Camille BedockReforming Democracy
Institutional Engineering in Western Europe
Camille Bedock is a FNRS postdoctoral researcher in the Centre d'étude de la vie politique (CEVIPOL) at the Université libre de Bruxelles since September 2016. Her work focuses on democratic reforms in consolidated democracies, and on the changes of democracy in a context of decline of political support. She has published in numerous journals such as The European Political Science Review, Representation, French Politics, the Revue Française de Science Politique, and the European Review of Social Sciences.
* Part I: Reforms of the Core Democratic Rules and their Contextual
Determinants
* 1: Why Study Bundles of Reforms? The Debate on Democratic
Institutions
* 2: To Reform or Not to Reform? The Determinants and Processes of
Institutional Change in Established Democracies
* 3: The Changes to Core Democratic Rules in Western Europe, 1990-2010:
An Overview
* 4: Disentangling the Long- and Short- Term Determinants of the
Reforms of Core Democratic Rules: A Model for Western Europe,
1990-2010
* Part II: The Mechanisms of Reform of the Core Democratic Rules
* 5: The Mechanisms of Institutional Reforms in Action: The Politics of
Bundles of Reforms
* 6: You Win Some, You Lose Some: The Various Fortunes of Institutional
Reforms in Ireland Since 2011
* 7: An Unexpected Journey: The Quinquennat and the Reordering of the
Electoral Calendar in France, 2000-2001
* 8: Bundling the Bundles: Coalition Dynamics and Institutional Reforms
in Italy, 2003-2006
* Conclusion