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		<title>The Crisis of the Democratic State in Europe</title>
		<link>http://aregan.wordpress.com/2013/05/05/the-crisis-of-the-democratic-state-in-europe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2013 14:45:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This working paper titled &#8216;Political Tensions in Euro-Varieties of Capitalism&#8217; argues that the European response to the financial cum fiscal crisis in the Eurozone is leading to a democratic crisis of the state. It has exposed a tension between the national &#8230; <a href="http://aregan.wordpress.com/2013/05/05/the-crisis-of-the-democratic-state-in-europe/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aregan.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5697486&#038;post=2062&#038;subd=aregan&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Machiavelli and the Political Response to the Eurozone Crisis</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 21:31:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This year is the 500 anniversary of the publication of Niccolo Machiavelli&#8217;s Il Principe (The Prince). The European University Institute (EUI) will hold a conference next week to discuss various interpretations of this infamous book. I will present a paper that &#8230; <a href="http://aregan.wordpress.com/2013/05/01/machiavelli-and-the-political-response-to-the-eurozone-crisis/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aregan.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5697486&#038;post=2056&#038;subd=aregan&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Understanding the Fiasco of Italian Politics</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2013 14:48:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The clear winner of the Italian elections was Beppe Grillo and the Cinque Stelle Movimento (5 Star Movement). They emerged out of nowhere to take 25 percent of the vote, recording the largest ever increase for a party entering their &#8230; <a href="http://aregan.wordpress.com/2013/04/12/understanding-the-fiasco-of-italian-politics/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aregan.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5697486&#038;post=2046&#038;subd=aregan&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Week 8: The Sovereign Debt Crisis in Ireland and Southern Europe</title>
		<link>http://aregan.wordpress.com/2013/03/12/week-8-the-sovereign-debt-crisis-in-ireland-and-southern-europe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2013 17:49:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This class is an examination into the sovereign debt crisis afflicting Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Spain and Italy (the so-called GIPSI countries). In these countries the core assumptions of comparative political economy that domestic institutions and political choices lead to differing &#8230; <a href="http://aregan.wordpress.com/2013/03/12/week-8-the-sovereign-debt-crisis-in-ireland-and-southern-europe/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aregan.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5697486&#038;post=2043&#038;subd=aregan&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Week 7: National Policy Responses to the Great Recession in Europe</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Mar 2013 11:55:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A central question guiding this class is how to explain the cross-national variation in policy responses to the Eurozone crisis in the core and peripheral economies of Europe. This week we will examine the European wide fiscal response, government responses in &#8230; <a href="http://aregan.wordpress.com/2013/03/08/week-7-national-policy-responses-to-the-great-recession-in-europe/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aregan.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5697486&#038;post=2040&#038;subd=aregan&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Week 6: Europeanisation and the EU Budget</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Mar 2013 11:49:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This class examines who gets what, how and when in the EU budget. Agriculture and regional expenditure remain by far the biggest spending blocks. Lisbon gave treaty status to the multi-annual planning process which has signigficantly increased the role of EU &#8230; <a href="http://aregan.wordpress.com/2013/03/08/week-6-europeanisation-and-the-eu-budget/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aregan.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5697486&#038;post=2035&#038;subd=aregan&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Week 5: The Impact of EMU on industrial relations and wage setting</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2013 10:43:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The historical origins of the German model of &#8216;coordinated market capitalism&#8217; was premised on the limited mobility of production factors across national borders, a situation that no longer exists in Europe. The domestic politics of class compromise that constituted the &#8230; <a href="http://aregan.wordpress.com/2013/02/18/week-5/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aregan.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5697486&#038;post=2027&#038;subd=aregan&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Week 4: The Double Asymmetry of European Integration</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2013 10:35:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The European Economic Community, up until the 1980s, was based on intergovernmental negotiations to remove trade barriers in the construction of the single market. Public services functions, and public policies associated with the welfare state, were left to member-states. This &#8230; <a href="http://aregan.wordpress.com/2013/02/18/week-4-the-double-asymmetry-of-european-integration/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aregan.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5697486&#038;post=2023&#038;subd=aregan&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Week 3: Rethinking the Trade-off Between Equality and Efficiency</title>
		<link>http://aregan.wordpress.com/2013/01/21/week-3-rethinking-the-trade-off-between-equality-and-efficiency/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2013 13:40:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Democratic politics is about distributive conflict tempered by a common interest in economic growth. This lecture is about rethinking the trade-off between growth and equality. We do this through an examination of income distribution, labour markets, wage bargaining and employment &#8230; <a href="http://aregan.wordpress.com/2013/01/21/week-3-rethinking-the-trade-off-between-equality-and-efficiency/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aregan.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5697486&#038;post=2020&#038;subd=aregan&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Week 2: The Three Worlds of Welfare State Capitalism</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2013 09:51:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[State institutions are now preoccupied with the production and distribution of social well-being. To study the welfare state is to understand a novel phenomenon in the history of capitalist societies. But there is significant qualitative variation in how states organise &#8230; <a href="http://aregan.wordpress.com/2013/01/21/week-2-the-three-worlds-of-welfare-state-capitalism/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aregan.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5697486&#038;post=2013&#038;subd=aregan&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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