Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: The paper analyse trade unions in Europe in a comparative perspective using data from a comprehensive quantitative survey (European Social Survey). The paper focus on three perspectives. In the first part of the paper we will try to estimate trade unions strength on workplace level in different European countries, using data from the European Social Survey. In the second part of the paper focus is on member composition of the trade unions in different European countries, especially with regards to gender, branches and political attitudes among the trade unions members. In this part of the analysis data concerning the general attitude toward trade unions among citizens in the different European countries is also presented. In the third part of the paper focus is on trade union legitimacy in the European Societies.

Publication Type: Poster
Abstract: This study attempts to replicate LEE (1997, 2001). Results of this study show a similar pattern. The consequences of these results are discuss in line with critical realism ontology and epistemology.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: We conduct the first network analysis of Congressional member-to-member campaign contributions. We characterize the properties of the network, analyze how it changed between 1981 and 2006, and identify the relative centrality of key members.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: Members of exclusive private country clubs were interviewed for their perspective on the racial-ethnic composition of club membership in the Northeastern U.S. Subjects offer two types of accounts for their clubs’ composition. First, they justify the homogeneity that still characterizes the clubs by “othering” outside groups, by pointing to minorities themselves as responsible, and by emphasizing money as the actual -- colorblind -- root of exclusion. Second, and conversely, they emphasize what heterogeneity there is at their clubs. Indicating the presence of minority club members, subjects report that their club is more diverse than in the past, and more so than local rival clubs. It is argued that spotlighting diversity is an exception to the prevailing cultural norm of colorblindness, and is emerging as an important new aspect of the dominant racial ideology.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: Covering violent conflict, when the journalist is a member of one of the parties in conflict, invokes a special inner-professional contradiction. In fact, journalists are members of two communities simultaneously: the professional community and the national one.
On the one hand, the professional community calls upon the journalist to tell a story that will be, or will have the appearance of, a factual, objective and balanced story. Although we know this cannot be fully achieved, these are the ideals of the (western) press.
On the other hand, the national community calls the journalist to take part in the conflict, to be its representative in the battle of images and sound bites, to be a weapon – to tell only the facts that are in favor of his nation, to tell an unbalanced, unobjective story.
In the article we examine the journalists' work in a situation in which they must confront this dual allegiance. The article looks into the role played by the Israeli media during the first days of the Al-Aksa Intifada in early October 2000. The discussion focuses on the coverage of violent clashes between the police and Israel’s Arab citizens, and analyzes how the main Hebrew television news stations and the major Hebrew dailies covered the unfolding events; it also refers to reports in American newspapers.
The article explores how in such events, journalists, as an “interpretive community”, as representatives of the grief and confusion of their national community, turn to the patriotic point of view. After establishing inner and outer discourses with their peers - and mainly with the politicians - they turn to more professional perspective, satisfying the norms and values of the trade.