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Title:Making up for an unlucky month of birth in school : causal evidence on the compensatory advantage of family background in England Author(s):BERNARDI, Fabrizio EUI affiliated

; GRÄTZ, MichaelDate:2015Citation: Sociological science, 2015, Vol. 2, pp. 235-251 Type:ArticleAbstract:Previous research has shown that being born in the months immediately preceding the school entry cut-off date leads to lower educational outcomes in countries with a strict admission policy. In this article we use the ...

Title:Contested norms in new-adopter states : international determinants of LGBT rights legislation. Author(s):AYOUB, Phillip M.Date:2015Citation: European journal of international relations, 2015, Vol. 21, No. 2, pp. 293-322 Type:ArticleSeries/Number:[COSMOS]Abstract:This article is concerned with the question of why lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans (LGBT) rights legislation is introduced at higher levels in some cases and less so in others. To address this puzzle, the article analyzes ...

Title:LGBT activism and the making of Europe : a rainbow Europe? Author(s):AYOUB, Phillip M.; PATERNOTTE, DavidDate:2014Citation: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014 Type:BookSeries/Number:[COSMOS]Abstract:Europe has long been regarded as a unique place for the promotion and furthering of LGBT rights. This important and compelling study investigates the alleged uniqueness and its ties to a relatively long history of LGBT and ...

Title:With arms wide shut: threat perception, norm reception and mobilized resistance to LGBT rights Author(s):AYOUB, Phillip M.Date:2014Citation: Journal of Human Rights, Vol. 13, No. 3, pp. 337-362 Type:ArticleSeries/Number:[COSMOS]Abstract:This article utilizes original survey and interview data to explore why norms governing lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights mobilize an active resistance in some cases and not in others. Based on a ...

Title:Challenging borders : imagining Europe : transnational LGBT activism in a New Europe Author(s):AYOUB, Phillip M.; PATERNOTTE, DavidDate:2014Citation: Nancy NAPLES and Jennifer BICKHAM-MENDEZ (eds), Border politics : social movements, collective identities, and globalization, New York : New York University Press, 2014, pp. 230-257 Type:Contribution to bookSeries/Number:[COSMOS]

Title:Triangulation in social movement research Author(s):AYOUB, Phillip M.; WALLACE, Sophia; ZEPEDA-MILLAN, ChrisDate:2014Citation: Donatella DELLA PORTA (ed.), Methodological practices in social movement research, Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014, pp. 67-96 Type:Contribution to bookSeries/Number:[COSMOS]

Title:Electoral debates on integration and immigration in Italian local elections : Milan, Prato and Rome compared Author(s):CASTELLI GATTINARA, Pietro EUI affiliated

Date:2014Citation: Florence : European University Institute, 2014 Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of Political and Social SciencesAbstract:This research focuses on the politicization of immigration as an issue in local electoral campaigns, comparing the cases of three Italian cities. Based on the idea that immigration must not be understood as a one-dimensional ...

Title:Political agency in the economy : cooperatives, solidarity and territory in Euskadi and Aquitaine Author(s):ITÇAINA, XabierDate:2013Citation: Bice MAIGUASHCA and Raffaele MARCHETTI (eds), Contemporary political agency : theory and practice, Abingdon : Routledge, 2013, Routledge series on global order studies ; 3, pp. 72-91 Type:Contribution to bookAbstract:In the present global economic crisis, the ‘social economy’– i.e. those forms of economic organization located between the public sector and the private for-profit sector – has aroused considerable public and academic ...

Title:Social movements and their technologies : wiring social change Author(s):MILAN, StefaniaDate:2013Citation: Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013 Type:BookAbstract:Social Movements and Their Technologies. Wiring Social Change explores the interplay between social movements and their “liberated technologies”. It analyzes the rise of low-power radio stations and radical internet projects ...

Title:Competition states on Europe's periphery : race to the bottom and to the top Author(s):VUKOV, VišnjaDate:2013Citation: Florence : European University Institute, 2013 Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of Political and Social SciencesAbstract:The thesis deals with the transformations of capitalist states in Europe in the context of increased economic transnationalisation and explores the different strategies that states develop to increase their competitiveness ...

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