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Title:The power of communities : the political consequences of the interplay between individuals and contexts Author(s):COLOMBO, Francesco
Date:2022Citation:
- Florence : European University Institute, 2022
Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of Political and Social SciencesAbstract:How do communities influence individual preferences and behaviour? In four different papers, I present compelling evidence suggesting that individual political preferences and behaviour need to be studied into context. I ...


Title:Congruence between voters and parties : the role of party-level issue salience Author(s):COSTELLO, Rory; TOSHKOV, Dimiter
; BOS, Barend; KROUWEL, AndréDate:2021Citation:
- European journal of political research, 2021, Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 92-113
Type:ArticleAbstract:The level of congruence between parties and their voters can vary greatly from one policy issue to another, which raises questions regarding the effectiveness of political representation. We seek to explain variation in ...

Title:Voter turnout with peer punishment Author(s):LEVINE, David K.
; MATTOZZI, Andrea
Date:2020Citation:
- American economic review, 2020, Vol. 110, No. 10, pp. 3298-3314
Type:ArticleAbstract:We introduce a model where social norms of voting participation are strategically chosen by competing political parties and determine voters' turnout. Social norms must be enforced through costly peer monitoring and ...


Title:euandi2019 : project description and datasets documentation Author(s):MICHEL, Elie
; CICCHI, Lorenzo
; GARZIA, Diego
; FERREIRA DA SILVA, Frederico
; TRECHSEL, Alexander H.
Date:2019Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI RSCAS; 2019/61; [European Governance and Politics Programme]Abstract:In occasion of the European Parliament elections of 2019, the EUI in collaboration with the University of Lucerne in Switzerland launched euandi2019 (reads: EU and I). The academic relevance of the euandi2019 endeavour ...







Title:The politics of turning coat : a comparative and historical analysis of party switching Author(s):VOLPI, Elisa
Date:2019Citation:
- Florence : European University Institute, 2019
Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of Political and Social SciencesAbstract: to collective switching as do electoral systems with high candidate visibility. Taken together, these findings contribute not only to shed light on the conditions that make switching more likely to occur, but also to the ...

Title:The political consequences of the Great Recession in Southern Europe crisis and representation in Spain Author(s):VIDAL, Guillem
Date:2019Citation:
- Florence : European University Institute, 2019
Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of Political and Social SciencesAbstract:The Great Recession constituted a breaking point in several aspects of the cultural, economic and political life of southern European countries (i.e. Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain). This dissertation aims to shed light ...

Title:Image that matters : news media consumption and party leader effects on voting behavior Author(s):GARZIA, Diego
; FERREIRA DA SILVA, Frederico
; DE ANGELIS, Andrea
Date:2019Citation:
- The international journal of press-politics, 2020, Vol. 25, No. 2, pp. 238-259
Type:ArticleAbstract:Television is customarily put forward as a driver of the "personalization of politics." The characteristics of this visual medium arguably accentuate personality at the expense of substantive programmatic goals, downplaying ...




Title:The anti-Islamic movement : far right and liberal? Author(s):BERNTZEN, Lars Erik
Date:2018Citation:
- Florence : European University Institute, 2018
Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of Political and Social SciencesAbstract:This thesis is about the anti-Islamic turn and expansion of the far right in Europe and beyond between 2001 and 2017. The anti-Islamic far right has undergone four waves of expansion in this period, driven by terror attacks ...

Title:State interests vs citizens’ preferences : on which side do (Labour) parties stand? Author(s):KARREMANS, Johannes
Date:2017Citation:
- Florence : European University Institute, 2017
Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of Political and Social SciencesAbstract:This dissertation deals with the question of how the partisan nature of government still matters in the current globalized and post-industrial world. In particular, it compares the representativeness of two contemporary ...


Title:Welfare politics and the radical right : the relevance of welfare politics for the radical right’s success in Western Europe Author(s):MICHEL, Elie
Date:2017Citation:
- Florence : European University Institute, 2017
Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of Political and Social SciencesAbstract:This thesis looks at the success of radical right parties in Western Europe through the perspective of welfare politics, by examining parties and voters in a comparative and mixed method perspective. I argue that purely ...
