Browsing Department of Political and Social Sciences (SPS) by Type "Working Paper"

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    Title: Whose Democratization? Periods of transition and voices from below in Turkey  Author(s): ATAK, Kivanc Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI SPS Abstract: Turkey's experience with democracy, at least in its procedural terms, is one which has been discontinuous thanks to repeated military interruptions to civilian rule. Since 1946, Turkey has experienced coups on an almost ...
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    Title: Grassroots Groups and Civil Society Actors in Pro-Democratic Transitions in Poland  Author(s): PIOTROWSKI, Grzegorz Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI SPS Abstract: The transition to democracy in 1989 in Central and Eastern Europe is said to be the achievement of the dissident sector. In Poland the biggest power in the democratization process was the Solidarność trade union. At the ...
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    Title: Civil Society and the Paralyzed State: Mobilizing for democracy in East Germany  Author(s): RITTER, Daniel P. Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI SPS Abstract: Among cases of transition to democracy from below, the East German one constitutes a particularly challenging puzzle. Whereas social movements taking advantage of an oppositional space within a repressive context have ...
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    Title: Libya's Violent Revolution  Author(s): POLJAREVIC, Emin Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI SPS Abstract: Libya is unlike other states in North Africa mainly because of the distinctive arrangement of different socio-economic and political features it combines. This arrangement came into sharper focus in the wake of the recent ...
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    Title: Civil Society and the Velvet Revolution: Mobilizing for democracy in Czechoslovakia  Author(s): RITTER, Daniel P. Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI SPS Abstract: In the late 1980s Czechoslovakia was considered one of the most repressive countries in Eastern Europe and a staunch Soviet ally. In the aftermath of the 'Prague Spring' of 1968, repressed with Soviet help, the regime ...
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    Title: Nationalism and Transitions: Mobilizing for democracy in Yugoslavia  Author(s): RITTER, Daniel P. Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI SPS Abstract: The Yugoslav transition(s) to democracy is perhaps the most complex of all the Eastern European cases. It can be argued that Yugoslavia enjoyed the most favorable initial conditions of any country in the region: the regime ...
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    Title: Mass Migration, Student Protests and the Intelligentsia Popullore in the Albanian Transition to Democracy  Author(s): CHIODI, Luisa Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI SPS Abstract: After decades under a Stalinist regime, the latecomer transition in Albania began thanks to the large-scale exodus of hundreds of young people which stimulated the mobilization of university students. In turn, the student ...
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    Title: Mobilizing for Democracy: A research project  Author(s): DELLA PORTA, Donatella Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI SPS Abstract: The project addresses the role of civil society organizations (CSOs) in democratization processes, bridging social science approaches to social movements and democracy. The project starts by revisiting the 'transitology' ...
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    Title: The Illusion of Inclusion: Configurations of populism in Hungary  Author(s): BOZOKI, Andras Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI SPS Abstract: Populist rhetoric always promises a new, more inclusive political community but very often this only achieves new ways of exclusion. Populism is one of the most flexible terms in the history of ideas and in political science ...
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    Title: From the Coup to the Escalation of Violence: The transition to democracy in Romania  Author(s): ROSSI, Federico M. Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI SPS Abstract: Romania was the only example of violent regime change in the central and south eastern European milieu, with massive mobilizations both in favour and against change and the execution of the dictator. In other words, there ...
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    Title: Tunisia: Surprise, change and continuity. Relating actors, structures and mobilization opportunities around the 14 January 2011 revolution  Author(s): DONKER, Teije Hidde Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI SPS Abstract: The following report provides an in-depth and empirically focused overview of collective mobilization before, during and after the breakdown of the Tunisian authoritarian regime in 2010-11. It focuses on the relation between ...
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    Title: The Unintended Consequence of the Struggle for Independence: The transition to democracy in the Baltic Countries  Author(s): ROSSI, Federico M. Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI SPS Abstract: The Baltic countries' struggle was for independence more than any other thing. The achievement of democracy was a by-product of the secessionist project of increasing autonomy from Moscow. A possible explanation for this ...
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    Title: The Elite Coup: The transition to democracy in Bulgaria  Author(s): ROSSI, Federico M. Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI SPS Abstract: The transition to democracy in Bulgaria is commonly defined as a coup d'état carried out by the Bulgarian Communist Party (BCP) elites against the long-standing dictator Todor Zhivkov. The Bulgarian transition to democracy ...
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    Title: Reluctant Rulers and the Negotiated Transition: Mobilizing for democracy in Hungary  Author(s): RITTER, Daniel P. Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI SPS Abstract: Among the Eastern European democratization processes of the 1989 period, Hungary stands out as the least dramatic transition in the region. Whereas other countries experienced massive demonstrations in favor of democratic ...
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    Title: Populism Emergent: A framework for analyzing its contexts, mechanics, and outcomes  Author(s): PAPPAS, Takis S. Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS Abstract: This paper, based on cross-regional empirical research, provides an integrated analytical framework for understanding the emergence of populism in seemingly different political contexts in both Europe (including Greece, ...
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    Title: Dynamics of Radicalisation in the Relationship between Militant Islamist Groups and their Constituencies: The case of al-Jamaa al-Islamiyya in Egypt, 1986-1998  Author(s): MALTHANER, Stefan Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: Research on political violence has increasingly adopted relational approaches to analysing processes of radicalisation and escalation, focusing mainly on interactions between protest movements and the police, and the effects ...
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    Title: Trends in Income Inequality, Intertemporal Variability, and Mobility Risk in Thirty Countries  Author(s): NICHOLS, Austin; REHM, Philipp Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: We apply a novel decomposition of panel data on individual incomes in 30 countries and find the US is exceptional in its increases of income risk over the last decades. Income risk is decomposed into long-run inequality, ...
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    Title: Religious Diversity and the Divergence of Secular Trajectories: Comparing secularization practices in Quebec and France  Author(s): KOUSSENS, David Date: 2011-01-01 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: In this working paper, I propose to analyze the treatment of the wearing of religious symbols in the public sphere in Quebec and France as political and juridical events that have crystallized, in different moments, certain ...
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    Title: On the Role of Strategy in Nonviolent Revolutionary Social Change: The Case of Iran, 1977-1979  Author(s): RITTER, Daniel P. Date: 2011-01-01 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: Are revolutions made or do they come? This question is at the heart of revolution theory and has received plentiful attention from scholars. In this paper I suggest that adherence to this traditional dichotomy may not be ...
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    Title: Sanction as a Viable Tool for Promoting Cooperation: A Cognitive and Simulation Model  Author(s): ANDRIGHETTO, Giulia; VILLATORO, Daniel Date: 2011-01-01 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: Punishment plays a crucial role in achieving and maintaining norm compliance. Several works have shown that cooperation greatly increases when punishment opportunities are allowed. However, these studies have mainly looked ...