Essays about: "Rational Choice Institutionalism"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 34 essays containing the words Rational Choice Institutionalism.

1. 21. Explaining the organisation of the European External Action Service : A new institutionalist analysis of the EU’s new foreign affairs service

   University essay from Institutionen för samhällsvetenskaper

   Author : Joakim Pallin; [2012]
   Keywords : European External Action Service; European Union; High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy; Foreign Affairs; Foreign Policy; New Institutionalism; Organisation.;

   Abstract : The primary aim of this essay and qualitative case study is to identify different explanations of why the European External Action Service (EEAS) was organised and why it resulted in today’s organisation. Existing research not entirely updated highlighted the need for new information. READ MORE

3. 22. Gender segregation in the Swedish labour market : Historical, Sociological and Rational Choice institutionalism as tools for understanding inequality and why it still exists

   University essay from Statsvetenskap

   Author : Hedvig Stenmark; [2010]
   Keywords : ;

   Abstract : There is a wide spread discrimination between the genders at the Swedish labour market. Women get lower wages, their skills are undervalued compared to men, it is harder for women to advance, they are more likely to involuntary do part time jobs and they usually end up in the least qualified and stimulating jobs. READ MORE

4. 23. The European Union’s External Energy Policy - Actorness in Sight?

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Martin Hattrup; [2010]
   Keywords : European Union; external energy policy; actorness; energy security; institutionalism.; Law and Political Science; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : This thesis examines the external energy policy of the European Union in a two-step approach. First, an analysis of the degree of actorness that the EU has achieved in this new policy field is carried out on the basis of the theoretical concept introduced by Bretherton and Vogler. READ MORE

5. 24. Turkey and the West: Change in Continuity? - A Two-way Approach to Turkey’s Relations with the West

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Evrim Gürel; [2010]
   Keywords : Turkish foreign policy; westernization; westernism; historical institutionalism; rational choice institutionalism; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Westernization is a centuries long project started in the Ottoman Empire, in order to fix the dysfunctionalities of the empire inside and to boost the empire’s image outside. It has transformed into a quest of transformation of Turkey into a modern state and it found its reflection in the foreign policy as a pro-Western approach in the Turkish Republic. READ MORE

6. 25. The Empowerment of the European Parliament - An Analysis of its Role in the Development of the Co-decision Procedure

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Helena Karlström; [2010]
   Keywords : co-decision procedure; rational choice institutionalism; the European Parliament; historical institutionalism; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : Abstract In this thesis the EP’s role and influence in the development of the co-decision procedure is analysed. Over the last decades the European Parliament has increased its power in the legislative process. READ MORE