Title:Varieties of Legacies: A Critical Review of Public Administration Reform in East Central Europe
Author(s):MEYER-SAHLING, Jan-HinrikDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract: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:What is there to Legitimize in the European Union … and How Might This be Accomplished?
Author(s):SCHMITTER, Philippe C.Date:2001Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:IHS Working PapersAbstract: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, FrankDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract: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 MartijnDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract: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, AlexandreDate:2011Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract: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:When Parties (also) Position Themselves: An Introduction to the EU Profiler
Author(s):TRECHSEL, Alexander H.; MAIR, PeterDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:This paper is intended to frame and describe a novel method of political party positioning within the European Union and beyond. Ever since the groundbreaking work by Downs in the 1950s, political scientists have derived ...
Title:Which Indicators are Most Useful for Comparing Citizenship Policies?
Author(s):BAUBOCK, Rainer; HELBLING, Marc; HELBLING, Marc; REICHEL, David; VINK, Maarten; DUYVENDAK, Jan Willem; VAN REEKUM, Rogier; SCHOLTEN, Peter; BERTOSSI, Christophe; JANOSKI, Thomas; HUDDLESTON, Thomas; MANATSCHAL, AnitaDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:The comparative study of citizenship regimes has reached a new stage. Several authors and research teams have constructed indicators and compound indices that allow comparing larger numbers of countries in more systematic ...
Title:Who is (not) a Refugee?
Author(s):HADDAD, EmmaDate:2004Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI SPS
Title:Who is (not) a Refugee?
Author(s):HADDAD, EmmaDate:2004Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI SPS
Title:Whose Democratization? Periods of transition and voices from below in Turkey
Author(s):ATAK, KivancDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI SPSAbstract: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 ...
Title:Work, Production, Free Movement and Then What? Conceptions of Citizenship in European Integration, 1951-71
Author(s):OLSEN, Espen D. H.Date:2006Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI SPSAbstract:In this paper, the aim is to shed further light on issues of citizenship in the period between 1951 and 1971, often called the founding period of European integration. The contribution of the paper to the literature is ...