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Title:Getting into bed with the enemy : exploring trends and effects of coalition congruence in Western Europe 1945-2015 Author(s):DULLAGHAN, Neil
Date:2021Citation:
- Florence : European University Institute, 2021
Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of Political and Social SciencesAbstract:Over the last seventy years Europe has seen government authority decentralised to subnational bodies, offering up new arenas for political contestation. At the same time, the typical cleavages in society that provided solid ...
Date:2021Citation:
Title:Towards a populist local democracy? : the consequences of populist radical right local government leadership in Western Europe Author(s):PAXTON, Fred Date:2020Citation:
- Representation, 2020, Vol. 56, No. 3, pp. 411-430
Type:ArticleAbstract:A crisis of representation has precipitated a surge in support for populist radical right (PRR) parties that challenge the existing model of representative democracy. Simultaneously, institutional reforms across Western ...
Date:2020Citation:
Title:The regional battleground : partisanship as a key driver of the subnational contestation of citizenship Author(s):PICCOLI, Lorenzo Date:2019Citation:
- Ethnopolitics, 2019, Vol. 18, No. 4, pp. 340-361
Type:ArticleAbstract:This article challenges the idea that territorial rescaling invariably leads to a race to the bottom in the provision of rights for vulnerable subjects. Instead, the comparison of two regions in Italy and two cantons in ...
Date:2019Citation:
Title:Majority rule, compromise and the democratic legitimacy of referendums Author(s):BELLAMY, Richard (Richard Paul) Date:2018Citation:
- Swiss political science review, 2018, Vol. 24, No. 3, pp. 312-319
Type:ArticleAbstract:Cheneval and el-Wakil (2018c) defend referendums as a mechanism that allows a popular majority to express itself in situations where the standard channels of representative democracy fail to include the concerns of certain ...
Date:2018Citation:
Title:The politics of regional citizenship : explaining variation in the right to health care for undocumented immigrants across Italian regions, Spanish autonomous communities, and Swiss cantons Author(s):PICCOLI, Lorenzo Date:2018Citation:
- Florence : European University Institute, 2018
Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of Political and Social SciencesAbstract:Over the last forty years, regions in Europe have acquired an increasingly important role in the provision of rights that were traditionally used by states to define the boundaries of national citizenship. Despite this ...
Date:2018Citation:
Title:Making democratic attitudes work : the effect of institutions on europeans' aspirations and evaluations of democracy Author(s):PALACIOS, IreneDate:2018Citation:
- Florence : European University Institute, 2018
Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of Political and Social SciencesAbstract:This thesis analyses how the institutional context of democracies shapes the way citizens evaluate, and what they do ideally expect, from their democratic systems. Although there is a long tradition in political science ...
Date:2018Citation:
Title:Family and politics : the enduring influence of the parental home in the development and transmission of political ideology Author(s):VAN DITMARS, Mathilde MariaDate:2017Citation:
- Florence : European University Institute, 2017
Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of Political and Social SciencesAbstract:How does the family influence citizens’ political ideology, and what role do family dynamics and structure play in this process of political socialization? As society and family forms are changing, this study provides new ...
Date:2017Citation:
Title:Revisiting Italian Mediterranean policy in the 1950s : internally or externally-driven? : the interplay of domestic constraints and external pressures Author(s):PINTO ARENA, Maria Do CéuDate:2017Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI RSCAS; 2017/38Abstract:This article aims to explore Italy´s 'Neo-Atlanticist' foreign policy (FP) strand in the mid-1950s to highlight the complex interplay of external and internal political dynamics. It corresponded to the third circle of ...
Date:2017Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI RSCAS; 2017/38Abstract:This article aims to explore Italy´s 'Neo-Atlanticist' foreign policy (FP) strand in the mid-1950s to highlight the complex interplay of external and internal political dynamics. It corresponded to the third circle of ...
Title:The aftermath of Turkey's Gezi protests : how political parties respond to social movements Author(s):DRAEGE, Jonas BerganDate:2017Citation:
- Florence : European University Institute, 2017
Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of Political and Social SciencesAbstract:This thesis explores how Turkey's political parties responded to the Gezi Park protests in 2012. I assess how four political parties framed the protests, whether the latter were accompanied by changes in the parties' ...
Date:2017Citation: