Browsing Department of Political and Social Sciences (SPS) by Title

Title:Cabinet government and cabinet ministers Author(s):BLONDEL, Jean

Date:1991Citation:Jean BLONDEL and Jean-Louis THIÉBAULT (eds), The profession of government minister in Western Europe, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Macmillan, 1991, pp. 5-18Type:Contribution to book

Title:Cabinets in Eastern Europe Author(s):BLONDEL, Jean

; MÜLLER-ROMMEL, FerdinandDate:2001Citation:Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave, 2001Type:BookAbstract:'Cabinets in Eastern Europe' is a comprehensive study which enables the reader to compare the origins, structure, composition and activities of these cabinets and to draw lessons from this comparison. Each chapter begins ...

Title:Cabinets in post-communist East-Central Europe and in the Balkans : introduction Author(s):BLONDEL, Jean

Date:2001Citation:Jean BLONDEL and Ferdinand MÜLLER-ROMMEL, Cabinets in Eastern Europe, Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave, 2001, pp. 1-14Type:Contribution to book

Title:Cabinets in Western Europe Editor(s):BLONDEL, Jean

; MÜLLER-ROMMEL, FerdinandDate:1988Citation:Basingstoke : Macmillan, 1988Type:BookAbstract:This is the first-ever presentation of the structure and workings of the national cabinets in Western European countries today; this presentation is based on a common framework which enables the reader to compare their ...

Title:Cabinets in Western Europe (2nd edition) Editor(s):BLONDEL, Jean

; MÜLLER-ROMMEL, FerdinandDate:1997Citation:Basingstoke : Macmillan, 1997Type:BookAbstract:This is the fully updated second edition of the presentation of the structure and workings of the national cabinets in Western European countries today. This book is based on a common framework which enables the reader to ...

Title:Call of duty : why does the Catholic Church support the European integration? Author(s):MICHALSKI, Radoslaw Jan

Date:2021Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2021Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; SPS; PhD ThesisAbstract:“Call of duty” – why does the Catholic Church support European integration? I investigate the “puzzlement” caused by the situation in which an international religious institution, the Catholic Church, which is urged by its ...

Title:Cambiamenti nei modelli organizzativi e democrazia di partito. La nascita del cartel party Author(s):MAIR, Peter; KATZ, Richard S.Date:2006Citation:Luciano BARDI (ed.), Partiti e sistemi di partito, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2006, 33-58Type:Contribution to book

Title:Campaign Effects and Second-Order Cycles - A Top-Down Approach to European Parliament Elections Author(s):WEBER, TillDate:2007Citation:European Union Politics, 2007, 8, 4, 509-536Type:ArticleAbstract:Second-order elections theory explains cyclical losses by national government parties in elections to the European Parliament (EP) through strategic protest voting owing to performance deficits in policy- making. This paper ...

Title:A campanha eleitoral de 2005 nos media: Padrões e factores de exposição Author(s):SANTANA PEREIRA, JoséDate:2009Citation:Marina COSTA LOBO and Pedro MAGALHÃES (eds), Os Contextos do Voto em Portugal – Perspectivas sobre as eleições legislativas e presidenciais, Lisbon, Imprensa de Ciências Sociais, 2009, 105-125Type:Contribution to bookAbstract:This chapter focuses on the Portuguese legislative elections of 2005, and starts by identifying the patterns that characterized the voter’s exposition to the media during the campaign, using survey data collected by the ...

Title:Can a nudge make debtors budge? : four field experiments on payment reminders Author(s):SAULĪTIS, AndrisDate:2020Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2020Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; SPS; PhD ThesisAbstract:This dissertation tests various messaging strategies to improve debt repayment among overindebted individuals. In order to do so, I carry out four field experiments in cooperation with a credit management company in Riga, ...

Title:Can Darwinism explain morality? Author(s):OAKEY, DanielDate:2003Citation:Cardiff : Cardiff Academic Press, 2003Version:Published version of EUI PhD thesis, 1997Type:Book

Title:Can democracy be saved? : participation, deliberation and social movements Author(s):DELLA PORTA, Donatella

Date:2013Citation:Cambridge ; Malden : Polity Press, 2013Type:BookSeries/Number:[COSMOS]Abstract:Financial crisis, economic globalization and the strengthening of neoliberal policies present stark challenges to traditional conceptions of representative democracy. Yet, at the same time, new opportunities are emerging ...

Title:Can personality explain the educational gradient in divorce? : evidence from a nationally representative panel survey Author(s):BOERTIEN, Diederik; VON SCHEVE, Christian; PARK, MonaDate:2017Citation:Journal of family issues, 2017, Vol. 38, No. 10, pp. 1339-1362Type:ArticleAbstract:The social demographic literature on divorce suggests that the lower educated are more likely to have personality traits that reduce relationship stability. However, few empirical verifications of this proposition exist. ...

Title:Can the Similarity in Divorce Risks of West-German Siblings be Explained by Parental Divorce and by Other Family Characteristics? Author(s):DRONKERS, JaapDate:2003Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI SPS; 2003/05

Title:Capital City Cultures: Reconstructing contemporary Europe in Vienna and Berlin Author(s):DE FRANTZ, MonikaDate:2011Citation:Bruxelles/Bern/Berlin/Frankfurt am Main/New York/Oxford/Wien, Peter Lang, 2011, Europe plurielle/Multiple Europes, 45Version:Published version of EUI PhD thesis, 2004Type:BookAbstract:Global market competition and the political responses to globalization transform urban societies and states, and thus the cultures of capital cities in contemporary Europe. Vienna's cultural district Museumsquartier and ...

Title:Capital City Cultures: Reconstructing the state in its urban centers. Multi-level governance and the discursive mobilization of urban collective action for the cultural regeneration of the 'Museumsquartier' in Vienna and the 'Palast der republik/ Schlossplatz' in Berlin Author(s):DE FRANTZ, MonikaDate:2004Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2004Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; SPS; PhD ThesisAbstract:Global market competition and the political responses to globalization transform urban societies and states, and thus the cultures of capital cities in contemporary Europe. Vienna's cultural district Museumsquartier and ...

Title:Capital Mobility and the Origins of Stock Markets Author(s):VERDIER, DanielDate:2001Citation:International Organization, 2001, 55, 2, 327-+Type:ArticleAbstract:I illustrate the accepted, though hardly researched. idea that political institutions play a role in locking in factor specificity across sectors, space, and borders. I use the emergence of modern capital markets in the ...

Title:Capital Unbound? the Transformation of European Corporate Governance Author(s):RHODES, Martin; VAN APELDOORN, BastiaanDate:1998Citation:Journal of European Public Policy, 1998, 5, 3, 406-427Type:ArticleAbstract:This article represents a first attempt to analyse the forces at work in the transformation of European corporate space, at both the national and supranational levels. In doing so, it consciously combines a comparative ...

Title:Capital Unbound? The transformation of European corporate governance Author(s):RHODES, Martin; VAN APELDOORN, BastiaanDate:2004Citation:Thomas CLARKE (ed.), Theories of Corporate Governance: The philosophical foundations of corporate governance, Abingdon/New York, Routledge, 2004, 243-258Type:Contribution to book