Search results for "Comparative"

On Comparative Research In Higher Education

2008

The role and practice of interpersonal relationships in European early education settings: sites for enhancing social inclusion, personal growth and …

2007

This study sought to identify and compare the characteristics of the social pedagogic context of cognitive activities in a sample of early education settings in six European countries (England, Fin...

Algunos aspectos relacionados con la imposición de costas en el proceso civil en el derecho comparado

2002

Al ocuparme en su día del estudio de las conductas emulativas en dos de los campos en los que fue objeto de represión jurídica en la antigua Roma, como son las relaciones de vecindad y el ejercicio malicioso de una acción con el propósito de vejar al adversario procesal, traté muy someramente de algunas cuestiones que atañen a la regulación positiva de la condena en coscas en el derecho italiano y español. Siendo como es un campo de estudio ciertamente vasto, con particularidades propias en su formulación, ha despertado nuestro interés, ante la imprecisión de algunos ordenamientos jurídicos, cuál sea la forma a través de la cual el órgano jurisdiccional termina por imponer las costas y, asi…

Shades of Mediatization

2015

This study investigates mediatization of campaign coverage of German and Austrian elite newspapers from 1949 to 2009. With a cross-national perspective on a sixty-year time span, it is well suited to examine the long-term development of mediatization. It focuses on news media logic and its components that have not been satisfyingly investigated by empirical research yet. In Step 1, the study empirically identifies three components of media logic: partisanship, personalization, and detachment from policy. In Step 2, it presents evidence that these components are largely invariant between the two countries, seven newspapers, and four time intervals investigated, pointing to the institutional…

Political patterning of urban namescapes and post-socialist toponymic change: A quantitative analysis of three Romanian cities

2020

Abstract Critical scholars of place-name studies have compellingly demonstrated that significant transformations in a society's namescape follow suit major power shifts and regime changes. However, despite the wealth of particular case studies existing in the literature, scarce efforts have been made to examine street name changes in a comparative framework using statistical modeling techniques of multivariate analysis. This paper aims to overcome these shortcomings by developing a comparative approach to analyzing post-socialist street-naming transformations in three Romanian cities from Transylvania (Brașov, Cluj-Napoca, and Sibiu). Based on comprehensive data collected from multiple sour…

The Micro and Meso Levels of Activism: A Comparative Case Study of Attac France and Attac Germany

2014

What keeps young adults in permanent poverty? A comparative analysis using ECHP

2009

Abstract Previous studies suggest that there are strong differences in the rates of youth poverty across European countries. Rather surprisingly, it is found to be high in Scandinavian countries, and relatively speaking, lower in Mediterranean and Anglo-Saxon countries. This somewhat unexpected finding prompts the question whether the incidence of poverty is an appropriate measure of youth disadvantage. Instead of considering poverty rates we consider the length of recorded poverty spells, taking into account explicitly the temporal sequencing of the episodes of poverty. Using the European Community Household Panel, individuals are classified into different groups of poverty permanence, eac…

Quality of life of NEET youth in comparative perspective: subjective well-being during the transition to adulthood

2021

In this study, we examine the self-reported subjective well-being (SWB) of youth who are ‘not in employment, education or training’ (NEET) across 24 countries in Europe. Theorizing from a youth tra...

Legislative agenda-setting in parliamentary democracies

2009

Various strands of literature in comparative politics regard governments as the only noteworthy initiators and mainsprings of legislative policy making in parliamentary democracies. Opposition activity in policy making is more often associated with the intention to prevent, rather than to shape, policy. Does this perception reflect real-life politics? To answer this question, this article discusses different arguments that link institutional and policy-related characteristics to the incentives and constraints of different government and parliamentary actors to initiate or co-sponsor legislative bills. More specifically, it relates policy-, office- and vote-related incentives, as well as ins…

More Choice for Better Choosers: Political Freedom, Autonomy, and Happiness

2016

A substantial literature finds that freedom in the sense of an expanded opportunity set is positively related to happiness. A contrasting literature, however, finds that an excess of choice can have socially undesirable outcomes. We test the effect of two types of freedom—autonomy and political—on happiness using five waves of World Values Survey data (1981–2008). We find evidence supporting the claim that equipping people with the tools to direct the course of their lives (i.e. increasing autonomy freedom) incentivizes the desire to investigate alternatives (e.g. political parties) before making a decision. The effect of freedoms on happiness is diminished in contexts where individuals hav…