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Title: Two Decades On: How Institutionalized are the Post-Communist Party Systems? Author(s): CASAL BÉRTOA, Fernando; MAIR, Peter Date: 2010 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI SPS Abstract: In a paper published soon after the transition to democracy in East Central Europe, it was suggested that post-communist party systems were expected to be characterized by an unstable and unpredictable structure of competition ...

Title: Types of Mayors, Types of Subjectivity: Continuity and Discontinuity in the East-Central European Transition I Author(s): SZAKOLCZAI, Arpad Date: 1993 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI SPS

Title: Understanding Regulatory Growth in the European Community Author(s): MAJONE, Giandomenico Date: 1994 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI SPS

Title: Understanding ‘Chance and Uncertainty’ in Clausewitz’s On War: Reflections on the Balkan Wars (1991-1995) Author(s): FLEMING, Colin M. Date: 2010 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: In the opening chapter of Carl Von Clausewitz’s On War (1831), he explains to readers that ‘only one more element is needed to make war a gamble 'chance'. No other human activity is so continuously or universally bound up ...

Title: Unemployment and Solidarity in Post-Communism - Negotiating Meanings between the West and the Past Author(s): REITER, Herwig Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI SPS Abstract: Research into living in former communist, neo-capitalist countries identifies what could be called a 'post-communist paradox of desolidarisation' - i.e. persistent egalitarian values coincide with low levels of involvement ...

Title: Unemployment Insurance and Home Production Author(s): TASKIN, Temel Date: 2011-01-01 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: In this paper, we incorporate home production into a quantitative model of unemployment and show that realistic levels of home production have a significant impact on the optimal unemployment insurance rate. Motivated by ...

Title: Universal Banking and Bank Failures Between the Wars Author(s): VERDIER, Daniel Date: 1997 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI SPS

Title: Universal Basic Income in Belgium and the Netherlands: Implementation Through the Back Door? Author(s): VANDERBORGHT, Yannick Date: 2004 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI SPS

Title: The Use of Political Conditionality in the EU's Relations with Third Countries: How Effective? Author(s): SMITH, Karen E. Date: 1997 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI SPS

Title: Value Changes in Hungary, 1978-1993: Continuity and Discontinuity in the East-Central European Transitions II Author(s): FUSTOS, Laszlo; SZAKOLCZAI, Arpad Date: 1994 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI SPS

Title: Value Systems in Axial Moments: A Comparative Analysis of 24 European Countries Author(s): SZAKOLCZAI, Arpad; FUSTOS, Laszlo Date: 1996 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI SPS

Title: Varieties of Legacies: A Critical Review of Public Administration Reform in East Central Europe Author(s): MEYER-SAHLING, Jan-Hinrik Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: This paper examines the status of historical legacies in debates on the reform of public administration in East Central Europe. It identifies limitations of existing accounts and derives three dimensions for the further ...

Title: Wage Bargaining Tensions in Italian and Greek Banking: The role of employer associability and labour-state coalitions Author(s): KORNELAKIS, Andreas Date: 2010 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI SPS Abstract: How do we explain divergent trajectories of change in wage bargaining institutions? Existing studies maintained that European economic integration and liberalisation, decline in trade union power, changing work organization ...

Title: Welfare Policies under European Pressure? The Domestic Impact of Cross Border Social Security in the European Union Author(s): SINDBJERG MARTINSEN, Dorte Date: 2004 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI SPS

Title: What is there to Legitimize in the European Union … and How Might This be Accomplished? Author(s): SCHMITTER, Philippe C. Date: 2001 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: IHS Working Papers Abstract: This paper focuses on the 'problematique' of building the legitimacy (one of the most used and misused concepts in Political Science) of governance (one of the most fashionable concepts in contemporary political discourse) ...

Title: What Makes for Charitable Giving and Philanthropy? The Case of the Childless Elderly in Germany and the U.S. Author(s): ADLOFF, Frank Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: It has been suggested that the growing number of childless elderly may develop into charitable donors and pioneers in the field of a post-familial civic engagement. They may do so by giving to existing charities or by ...

Title: What the Bombing of Hanoi Tells Us About Compellence Theory Author(s): DEKKER, Willem Martijn Date: 2011-01-01 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: This paper analyses the dynamics of coercion and counter-coercion and argues that, for compellence to be successful, the opponent’s counter-coercive strategy must be undermined. Existing theories rely on a cost-benefit ...

Title: What's Left to Trade: the Changing Logic of Corporatist Policymaking in Europe Author(s): AFONSO, Alexandre Date: 2011 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: This paper outlines evolutions in the underlying logic of corporatist policymaking in Western Europe. Starting from the discrepancy between the observable decline in the power of organised labour on the one hand, and the ...

Title: What's the Civil in Civil Society? Robert Putnam's Italian Republicanism Author(s): MOURITSEN, Per Date: 2001 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI SPS

Title: When Does Policy Deliberation Matter? Author(s): MAJONE, Giandomenico Date: 1993 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI SPS

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