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Title:The disclosure game : inception, implementation and unusual influence of aid transparency Author(s):HILLO, Jaakko Jonas
Date:2022Citation:
- Florence : European University Institute, 2022
Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of Political and Social SciencesAbstract:The dissertation investigates the origins, implementation, and effects of transparency in development aid. Transparency is a key tenet in most contemporary governance reforms because of its inherent value and expected ...

Title:Is populism bad for business? : assessing the reputational effect of populist incumbents Author(s):DE SOUSA, Luis; WEILER, Florian; FERNANDES, Daniel
Date:2021Citation:
- Swiss political science review, 2021, Vol. 27, No. 1, pp. 1-20
Type:ArticleAbstract:This article seeks to assess whether populist incumbents affect their country's perceived political stability and business climate. Existing evidence contends that populist governments in European democracies produce more ...


Title:The dual role of state capacity in opening socio-political orders : assessment of different elements of state capacity in Belarus and Ukraine Author(s):DIMITROVA, Antoaneta; MAZEPUS, Honorata; TOSHKOV, Dimitar Doychinov
; CHULITSKAYA, Tatsiana; RABAVA, Natallia; RAMASHEUSKAYA, InaDate:2021Citation:
- East European politics, 2021, Vol. 37, No. 1, pp. 19-42
Type:ArticleAbstract:State capacity declines with democratization, yet high state capacity supports the stability of both democracies and autocracies. Ukraine has been a paradigmatic example of capacity decline in democratization and Belarus ...

Title:When elections subvert authoritarianism : failed cooptation and Russian post-electoral protests of 2011-12 Author(s):ZAVADSKAYA, Margarita
Date:2017Citation:
- Florence : European University Institute, 2017
Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of Political and Social SciencesAbstract:One of the widely shared features of modern autocracies is the presence of democratically-designed institutions. Elections, referendums, legislatures, and parties are the essential institutions 'bydefault'. Political regimes ...

Title:Good apples on bad trees : explaining variation in levels of corruption in South-European local government Author(s):DRÁPALOVÁ, EliškaDate:2016Citation:
- Florence : European University Institute, 2016
Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of Political and Social SciencesAbstract:Since 1996, when James D. Wolfensohn, former president of the World Bank, called corruption a cancer and declared a war against it, we have seen only partial victories. The phenomenon of corruption presents exceptional ...
Title:Inside wars : local dynamics of conflicts in Syria and Libya Editor(s):NARBONE, Luigi
; FAVIER, Agnès
; COLLOMBIER, Virginie
Date:2016Citation:
- Florence : European University Institute, 2016
Type:BookSeries/Number:EUI RSCAS; Middle East Directions (MED)Abstract:This ebook, Inside Wars: Local Dynamics of Conflicts in Syria and Libya, aims to make a contribution to the understanding of some of the under-researched local dynamics of the Syrian and Libyan conflicts. The objective is ...



Title:Bank regulation in a post-financial crisis landscape : essays of the interaction between financial institutions Author(s):WERGER, CharlotteDate:2016Citation:
- Florence : European University Institute, 2016
Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of EconomicsAbstract:This thesis is a nexus of three topics; financial stability, banking regulation and financial influence. In four separate chapters, this work examines how financial institutions interact with their regulators, in particular ...
Title:The difficulty of measuring governance and stateness Author(s):MALITO, Debora Valentina
Date:2015Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI RSCAS; 2015/38; Global Governance Programme-173; European, Transnational and Global GovernanceAbstract:Measures of governance and stateness have grown substantially in number over recent decade, and gained also greater importance in building public discourses and orienting decision-making processes. Yet there seems to be ...

Title:Clandestine circulation : social reproduction in the shadow of the state Author(s):EGAN, MartynDate:2014Citation:
- Florence : European University Institute, 2014
Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of Political and Social SciencesAbstract:How should social science conceptualise the informal exchange of illicit favours in the context of the modern state? And what relation does such exchange have to the reproduction of the social structure? This thesis presents ...
Title:The politics of bank bailouts Author(s):REINKE, Raphael
Date:2014Citation:
- Florence : European University Institute, 2014
Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of Political and Social SciencesAbstract:In this thesis, I show that governments bail out banks because banks are critical to capitalist democracies. Banks enjoy a public safety net. Governments, however, can make banks pay for this protection. Two of this ...
