The book analyzes the topic of judicial reforms in four countries of South-East Europe, focusing on two specific factors that have influenced the reforms in the past two decades: the role played by the European Union in light of the east Enlargement process and the legacies of the communist regimes. Specifically, the aim is to account for similarities and differences in the reform paths of Slovenia, Romania, Croatia, and Serbia. In each country, in fact, the influence of the EU policies has been differently mediated by national factors that, broadly conceived, may be considered as...
The book analyzes the topic of judicial reforms in four countries of South-East Europe, focusing on two specific factors that have influenced the r...
A number of highly informative books have been written about what is often called the "Armenian Genocide." This book, written by a political scientist, offers a different approach: It doesn't concentrate on the past; it concentrates on the present, and shows how this past event is perceived and discussed today. The idea is that the arguments deployed in this debate, those which allege that what happened amounts to genocide and those which deny this claim reveal something about cognitive structures of present agents, such as the Turkish government, as well as about the meaning and use of the...
A number of highly informative books have been written about what is often called the "Armenian Genocide." This book, written by a political scientist...
This book offers a framework for the analysis of political communication in election campaigns based on digital trace data that documents political behavior, interests and opinions. The author investigates the data-generating processes leading users to interact with digital services in politically relevant contexts. These interactions produce digital traces, which in turn can be analyzed to draw inferences on political events or the phenomena that give rise to them. Various factors mediate the image of political reality emerging from digital trace data, such as the users of digital services'...
This book offers a framework for the analysis of political communication in election campaigns based on digital trace data that documents political be...
This book examines democratizing media reforms in Latin America. By offering a civil society perspective, the author moves beyond conventional accounts that perceive media reforms primarily as a form of government repression to punish oppositional media.
This book examines democratizing media reforms in Latin America. By offering a civil society perspective, the author moves beyond conventional account...
This bookanalyzes the individual and contextual determinants of protest politics in Western Europe.Building ondifferenttheoretical perspectives, from social movements theory to political behavior approaches, the authorprovides new empirical evidence on the patterns of protest politics. Readerswilldiscoverwhysome citizens are more likely to get involvedin protests than others, and whylevels ofprotest differfrom country to country.Theauthor illustratesthat engagement in political protest is often rooted in the interplay of the protester s individual characteristics and their home country s...
This bookanalyzes the individual and contextual determinants of protest politics in Western Europe.Building ondifferenttheoretical perspectives, fr...
This book analyzes the link between economic and political inequalities and investigates the mechanisms that lead to economically rooted inequalities in the political representation of citizens' policy preferences. Focusing on the case of Switzerland and evaluating data from the post-electoral survey, Selects 2007, the author demonstrates that the policy preferences of members of the Federal Assembly best reflect those of rich citizens. This pattern is explained by differential levels of political participation and knowledge across income groups, party finance, the fact that...
This book analyzes the link between economic and political inequalities and investigates the mechanisms that lead to economically rooted inequaliti...
This book analyses the India, Brazil, South Africa Dialogue Forum (IBSA), focusing on the communalities and differences in the way foreign policy is conceptualized in its member states. Utilizing 83 interviews with foreign policy makers and experts, as well as the analysis of 119 foreign-policy speeches, the author traces key shifts in official foreign policy discourse. In order to evaluate the degree of support for key IBSA Dialogue Forum concepts within national discourse, the author also examines the interplay between official and broader societal discourses on foreign policy. This...
This book analyses the India, Brazil, South Africa Dialogue Forum (IBSA), focusing on the communalities and differences in the way foreign policy i...
This book explores the impact on EU member states of intensified European cooperation in the field of vocational education and training. By employing the Varieties of Capitalism approach as an analytical framework, it seeks to bridge diverging views from an innovative standpoint: While many experts argue that EU policies liberalize national training systems in spite of being 'soft law', Varieties of Capitalism argues that these polices do not produce a convergence of national institutions. The book maintains that European instruments such as the European Qualifications Framework and the...
This book explores the impact on EU member states of intensified European cooperation in the field of vocational education and training. By employing ...
This work aims to provide unique insights into the multidisciplinary research on spatial disparities from an unconventional point of view. It breaks with the conventional narrative that tends to interpret this theoretical tradition as a series of factual contributions to a better understanding of the issue. Instead, related theories are investigated in their political, economic, and social contexts, and spatial disparity research is presented as a political discourse. It also reveals how the propagandistic problematization or de-problematization of geographical inequalities serves the...
This work aims to provide unique insights into the multidisciplinary research on spatial disparities from an unconventional point of view. It break...
