Publicaties

Een bloemlezing van boeken die zijn geschreven door wetenschappers van de Faculteit der Maatschappij- en Gedragswetenschappen.

• Women on board: Female board membership as a form of elite democratization

  Corporate elites have been all-male bastions until the twenty-first century. The recent inclusion of women in the corporate elite needs explanation because it is an abrupt change in recruitment practices.

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• Regional Powers as Leaders or Rambos? The Ambivalent Behaviour of Brazil and South Africa in Regional Economic Integration

  The behaviour of regional powers towards their own regions is often volatile in the developing world, which leads to unstable integration processes. We argue that this volatility is due to limited intraregional gains from regional integration in ...

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• Religious Minorities in Turkey

  This monograph presents the situations of three main religious minority groups in Turkey (Alevi, Armenians, and Assyrians), as they have evolved over the past 13 years, since the beginning of Turkish EU candidacy.

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• Theory of Optimum Financial Areas: retooling the debate on the governance of global finance

  What are the real conditions necessary for the provision of financial stability? How do we know?

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• The New Barbary Wars: Forecasting Maritime Piracy

  This article assesses the robustness and forecasting ability of various correlates of maritime piracy.

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• The Emerging Post-Crisis Financial Architecture: the path-dependency of ideational adverse selection

  How far and how well has the financial reform process proceeded so far? Is there really a sea-change underway, or is it business as usual?

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• The unstable core of global finance: contingent valuation and governance of international accounting standards

  Accounting standards are the foundations of the financial regulatory edifice. Yet up to this day, no international accounting rule for financial instruments – the bulk of banks' balance sheets – has emerged that was more than a temporary fix.

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• The flaws of fragmented financial standard setting: why substantive economic debates matter for the architecture of global governance

  Is the way global financial governance currently organized appropriate for the task? No, our research argue.

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• An Ever Wider Gap in an Ever Closer Union: Rising Inequalities and Euroscepticism in 12 West European Democracies, 1975-2009

  This article asks whether the trend towards greater inequality in European countries has led to an increase in euroscepticism.

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• Human Beings in IR Theory

  By developing the analytical framework of an International Political (Post-)Anthropology, this volume becomes the first to comprehensively organize the debate about the human in world politics.

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• Global Labour-Standards Advocacy by European Civil Society Organizations: Trends and Developments

  This article discusses trends in contemporary global labor standards advocacy by European civil society organizations, showing how their changes in focus affect the strength of campaigning for worker rights globally.

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• Fragmented or cohesive transnational private regulation of sustainability standards? A comparative study

  This article answers the question of why in some industrial sectors various private regulators compete for the governance of sustainable conditions of production, while in other sectors one private regulator predominates.

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• Assembling an Experimentalist Regime

  The paper demonstrates how an increasingly comprehensive transnational regime can be assembled to protect deforestation by linking together distinct EU and private regulatory initiatives.

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• Corporate elite community structure of global capitalism

  A key debate on the merits and consequences of globalisation asks to what extent we have moved to a multipolar global political economy. In order to answer this question we analyse the community structure of the global corporate elite: how are ...

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• China, autocratic patron? An empirical investigation of China as a factor in autocratic survival

  Critics frequently accuse China of acting as a patron for autocratic states. But does Chinese engagement actually increase the stability of authoritarian clients?

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• All Quiet on Election Day? International Election Observation and Incentives for Pre-Election Violence in African Elections

  Do governments strategically adapt the use of electoral manipulation when international election observers monitor elections?

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• De ideologie van Sharia4Belgium online

  De overheid heeft met het Actieprogramma Integrale Aanpak Jihadisme (AIAJ) aangegeven de (hernieuwde) dreiging van het jihadisme zeer serieus te nemen. Dit onderzoeksvoorstel kan het actieprogramma aanvullen in de informatievoorziening over ...

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• Programmeren als Ruimtelijk Sturingsvraagstuk

  Dit project doet onderzoek naar de rol van de provincies in relatie tot programmeren in verleden, heden en toekomst, inclusief de afstemming tussen de bouwprogramma’s van gemeenten. De bestaande inzichten over programmeren schieten te kort en de ...

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• Ontwikkeling van de rechtvaardigheid van de Amsterdamse woningmarkt

  Dit project omvat twee deelonderzoeken binnen het promotieonderzoek van Arend Jonkman (UvA) naar de rechtvaardigheid van de Amsterdamse woningmarkt.

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• Publications in July 2014

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