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Title:Subaltern rightful struggles : comparative ethnographies of the Bedouin villagers in the Naqab and the akhdam slum dwellers in Sana'a Author(s):HALL, Bogumila EUI affiliated

Date:2016Citation: Florence : European University Institute, 2016 Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of Political and Social SciencesAbstract:Liberal assumptions that the poor and the illiterate are not likely to demand or even know their rights have been forcefully challenged by a body of scholarship in anthropology and political science that expands the field ...

Title:Democratic socialism or social democracy? : the influence of the British Labour Party and the Parti Socialiste Français in the ideological transformation of the Partido Socialista Português and the Partido Socialista Obrero Español in the mid-1970s Author(s):GRANADINO, AlanDate:2016Citation: Florence : European University Institute, 2016 Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of History and CivilizationAbstract:This thesis investigates the link between the ideological transformations experienced by the Spanish and Portuguese Socialist Parties (PSOE and PS) in the mid-1970s and the relations of these parties with the British Labour ...

Title:Misplaced democracy : Malaysian politics and people Editor(s):LEMIERE, Sophie EUI affiliated

Date:2014Citation: Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia : Strategic Information and Research Development Centre Malaysia, 2014 Type:BookAbstract:Misplaced Democracy: Malaysian Politics and People is the fruit of a three-year collaboration between academics who have chosen Malaysia as their specialty. Defined by its inter-disciplinarity and covering the fields of ...

Title:EU democracy assistance : an analysis of theory and practice 1991-2011 Author(s):OGERTSCHNIG, LarissaDate:2013Citation: Florence : European University Institute, 2013 Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of LawAbstract:In the late 1980s/early 1990s the EU started to purse a new policy: that of democracy promotion. It quickly put in place a whole range of instruments that would facilitate the transition to democracy and its consolidation ...

Title:The relevance of critical race theory to Europe Author(s):MOSCHEL, MathiasDate:2011Citation: Florence : European University Institute, 2011 Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of LawAbstract:This Ph.D. thesis offers a fresh look at the difficult connection between race and law in the continental European context. So far, the analysis of race and racism in legal scholarship has mainly occurred in terms of ...

Title:International party co-operation before and after 1989 : the Polish and Hungarian (post-) communists and the Western social democrats Author(s):GRZYBOWSKA-WALECKA, Katarzyna EUI affiliated

Date:2009Citation: Florence : European University Institute, 2009 Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of Political and Social SciencesAbstract:This thesis examines the impact of the changing dynamics of the international cooperation among communist (or post-communist) parties and Western social democratic parties on democratic transitions and on party change. ...

Title:International Elections Experts, Monitors, and Representations in the Arab World Author(s):CARAPICO, SheilaDate:2008Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI RSCAS; 2008/24; Mediterranean Programme SeriesAbstract:Elections are sites of festivity, celebrity, and sometimes dramatic suspense, unique occasions for the simultaneous nationwide engagement of candidates, campaign volunteers, poll-workers, voters, and even abstainers and ...

Title:Promoting democracy abroad : the EU and Latin America, 1995-2005 Author(s):TRISCRITTI, FiorellaDate:2008Citation: Florence : European University Institute, 2008 Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of Political and Social SciencesAbstract:Since the 1980s an increasing number of international actors have been promoting democracy worldwide using different methods and instruments. However, despite initial successes, many of these newly created democracies ...

Title:Transnational Policies of Emancipation or Colonization? Civil society promotion in post-communist Albania Author(s):CHIODI, LuisaDate:2007Citation: Florence, European University Institute, 2007 Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of Political and Social SciencesAbstract:The thesis discusses whether the western aid policy of Civil Society Promotion (CSP) in postcommunist Albania constituted a policy of colonization with its direct penetration of the local public sphere or one of emancipation ...

Title:The Constituent and Instrumental Role of Human Rights in Development Policy: A case study of European Union (EU) relations with the group of African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) states Author(s):SHEEHY, OrlaDate:2007Citation: Florence, European University Institute, 2007 Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of LawAbstract:This thesis explores the impact of international human rights law on the changing trends in international development policy and practice. The subject matter is analysed through a case study of European Union development ...

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