Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of Political and Social SciencesAbstract:A widespread theme pervades both political theory and the social sciences, in which participation in certain types of democratic institutions could create a more competent, active and public-spirited citizenry. While the ...
Title:Framing the public : three case studies in public participation in the governance of agricultural biotechnology Author(s):HANSEN, JanusDate:2005Citation:
- Florence, European University Institute, 2005
Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of Political and Social SciencesAbstract:Ideas about public engagement with controversial technologies are growing in political prominence. This dissertation delivers a theoretically grounded, empirical analysis of why active public involvement is considered to ...
Title:Business political activity in technical controversy : a study of the socio-cultural embeddedness of economic organizations Author(s):DREYER, MarionDate:1997Citation:
- Florence : European University Institute, 1997
Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of Political and Social SciencesAbstract:This study is a contribution to political sociology. It deals with political action as a special form of social action. The social actor looked at in its role as a political actor is the economic organization. The political ...