Title:Political Endowments and Electricity Market Regulation in Turkey: An Institutional Analysis
Author(s):DURAKOĞLU, S. MustafaDate:2011-02-25Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:Turkey has been going through a liberalization process in its electricity market over the last decade. So
far, the regulatory content of the market reforms has been in the center of attention in the literature, to
the ...
Title:Political Instrumentalisation of Islam, Persistent Autocracies, and Obscurantist Deadlock
Author(s):PLATTEAU, Jean-PhilippeDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:The empirical literature has established a strong link between the fact of being a Muslim-dominated
country and indicators of political performance and democracy. This suggests the possible existence of
a relation between ...
Title:Political Islam Movements and International Relations: The Concept and The Practice
Author(s):AL-KHAZENDAR, SamiDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:This study examines and analyzes the development of the relations between the Political Islam
movements, on the one hand, and the foreign or regional and international environments, with the west
in particular, on the ...
Title:Politics after Indignation. Possibilities and limits of direct democracy
Author(s):INNERARITY, DanielDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:The year 2011 may go down in history as the year of the indignation; this word sums up a movement that has become a widespread disaffection with politics in a new kind of protest. Is this a new version of the popular ...
Title:The Politics of Seasonal Foreign Worker Admissions to France, 1974-2010
Author(s):PLEWA, PiotrDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:In response to the economic crisis of 1973/74 the French government curbed the admissions of
seasonal foreign workers. By 2010 the curbs have remained in effect, however, the number of foreign
workers authorized to work ...
Title:The Politics of the New Welfare States in Western Europe
Author(s):BONOLI, Giuliano; NATALI, DavidDate:2011-03-29Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:The present paper has a twofold objective. First we discuss different possible interpretations of recent
current social policy change. Western European welfare states have been characterised by (functional
and normative) ...
Title:Populism Emergent: A framework for analyzing its contexts, mechanics, and outcomes
Author(s):PAPPAS, Takis S.Date:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:This paper, based on cross-regional empirical research, provides an integrated analytical framework for understanding the emergence of populism in seemingly different political contexts in both Europe (including Greece, ...
Title:Post-liberal Regionalism in South America: The case of UNASUR
Author(s):SANAHUJA, José AntonioDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:This paper examines the formal features, the political rationale, distinctiveness, potential, and difficulties of post-liberal regionalism, with a particular focus on the case of UNASUR. Through this organization, traditional ...