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From PDS to Cosa 2. The Second Congress of the Democratic Party of the Left

Bull, M.J. - European Institute - Political and Social Sciences - 1997

This article is part of ongoing research on the left in Italy, and attempts to explain the origins, significance and outcome of the key issue at the PDS's 2nd Congress: the future of the party itself.

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005780936

Challenge, Prevention and Response: Game-Theoretical Perspectives on Breakdown and Survival of Democracy.

Capoccia, G. - European Institute - Political and Social Sciences - 1999

The paper presents in a simple model the possible choices and constraints facing democratic governments when confronting an anti-democratic party challenge that is able to seriously endanger the survival of the democratic system.

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005486878

Conceptualizing, Researching and Evaluating Democracy Promotion and Protection.

Schmitter, P.C.; Brouwer, I. - European Institute - Political and Social Sciences - 1999

This essay deals with democracy promotion & protection by established democracies. It first describes how the dynamics …, it defines democracy promotion & protection and described the different components of it. Finally, it discusses the issue … of the strategies of the democracy promoters & protectors and takes a critical look at the issue of evaluating of their …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005256215

Presidentialism in the Southern Cone. A Framework for Analysis.

Malamud, A. - European Institute - Political and Social Sciences - 2001

Presidentialism has been long defined as a regime type based on the principle of separation of power. I will start by adopting a restricted definition of presidentialism and advancing a typology of democratic regimes, just to thereafter apply it to the two largest South American countries:...

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What's the Civil in Civil Society? Robert Putnam's Italian Republicanism.

Mouritsen, P. - European Institute - Political and Social Sciences - 2001

Putnam's civil society is the idea that good government performance aas well as economic development is a product of 'civic community', i.e. the networks of trust, reciprocity, and habits of co-operation that arise in the associational micro-spheres of civil society such as the soccer club, the...

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Grand Designs, Narrow Choices : Conservatives and Democracy in Southern Europe.

Pappas, T-S - European Institute - Political and Social Sciences - 1996

With the exception of Portugal, a paradox of the Southern European democracies is that they were founded and made workable by ambiguous democrats. In Italy and Greece, it was the lineal descendants of pre-fascist conservatism who came back to power, while, in Spain, former francoist...

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Alexis de Tocqueville: the Psychologist of Equality.

Lom, P. - European Institute - Political and Social Sciences - 1999

In this paper, the author writes about Alexis de Tocqueville and his implication in the debate in the apparent tension between liberty and equality. Alexis de Tocqueville thinks that a new political science would no longer be necessary at all.

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Defending Democracy: Strategies of Reaction to Political Extremism in Inter-war Europe.

Capoccia, G. - European Institute - Political and Social Sciences - 2000

While the strategies of political actors and institutions have been largely analyzed with reference to cases of democratic breakdown in inter-war Europe and other contexts, democratic survival has often been viewed as a consequence of socio-economic and cultural "preconditions". The analysis of...

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Imitating Capitalism and Democracy at a Distance. Identifying with Images in the Polish Transition

Wydra, H. - European Institute - Political and Social Sciences - 1997

order in 1989 has widely been interpreted as the imitation of capitalism and democracy. This paper conceives of imitation as … that institutions and practices of capitalism and democracy were not the principal models of imitation in the Polish …

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