Publications
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Practising Citizenship and Heterogeneous Nationhood
(2008)
Switzerland likely has the most particular naturalization system in the world. Whereas in most countries citizenship attribution is regulated at the central level of the state, in Switzerland each municipality is accorded ...
Camera Obscura, Camera Lucida
(2003)
Annette Michelson's contribution to art and film criticism over the last three decades is unparalleled. This volume honors Michelson's unique legacy with original essays by some of the many scolars that have been influenced ...
Mobility in Transition
(2013)
This volume presents new research on post-accession migration from Central and Eastern Europe in the short period since the EU enlargements of 2004 and 2007. Explanations of post-accession migration patterns, trends and ...
Syntax of Dutch
(2016)
The Syntax of Dutch aims at presenting a synthesis of the currently available syntactic knowledge of Dutch. It is primarily concerned with language description and not with linguistic theory, and provides support to all ...
Rituelen van beraadslaging
(2006)
Political science; Public administration; Philosophy; Sociology
Nation-Building as Necessary Effort in Fragile States
(2016)
Policies intended to bring stability to fragile states tend to focus almost exclusively on building institutions and systems to get governance right. Simply building the state is often seen as sufficient for making it ...
The Shifts in Hizbullah's Ideology
(2006)
The Lebanese Shi'ite resistance movement, Hizbullah, is going through a remarkable political and ideological transformation. Hizbullah was founded in 1978 by various sectors of Lebanese Shi'ite clergy and cadres, and with ...
Religion and Nationalism in Chinese Societies
(2017-11-01)
Religion and Nationalism in Chinese Societies explores the interaction between religion and nationalism in the Chinese societies of mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. On the one hand, state policies toward religions in ...
Gevallen vazallen
(2008)
History, geography, and auxiliary disciplines
Analogy and Exemplary Reasoning in Legal Discourse
(2018)
This book brings together contributions from leading figures in legal studies on analogy and related forms of reasoning in the law. Analogical reasoning-which relies on the concept of two different things being in some way ...
Etnisch geweld
(2009)
Political science; Sociology
Etnisch geweld
(2009)
Political science; Sociology
Women Artists and Artisans in Venice and the Veneto, 1400-1750
(2024)
This book of essays highlights the lives, careers, and works of art of women artists and artisans in Venice and its territories from the fourteenth to the eighteenth centuries. The collection represents the first fruits ...
The New Eurocrats
(2008)
Policies in the EU are largely made by national civil servants who prepare and implement decisions in Brussels as well as at home. Despite their important role, these national civil servants form a relatively hidden world ...
Doing Good or Doing Better
(2009)
The world is changing, and so is the unquestioning belief that development policies are always right. Instead of focusing on the rather limited notion of poverty, this book aims to deepen our understanding of the broad ...
Breaking Down Anonymity
(2009)
Because borders alone cannot stop irregular migration, the European Union is turning more and more to internal control measures. Through surveillance, member states aim to exclude irregular migrants from societal institutions, ...
Global Diffusion of Protest. Riding the Protest Wave in the Neoliberal Crisis
(2017)
Recent years have seen a new development in the growth and spread of popular protest: protests that began as local, homogeneous events-such as Occupy Wall Street or the protests of the Arab Spring-quickly left their original ...
Ideational Leadership in German Welfare State Reform
(2009)
The author of this innovative study argues that key politicians and their policy ideas, through "ideational leadership", have played an important role in the passing of structural reforms in the change-resistant German ...
How Modern Science Came into the World
(2010)
Once upon a time ‘The Scientific Revolution of the 17th century’ was an innovative concept that inspired a stimulating narrative of how modern science came into the world. Half a century later, what we now know as ‘the ...