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International Authority and Intellectual Domination: External Donors and Local Organizations in Latin American Social Sciences (1945-1973). (PHILANTHROPIC RULE)

Start date: Jul 1, 2017, End date: Jun 30, 2019,

Scholars interested in Global Governance and international authority favour a broadly Weberian idea of legitimacy as the explanation for the stability and effectiveness of international authority. However, I expand here the focus of analysis in order to include additional concepts like “commonality of interests” and “means of domination”, which are crucial for Weber, but absent from the IR literat ...
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European Leadership in Cultural, Science and Innovation Diplomacy (EL-CSID)

Start date: Mar 1, 2016, End date: Feb 28, 2019,

The European Union has made a major start articulating the relevance of cultural and science for its external relations. What has yet to be done, however, is to make explicit the assumptions underpinning much of this work on cultural and science diplomacy and to codify and articulate it as part of a systematic and strategic approach to understanding the direction of travel of science and cultural ...
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Growth, Equal Opportunities, Migration and Markets (GEMM)

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

The Horizon 2020 programme of the European Commission provides an important opportunity for advancement of our knowledge of growth and innovation in the European Union labour markets as well as the dynamism that creates inclusive but competitive social environments. The GEMM project relates in particular to the Migration, Prosperity and Growth Dimension of the Call on the European Growth Agenda. W ...
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Investors' expectations: Measuring their nature and effect (InvExpectations)

Start date: Mar 1, 2011, End date: Feb 29, 2016,

The funded research investigates the role of expectations in financial decisions by asking two separate empirical questions. First, what systematic patterns appear in the expectations that the investor holds about relevant random variables? Second, can we establish that her expectations play a causal role for choices? The main tool in addressing these questions is the collection of data from labo ...
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Finding a Place for Islam in Europe: Cultural Interactions between Muslim immigrants and Receiving Societies (EURISLAM)

Start date: Feb 1, 2009, End date: Jul 31, 2012,

"The central research question of this project is: how have different traditions of national identity, citizenship, and church-state relations affected European immigration countries’ incorporation of Islam, and what are the consequences of these approaches for patterns of cultural distance and interaction between Muslim immigrants and their descendants, and the receiving society? We answer this ...
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Institutional Changes and Trajectories of Socio-Economic development Models (ICaTSEM)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Mar 31, 2012,

The aim of the project is to analyse, within a comparative institutionalist analytical framework, the trajectories of socio-economic development models. Comparative analyses of forms of capitalism have underlined the diversity in institutional configurations. Within the EU, it is assumed that four types of socio-economic models exist: market-oriented, continental, Nordic, and Southern, with the po ...
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"Health systems and long-term care for older people in Europe – Modelling the INTERfaces and LINKS between prevention, rehabilitation, quality of services and informal care" (INTERLINKS)

Start date: Nov 1, 2008, End date: Dec 31, 2011,

"The objective of this 3-year project is to construct and validate a general model to describe and analyse long-term care (LTC) systems for older people from a European perspective. The particular aspects of the different emerging national models that currently address long-term care needs in Europe will be used to show how the links to health care services, the quality of LTC services, the incent ...
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How demographic changes shape intergenerational solidarity, well-being, and social integration: A multilinks framework (MULTILINKS)

Start date: Mar 1, 2008, End date: Feb 28, 2011,

The objective of this project is to investigate how changing social contexts, from macro-societal to micro-interpersonal, affect social integration, well-being and intergenerational solidarity across different European nations. Debates on ageing societies predominantly focus on the circumstances of the old. Our approach builds from three key premises. First, ageing affects all age groups: the youn ...
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Providing an Infrastructure for Research on Electoral Democracy in the European Union (PIREDEU)

Start date: Feb 1, 2008, End date: Jan 31, 2011,

"This three-year design study will assess the feasibility of providing an infrastructure for research into citizenship, political participation, and electoral democracy in the European Union (EU). Such an infrastructure would endow the social science community with the most essential information required for a recurrent audit of the most important aspects of the electoral process in the European U ...
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