Llibres (Departament de Ciències Polítiques i Socials)http://hdl.handle.net/10230/160772024-03-19T12:15:17Z2024-03-19T12:15:17ZMigrations in the Mediterranean: IMISCOE regional readerZapata Barrero, RicardAwad, Ibrahimhttp://hdl.handle.net/10230/593342024-03-07T02:30:41Z2024-01-01T00:00:00ZMigrations in the Mediterranean: IMISCOE regional reader
Zapata Barrero, Ricard; Awad, Ibrahim
This open access Regional Reader describes population movement circulating within the Mediterranean area, for any reason or from any region, be them European, African, Asian or originating from any of the Mediterranean shores. It showcases a plurality of approaches to and applications of Mediterranean migration, contributing to a regional approach to migration studies, thereby defending this regional approach by scaling Mediterranean migration issues.
This book covers a large set of questions related Mediterranean migrations to the migration research agenda, such as: market and economy, politics and policies, super-diversity and intersectionality, media, society, welfare and the environment through five main parts: Geo-political Mediterranean Relations, Governance, Policies and Politics, Mobility drivers and Agency, Cities, History and Social Transformations, and Economy and Labour Markets.
This Regional Reader provides an interesting read to scholars, researchers, but also policy makers and civil society organizations' high representatives, international foundations and institutions interested in linking the Mediterranean and migration.
2024-01-01T00:00:00ZStrategic voting in changing times. The 2016 election in SpainLago Peñas, Ignaciohttp://hdl.handle.net/10230/593062024-03-02T02:30:41Z2018-01-01T00:00:00ZStrategic voting in changing times. The 2016 election in Spain
Lago Peñas, Ignacio
2018-01-01T00:00:00ZScenario experimentsWerner, HannahMuradova, Lalahttp://hdl.handle.net/10230/593042024-03-02T02:30:39Z2022-01-01T00:00:00ZScenario experiments
Werner, Hannah; Muradova, Lala
Understanding the impacts of deliberation on public opinion formation, democratic legitimacy, political behaviour or other concepts is of core interest to deliberation scholars. This chapter elaborates on how scenario experiments, typically embedded in surveys, can advance these research endeavours. It argues that scenario experiments are most useful when studying the micro mechanism of internal deliberation and the macro effects of deliberative events on the wider public. Scenario experiments have multiple design advantages: the possibility to detect causal relationships, to expand the types of processes and policy issues under study, to reach a diverse respondent sample, and last, to conduct deliberation research in a cost-efficient manner. The chapter presents several studies that use scenario experiments to study deliberation and discuss how methodological innovations in experimental social science research can improve research on deliberation. The chapter concludes by pointing out potential challenges associated with scenario experiments.
2022-01-01T00:00:00ZLegal uncertainty and the making of maritime boundariesYüksel, Umuthttp://hdl.handle.net/10230/592952024-03-01T02:30:45Z2023-01-01T00:00:00ZLegal uncertainty and the making of maritime boundaries
Yüksel, Umut
This chapter focuses on legal uncertainty, a type of uncertainty that is habitually created in international lawmaking processes. Legal uncertainty mainly arises due to the diffuse nature of lawmaking authority and the lack of hierarchy among the sources of international law. It manifests itself as either a lack of agreement on how an issue area should be governed or multiple and possibly conflicting authoritative rules and interpretations that can be brought to bear on specific legal questions. This chapter introduces and illustrates legal uncertainty in the context of maritime delimitation, a process by which neighboring states agree on the course of their common maritime boundaries. I show how legal uncertainty concerning maritime boundary making arose amid multilateral and judicial lawmaking efforts that led to multiple rules and interpretations that conflicted with each other. While these alternative rules and interpretations could be used to justify conflicting claims and prevent agreement, I show that legal uncertainty can also encourage some states to specify and lock in shared understandings in an explicit manner. I illustrate this using the case of the boundary delimitation between Mexico and the USA, where the two states could agree on a common maritime boundary under high legal uncertainty.
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