.... First, service offshoring may induce a parallel shift in the demand schedule. Second, it may change, and possibly increase, its slope (wage elasticity). These two channels may offer complementary explanations for why concerns about service offshoring are mounting in Western Europe. The chapter...

... Wicherkiewicz Tomasz Zan Cyrillic alphabet von Twickel Nikolaus strengthening bilingualism Jorbenadze Besarion linguistic minority rights intrinsic relation between language and nation French revolutionary ideas about the national language language conflicts in Western Europe Nazi attempts to exploit...

...This chapter discusses the adoption of classical traditions in the West; higher schools and universities; and religious, political, and social connections that formed from this process. The important new approaches in leaning, education, and art in western Europe in the high Middle Ages were based...

...This chapter focuses on the application of the secularisation paradigm, which attributes the decline of religion in Western Europe to modernisation, in the non-Western world. More specifically, it examines salient changes in the religious cultures of various developing countries in Central...

...While American neoclassicists obscured their stylistic connection to Western Europe, these same composers and their American contemporaries worked to foster transatlantic performance opportunities. The founding of New York City's modern music societies in the early 1920s generated a booming trade...

... central office Christian democrats conservatives Dutch Labour Party PvdA leadership liberals Netherlands Parliament parties social democrats Berlusconi Silvio catch‐all parties Forza Italia Hopkin Jonathan Koole R mass parties new politics parties Paolucci C Western Europe Australia...

... can the proposed Declaration be applicable to all human beings, and not be a statement of rights conceived only in terms of the values prevalent in the countries of Western Europe and America? American Anthropological Association anthropological argument Herskovits relativism Renteln Alison Dundes...

...This chapter demonstrates how annals that describe events across Western Europe in the year AD 919 typifies the annalistic genre in form, style, and content. One specific author — Flodoard of Rheims — shares a preoccupation with extremes of weather and focus on the ills suffered by his people...

... and theoretical findings from several studies relating especially to western Europe. It emphasizes the fiscal implications of age-imbalanced demographic structures in advanced economies, the impacts of these imbalances on age-sensitive expenditure and revenue systems, and the prospects for fiscal adjustment along...

...This chapter explores the correlation between the culture of song in western Europe in the decades around 1300 and the intimate lives of medieval aristocrats. Manuscript D308's overlap with the more central cultural productions of the French-speaking west of Europe is complicated by its significant...

... influence. Russia has framed itself as a defender of traditional values, which has resonated among conservative groups in Western Europe and the United States. This led some of them to call for closer ties with Russia and oppose harsh Western reactions to Russian aggression. Yet, Western states have...

... the more established nation states in western Europe. Beneš Edvard Bohemia Czechoslovakia United States Britain Mackenzie Compton Munich Agreement 1938 Roosevelt Franklin D Stalin Josef Greece Lockhart Robert Bruce Masaryk Jan National Party of Scotland Seton Watson Robert Venizelos...

...Preface and Acknowledgement This volume presents our joint research on the coalition life cycle in Western Europe. We place particular emphasis on the under-researched coalition governance aspect of that cycle. The work emanates from a project for which Johan Hellström is the principal investigator...

... right parties in Western Europe and increasing polarization over European integration represent a change from the politics of the 1990s. Radical right parties or candidates have achieved new levels of electoral support in many West European countries. At the same time, though, mainstream values have...

.... European integration European Union EU Euroscepticism France Netherlands Treaty on European Union United Kingdom utilitarian arguments European Values Survey EVS national cohesion Western Europe Denmark Greece European Council European Parliament Ireland nation states Treaty of Nice 2002...

... and centre-right parties that were based on twentieth-century class and religious conflicts struggle for support, particularly as generational replacement results in the depletion of their traditional voters. age immigration PRR parties social cohesion voting behaviour Western Europe Green parties...

... to a discussion of their implications for our understanding of West European politics. The first implication is that the worldview evolution described in this book is rooted in political psychology rather than group interests or identity. Second, the worldview evolution occurring in Western Europe bears...

... structure Electoral Politics Realignment Western Europe Polarization New Left Far Right Switzerland Despite its particular government institutions, political conflicts in Switzerland bear many similarities to other West European democracies. As we will show in this chapter, Switzerland is interesting...

... Petty Fitzmaurice Vergennes Comte de Charles Gravier Bavaria Eden–Rayvenal Treaty 1786 Joseph II Austria Montesquieu Europe Britain France Western Europe Eastern Europe Seven Years’ War diplomatic revolution American Revolution Ten years had passed since the treatises of Paris...

...This chapter surveys the evidence on the actual practice of expropriation of land in western Europe prior to 1100, focusing on ancient Greece and Rome. In ancient Greece, this evidence includes legislation for the valuation of noncitizens' property that could have been used to build temples...