Title:The Gap between Liberal and Electoral Democracy Revisited. Some Conceptual and Empirical Clarifications
Author(s):MOLLER, JorgenDate:2006Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI SPSAbstract:Since the late 1990s, many students of democratisation have emphasised that a salient empirical gap is emerging between liberal and electoral democracy. In this paper, I reappraise the gap by revisiting Larry Diamond’s ...
Title:Globalization and the Politics of Subsidies
Author(s):AYDIN, UmutDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:State subsidies to attract investment have proliferated since the 1980s, yet we know little about the factors that influence governments’ subsidy policies. In this paper, I propose that in making subsidy policies, governments ...
Title:Grassroots Groups and Civil Society Actors in Pro-Democratic Transitions in Poland
Author(s):PIOTROWSKI, GrzegorzDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI SPSAbstract: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 ...
Title:The Historical Turn and International Relations ‘Beyond Objectivism and Relativism’
Author(s):MCCOURT, DavidDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI SPSAbstract:This paper assesses the recent calls for an ‘historical turn’ in International Relations (IR), and argues that they should be viewed in light of a more widespread movement in the social sciences and humanities ‘beyond ...
Title:How Not to Implement: Hungarian Pension Reforms in an Institutionalist Perspective
Author(s):GUARDIANCICH, IgorDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:TIGER Working Paper SeriesAbstract:After 1989, Hungary inherited a pension system characterised by an unfair mix of social insurance and social assistance. Widespread public dissatisfaction and the near drift into a financial crisis cleared the path for the ...