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Title:Essays on empirical political economy and public policy Author(s):KABA, Mustafa
Date:2020Citation:
- Florence : European University Institute, 2020
Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of EconomicsAbstract:This thesis is a collection of independent empirical essays in the field of political economy. The first chapter investigates the electoral effects of a local public good provision, using a local food subsidy program that ...

Title:Public policy and inequality in higher education Author(s):GEVEN, Koen
Date:2018Citation:
- Florence : European University Institute, 2018
Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of Political and Social SciencesAbstract:Policy-makers are increasingly looking for ways to reduce inequality in higher education. But what is the size of this problem? How does public policy affect inequality, if it at all? And what actually works to reduce ...

Title:Why incumbents survive : authoritarian dominance and regime persistence in Russia Author(s):SKULKIN, Igor
Date:2018Citation:
- Florence : European University Institute, 2018
Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of Political and Social SciencesAbstract:Why do incumbents in electoral authoritarian regimes retain power? This study seeks to answer this fundamental question by linking electoral fraud and sincere voting for the incumbent with incumbent’s distributive politics ...

Title:Changing the rules of the game : on the determinants and consequences of electoral reforms in contemporary democracies Author(s):RIERA, PedroDate:2013Citation:
- Florence : European University Institute, 2013
Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of Political and Social SciencesAbstract:As the "Short Twentieth Century" came to an end, more and more democracies seriously considered the possibility –often for the first time in their history- of changing their national electoral system. Since then, the total ...
Title:Explaining and Assessing Independence: National competition authorities in the EU member states Author(s):GUIDI, Mattia
Date:2012Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of Political and Social SciencesAbstract:This Ph.D dissertation aims at answering two questions, which are closely related to each other: 1. How do politicians decide about the independence they give to regulatory agencies? 2. Is there a link between the amount ...

Title:International norms and local agents in peacebuilding : small arms control in post-war Kosovo and Cambodia Author(s):THOLENS, Simone
Date:2012Citation:
- Florence : European University Institute, 2012
Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of Political and Social SciencesAbstract:Finding that existing theories of International Relations have problems explaining why international Small Arms Control programmes succeed or fail, this thesis explores internationally driven micro-disarmament processes ...

Title:Changing choices, changing elections : a study of volatility and vote-switching in six Western European countries Author(s):GOMEZ MARTINEZ, RaulDate:2012Citation:
- Florence : European University Institute, 2012
Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of Political and Social SciencesAbstract:It is often argued that elections in established Western European democracies have become more unstable during recent decades. Much scholarly work has thus focused on the study of changes in election results in order to ...
Title:Constitutional design, legislative procedures and agenda control in presidential systems : an empirical analysis of four Central American countries in comparative perspective Author(s):AJENJO FRESNO, NataliaDate:2005Citation:
- Florence : European University Institute, 2005
Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of Political and Social SciencesAbstract:The thesis covers issues of constitutional design, legislative procedures and agenda control in presidential systems, with specific empirical application to four Central American cases in a comparative perspective. The ...
Title:Individual and systemic determinants of electoral abstention in Western Europe Author(s):ANDUIZA PEREA, EvaDate:1997Citation:
- Florence, European University Institute, 1997
Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of Political and Social SciencesAbstract:Este libro analiza las causas de la abstención electoral en el marco de las elecciones parlamentarias considerando simultáneamente las variables individuales y las características del sistema político y de la elección como ...
Title:The nationalisation of electoral politics : a comparative and historical analysis of territories elections and parties in Western Europe Author(s):CARAMANI, Daniele
Date:1997Citation:
- Florence : European University Institute, 1997
Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of Political and Social SciencesAbstract:In an in-depth comparative and long-term analysis Daniele Caramani studies the macro-historical process of the nationalization of politics. Using a great wealth of new and unexplored data on single constituencies in seventeen ...

