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Title:The aftermath of Turkey's Gezi protests : how political parties respond to social movements Author(s):DRAEGE, Jonas Bergan EUI affiliated

Date: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' ...

Title:The institutionalization of party systems in East Central Europe : explaining variation Author(s):CASAL BÉRTOA, FernandoDate:2011Citation: Florence : European University Institute, 2011 Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of Political and Social SciencesAbstract:This dissertation aims at providing an answer to the question of how party system institutionalization occurs and why it varies so much across countries, through a comparative analysis of the process of party system ...

Title:Multi-level Party Politics in Italy and Spain Author(s):WILSON, AlexDate:2009Citation: Florence, European University Institute, 2009 Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of Political and Social SciencesAbstract:This thesis undertakes an empirical exploration of multi-level party politics in Italy and Spain since the 1990s, with a particular focus on the regional level of party organisation and electoral competition. It finds that ...

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 ...