Title:The Silent Republic: Popular Music and Nationalism in Socialist Croatia
Author(s):VULETIC, DeanDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:This paper explores the development of popular music and its relationship to the political situation in Croatia and Yugoslavia from 1945 to 1991, and how global musical trends were used to construct and reinvent Croatian ...
Title:"Those Who Give Are Not All Generous": Tips and bribes at the sixteenth-century papal court
Author(s):FLETCHER, CatherineDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:Ambassadors in early modern Europe were frequent disbursers of tips, rewards and bribes, and usually expected something in return for their liberality. This paper considers the conventions, both written and unwritten, that ...
Title:Transforming Memories: Workers’ Recollection of the Socialist Regimes in East Germany and Hungary
Author(s):BARTHA, EszterDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:This paper analyzes and compares workers’ memories of the late socialist regimes in
East Germany and Hungary. It presents the results of an oral history project conducted
in two factories, Rába MVG in Győr (Hungary) and ...
Title:"Transnations" among "Transnations"? The Debate on Transnational History in the US and Germany
Author(s):PATEL, Kiran KlausDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:Harvard University Center for European Studies Working Paper SeriesAbstract:Comparing the rise of transnational history in the United States and Germany is difficult, mainly because of the many connections between these historiographies. Still, the article argues that the paths into a transnational ...
Title:Why do People Choose to be Silent? Simulating Electoral Behaviour
Author(s):BARTHA, Eszter; WOLSZCZAK-DERLACZ, JoannaDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:This paper investigates opinion contagion in collective behaviour, using an extension of
Granovetter’s (1978) and Krassa’s (1988) threshold models. The theoretical background
is the spiral of silence concept developed ...
Title:Women Rulers in Europe: Agency, Practice and the Representation of Political Powers (XII-XVIII)
Author(s):CALVI, GiuliaDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI HECAbstract:New interpretations of state formation processes include gender as a category of historical analysis and tackle notions of royalty and royal power, focusing on regency and women as regents in the process of consolidating ...
