• Public administration and democracy: the complementarity principle

  Bertelli, Anthony M.; Schwartz, Lindsey J. (Cambridge University Press, 2022)

  This Element argues for a complementarity principle – governance values should complement political values – as a guide for designing the structures and procedures of public administration. It argues that the value-congruity ...
• Boko Haram in Nigeria: R2P and non‐state armed groups

  Açikyildiz, Çaglar (Springer, 2022)

  Focusing on the case of Nigeria with the aim to understand what has been missing in terms of the protection of the Nigerian population and the role the NSAGs play, this chapter asks to what extent and how the Responsibility ...
• 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 ...
• 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’ ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• EU foreign policy and norm contestation in an eroding western and Intra-EU liberal order

  Johansson-Nogués, Elisabeth; Valaskamp, Martijn; Barbé, Esther (Springer, 2020)

  The idea of the European Union being increasingly contested, whether globally or at home, is a frequently reiterated notion. It is believed that such challenges to the European integration stem from a number of diverse but ...
• Islamic finance and development in Malaysia

  Apaydin, Fulya (Oxford University Press, 2021)

  From a historical perspective, Islamic economic institutions have not been conducive to capital accumulation in Muslim societies (Kuran 2004, 2011). This has been further hampered by a lack of trust among different faith ...
• Latin America: stalled catching up

  Astorga Junquera, Pablo; Herranz Loncán, Alfonso (Cambridge University Press - Core, 2021)

  Latin America made considerable progress in living standards between 1870 and 2010 amid rapid modernization and structural change. However, despite these remarkable advances, the income gap between the region and the ...
• The IPE of global social policy governance

  Bianculli, Andrea C.; Ribeiro Hoffmann, Andrea (Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2020)

  This chapter explores the literature on global social policy governance and discusses the key authors in the field and main topics addressed over time. In so doing, it provides an international political economy (IPE) ...
• Local politics and immigration: mobilizing immigrant associations beyond small-scale cities

  Triviño Salazar, Juan Carlos (Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2018)

  Cities, towns and rural areas may respond differently to similar challenges posed by the arrival of immigrants. While New York or London are large-scale, global cities; residential cities outside of Madrid or Lisbon may ...
• Spain and Latin America: from a special relation to detachment?

  Bianculli, Andrea C. (Oxford University Press, 2020)

  The relationship between Spain and Latin America (LAC) goes back to the fifteenth century, yet it is after Spanish democratization in 1975 that this was defined as ‘a special relationship’. A fundamental component of Spain’s ...
• NGOs and peace

  Petrova, Margarita (Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2019)
• The agenda-setting capacity of global networks

  Chaqués Bonafont, Laura (Oxford University Press, 2019)

  This chapter examines the agenda-setting capacity of global policy networks. It argues that the capacity of global networks to promote new ideas and understanding about issues at the global scale depends on their ability ...
• Parliamentary questions

  Borghetto, Enrico; Chaqués Bonafont, Laura (Oxford University Press, 2019)

  Do political parties increasingly engage in non-legislative parliamentary activities? To what extent is the range of issues addressed through parliamentary questioning becoming more diverse? Is overtime change in issue ...

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