Conflict and Change in EU Budgetary Politics / / Johannes Lindner

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910476798803321
• Autore: Lindner Johannes
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Florence : , : Taylor and Francis, , 2006
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (289 pages)
• Collana: Routledge advances in European politics
• Disciplina: 336.4
• Soggetti: Budget - European Union countries
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover -- Half-Title -- Series-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- Part I Variation in the level of conflict in EU budgetary politics -- 2 A rational choice-institutionalist explanationof conflict in EU budgetarypolitics -- 3 Obstructing decisionmaking -- 4 Facilitating decisionmaking -- 5 Blocking intergovernmental -- 6 Accepting intergovernmental -- 7Summary of the ndingsand update of thetheoretical explanation -- Part II1Institutional change inEU budgetary politics -- 8A rational choice-institutionalist explanationof institutional change inEU budgetary politics -- 9 Resisting reform -- 10 Initiating a ne winstitutional path -- 11 Summary of the ndingsand update of thetheoretical explanation -- 12 Conclusions -- Appendix No. 1 -- Appendix No. 2 -- Appendix No. 3 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: Why did the European Union experience a stark variation in the levels of conflict between the late 1970s, when budgetary disputes dominated European politics, and the 1990s, when political actors were able to settle upon budgetary agreements without major conflicts? This book responds to this key question with a two-step argument: Its first part shows that decision-making rules can be regarded as a key determinant of the level of conflict in EU budgetary politics. It details far-reaching reform in 1988 reduced conflict, because it introduced an institutional setting for multiannual budget planning that corrected the deficiencies of the original budget treaty. Having identified institutional change as the trigger for the reduction of conflict, the second part of ; this study focuses on the 1988 reform. It shows how a number of 'reproduction mechanisms' prevented major institutional change in the 1970s and early 1980s. When these 'reproduction mechanisms' lost force, a reform became possible and a new institutional setting emerged in 1988. These findings deliver a sharp insight into the interplay between rules and conflict in the still evolving political system of the EU. Moreover, by identifying precise conditions for the occurrence of institutional change, and by linking political performance of institutions to their stability this is a significant contribution to institutionalist research in social science. This book is an excellent resource for students and scholars of the European Union, Political Science, International Relations, Public Policy and Public Finance.

Coming of age in nineteenth-century India : the girl-child and the art of playfulness / / Ruby Lal

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910966313503321
• Autore: Lal Ruby
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013
• ISBN: 1-107-23749-1; 1-139-85437-2; 1-139-84614-0; 1-139-84293-5; 1-139-84056-8; 1-139-84529-2; 1-139-34331-9; 1-283-83635-1; 1-139-84174-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xvii, 229 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Classificazione: HIS017000
• Disciplina: 305.235/2095409034
• Soggetti: Women - India - Social life and customs - 19th century; Girls - India - Social life and customs - 19th century; Domestic relations - India - History - 19th century
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Prelude: opening the door -- 1. Texts, spaces, histories -- 2. The woman of the forest -- 3. The woman of the school -- 4. The woman of the household -- 5. The woman of the rooftops -- A retrospect: in pursuit of playfulness.
• Sommario/riassunto: In this engaging and eloquent history, Ruby Lal traces the becoming of nineteenth-century Indian women through a critique of narratives of linear transition from girlhood to womanhood. In the north Indian patriarchal environment, women's lives were dominated by the expectations of the male universal, articulated most clearly in household chores and domestic duties. The author argues that girls and women in the early nineteenth century experienced freedoms, eroticism, adventurousness and playfulness, even within restrictive circumstances. Although women in the colonial world of the later nineteenth century remained agential figures, their activities came to be constrained by more firmly entrenched domestic norms. Lal skillfully marks the subtle and complex alterations in the multifaceted female subject in a variety of nineteenth-century discourses, elaborated in four different sites - forest, school, household, and rooftops.