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Title:Chilling and warming effects on the production of international law scholarship Author(s):MANLEY, StewartDate:2022Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI LAW; 2022/05; Practising Reflexivity in International LawAbstract:How do international law scholars decide what to write about? I hope that most of us try to write about what interests us or, for the more idealistic, what best serves humanity. In this article though, I suggest that more ...

Title:Parliamentary representation and the normalization of radical right support Author(s):VALENTIM, Vicente EUI affiliated

Date:2021Citation: Comparative political studies, 2021, OnlineFirst Type:ArticleAbstract:How do stigmatized political preferences become normalized? I argue that the parliamentary representation of the radical right normalizes radical right support. Radical right politicians breach established social norms. ...

Title:2018 MEDAM assessment report on asylum and migration policies in Europe : sharing responsibility for refugees and expanding legal immigration Editor(s):LÜCKE, MatthiasDate:2018Type:Technical ReportSeries/Number:Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW); MEDAM; 2018; [Migration Policy Centre]Abstract:The EU faces major challenges in asylum and migration policy: reorganize the EU asylum system, secure the external border, curb irregular immigration through cooperation with African governments, and support developing ...

Title:The rise of Euro-journalism : the media and the European Communities, 1950s-1970s Author(s):HERZER, Martin EUI affiliated

Date:2017Citation: Florence : European University Institute, 2017 Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of History and CivilizationAbstract:The thesis traces the rise of Euro-journalism. It argues that the Euro-journalists - a group of influential journalists in Brussels and across Western Europe - were instrumental in shifting the representation of the European ...

Title:Partisan, not ignorant : citizens' use of arguments and justifications in direct democracy Author(s):COLOMBO, CélineDate:2016Citation: Florence : European University Institute, 2016 Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of Political and Social SciencesAbstract:A competent citizenry is the key to the legitimacy of direct democratic decisions, but just how competent are citizens in direct democracy? Understanding how citizens reason and how they make their decisions is ever more ...

Title:Media systems and information environments : a comparative approach to the agenda-setting hypothesis Author(s):SANTANA PEREIRA, JoséDate:2012Citation: Florence : European University Institute, 2012 Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of Political and Social SciencesAbstract:The present dissertation aims at the comparative study agenda-setting (i.e., the impact that media content has on the importance people give to several political and social issues) in Europe. The focus is set in the 2009 ...

Title:The politics of other citizens Author(s):WHITE, JonathanDate:2010Citation: Citizenship studies, 2010, Vol. 14, No. 4, pp. 411-427 Type:ArticleAbstract:In all kinds of political action, citizens are confronted with the performances of other citizens. An important guide to political behaviour is therefore likely to be the assumptions people make concerning how others can ...

Title:Why do People Choose to be Silent? Simulating Electoral Behaviour Author(s):BARTHA, Eszter; WOLSZCZAK-DERLACZ, JoannaDate:2008Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI MWP; 2008/26Abstract:This paper investigates opinion contagion in collective behaviour, using an extension of Granovetter’s (1978) and Krassa’s (1988) threshold models. The theoretical background is the spiral of silence concept developed ...

Title:Schools of democracy : how ordinary citizens become competent in participatory budgeting institutions Author(s):TALPIN, JulienDate:2007Citation: Florence, European University Institute, 2007 Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of Political and Social SciencesAbstract:A widespread theme pervades both political theory and the social sciences, in which participation in certain types of democratic institutions could create a more competent, active and public-spirited citizenry. While the ...

Title:Political competition and contestability: a study of the barriers to entry in 21 democracies Author(s):BISCHOFF, Carina S.Date:2006Citation: Florence, European University Institute, 2006 Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of Political and Social SciencesAbstract:The thesis offers a theoretical clarification of the concept of political competition and an empirical study of one of its defining dimensions, namely contestability. In the first part, the relevant literature is subjected ...

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