Title:The Political Form of Europe Europe as a Political Form
Author(s):WAGNER, PeterDate:2005Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:European integration needs to be analyzed in terms that address the normative self-understanding of the emerging polity or, in other words, the self-understanding of European modernity. While it is often argued that such ...
Title:The Political History of European Integration. The Hypocrisy of Democracy-through-market
Author(s):SCHULZ-FORBERG, Hagen; STRATH, BoDate:2010Type of Publication:BookAbstract:This book adopts a historical perspective to explore the tensions between the idea of a European democracy through a European market, and the observations that there are signs of increasing social disintegration, political ...
Title:The Political Impact of the EU's International Trade: EU trade power, policy and influence
Author(s):CARATELLI, IreneDate:2010Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The aim of the PhD Thesis is to ascertain whether the EU is able to exert a political influence through its international trade agreements. Since the Union has always been considered as an economic giant and a political ...
Title:The Political Independence of Public Service Broadcasters
Author(s):HANRETTY, ChrisDate:2009Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:In this thesis, I demonstrate that the degree of political independence that a public service broadcaster has depends on the degree of legal protection given to it, and on the size of the market for news in that country. ...
Title:Political Instability and Economic Vulnerability
Author(s):BUSSIERE, Matthieu; MULDER, C.Date:2000Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This paper analyzes and tests the influence of political instability on economic vulnerability in the context of the 1994 and 1997 crisis episodes. It constructs four political variables that aim at quantifying political ...
Title:Political Institutions and Financial Development: Evidence from New World Economies
Author(s):HABER, StephenDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MW LSAbstract:There is a consensus among economists that the development of banking systems plays a causal role in economic growth. What remains unresolved is why some countries have large banking systems that allocate credit broadly, ...
Title:Political Instrumentalisation of Islam, Persistent Autocracies, and Obscurantist Deadlock
Author(s):PLATTEAU, Jean-PhilippeDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:The empirical literature has established a strong link between the fact of being a Muslim-dominated
country and indicators of political performance and democracy. This suggests the possible existence of
a relation between ...
Title:Political Islam Movements and International Relations: The Concept and The Practice
Author(s):AL-KHAZENDAR, SamiDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:This study examines and analyzes the development of the relations between the Political Islam
movements, on the one hand, and the foreign or regional and international environments, with the west
in particular, on the ...
Title:Political Membership in the Contractarian Defense of Cosmopolitanism
Author(s):YPI, Lea LemanDate:2008Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article assesses the recent use of contractarian strategies for the justification of cosmopolitan distributive principles. It deals in particular with the cosmopolitan critique of political membership and tries to ...
Title:Political Opposition and the European Union
Author(s):MAIR, PeterDate:2007Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This paper applies categories developed in the classic literature on political opposition to the developing European Union. It is clear that the EU has never developed the third great milestone identified by Dahl in his ...