• How mechanization shapes coups

  Choulis, Ioannis; Mehrl, Marius; Escribà-Folch, Abel; Böhmelt, Tobias (SAGE Publications, 2022)

  Civil-military relations are characterized by a fundamental dilemma. To lower coup risk, leaders frequently empower the military, which satisfies the armed forces with the status quo and enables them to fight against threats ...
• Taking root: independent regulatory agency model of regulation in Indian electricity sector

  Kumar, Shashwat (Elsevier, 2022)

  The rise and spread of Independent Regulatory Agencies (IRAs) represented institutional change to bring credibility and efficiency to the sectoral governance, more so in the case of developing countries. On functional ...
• Regime types and winner-loser gaps in support for democracy in East Asia

  Wu, Chun-Ying; Wu, Chin-en (Taylor & Francis, 2022)
• Transnational turnout: determinants of emigrant voting in home country elections

  Ciornei, Irina; Østergaard-Nielsen, Eva (Elsevier, 2020)

  A wide majority of countries acknowledge non-resident citizens' right to vote in elections in their country of origin. However, classical turnout theories do not take into account how electoral mobilisation has expanded ...
• Spanish foreign policy: navigating global shifts and domestic crises

  Soler i Lecha, Eduard; Barbé, Esther (Springer, 2021)

  Spain’s foreign policy is often seen as the result of three structural changes: Europeanization, democratization and societal modernization. This contribution complements this assessment by analyzing the effects of three ...
• Transparency in nursing home services: a legal requirement and an issue of concern before and during COVID-19 in Spain?

  Pérez Durán, Ixchel; Hernández Sánchez, Alfredo (Asociación Española de Ciencia Política y de la Administración, 2021)

  The objective of the article is to analyze transparency in the provision of nursing home services towards beneficiaries. To do this, we identify three policy dimensions and their specific ...
• The EU and controlling the use of the death penalty: an organising principle for which fundamental norm?

  Kissack, Robert (Springer, 2020)

  The abolition of the death penalty has been an important foreign policy objective of the European Union for over a decade and it claims to be ‘the leading institutional actor in the fight against the death penalty worldwide’ ...
• Neither left behind nor superstar: ordinary winners of digitalization at the ballot box

  Gallego Dobón, Aina; Kurer, Thomas; Schöll, Nikolas (University of Chicago Press, 2022)

  The nascent literature on the political consequences of technological change studies either left-behind voters or successful technology entrepreneurs (“superstars”). However, it neglects the large share of skilled workers ...
• Technological risk and policy preferences

  Gallego Dobón, Aina; Kuo, Alexander; Manzano Espinosa, Dulce; Fernández Albertos, José (SAGE Publications, 2022)

  Despite recent attention to the economic and political consequences of automation and technological change for workers, we lack data about concerns and policy preferences about this structural change. We present hypotheses ...
• Contested views? Tracing European positions on lethal autonomous weapon systems

  Badell Sánchez, Diego; Schmitt, Lewin (Taylor & Francis, 2022)

  The article explores the evolving positions and negotiation strategies of the EU and its member states regarding lethal autonomous weapon systems (LAWS). Specifically, it traces the proceedings around the UN disarmament ...
• The European Union and lethal autonomous weapons systems: united in diversity?

  Barbé, Esther; Badell Sánchez, Diego (Springer, 2020)

  This chapter focuses on norm contestation in the emerging stage by exploring the possible prohibition of lethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWS), which is advocated by the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots. At the UN Convention ...
• The political incorporation of labor in Turkey: tracing the origins of a nationalist path

  Apaydin, Fulya; Ülker, Erol (Cambridge University Press, 2020)

  This study makes an important contribution to the literature on labor incorporation in developing areas based on existing historiography and archival material from Turkey. Specifically, we argue that the political incorporation ...
• India’s ‘silent contestation’ of the EU’s perspective on local ownership

  Klossek, Lara (Springer, 2020)

  Local ownership has become a central theme in today’s discourse on peacebuilding, with the EU being very vocal in embracing the norm. On the surface, it thus seems that the EU is supported in its perspective on local ...
• "Training for peace" – a universal practise? How micro processes are impacting the likelihood of an EU–India cooperation in peacekeeping

  Klossek, Lara (Taylor & Francis, 2020)

  Why have the EU and India been unable to explore the common potential of their partnership in peacekeeping training? Drawing upon the literature of practice theories and the concept of community of practices, as well as ...
• Central banks and banking regulation: historical legacies and institutional challenges

  Jordana, Jacint; Rosas, Guillermo (Springer, 2019)

  Jordana and Rosas explore the different institutional models for the regulation of banks and financial services that exist worldwide. They find, on the one hand, many countries in which central banks have significant ...
• Good natural resource governance: how does the EU deal with the contestation of transparency standards?

  Vlaskamp, Martijn (Springer, 2020)

  Transparency is an organizing principle of the norm of good governance. The EU has adopted a number of policies to promote this norm as a way to address corruption and cronyism in the natural resource sector of many ...
• Self-determination and the reconfiguration of the nation-state in Europe

  Jordana, Jacint; Holesch, Adam, 1977-; Keating, Michael; Marx, Axel; Wouters, Jan (Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2019)

  In this concluding chapter, the authors summarize the contributions of the book on three interrelated dimensions (national-states and EU transformations, multilevel politics in the EU, and the self-determination claims ...
• Demandas lingüísticas y conflicto político en España

  Bianculli, Andrea C.; Jordana, Jacint; Ferrín Pereira, Mónica (Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales, 2021)
• Networked corruption risks in European defense procurement

  Czibik, Ágnes; Fazekas, Mihály; Hernández Sánchez, Alfredo; Wachs, Johannes (Springer, 2021)

  In this chapter we study corruption risks in EU defense procurement. Defense procurement has long been thought to present significant potential for corruption and state capture. Using a large dataset of contracts covering ...
• Male and female politicians on twitter: a machine learning approach

  Beltran, Javier; Gallego Dobón, Aina; Huidobro, Alba; Romero Merino, Enrique; Padró, Lluís (Wiley, 2021)

  How does the language of male and female politicians differ when they communicate directly with the public on social media? Do citizens address them differently? We apply Lasso logistic regression models to identify the ...

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