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The Enemy Within: Academic Freedom in 1960s and 1970s American Social Sciences
Mata, Tiago - In: History of Political Economy 42 (2010) 5, pp. 77-104
In the 1960s and 1970s, the social science associations (anthropology, sociology, economics, political science, and …
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Decision Theory and Human Behavior
Gintis, Herbert - Princeton University Press
economics, to anthropology and political science. However, as The Bounds of Reason demonstrates, game theory alone cannot fully …
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The Bounds of Reason: Game Theory and the Unification of the Behavioral Sciences
Gintis, Herbert - Princeton University Press
economics, to anthropology and political science. However, as The Bounds of Reason demonstrates, game theory alone cannot fully …
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Social insurance mechanisms in the European Union
Lyons, Katherine; Cheyne, Christine - RECON - 2011
Social insurance is an established method of social protection in certain European Union (EU) member states and has been introduced more widely as a means of minimising the threats to social welfare expenditure from economic crisis and ageing populations. With the recent global financial crisis,...
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From ‘talking the talk’ to ‘walking the walk’: Implementing the EU guidelines on employment through the European Social Fund
Sanchez Salgado, Rosa - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 17 (2013) 06
This article investigates how the European Social Fund (ESF) is being employed to translate Lisbon/Europe 2020 goals on employment into domestic agendas. The emphasis is not only on how European priorities are taken into account by ESF national programming documents (talking the EU talk), but...
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Governing the knowledge society: Studying Lisbon as epistemic setting
Pfister, Thomas - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 13 (2009) 11
This paper is interested in the role of knowledge as resource, medium and product of governance as well as in ways of studying knowledge and processes of knowledge construction in EU governance. Its particular focus in this context is on the Open Method of Coordination (OMC) and the Lisbon...
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Theorizing Modes of Governance in the EU: Institutional Design and Informational Complexity
Blom, Tannelie; Radulova, Elissaveta; Arnold, Christine - CONNEX and EUROGOV networks - 2008
structural properties which they are found to have. Drawing on the system theoretical tradition in sociology and on ‘complexity …
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European and National Identities in EU's Old and New Member States: Ethnic, Civic, Instrumental and Symbolic Components
Ruiz Jiménez, Antonia M.; Górniak, Jaroslaw Jósef; … - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 8 (2004) 07
. The three approaches considered here are, respectively: first, a "cultural" theory, which understands identities as being … based on ethno-cultural factors generated through a long-term (historical) process; second, an "instrumental" theory, which … identities are compatible. This is, in part, because while national identities are largely "cultural", European identities are …
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A Theoretical and Empirical Study of Corporate Lobbying in the European Parliament
Bouwen, Pieter - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 7 (2003) 12
This paper is an attempt to empirically test a theory of access that investigates the logic behind the apparent ad hoc lobbying behavior of business interests in the European Parliament. The theoretical framework tries to explain the degree of access of different organizational forms of business...
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Introduction: Agency and influence inside the EU institutions
Servent, Ripoll; Ariadna; Busby, Amy - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 17 (2013) 07
The recent structural changes introduced by the Treaty of Lisbon exemplify the dynamic and constantly evolving nature of the European Union (EU)’s institutional system. Given the gradual empowerment of EU institutions, this Special Issue focuses on bringing agents and agency into the study of...
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