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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"JN Political institutions (Europe)"”.
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From Inception to Professionalisation: the Evolution of Intercultural Dialogue in EU Mediterranean Policies (1990-2014)
… manner to engage the civil societies of Europe and of the Mediterranean into a common effort to attenuate the tensions that derive from the socio-cultural divergences among the people and governments of this whole area. With the goal of shedding light on this obscure aspect of EU …
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Intergovernmental cultural policy coordination in the European Union: the open method of coordination and the 2011-2014 work plan for culture
This thesis examines the European Union’s Open Method of Coordination (OMC) in the field of cultural policy. The OMC, a method of intergovernmental policy coordination that is centrally coordinated by the European Commission, was introduced in the cultural field in 2008. Using a case study of …
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Demarcating political frontiers in Turkey: "Europe-as-hegemony" and discourses after 1999
… a more general concern with understanding how political frontiers are demarcated in Turkish politics, I aim to show how ‘Europe’ contributed to such a process of constructing political frontiers during the 1999-2008 period. Rather than looking at the debates on ‘Europe’ within the Turkish …
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The utilisation of Euroscepticism in European election campaigns: a multi-dimensional analysis
… framework to position parties towards European integration; that Europe does play a more important role in European elections than previously thought; that ideology is the strongest predictor of party positions; and finally that the quantitative study of party manifestos produces valid …
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Political protest and dissent in the Khrushchev Era
This thesis addresses the subject of political dissent during the Khrushchev era. It examines the kinds of protest behaviours that individuals and groups engaged in and the way that the Soviet authorities responded to them. The findings show that dissenting activity was more frequent and more …
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Strategic action in EU foreign policy: the Euro-Mediterranean partnership
Abstract available: p. [2]
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National parliaments and European legislation: how scrutiny procedures have adapted and why
… have always been involved in the affairs of the European Union. They have debated and voted on joining the Community and have ratified the European treaties negotiated by their governments. On a more regular basis, national parliaments have also, to varying degrees, scrutinised European …
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European integration and foreign policy in Central and Eastern Europe: the cases of Hungary, Slovakia and Romania
This thesis examines the impact of Europeanization on the foreign policy of the new member states of the European Union, using as case studies Hungary, Slovakia and Romania. It asks what the extent of Europeanization of foreign policy is and whether and to what extent there has been divergence in …
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Justice and home affairs and Romania's accession to the European Union
… other candidate states of Central and Eastern Europe, Romania emerged as a laggard of transition. Its integration into the European Union has been marked by much uncertainty and setbacks, as well as profound delays in fulfilling the EU's entry conditions. As a difficult case, the dynamics of …
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"Europe is what member states make of it" - An assessment of the influence of nation states on the European Security and Defence Policy.
The European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) has since its inception in 1999 developed with enormous speed. The crucial role of the member states herein has been recognised in that both ESDP’s weaknesses and strengths are usually explained by their considerable influence. This thesis identifies, …
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'Red-green' coalitions in the Federal Republic of Germany: models of formation and maintenance
… processes, policy outputs and outcomes, party political behaviour and value-orientation within the electorate. The empirical component centres on the research question: to what extent have the Greens assumed a ‘normal’ role within the German party system? Such a ‘normal’ role means that the …
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Economic structure and social order development in Post-Socialist Europe
… tendencies contained within them – economic, political, social and cultural – are resolved according to open, rule-based processes. Social orders are also assumed to exhibit a ‘double balance’ between political and economic systems in which political systems will tend to reflect the prevailing …
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The beginning of the end:the political theory of the German Communist Party to the third period
… theoretical guide to a Socialist outcome. As the political and economic climate in Germany changed the party grew and made parliamentary gains the nature of the SPD changed, much to the frustration of Rosa Luxemburg and the Left of the SPD. The final straw was, of course, the SPD’s voting for war …
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A critical and comparative analysis of organisational forms of selected Marxist parties, in theory and in practice, with special reference to the last half century
… in the 1970s and 1980s were looking for new political formations. This work is an effort to study the synthesis of the traditional vanguard socialist party and spontaneous working class movements with other social groups. The multi-tendency socialist organisation that formed in many countries …
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New Risks in Our Age: Migration, Terrorism and Emerging Radical Right in OECD Countries
This thesis consists of three independent journal articles.The first chapter studies the relationship between foreign-born individuals' terrorism and economic inequality. Although the extant literature focuses on sociodemographic factors of migration origin, it remains uncertain why some …
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Assessing the European Union’s Energy Policy: the nature of interests and conflicts in a changing historical environment
… I argue that the EU Commission acts as a political entrepreneur, promoting a long-term pro-growth orientation that stems from its organizational DNA, i.e. its historical make-up. Moreover, other state and non-state players often contest the Commission’s forward-looking position. The …
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Economics in transition in Eastern Europe and the function of the Bruxelles consensus
In today's fast evolving Central and Eastern Europe, economic perspectives, especially European Union perspectives are indispensable to the success of the transformation process initiated in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Based on our research output, this thesis offers many such perspectives that …
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Democracy in Unequal Times: How Economic Inequality Influences Voter Turnout, Party Polarization, and Union Density
… this thesis is twofold: (1) to investigate the political sustainability of large income gaps; and (2) to understand why inequality increased in democracies. The first paper analyzes the behavior of political elites. Scholars of US politics report a strong connection between inequality and party …
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Turkey and the European Union: a step too far? An investigation into the journey of Turkey’s road to EU membership
The relations between Turkey and the European Union has been a long subject of discussion. Not least due to the fact Turkey has been pursuing an active policy for membership for over two decades and if its application is accepted, it would become the first Muslim member of the EU. This research …
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