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Title:The anti-Islamic movement : far right and liberal? Author(s):BERNTZEN, Lars Erik
Date:2018Citation:
- Florence : European University Institute, 2018
Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of Political and Social SciencesAbstract:This thesis is about the anti-Islamic turn and expansion of the far right in Europe and beyond between 2001 and 2017. The anti-Islamic far right has undergone four waves of expansion in this period, driven by terror attacks ...
Date:2018Citation:
Title:State interests vs citizens’ preferences : on which side do (Labour) parties stand? Author(s):KARREMANS, Johannes 
Date:2017Citation:
- Florence : European University Institute, 2017
Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of Political and Social SciencesAbstract:This dissertation deals with the question of how the partisan nature of government still matters in the current globalized and post-industrial world. In particular, it compares the representativeness of two contemporary ...
Date:2017Citation:
Title:Government alternation in Western Europe : a comparative exploration Author(s):VALBRUZZI, MarcoDate:2017Citation:
- Florence : European University Institute, 2017
Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of Political and Social SciencesAbstract:In the last thirty years, alternation in government has become a common practice in Western Europe. Unfortunately, democratic theories and theorists have hitherto mostly neglected or taken for granted this crucial phenomenon ...
Date:2017Citation:
Title:Cosmopolitanism and its others : social distinction in Egypt in the aftermath of the revolution of 2011 Author(s):MUSTONEN, LiinaDate:2017Citation:
- Florence : European University Institute, 2017
Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of Political and Social SciencesAbstract:As a contribution to the diverse field of cosmopolitan scholarship, engaging with ‘cultural cosmopolitanism’ often understood in a vernacular sense as the capacity to meditate between different cultures, religions and ways ...
Date:2017Citation:
Title:Validating the immigration policies in comparison (IMPIC) dataset Author(s):SCHMID, Samuel D. ; HELBLING, MarcDate:2016Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:WZB Discussion Paper; 2016/202Abstract:The aim of this paper is to discuss the external and internal validity of the newly created Immigration Policies in Comparison (IMPIC) dataset. After presenting its theoretical conceptualization, we compare the IMPIC to ...
; HELBLING, MarcDate:2016Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:WZB Discussion Paper; 2016/202Abstract:The aim of this paper is to discuss the external and internal validity of the newly created Immigration Policies in Comparison (IMPIC) dataset. After presenting its theoretical conceptualization, we compare the IMPIC to ...
Title:The contentious politics of higher education : struggles and power relations within the English and Italian universities Author(s):CINI, LorenzoDate:2016Citation:
- Florence : European University Institute, 2016
Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of Political and Social SciencesAbstract:Movement scholars have generally overlooked the study of mobilizations within institutions. Even less known are the effects that mobilizations within institutions provoke. By combining field theory and social movement ...
Date:2016Citation:
Title:The difficulty of measuring governance and stateness Author(s):MALITO, Debora ValentinaDate:2015Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI RSCAS; 2015/38; Global Governance Programme-173; European, Transnational and Global GovernanceAbstract:Measures of governance and stateness have grown substantially in number over recent decade, and gained also greater importance in building public discourses and orienting decision-making processes. Yet there seems to be ...
Date:2015Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI RSCAS; 2015/38; Global Governance Programme-173; European, Transnational and Global GovernanceAbstract:Measures of governance and stateness have grown substantially in number over recent decade, and gained also greater importance in building public discourses and orienting decision-making processes. Yet there seems to be ...