Thilo Bodenstein
Biographic Data
| ID | 4377498 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thilo Bodenstein |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thilo |
| FAMILY NAME | Bodenstein |
| SIGNATURE | BODENSTEIN T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Freie Universität Berlin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1569-6771 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 92 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
European aid and democracy support to Mena countries after the Arab Uprisings: A critical juncture missed
The Arab Uprisings represent a critical juncture for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), even though they did not result in the democratic change that many expected at the time. To what extent do European development donors use aid to support democracy in MENA countries when faced by such a critical juncture? We examine the policy and operational responses of four major European donors: France, Germany, the United Kingdom and the European In…
Who Cares? European Public Opinion on Foreign Aid and Political Conditionality
We provide evidence on the individual and country‐level determinants of citizens' support for political conditionality in foreign aid, using novel survey data for 27 European countries. Based on the welfare state literature and existing public opinion research in foreign aid, we expect citizens with more rightist political orientations as well as those who do not perceive their own state apparatus to function in a meritocratic way to be more like…
A Paradox of Redistribution in International Aid? The Determinants of Poverty-Oriented Development Assistance
Explaining the strength of civil society: Evidence from cross-sectional data
A number of societal and institutional factors enhance the development of a vibrant civil society, such as a country’s socioeconomic traditions and societal structure, political institutions, or foreign influence. But the question of which one of these factors contributes most to a vibrant civil society still remains unanswered. Using ordinary least square techniques, this article statistically tests the competing factors with a large- N design t…
Separating the Willing from the Able: Is the European Union’s Mediterranean Policy Incentive Compatible
The European Union’s ambitious Mediterranean policy has the declared goal of bringing about economic and political transformation by explicitly linking reform with rewards. Drawing on mechanism design theory, we argue that the EU’s Mediterranean policy has the potential to reveal information about the respective partner countries’ reform ‘types’. However, the current incentive structure of the EU’s Mediterranean policy does not fit with the requi…
Partisan Politics in Regional Redistribution: Do Parties Affect the Distribution of EU Structural Funds across Regions
The current debate on the role of regional politics in the Euro pean Union (EU) is dominated by approaches that focus upon either intergovernmental bargaining or multi-level govern ance. Because Structural Funds are the main EU-wide redis tributive policy, we propose to apply the traditional literature on partisan politics and national redistribution to the case of the EU. We use a new data set on both the distribution of Structural Funds across …
Capitalist junctures: Explaining economic openness in the transition countries
Current transition theories attribute the varying economic openness of post‐communist countries to the lack of democracy or the inhibiting veto power of vested interests. In this article, the authors offer micro‐foundations for such claims and link the key changes in the foreign economic policy of these states to internal coalition building during the first stages of the political transformation. A simple game‐theoretic model demonstrates that th…
Wege zum Weltmarkt
Two sides of economic openness: Non-Tariff Barriers to Trade and Capital Controls in Transition Countries, 1993–2000
This article presents new measures of foreign economic openness in the transition countries that allow us to distinguish between non-tariff barriers to trade and capital controls. We argue that this distinction is important for the analysis of foreign economic relations in the postcommunist world. While most states lowered barriers to trade since 1993, they increased the number of capital controls, which had been low at the beginning of the trans…
Partisan Politics in Regional Redistribution: Do Parties Affect the Distribution of EU Structural Funds across Regions
The current debate on the role of regional politics in the Euro pean Union (EU) is dominated by approaches that focus upon either intergovernmental bargaining or multi-level govern ance. Because Structural Funds are the main EU-wide redis tributive policy, we propose to apply the traditional literature on partisan politics and national redistribution to the case of the EU. We use a new data set on both the distribution of Structural Funds across …
Who Cares? European Public Opinion on Foreign Aid and Political Conditionality
We provide evidence on the individual and country‐level determinants of citizens' support for political conditionality in foreign aid, using novel survey data for 27 European countries. Based on the welfare state literature and existing public opinion research in foreign aid, we expect citizens with more rightist political orientations as well as those who do not perceive their own state apparatus to function in a meritocratic way to be more like…
Explaining the strength of civil society: Evidence from cross-sectional data
A number of societal and institutional factors enhance the development of a vibrant civil society, such as a country’s socioeconomic traditions and societal structure, political institutions, or foreign influence. But the question of which one of these factors contributes most to a vibrant civil society still remains unanswered. Using ordinary least square techniques, this article statistically tests the competing factors with a large- N design t…
A Paradox of Redistribution in International Aid? The Determinants of Poverty-Oriented Development Assistance
Separating the Willing from the Able: Is the European Union’s Mediterranean Policy Incentive Compatible
The European Union’s ambitious Mediterranean policy has the declared goal of bringing about economic and political transformation by explicitly linking reform with rewards. Drawing on mechanism design theory, we argue that the EU’s Mediterranean policy has the potential to reveal information about the respective partner countries’ reform ‘types’. However, the current incentive structure of the EU’s Mediterranean policy does not fit with the requi…
Capitalist junctures: Explaining economic openness in the transition countries
Current transition theories attribute the varying economic openness of post‐communist countries to the lack of democracy or the inhibiting veto power of vested interests. In this article, the authors offer micro‐foundations for such claims and link the key changes in the foreign economic policy of these states to internal coalition building during the first stages of the political transformation. A simple game‐theoretic model demonstrates that th…
Two sides of economic openness: Non-Tariff Barriers to Trade and Capital Controls in Transition Countries, 1993–2000
This article presents new measures of foreign economic openness in the transition countries that allow us to distinguish between non-tariff barriers to trade and capital controls. We argue that this distinction is important for the analysis of foreign economic relations in the postcommunist world. While most states lowered barriers to trade since 1993, they increased the number of capital controls, which had been low at the beginning of the trans…
Two sides of economic openness: Non-Tariff Barriers to Trade and Capital Controls in Transition Countries, 1993–2000
This article presents new measures of foreign economic openness in the transition countries that allow us to distinguish between non-tariff barriers to trade and capital controls. We argue that this distinction is important for the analysis of foreign economic relations in the postcommunist world. While most states lowered barriers to trade since 1993, they increased the number of capital controls, which had been low at the beginning of the trans…
Wege zum Weltmarkt
Partisan Politics in Regional Redistribution: Do Parties Affect the Distribution of EU Structural Funds across Regions
The current debate on the role of regional politics in the Euro pean Union (EU) is dominated by approaches that focus upon either intergovernmental bargaining or multi-level govern ance. Because Structural Funds are the main EU-wide redis tributive policy, we propose to apply the traditional literature on partisan politics and national redistribution to the case of the EU. We use a new data set on both the distribution of Structural Funds across …
Capitalist junctures: Explaining economic openness in the transition countries
Current transition theories attribute the varying economic openness of post‐communist countries to the lack of democracy or the inhibiting veto power of vested interests. In this article, the authors offer micro‐foundations for such claims and link the key changes in the foreign economic policy of these states to internal coalition building during the first stages of the political transformation. A simple game‐theoretic model demonstrates that th…
Separating the Willing from the Able: Is the European Union’s Mediterranean Policy Incentive Compatible
The European Union’s ambitious Mediterranean policy has the declared goal of bringing about economic and political transformation by explicitly linking reform with rewards. Drawing on mechanism design theory, we argue that the EU’s Mediterranean policy has the potential to reveal information about the respective partner countries’ reform ‘types’. However, the current incentive structure of the EU’s Mediterranean policy does not fit with the requi…
Explaining the strength of civil society: Evidence from cross-sectional data
A number of societal and institutional factors enhance the development of a vibrant civil society, such as a country’s socioeconomic traditions and societal structure, political institutions, or foreign influence. But the question of which one of these factors contributes most to a vibrant civil society still remains unanswered. Using ordinary least square techniques, this article statistically tests the competing factors with a large- N design t…
A Paradox of Redistribution in International Aid? The Determinants of Poverty-Oriented Development Assistance
Who Cares? European Public Opinion on Foreign Aid and Political Conditionality
We provide evidence on the individual and country‐level determinants of citizens' support for political conditionality in foreign aid, using novel survey data for 27 European countries. Based on the welfare state literature and existing public opinion research in foreign aid, we expect citizens with more rightist political orientations as well as those who do not perceive their own state apparatus to function in a meritocratic way to be more like…
European aid and democracy support to Mena countries after the Arab Uprisings: A critical juncture missed
The Arab Uprisings represent a critical juncture for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), even though they did not result in the democratic change that many expected at the time. To what extent do European development donors use aid to support democracy in MENA countries when faced by such a critical juncture? We examine the policy and operational responses of four major European donors: France, Germany, the United Kingdom and the European In…
Politics (8 works) · Economics (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · International Development and Aid (5 works) · Market economy (4 works) · Political economy (4 works) · Economic system (3 works) · International economics (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works)