Title:Measuring Party Positions and Issue Salience from Media Coverage: Discussing and cross-validating new indicators
Author(s):HELBLING, Marc; TRESCH, AnkeDate:2011Type of Publication:ArticleSeries/Report no.:[EUDO Public Opinion Observatory]Abstract:Recent studies have started to use media data to measure party positions and issue salience. The aim of this article is to compare and cross-validate this alternative approach with the more commonly used party manifestos, ...
Title:Migrants and Political Life in Greece: Between political patronage and the search for inclusion
Author(s):GROPAS, Ruby; TRIANDAFYLLIDOU, AnnaDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article explores the challenges that have arisen in the fields of political participation and naturalisation policies from the past two decades of immigration to Greece. It discusses the ways in which mainstream ...
Title:Military Strategy in the Global Village
Author(s):VENNESSON, PascalDate:2009Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:How has globalization – a set of connected processes that lead to a greater interaction capacity in the international system – affected military planners at the beginning of the 21st century? Over the years globalization ...
Title:A modern reconsideration of the theory of Optimal Currency Areas
Author(s):CORSETTI, GiancarloDate:2008Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:What can be learnt from revisiting the Optimal Currency Areas (OCA) theory 50 years from its birth, in light of recent advances in open economy macro and monetary theory? This paper presents a stylized micro-founded model ...
Title:Momentum and Impediments: Why Europe won’t emerge as a full political actor on the world stage soon
Author(s):KROTZ, UlrichDate:2009Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Is Europe about to rise as a full political actor on the world stage? Conventional
wisdom had it that European integration in foreign policy, security and defence was
unlikely to amount to much very quickly. More recently, ...