Title:The Challenge to Party Government
Author(s):MAIR, PeterDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI SPSAbstract:At a time when the literature on political parties is brimming with health and vitality, the parties themselves seem to be experiencing potentially severe legitimacy problems and to be suffering from a quite massive ...
Title:The City without Qualities. Political Theories of Globalization in European Cities
Author(s):DE FRANTZ, MonikaDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI SPSAbstract:While urban political economy tends to generalize the functional economic pressures upon socio-political transformations of cities, European research has stressed the importance of historical context and political institutions. ...
Title:Civil Society and the Paralyzed State: Mobilizing for democracy in East Germany
Author(s):RITTER, Daniel P.Date:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI SPSAbstract: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 ...
Title:Civil Society and the Velvet Revolution: Mobilizing for democracy in Czechoslovakia
Author(s):RITTER, Daniel P.Date:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI SPSAbstract: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 ...
Title:Comparative Politics at the Crossroads
Author(s):SCHMITTER, Philippe C.Date:1991Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:Estudios = Working papers (Centro de Estudios Avanzados en Ciencias Sociales)