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The Consequences of Social Movements
Social movements have attracted much attention in recent years, both from scholars and among the wider public. This book examines the consequences of social movements, covering such issues as the impact of social movements on the life course of participants and the population in general, on political elites and markets, and on political parties and processes of social movement...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2016
Statistical Discrimination
Racial discrimination uses race as grounds to discriminate in the treatment owed to others; sexual discrimination uses people’s sexual features as grounds for determining how they should be treated compared to others. Analogously, statistical discrimination treats statistical inferences about the groups to which individuals belong as grounds for discriminating amongst them in thought...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2016
Studying policy advocacy through social network analysis
Social Network Analysis (SNA) conceptualizes a policy-making process as a network of actors. It can assess if an interest group (IGs) occupies a leading central position within this policy network, if it belongs to various ad hoc coalitions or if it plays a brokering role between different stakeholders. Such network variables are crucial to capture how IGs mobilize and gain access to...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2016
Parlement de milice et groupes d’intérêt (1970–2010): Professionnalisation et diversification des liens d’intérêt ?
The Swiss Parliament is distinguished in historical international comparison by its tradition of non-professional public service. Although existing literature on interest groups (IGs) mainly treats the influence and pressure they have placed upon members of parliament (MPs), for Switzerland – particularly in light of this non-professional public service tradition – it also appears...
Institution partenaire
Français / 01/01/2016
Suivez le guide! Les manuels de sécurité et la mise en ordre autoritaire des organisations humanitaires
Institution partenaire
Français / 01/01/2016
Enlightenment and solidarity: National union movements, distributive norms and the union effect on support for redistribution
Using data from the European Social Survey (2002-14), this paper explores the effect of union membership on support for redistribution. We hypothesize that the wage-bargaining practices of unions promote egalitarian distributive norms among low-wage and high-wage union members alike and that distributive norms in turn lead union members to support redistribution. Consistent with our...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2016
De la difficile émergence d’une controverse écologique – Le cas du dépôt des munitions dans les lacs suisses après la Seconde Guerre mondiale
Dans la perspective du second conflit mondial, la Suisse s’est engagée dans la production massive d’armements militaires. Épargnée par la guerre, elle procède à partir de 1948 à la réduction de ses stocks en privilégiant le rejet des munitions dans ses lacs plutôt que de les faire exploser à ciel ouvert ou de les recycler. Malgré le retour sur la scène publique des munitions...
Institution partenaire
Français / 01/01/2016
Quiescent or Invisible?: Precarious and Unemployed Movements in Europe
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2016
The biographical impact of participation in social movement activities: beyond highly committed New Left activism
Studying the outcomes of social movements is important if we want to elucidate the role of collective action in society. While most works have addressed aggregate-level political outcomes such as changes in laws or new policies, a relatively small but substantial body of literature deals with the personal and biographical consequences of social movements at the micro-level, that is,...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2016
The Consequences of Social Movements: Taking Stock and Looking Forward
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2016
Self-selection and misreporting in legislative surveys
This article discusses the methodological challenges of legislative surveys. Following an overview of different types of survey biases, the article argues that self-selection and misreporting are the most critical problems for legislative surveys. In order to identify the self-selection and misreporting biases, we compare the answers to a survey from Swiss members of parliament with...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2016
Stress and turnover intent in international organizations: social support and work life balance as resources
This study investigates whether work opportunities have an impact on stress and the related turnover intentions of employees working in intergovernmental international organizations. It contextualizes the job resources and demands model within international organizations’ specific work conditions. The empirical test is based on original data from a survey administered in four major...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2016
Interests groups in parliament: exploring MPs’ interest affiliations (2000-2011)
This research note presents an innovative dataset of Swiss MPs’ interest ties between 2000-2011. The longitudinal analysis shows that the average number of interest ties per MP has more than doubled: from 3.5 in 2000 to 7.6 in 2011. Since the mid-2000s, public interest groups have accounted for approximately one out of two ties between MPs and interest groups, showing the strongest...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2016
Defending the status quo across venues and coalitions: evidence from California interest groups
This study investigates the conditions under which pro-status quo groups increase their advocacy success during an entire policy-making process. It scrutinizes whether prostates quo defenders who are involved in multiple institutional venues and who join many coalitions of interest groups are able to achieve their policy preferences. A case study focusing on the regulation of stem...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2016
Can hybrid cultures be normative?: the challenge of indeterminacy for multiculturalism
This dissertation takes up a theoretical problem that prejudices justifications of multiculturalism. If we understand multiculturalism as a position holding that cultures are valuable entities that deserve respect and recognition, we must not only show that there indeed are such things as cultures, but also that culture is the right kind of entity to possess value. However, these...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2016
The political economy of compensatory redistribution: Unemployment, inequality and policy choice
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2016
Roll call votes in democratic legislatures: the reasons for their use and their effects on legislative behavior
This dissertation examines the reasons for the selection of roll call votes and their effects on legislators' voting behavior in democratic legislatures. First, the dissertation shows that legislators have an incentive to facilitate the use of roll call votes when they expect that their policy preferences are aligned with those of important actors outside the legislature....
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2016
Les ressources du pouvoir urbain
Quelles sont les ressources que les gouvernements des villes et leurs partenaires doivent mobiliser pour gouverner la ville du 21ème siècle ? Cet article introductif propose de revisiter le concept de pouvoir urbain en le considérant comme un enchevêtrement de jeux d'acteurs s'articulant autour du contrôle et des échanges de ressources d'action. Il élabore une...
Institution partenaire
Français / 01/01/2016
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