International and Interdisciplinary Seminars - A.Y. 2008-2009
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International and Interdisciplinary Seminars & IBM Rotating Chair in Labour Studies
PIERRE CAHUC (Ecole Polytechnique, CREST)
Regulation and Distrust
Tuesday, October 21st 2008, h. 14.30 - Via Pace 10, Room A
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International and Interdisciplinary Seminars with
Centre for Study and Research on Woman and Gender Difference - Department of Labour and Welfare Studies
RUTH MILKMAN (University of California, Los Angeles - UCLA)
Immigrant Workers and the Future of the U.S. Labor Movement
Monday, November 10th 2008, h. 16.30 - Faculty of Political Science Via Conservatorio 7, Room 11
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Suggested reading is:
Introduction, Chapt 1, Chapt 2 from "L.A. STORY Immigrant Workers and the Future of the U.S. Labor Movement", Ruth Milkman, New York Russel Sage Foundation, 2006
International and Interdisciplinary Seminar 2008-2009
STEFFEN MAU (University of Bremen)
Migration and Welfare State Solidarity in Europe
Friday, March 27th 2009, h. 14.30 - GSSEPS Via Pace 10, Room A
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Suggested reading:
Alesina, Alberto/Edward L. Glaeser (2004): "Fighting poverty in the US and Europe". Oxford: Oxford University Press, 133-181.
Banting, Keith G., 2000: "Looking in Three Directions: Migration and the European Welfare State in Comparative Perspective" in Bommes, Michael Geddes, Andrew (Hg.): "Immigration and the Welfare State", London and New York: Routledge, 13-33.
Taylor-Gooby, Peter (2005) "Is the Future American? Or, Can Left Politics Preserve European Welfare States from Erosion through Growing 'Racial' Diversity?" in Journal of Social Policy 34 (4): 661-721
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MICHAEL PIORE (Massachussets Institute of Technology)
After the Market. Street Level Bureaucracy of the Revival of Governemnt's Role in regulation and Economic Management: The Case of Labor Inspection
Tuesday, May 12th 2009, h. 16.30 - GSSEPS Via Pace 10, Room A
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Suggested Readings:
"Learning on the Fly: Reviving Active Governmental Policy in an Economic Crisis"
"Sociology, Street-Level Bureaucracy, and the Management of the Public Sector"
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International and Interdisciplinary Seminar 2008-2009
ROBERTO FRANZOSI (Emory University, Atlanta)
Network Models of Conflict
Friday, May 15th 2009, h. 14.30 - GSSEPS Via Pace 10, Room A
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Suggested Readings:
Chapter 1 from "Quantitative Narrative Analysis" (forthcoming Sage, 2009), Roberto Franzosi
available at the GSSEPS Reception (upon request)
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International and Interdisciplinary Seminar 2008-2009
VIVIEN SCHMIDT (Boston University)
Is EU Economic Integration Undermining EU Political Democracy
Friday, June 5th 2009, h. 14.30 - GSSEPS Via Pace 10, Room A
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Suggested reading are:
Is EU Economic Integration Undermining EU Political Democracy? (Paper prepared for the ECSA-World Conference, 2008)
Re-Envisioning the European Union: Identity, Democracy, Economy (forthcoming in Journal of Common Market Studies Annual Review 2009)
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International and Interdisciplinary Seminar 2008-2009
THOMAS KOENIG (Mannheim University)
Transposing EC Directives Correct and On Time
Friday, June 19th 2009, h. 14.30 - GSSEPS Via Pace 10, Room A
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Preparatory suggested Reading are:
Hartlapp, Miriam and Gerda Falkner (2009) 'Problems of Operationalization and Data in EU Compliance Research', European Union Politics 10: 281-304.
Kaeding, Michael (2008) 'Lost in Translation or Full Steam Ahead?', European Union Politics 9(1): 115–43
König, Thomas and Brooke Luetgert (2009) 'Troubles with Transposition: Explaining Trends in Member State Notification Failure and Timelines', British Journal of Political Science 39(1): 163–94.
Tallberg, Jonas. 2002. "Path to Compliance: Enforcement, Management, and the European Union." International Organization 56 (3):609-43.
Thomson, Robert, René Torenvlied and Javier Arregui (2007) 'The Paradox of Compliance: Infringements and Delays in Transposing European Union Directives', British Journal of Political Science 37(4): 685–709.
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