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471. Monitoring Regional Cooperation in Southeast Europe

Currently, it is difficult to understand and to assess the progress made in regional cooperation in South East Europe. The Regional Cooperation Council (RCC), launched in 2008 as a successor to the…

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Balkan Media Barometer - Albania 2013

The Balkan Media Barometer (BMB) is an in-depth and comprehensive description and measurement system for national media environments in South East Europe. Unlike other press surveys or media indices…

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Slovenian Youth 2013 – Living in Times of Dissillusionment, Risk and Precarity

Youth is not a universal human condition. A number of scholars have previously argued that childhood and youth cannot be comprehended as a unique period (Aries, 1962); nor can youth be considered…

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Major Trends of Media Development During Post-Communist Transition

Since 1990, following decades of government control over media, the Albanian media faced horizons of freedom. The advent of independent media, quite naturally, was duly characterised by the mounting…

475. Welfare State and Social Democracy

For social democrats the welfare state is not a side issue, but a requirement of democracy. It ensures equal freedom – full freedom. It is in the welfare state that social democratic ideas about…

476. Open Parliaments 2012 – Transparency and Accountability of Parliaments in South-East Europe

The present comparative volume of case studies provides a snapshot and analysis of the existing normative regulation, practices, and public debates regarding the openness and transparency of…

477. Employment Policies in South-East Europe

With the end of socialism, South East European societies experienced a most dramatic increase in poverty and socio-economic inequality. Some might have hoped that the transition from the generalised…

478. Kosovo Youth Study

Already a while ago, the idea was developed - in cooperation with the Friedrich Ebert Foundation – to conduct a youth study in the countries of former Yugoslavia, following the model of the Shell…

479. Economics and Social Democracy

The financial and economic crisis was a turning point. The problems that con- front us go beyond mere coping with the particular consequences of the crisis, and concern the very foundations of our…

480. The Media in South-East Europe – A Comparative Media Law and Policy Study

The media are of outstanding importance for our European democracies – and certainly also beyond them. They are considered to be of the highest relevance for the formation of opinion, both…