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Title:Tracing cultural change in Turkey's experience of democratization : unexpected dialogues on intolerance Author(s):KOCA, Metin
Date:2023Citation:Abingdon ; Oxon : Routledge, 2023, Area Studies, Social SciencesVersion:Published version of EUI PhD thesis, 2020Type:BookAbstract:Does democracy require an agreement on specific foundational values? Bringing insights from Turkey to the study of democratization, this book argues that democracy may rather be about acknowledging the disagreement over ...
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Title:The puzzle of clientelism : political discretion and elections around the world Author(s):GOLDEN, Miriam A.
; NAZRULLAEVA, EugeniaDate:2023Citation:Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2023, Elements in Political EconomyType:BookAbstract:This Element presents newly collected cross-national data on reelection rates of lower house national legislators from almost 100 democracies around the world. Reelection rates are low/high in countries where clientelism ...
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Title:Leaders without partisans : dealignment, media change, and the personalization of politics Author(s):GARZIA, Diego
; FERREIRA DA SILVA, Frederico
; DE ANGELIS, Andrea
Date:2021Citation:London ; New York : ECPR Press ; Rowman & Littlefield, 2021Type:BookAbstract:Leaders without Partisans examines the changing impact of party leader evaluations on voters’ behavior in parliamentary elections. The decline of traditional social cleavages, the pervasive mediatization of the political ...
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Title:The political economy of monetary solidarity : understanding the euro experiment Author(s):SCHELKLE, Waltraud
Date:2017Citation:Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017Type:BookAbstract:Creating the European monetary union between diverse and unequal nation states is one of the biggest social experiments in history. This book offers an explanation of how the euro experiment came about and was sustained ...
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Title:Human rights and state security : Indonesia and the Philippines Author(s):JETSCHKE, AnjaDate:2010Citation:Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010, Pennsylvania Studies in Human RightsType:BookAbstract:In recent years, influential studies have shown that the activities of human rights organizations are central in convincing violating governments to improve their practices. Yet some governments continue to get away with ...