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National Constraints and Scale Shift in Current Transnational Activism

Since Charles Tilly’s path-breaking work on the emergence of the modern pro- test politics during the historical transformation from an old to a new repertoire of contention (Tilly 1984, 1986 and 1995), social movements have been conceptualised as being inherently national or sub-national phenomena. Now, things seem to have changed. Over the past few years, transnational contention...

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Université de Genève

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English / 01/01/2010

The Contentious Politics of Unemployment in Europe: Some Conclusions

This book has taken a look back at a difficult period for the labor market in order to inquire into the relationships between political institutional approaches to employment policy and political conflicts mobilized by collective actors over unemployment in the public domain. This is what we have called the contentious politics of unemployment. In more prosaic terms, we have looked...

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Université de Genève

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Français / 01/01/2010

Globalization and the Contentious Politics of Unemployment: Towards Denationalization and Convergence?

We are all inclined to think today that processes of globalization have a strong impact on national political structures and processes. Most commonly, we refer to a gradual transnationalization of economic, political and cultural reality at the national and local level that poses a challenge to national political institutions and public policies, political contentions and national...

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Université de Genève

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Welfare States, Political Opportunities, and Claim Making in the Field of Unemployment Politics

The idea that the political context sets the parameters within which political participation and mobilization occur is quite common among scholars of collective action, but it has found only limited space among scholars dealing with the political activities of the unemployed. In this chapter, we assess the extent to which objects, positions, and forms of political claim making in the...

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Université de Genève

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English / 01/01/2010

Les conséquences des mouvements sociaux

La question des conséquences des mouvements sociaux est un sujet essentiel, qui est cependant longtemps resté peu étudié en raison des nombreuses difficultés qu’elle soulève [Amenta, Caren, 2004 ; Earl, 2000 ; Giugni, 1998, 2008 ; Kowalewski et al., 1981 ; Rucht, 1992]. La complexité des configurations sociales et politiques, par nature multi- factorielles, rend en effet...

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Université de Genève

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Français / 01/01/2010

Does Associational Involvement Spur Political Integration? Political Interest and Participation of Three Immigrant Groups in Zurich

This article looks at the determinants of the political integration of migrants at the local level, focusing on two dimensions of political integration: political interest (attitudinal dimension) and political participation (behavioral dimension). Based on a representative survey among Italians, Kosovars, and Turks in the city of Zurich, we tested the thesis advanced by the social...

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Université de Genève

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English / 01/01/2010

Generalized monotone additive latent variable models

For manifest variables with additive noise and for a given number of latent variables with an assumed distribution, we propose to nonparametrically estimate the association between latent and manifest variables. Our estimation is a two step procedure: first it employs standard factor analysis to estimate the latent variables as theoretical quantiles of the assumed distribution;...

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Université de Genève

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English / 01/01/2010

EuroCow, the Calibration and Orientation Workshop (Euro- pean Spatial Data Research)

This research presents methods for detecting and isolating faults in multiple Micro-Electro-Mechanical System (MEMS) Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) configurations. Traditionally, in the inertial technology, the task Fault Detection and Isolation (FDI) is realized by the parity space method. However, this approach performs poorly with low-cost MEMS-IMUs, although, it provides...

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Université de Genève

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Goodness-of-fit for Generalized Linear Latent Variables Models

Generalized Linear Latent Variables Models (GLLVM) enable the modeling of relationships between manifest and latent variables, where the manifest variables are distributed according to a distribution of the exponential family (e.g. binomial or normal) and to the multinomial distribution (for ordinal manifest variables). These models are widely used in social sciences. To test the...

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Université de Genève

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English / 01/01/2010

Multiculturalisme et intégration : pour une conception processuelle et différenciée de la citoyenneté

Ce livre porte sur les fondements normatifs et les implications politiques de la citoyenneté dans les sociétés multiculturelles. Depuis une quinzaine d'années, l'un des sujets centraux sur lesquels les théoriciens politiques ont localisé leur attention est celui de l'adéquation de la grammaire normative et politique du libéralisme par rapport aux défis représentés par...

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Université de Genève

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Français / 01/01/2010

The Future for Business in Switzerland? How to Stay Ahead

The financial and economical crisis of the last three years has brought many new challenges for the Swiss economy. However, every crisis presents opportunities. A new report by Deloitte and the Institute of Management of the University of St. Gallen shows how Swiss business rate these opportunities and which actions are required by the government and companies if Switzerland wants to...

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Université de Genève

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Wirtschaftsstandort Schweiz: Was bringt die Zukunft? Strategien für eine wettbewerbsfähige Zukunft

Die weltweite Finanz- und Wirtschaftskrise hat die Schweiz vor grosse Herausforderungen gestellt. Doch mit jeder Krise ergeben sich auch neue Chancen. Eine Studie, die das Wirtschaftsprüfungs- und Beratungsunternehmen Deloitte in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Institut für Betriebswirtschaft der Universität St. Gallen heraus gegeben hat, zeigt auf, welche Massnahmen die hiesige Wirtschaft...

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Université de Genève

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Deutsch / 01/01/2010

Negotiating statehood: Dynamics of power and domination in Africa

This article, which forms the introduction to a collection of studies, focuses on processes of state construction and deconstruction in contemporary Africa. Its objective is to better understand how local, national and transnational actors forge and remake the state through processes of negotiation, contestation and bricolage. Following a critique of the predominant state failure...

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Université de Genève

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Français / 01/01/2010

New Developments in the Restitution of Cultural Property: Alternative means of Dispute Resolution

Alternative methods of dispute resolution are an important resource in matters of cultural heritage in addressing the return, restitution, and repatriation of cultural property. The purpose of this article is to analyze the situations in which such methods might be preferred to the classical judicial means and to examine the problems that might arise. The article is in two parts. The...

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Université de Genève

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