Title:Age Cohorts and the Funnel of Causality: How Social Characteristics Influence Our Vote
Author(s):KATSANIDOU, AlexiaDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:Voting behaviour criteria can be categorized according to their level of ideologization and their time depth. In modern politics we expect people to use short-term factors to make their final voting decisions, such as ...
Title:Agenda Control in Presidential Systems Measurements Alternatives to Capture Latent Variables
Author(s):AJENJO FRESNO, NataliaDate:2006Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI SPSAbstract:This paper presents alternative modeling strategies to capture latent variables such as agenda control. The methodological approach offers competing models for theory testing among institutional, partisan and procedural ...
Title:Ascriptive Inequality and Life Chances in Georgia
Author(s):GUGUSHVILI, AlexiDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:Center for Social Sciences, Applied Social Research ProgrammeAbstract:Using data from the Generations and Gender Survey for the cohorts born from 1926 to 1985 in Georgia, and the linear probability models of higher educational and ISCO 1-2 occupational attainment, I find the large ascriptive ...
Title:Assessing the Assessment
Author(s):HEIDBREDER, Eva Gabriele; CARRASCO, LauraDate:2003Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EIPA Working Paper
Title:Bini Smaghi vs. the Parties: Representative government and institutional constraints
Author(s):MAIR, PeterDate:2011Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:Although it is generally seen as desirable that parties in government are both responsive and responsible, these two characteristics are now in increasing tension with one another. Prudence and consistency in government, ...
Title:Bread, Freedom, Human Dignity: Tales of an unfinished revolution in Egypt
Author(s):WARKOTSCH, JanaDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI SPSAbstract:When at the height of the 'Arab Spring' Egyptians from all walks of life took to the streets to oust one of the Arab world's most long-standing dictators, it took both Egyptians and outside observers by surprise. This ...
