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    Title: Whose Democratization? Periods of transition and voices from below in Turkey  Author(s): ATAK, Kivanc Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI SPS Abstract: Turkey's experience with democracy, at least in its procedural terms, is one which has been discontinuous thanks to repeated military interruptions to civilian rule. Since 1946, Turkey has experienced coups on an almost ...
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    Title: Grassroots Groups and Civil Society Actors in Pro-Democratic Transitions in Poland  Author(s): PIOTROWSKI, Grzegorz Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI SPS Abstract: The transition to democracy in 1989 in Central and Eastern Europe is said to be the achievement of the dissident sector. In Poland the biggest power in the democratization process was the Solidarność trade union. At the ...
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    Title: Civil Society and the Paralyzed State: Mobilizing for democracy in East Germany  Author(s): RITTER, Daniel P. Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI SPS Abstract: 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 ...
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    Title: Libya's Violent Revolution  Author(s): POLJAREVIC, Emin Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI SPS Abstract: Libya is unlike other states in North Africa mainly because of the distinctive arrangement of different socio-economic and political features it combines. This arrangement came into sharper focus in the wake of the recent ...
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    Title: Civil Society and the Velvet Revolution: Mobilizing for democracy in Czechoslovakia  Author(s): RITTER, Daniel P. Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI SPS Abstract: 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 ...
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    Title: Nationalism and Transitions: Mobilizing for democracy in Yugoslavia  Author(s): RITTER, Daniel P. Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI SPS Abstract: The Yugoslav transition(s) to democracy is perhaps the most complex of all the Eastern European cases. It can be argued that Yugoslavia enjoyed the most favorable initial conditions of any country in the region: the regime ...
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    Title: Mass Migration, Student Protests and the Intelligentsia Popullore in the Albanian Transition to Democracy  Author(s): CHIODI, Luisa Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI SPS Abstract: After decades under a Stalinist regime, the latecomer transition in Albania began thanks to the large-scale exodus of hundreds of young people which stimulated the mobilization of university students. In turn, the student ...
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    Title: Mobilizing for Democracy: A research project  Author(s): DELLA PORTA, Donatella Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI SPS Abstract: The project addresses the role of civil society organizations (CSOs) in democratization processes, bridging social science approaches to social movements and democracy. The project starts by revisiting the 'transitology' ...
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    Title: Bread, Freedom, Human Dignity: Tales of an unfinished revolution in Egypt  Author(s): WARKOTSCH, Jana Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI SPS Abstract: 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 ...
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    Title: From the Coup to the Escalation of Violence: The transition to democracy in Romania  Author(s): ROSSI, Federico M. Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI SPS Abstract: Romania was the only example of violent regime change in the central and south eastern European milieu, with massive mobilizations both in favour and against change and the execution of the dictator. In other words, there ...
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    Title: Tunisia: Surprise, change and continuity. Relating actors, structures and mobilization opportunities around the 14 January 2011 revolution  Author(s): DONKER, Teije Hidde Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI SPS Abstract: The following report provides an in-depth and empirically focused overview of collective mobilization before, during and after the breakdown of the Tunisian authoritarian regime in 2010-11. It focuses on the relation between ...
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    Title: The Unintended Consequence of the Struggle for Independence: The transition to democracy in the Baltic Countries  Author(s): ROSSI, Federico M. Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI SPS Abstract: The Baltic countries' struggle was for independence more than any other thing. The achievement of democracy was a by-product of the secessionist project of increasing autonomy from Moscow. A possible explanation for this ...
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    Title: The Elite Coup: The transition to democracy in Bulgaria  Author(s): ROSSI, Federico M. Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI SPS Abstract: The transition to democracy in Bulgaria is commonly defined as a coup d'état carried out by the Bulgarian Communist Party (BCP) elites against the long-standing dictator Todor Zhivkov. The Bulgarian transition to democracy ...
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    Title: Democratic Diffusion under the Magnifying Glass: A micro perspective on the change of attitudes toward democratic governance through transnational linkages in authoritarian contexts  Author(s): FREYBURG, Tina Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: Students of democratic diffusion argue that strong ties to democracies foster political transformation in non-democratic regimes. They theoretically specify a long causal chain linking the micro-phenomenon of the democratic ...
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    Title: The Contrasting Local Perceptions of Europe: The 2009 milk strike in the French Basque country  Author(s): ITÇAINA, Xabier Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: Cahiers du Centre Emile Durkheim/Centre Emile Durkheim Working Papers Abstract: The dairy sector is mostly concerned with market volatility and with the transformations of European regulations. In September, 2009, more than 60,000 European dairy farmers halted or reduced milk deliveries to protest ...
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    Title: The International Community and Global Governance of Human Security  Author(s): PELTONEN, Hannes Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI SPS Abstract: This paper addresses the global governance of human security and particularly its provision across borders. It argues that the responsibility to protect (R2P) framework is part of global governance. Of special interest to ...
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    Title: Rating Politics: The political economy of increased rating scrutiny over domestic politics and policy-making in developed economies since the economic and financial crisis  Author(s): BARTA, Zsofia Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: Rating agencies have played a prominent role in the sovereign debt crisis currently besetting Europe. Sovereign rating downgrades contributed to the fall of the first domino, Greece, and have since continued to fuel anxiety ...
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    Title: Public Contestation and Politics of Transitional Justice: Poland and Albania Compared  Author(s): ELBASANI, Arolda; LIPINSKI, Artur Date: 2011-01-01 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI SPS Abstract: This article explores the role of politics and public debates in the pursuit of transitional justice after communism. Our analysis of Albania and Poland enables a variation of both explanatory factors and results. The two ...
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    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 ...
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    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 ...