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Title:Electoral debates on integration and immigration in Italian local elections : Milan, Prato and Rome compared Author(s):CASTELLI GATTINARA, Pietro
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 ...
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Title:Punishment and citizenship : a theory of criminal disenfranchisement Author(s):TRIPKOVIC, MilenaDate:2014Citation:
- Florence : European University Institute, 2014
Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of Political and Social SciencesAbstract:The thesis examines the normative justification of contemporary restrictions to electoral rights of criminal offenders. While such limitations are becoming fewer, many democracies retain them even today. Having in mind the ...
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Title:Policy learning, fast and slow : market-oriented reforms of Czech and Polish healthcare policy, 1989-2009 Author(s):POPIC, Tamara 
Date:2014Citation:
- Florence : European University Institute, 2014
Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of Political and Social SciencesAbstract:What determines the pace of policy innovation and change? Why, in other words, do policy makers in some countries innovate faster than in others? This thesis challenges conventional explanations, according to which policy ...
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Title:The idea of self-determination : hierarchy and order after empire Author(s):SPANU, MajaDate:2015Citation:
- Florence : European University Institute, 2015
Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of Political and Social SciencesAbstract:International Relations scholarship suggests that meanings embedded in the idea of selfdetermination have shifted over time. This scholarship also recognises that throughout the twentieth century self-determination has ...
Date:2015Citation:
Title:Becoming recognizable : postcolonial independence and the reification of religion Author(s):BIRNBAUM, MariaDate:2015Citation:
- Florence : European University Institute, 2015
Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of Political and Social SciencesAbstract:The thesis argues that international scholarship has failed to take into account the manner in which the process of recognition presupposes and reproduces already recognizable objects and agents. The example used in the ...
Date:2015Citation:
Title:The politics of a broken promise : risk shifting reforms in Bismarckian pension policies Author(s):STAMATI, FurioDate:2015Citation:
- Florence : European University Institute, 2015
Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of Political and Social SciencesAbstract:This thesis deals with a broken promise: namely, a broken pension promise. Looking at Italy and Germany in particular, it tells a story that is fairly common to retirement systems across the OECD. Over the last forty years, ...
Date:2015Citation:
Title:Gender and sexual politics in Europe : queer festivals and their counterpublics Author(s):ELEFTHERIADIS, KonstantinosDate:2014Citation:
- Florence : European University Institute, 2014
Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of Political and Social SciencesAbstract:Queer festivals make up a part of the legacy of queer activism, as it has developed in North America and Europe from the late 80s onwards. Their political discourse is based on a confrontational style of address, while ...
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