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Open Forum Series

 

The Open Forum Series presents working papers on a broad range of research topics written by CES affiliates.

The Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES) welcomes submissions to this series from its current Visiting Scholars, Local Affiliates, and Graduate Student Affiliates as well as all past CES affiliates.

CES affiliates interested in submitting a paper are encouraged to contact Open Forum Editor George Soroka and review the submission details and style sheet.

Submission Details

To submit a paper for consideration, authors are required to follow the style sheet guidelines. Papers submitted for possible publication should conform carefully to the technical requirements. Once a paper is submitted, it is sent to a scholar with relevant expertise pertaining to that specific field for a double-blind review.

Open Forum Publications

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54 Intergenerational Mobility over Nine Generations: Evidence from Poland, 1800-1984
Apr 3, 2025 – Marcin Wroński and Maria Jadwiga Minakowska
53 Gender, Insecurity and Populism in Europe
Jan 13, 2025 – Lorenza Antonucci, Roberta Di Stefano, Carlo D’Ippoliti, Martin Strobl and Jan Philipp Thomeczek
52 The Return of Dictatorship
Sep 1, 2024 – Noah Dasanaike and Grzegorz Ekiert
51 Turkey's Political and Economic Relations in the Balkan Countries
Aug 20, 2024 – Bahri Yilmaz
50 Safeguarding Ontological Security and the Specter of a Creedless Utopia
Jul 14, 2022 – George Kalpadakis
49 Growth Models and the Regulation of the Data Economy: The Case of the United Kingdom
Mar 14, 2022 – Pascal D. König
48 The Portrayal of Syrian Refugees and Islam in Lithuanian Online Newspapers (2016-2019)
Nov 11, 2021 – Kristina Kersnauskaite
47 The “Storm Troops” of Populism: Illiberal Civil Society in Law and Justice’s Poland
Nov 9, 2021 – Frances Cayton
46 The Pandemic of 2020-21 in Portugal: Did the Politics of Geringonça Help with the National Response?
Sep 14, 2021 – Paul Christopher Manuel
45 Tocqueville for Troubled Times
Aug 17, 2021 – Arthur Goldhammer
44 Prejudice and Price: Corruption and Distributive Politics
Jul 7, 2021 – Albana Shehaj
43 EU-Africa Relations During the Resource Crises of the 1960s/70s and the 2000s
Sep 10, 2020 – Lucile Dreidemy and Johannes Knierzinger
42 Public Goods and Historical State-Building: A Within-Country Analysis of Post-Soviet Russia
Sep 9, 2020 – Roberto Foa
41 What Happened Hungary?
Sep 8, 2020 – Zoltan Ádám
40 Democracy’s Tripwire: Global Corruption and Whistleblowing in Europe and the U.S.
Aug 7, 2020 – Allison K. Stanger
39 The LIOn’s Share: How the Liberal International Order Contributes to its Own Legitimacy Crisis
Apr 7, 2020 – Christian Kreuder-Sonnen and Berthold Rittberger
38 Civil Society as a Threat to Democracy: Organizational Bases of the Populist Counterrevolution in Poland
Mar 5, 2020 – Grzegorz Ekiert
37 On a Low-Competitiveness Country Joining The Eurozone: Are There Lessons From Greece?
Oct 17, 2019 – Thanos Skouras
36 Aspirations of imperial space. The colonial project of the Maritime and Colonial League in interwar Poland
Oct 17, 2019 – Marta Grzechnik
35 What Stories Does Europe Tell? A View From Turkey
Oct 17, 2019 – Ayşe Kadıoğlu
34 Democratic Deconsolidation in Developed Democracies, 1995-2018
May 10, 2019 – Roberto Foa and Yascha Mounk
33 How Governments Respond to Business Demands for Tax Cuts: An Analysis of Corporate and Inheritance Tax Reforms in Austria and Sweden
Mar 21, 2019 – Michael Klitgaard and Thomas Paster
32 The Symmetric Fallacy: The Dangers of Symmetric Reasoning in the Social Sciences
Mar 21, 2019 – Lukas Haffert
31 The Role of Cross-Class Alliances and Elites in Coordinated Employment Relations in Denmark
Sep 11, 2018 – Christoph Houman Ellersgaard, Christian Lyhne Ibsen and Anton Grau Larsen
30 Central Europe's Descent into Autocracy: On Authoritarian Populism
Sep 4, 2018 – Bojan Bugarič
29 Why Grexit cannot save Greece (but staying in the Euro area might)
Mar 30, 2018 – Chrysafis H. Iordanoglou and Manos Matsaganis
28 Industrial Transformation in the Aftermath of the Crisis: An Empirical Analysis of Industrial Policies in France, Germany, Spain and the United Kingdom
Mar 7, 2017 – Angela Garcia Calvo and Steve Coulter
27 Too Clever by Half? Low-threshold Closed-list Proportional Representation and Party Split in Weimar Germany, 1919-1930
Nov 21, 2016 – Valentin Schröder and Philip Manow
26 Towards a Theory on the Causes of the Greek Depression
Sep 1, 2016 – ​Paul-Adrien Hyppolite
25 The Muted Vibrancy of Roman Catholicism in Contemporary Portugal: Corporal Works of Mercy in a Time of Austerity
Feb 17, 2016 – Paul Christopher Manuel
24 An Ever More Polarized Union: The Greek Problem and the Failure of EU Economic Governance
Dec 23, 2015 – Ton Notermans
23 Restoring Order in Global Health Governance: Do Metagovernance Norms Affect Interorganizational Convergence?
Jun 12, 2015 – Anna Holzscheiter
22 Dictators Don't Compete: Autocracy, Deomcracy, and Tax Competition
May 5, 2015 – Philipp Genschel and Laura Seelkopf
21 The Beginnings of Historical Consciousness: Historical Atlases in the Eighteenth Century
Aug 20, 2014 – Manuel Schramm
20 Eurozone Crisis and Social Models: What We Can Learn from Italy and Spain
Jun 25, 2014 – Sofia A. Perez
19 Imperial legacy? The EU's Developmental Model and the Crisis of the European Periphery
Feb 19, 2014 – Ton Notermans
18 Banks and the political economy of the sovereign debt crisis in Italy and Spain
Feb 18, 2014 – Sebastián Royo and Lucia Quaglia
17 Patterns of civil society after authoritarianism: a comparison of Portugal and Spain, 1970s-2000s
Feb 18, 2014 – Tiago Fernandes
16 The Interaction of Social Justice Frames and Inequality in the US
Dec 12, 2013 – Martin Schroeder
15 The International Mercury Cartel, 1928-1949
May 2, 2013 – Miguel Lopez-Morell and Luciano Segreto
14 The Catholic Question in Contemporary Portuguese Civil Society: A Case of Muted Vibrancy?
Feb 19, 2013 – Paul Christopher Manuel
13 CORRUPTION, INEQUALITY AND TRUST: the Greek vicious circle from incremental adjustment to "critical juncture"?
Dec 17, 2012 – Christos J. Paraskevopoulos
12 Ethnography’s Contribution to Newspaper Analysis: Claims-Making Revisited
Dec 7, 2012 – Liza Mügge
8 Saving the Banks: The Political Economy of Bailouts
Apr 1, 2012 – Cornelia Woll and Emiliano Grossman
9 Too Famous to Name: C.P. Cavafy's Lefkios
Apr 1, 2012 – Eleni Mahaira-Odoni
10 Financial regulation in the European Union: A research agenda
Apr 1, 2012 – Daniel Mügge
7 European integration and resistance to institutional change: The politics of services liberalization in the European Union
Dec 1, 2011 – Amandine Crespy
6 Mendelssohn's Reformation Symphony and the Culture of Assimilation
Sep 1, 2011 – Paul-André Bempéchat
5 The actual practice of agency autonomy: Tracing the developmental trajectories of the European Medicines Agency and the European Food Safety Authority
Aug 1, 2011 – Martijn L.P. Groenleer
4 European Security: Does It Matter To The United States?
Feb 1, 2011 – Radosław Sikorski
3 Analyzing Ideas and Tracing Discursive Interactions in Institutional Change: From Historical Institutionalism to Discursive Institutionalism
2011 – Vivien A. Schmidt
2 Education and Participatory Inequalities in Real Existing Democracies: Probing the Effect of Labor Markets on the Qualities of Democracies
2011 – Carsten Schneider and Kristin Makszin
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