European University Institute

Block vote, open-list proportional representation, and women’s electoral outcomes. Evidence from a quasi-experiment in Polish local elections

Although pioneering research suggested that proportional elections are better for women’s outcomes than plurality rules, research scholarship is accumulating growing evidence that this relationship depends on specific rules. We look at the impact of electoral rules on female part...

Violent competitions over human rights and universalism: Europe and North Africa in the long 19th century

Based on cases from the history of North Africa, the main approach here is to consider Europe in the long 19th century – from the second half of the 18th century to the interwar period – as a place that claims not only to be the cradle of universal values and human rights but als...

Inside out: cutting-edge methods to decode external opportunities for startup growth

We examine how both internal resources and the external environment influence startup growth, addressing the challenge of measuring the knowledge structure in which the startup operates. We introduce, in relation to firm growth, two indicators belonging to the economic complexity...

Neither settling nor conforming: expectations and reactions to low quality jobs of migrant-origin workers in the Netherlands

Migrant-origin workers in Western European countries are more likely to hold low-quality jobs compared to native-origin workers. According to adaptation-level and relative deprivation theories and theories of immigrant socioeconomic integration, this difference may result from mi...

Confronting European Society with the Everyday

Abstract Ben Judah’s This is Europe brings into view the everyday lives lived in Europe today, often marked by inequalities, exclusion and alienation. It therefore forms a useful starting point from which to reflect on the emerging ‘European society’ discourse in the EU legal dis...

Towards a European demos? On the growth of European identity and attachment

Shared identity and attachment are widely considered important societal foundations of a political demos, legitimising and facilitating collective action. Yet scholars have long argued that Europe lacks such affective foundations. This article reassesses that claim using Eurobaro...

The Ideological Boundary of Belief Change

ABSTRACT This article investigates the relationship between political ideology and the extent to which individuals revise their beliefs when confronted with counter‐attitudinal information. Across two preregistered experiments conducted with demographically quota‐matched Polish s...

Restoring the Deformed Administrative State? Bureaucratic Repair After Illiberal Rule

ABSTRACT While scholarship has documented how populist and authoritarian‐leaning executives deform bureaucratic institutions, post‐illiberal reconstruction has only begun to receive attention. This paper develops an exploratory framework distinguishing four repair strategies (neu...

Exclusive Secrets,

Abstract We investigate the effects of trade secret (TS) protection on supplier exclusivity in vertical industrial relations. We show that manufacturers limit their suppliers’ buyer networks under weak TS protection to safeguard sensitive information while encouraging supplier in...

Striking a Bargain: Narrative Identification of Wage Bargaining Shocks

ABSTRACT Wage markup shocks, an important driver of business cycles, are hard to pin down. We quantify the importance of exogenous variation in wage bargaining power, one source of those shocks, from German minimum wage introduction episodes and strikes. This disciplines the impu...

Exclusive capital: how Ghanaian return migrants value dual citizenship

Dual citizenship is known to come with socio-economic benefits, particularly for migrants from the Global South who naturalise in a country of the Global North. This paper explores the ways in which these socio-economic benefits are portable to the Global South when migrants retu...

Global harms, local profits: How the uneven costs of natural disasters affect support for green political platforms

Abstract Large‐scale fires are becoming increasingly common due to climate change. While conventional wisdom suggests that firsthand experiences with natural disasters foster green coalitions by raising awareness of environmental degradation, we propose an alternative view: Natur...

Can science diplomacy help safeguard science as a global public good? Reflections on strategy, data and people

Abstract In a world where geopolitical tensions strongly impinge on international scientific collaboration and where some scientific information has significant commercial value, the notion of science and practice of it as a global public good are under pressure and so are the wa...

Unveiling the entrepreneurial ecosystems black box: An interpretable machine learning approach

Multidimensionality, interdependence, and non-linearity characteristics of complex systems make the measurement of Entrepreneurial Ecosystems a very challenging task. A known limitation of the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem frameworks is the difficulty of quantifying the impact of dis...

Salafism – category or label? An epistemological reflection on the academic study of Salafism

While much literature discusses how to classify Salafis, a less-examined question is how to determine whether an actor is a Salafi in the first place. To address this, I propose distinguishing between Salafism as an academic category and as a label self-applied by actors. Should...

Development and Research of Different Perovskitic Electrocatalysts Synthesized via Co-Precipitation

Reversible solid oxide cells (ReSOCs) represent one of the most promising electrochemical technologies for sustainable energy conversion and storage, yet their large-scale deployment remains constrained by electrode materials capable of sustaining stable performance under alterna...