Title:Varieties of Capitalism: Trajectories of liberalization and the new politics of solidarity
Author(s):THELEN, KathleenDate:2012Type of Publication:OtherSeries/Report no.:EUI MWP LSAbstract:This essay reviews recent literature on varieties of capitalism, drawing on insights from existing studies to propose a new, more differentiated way of thinking about contemporary changes in the political economies of the ...
Title:Viral engagement : fast, cheap, and broad, but good for democracy ?
Author(s):FUNG, Archon; SHKABATUR, JenniferDate:2013Type of Publication:OtherSeries/Report no.:EUI MWP LSAbstract:In 2011 and 2012, several high profile campaigns spread with unexpected speed and potency. These “viral engagements” include the mobilization that scuttled the Stop Online Piracy Act, popular protest against the Susan G. ...
Title:Why are Developing Countries so Resistant to the Rule of Law?
Author(s):WEINGAST, Barry R.Date:2009Type of Publication:Technical ReportSeries/Report no.:EUI MWP LSAbstract:This paper draws on my new book (North, Wallis, and Weingast 2009) to provide a new explanation
for why it is so difficult to transplant institutions, such as markets and democracy, from developed
societies into developing ...
Title:Women and religion in nineteenth-century France
Author(s):SCOTT, Joan W.Date:2013Type of Publication:OtherSeries/Report no.:EUI MWP LSAbstract:This paper explores the connections made between religion and women by French secularizers in the nineteenth century as a way of understanding the effects of what Max Weber called "disenchantment." It asks how differences ...
