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Roma Integration ‘All the Way Down’

Critical Romani Studies, 2018
This article argues that critical Romani studies should examine the EU’s top-down policies of Roma integration as an exercise in federalism, since the EU’s quasi-federalist structure both accommodated and co-opted the fight for Roma rights.
Felix B. Chang
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Boundaries and Relationships in Homelessness Work: Lola, an Agency Manager

Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 2004
The professional is also a human being. This paper explores the complementary and con­tra­dictory relation between biography and vocation in the history of a nurse who became a social work manager, as revealed in a biographic-narrative interview.
Tom Wengraf
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Between coercion, conditionality and abandonment: A descriptive analysis of English mental health spending and provision under austerity

Journal of Critical Public Health
While critical scholarship has demonstrated the harmful effects of austerity on public mental health, relatively little attention has been paid to austerity’s impacts on health services themselves. In response, this paper develops a descriptive analysis
Ed Kiely
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Generalizing Jeffrey Conditionalization [PDF]

, 1992
Jeffrey's rule has been generalized by Wagner to the case in which new evidence bounds the possible revisions of a prior probability below by a Dempsterian lower probability. Classical probability kinematics arises within this generalization as the special case in which the evidentiary focal elements of the bounding lower probability are pairwise ...
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THE EUROPEAN UNION AS A REFORMING POWER IN THE WESTERN BALKANS: THE CASE OF ALBANIA [PDF]

Journal of Liberty and International Affairs, 2018
This paper tries to further elaborate one of the most important external powers of the European Union: Its “reforming power” which goes in parallel with its ability as “normative actor” in the Western Balkans. Through Albania as a case study, it tries to
Klodiana Beshku , Orjana Mullisi
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The World Bank's Changing Conditionality for Flood Risk Management: Analysis Over Six Decades

Journal of Flood Risk Management
The World Bank is a leading global institution for disaster risk management, the bulk of which is dedicated to flood risk management (FRM). Due to the Bank's power as a lending agency and the global distribution of flood risks it has addressed, the Bank ...
Erin Rugland, Edmund C. Penning‐Rowsell   +1 more
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Features of EU Enlargement Policy: A Vision from Georgia

TalTech Journal of European Studies
The European accession policy has acquired a special and exceptional character since 2022 against the backdrop of the Russia-Ukraine war. The separation of the Association Trio countries (Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia) caused a non-uniform assessments in ...
Kardava Ekaterine, Chelidze Guranda
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Conditionally yours [PDF]

Nature Genetics, 1998
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A Strategic–Relational Approach to European Union Enlargement: The Reversed Conditionality of Western Balkan Governing Elites

Comparative Southeast European Studies
The article applies Jessop’s and Hay’s strategic–relational approach to the European Union’s enlargement policy. Focusing on the leaders of applicant countries, the authors argue that these are reflexive actors, who may break the confines of the ...
Tzifakis Nikolaos, Vasdoka Eleni
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The Post-Enlargement, Post-Lisbon and Post-Crisis European Union and Norm Enforcement

Czech Journal of International Relations, 2014
The article analyses the changes in norm enforcement in the EU that were triggered by the Eurozone crisis. It attempts to demonstrate that the Eurozone crisis contributed to a “transplantation” of conditionality instruments (which traditionally exist ...
Ivo Šlosarčík
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