Publications des institutions partenaires
The Structure of Inequality and the Politics of Redistribution
Against the current consensus among comparative political economists, we argue that inequality matters for redistributive politics in advanced capitalist societies, but it is the structure of inequality, not the level of inequality, that matters. Our theory posits that middle-income voters will be inclined to ally with low-income voters and support redistributive policies when the…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2011
Whose interests do unions represent? Unionization by income in Western Europe
Purpose – The goal of this chapter is to explore whether variation in the distribution of union members across the income distribution affects the role of unions in redistributive politics. Design/methodology/approach – The conceptual part of the study provides a theoretical motivation for disaggregating organized labor by income. The empirical part uses European Social Survey data…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2011
Concentric circles of flexible ‘EUropean’ integration: A typology of EU external governance relations
The deepening of the EU’s acquis communautaire, transformations of the European continent, and intensifying webs of interdependence have, since the 1990s, prompted a progressing blurring of the functional boundaries of the European Union. Whereas the integration project has produced externalities early on, the EU has engaged in an active promotion of its norms and rules beyond the…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2011
EU democracy promotion in the neighbourhood: from leverage to governance?
EU external democracy promotion has traditionally been based on ‘linkage’, i.e. bottom-up support for democratic forces in third countries, and ‘leverage’, i.e. the top-down inducement of political elites towards democratic reforms through political conditionality. The advent of the European Neighbourhood Policy and new forms of association have introduced a new, third model of…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2011
Democracy promotion through functional cooperation? The case of the European Neighbourhood Policy
This article explores whether and under what conditions functional sectoral cooperation between the EU and the countries of the European Neighbourhood Policy promotes democratic governance. In an analysis of four countries (Jordan, Moldova, Morocco, and Ukraine) and three fields of cooperation (competition, environment and migration policy), we show that country properties such as…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2011
Class Politics, American-Style
A Discussion of Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer—And Turned its Back on the Middle Class.
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2011
The Political Economy of Inequality and Redistribution
The literature on the politics of inequality and redistribution in advanced democracies has become very large in recent years. This article focuses on several areas where important new arguments are being put forward. It reviews recent work on the interaction of unions and employers, the role of political parties and electoral institutions, and the effects of racial and religious…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2011
Institutional Opportunities, Discursive Opportunities and the Political Participation of Migrants in European Cities
The idea that the political context sets the parameters within which political participation and mobilization occur is quite common among students of social movements and contentious politics (see Eisinger, 1973; Kriesi et al., 1995; McAdam, 1999; Tarrow, 1998; Tilly, 1978). This holds as well for the political activities carried out by migrants’ organizations (Bloemraad, 2006;…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2011
Political Opportunities, Social Capital and the Political Inclusion of Immigrants in European Cities
Discussions about how public policies can promote more effectively the active engagement and participation of immigrants and their children1 in the political and civic life of the countries where they live are at the core of current scholarly and public debates. In advanced democracies, there are recurrent disputes about the appropriateness and potential benefits or shortcomings of…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2011
Conclusion: Towards an Integrated Approach to the Political Inclusion of Migrants
The point of departure of this book was twofold. On the one hand, we set ourselves the objective of describing and above all accounting for the political attitudes and behaviours of migrants in European cities. With this aim in mind, we suggested that we move away from a narrow approach focusing mainly or even solely on individual factors to embrace a broader and more integrated…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2011
The Impact of Religion on the Political Participation of Migrants
Religion has often been found to be a strong predictor of political behaviour (Broughton and ten Napel, 2000; Lijphart, 1979; Lipset and Rokkan, 1967; Rose and Urwin, 1969; Rokkan, 1979; Tresch and Nicolet, 2010). Alongside social class and place of residence, religion was thought to be one of the primary sociological determinants of political behaviour and, especially, voting (…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2011
Social Capital, Political Participation and Migration in Europe: Making Multicultural Democracy Work?
How can European societies more effectively promote the active engagement of immigrants and their children in the political and civic life of the countries where they live? This book examines the effect of migrants' individual attributes and resources, their social capital and the political opportunities on their political integration.
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2011
Social Network Analysis and Qualitative Comparative Analysis: Their mutual benefit for the explanation of policy network structures
By switching the level of analysis and aggregating data from the micro-level of individual cases to the macro-level, quantitative data can be analysed within a more case-based approach. This paper presents such an approach in two steps: In a first step, it discusses the combination of Social Network Analysis (SNA) and Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) in a sequential mixed-…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2011
Environmental justice in the US: construction and uses of a flexible category. An application to transportation policies in the San Francisco area
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2010
The Class Basis of Switzerlands Cleavage between the New Left and the Populist Right
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2010
The Silent Reform of Swiss Federalism: The New Constitutional Articles on Education
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2010
Urban networks and network theory: the city as the connector of multiple networks
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2010
Democracy and Voting: A Reply to Lisa Hill
Lisa Hill’s response to my critique of compulsory voting, like similar responses elsewhere,1 remind me how much a child of the 1970s I am, and how far my beliefs and intuitions about politics have been shaped by the electoral conflicts, social movements and violence of that period. But my perceptions of politics have also been profoundly shaped by my teachers, and fellow graduate…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2010
Compulsory Voting: A Critical Perspective
Compulsory voting is sometimes thought to be justified in democracies because it promotes high levels of voting and mitigates inequalities of turnout amongst social groups. Proponents of compulsory voting also argue that it helps to prevent the free-riding of non-voters on voters. This article casts a sceptical eye on both arguments. Democratic citizens do not have a duty to promote…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2010
The Politics of Inequality: Voter Mobilization and Left Parties in Advanced Industrial States
Why is it that some countries have witnessed significant increases in inequality since the 1960s while at the same time experiencing very little change in the way politics is conducted? And why is it that in other countries, where inequality has increased much less, the Left has become substantially more redistributive? The answer, the authors argue, has to do with the interaction…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2010
Seiten
Le portail de l'information économique suisse
© 2016 Infonet Economy