SPS Theses
SPS Theses are assessed for the award of the degree: Doctor of Political and Social Sciences of the European University Institute.
All EUI theses are accessible on-campus. To be able to access embargoed or restricted theses outside campus, external readers can make a request of the print version through the EUI Library catalogue.
Selected collection: SPS Open Access Theses
Selected collection: SPS Theses published as Books
The copyright of the thesis belongs exclusively to the author. No part of an EUI thesis may be copied, reproduced or transmitted without prior permission of the author.
Recent Submissions
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Title:Party system change during crises Author(s):DOLLBAUM, Jan Fabian
Date:2024Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2024Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; SPS; PhD ThesisAbstract:This thesis argues that party system change during crises depends primarily on the actions of government and challenger parties. This stands in contrast to established theories of (long-term) party system change, which ...
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Title:Manufacturing consensus : the domestic politics of foreign and security policy Author(s):GHINCEA, Georgian-MariusDate:2024Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2024Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; SPS; PhD ThesisAbstract:The conventional American adage that “politics ends at the water’s edge” is no longer taken for granted across the democratic world. Political parties and domestic actors actively contest foreign and security policy, ...
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Title:Speaking law, whispering politics : mechanisms of resilience in the Court of Justice of the European Union Author(s):BREKKE, Stein Arne
Date:2024Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2024Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; SPS; PhD ThesisAbstract:The Court of Justice of the European Union (cjeu) has inched closer to being a truly supranational court than any other tribunal in history. Through key doctrinal innovations and a steady dialogue with national courts, it ...
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Title:Constructing the European Union's budget : origins, continuities, and consequences Author(s):BREUER, Johanna Date:2024Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2024Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; SPS; PhD ThesisAbstract:The European Union's budget is a transfer budget, unlike the budget of a fiscal (federal) state. Its role is to maintain a level of equality between member states and to sustain the functioning of the single market. But ...
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Title:A theory of legitimation in civil war : the justification of power and governance in the Colombian conflict Author(s):MINATTI, Wolfgang Date:2024Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2024Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; SPS; PhD ThesisAbstract:When the rebel group FARC started to govern the rural communities of Santa Rosa and Buenavista in central Colombia in the 1990s, both communities thought the rebels to be legitimate. Yet, by the mid-2000s, despite similar ...
