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Tesis doctoral 2026

Preparing schools for generative AI : Italian secondary education policy on disinformation in comparative European perspective

GALLO, Francesco

Generative AI disinformation has entered and transformed the online information environment that adolescents navigate every day, and schools are expected to act as first-line defenders against this threat. Yet Italian educational policies remain fragmented and under-implemented. This thesis asks through which mechanism...

social sciences education

• European University Institute
• Italy
• English

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Tesis doctoral 2026

A close reading of Italy’s experience with the social reuse model : its origins, applications and future

PIROZZI, Chiara

Thirty years after Italy’s institutionalisation of the social reuse of confiscated criminal assets through Law 109/1996, the European Union, through Directive 2024/1260 has formally encouraged all Member States to adopt similar models. In that context, this thesis examines the Italian model of criminal asset confiscati...

social sciences other social sciences

• European University Institute
• Italy
• English

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Tesis doctoral 2026

What rule of law? : a construct-level audit of frontier LLMs across 143 countries

DAEMS, Felix François R.

By early 2026, frontier large language models have become primary epistemic infrastructures: hundreds of millions of citizens now query them about political and institutional realities they cannot easily verify. This thesis asks what kind of socio-political world these systems reproduce when they are used as instrument...

social sciences law

• European University Institute
• Italy
• English

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Tesis doctoral 2026

The Eastern-European engineers of gender backlash : examining transnational discursive strategies of Ordo Iuris

ZUROWSKA, Martyna

This thesis explores the discursive tactics employed by Ordo Iuris Institute for Legal Culture (OI) - an ultraconservative, legal think-tank from Poland. Focused on the period following the 2023 Polish parliamentary elections, this paper addresses the following question: What discursive strategies is Ordo Iuris using t...

social sciences political science

• European University Institute
• Italy
• English

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Tesis doctoral 2026

Augmentation or substitution? : perceptions of AI influence in democratic deliberation

PASQUALIS-POLITI PÉREZ, Sofía

Democratic innovations such as mini-publics and digital participatory platforms have been widely adopted by governments and civil society organisations seeking to improve citizen engagement. The increasing integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into these settings raises a fundamental question: is there a threshol...

social sciences political science

• European University Institute
• Italy
• English

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Tesis doctoral 2026

From the Belt and Road Initiative to the Global Gateway : the quest for geopolitical and economic influence in Africa : to what extent does the European Union’s Global Gateway Initiative constitute a geopolitical and economic response to the Belt and Road Initiative and the increasing Chinese influence in Africa?

CHITA, Emanuele

This thesis examines the internal and external drivers and motivations that have shaped the design and nature of the Global Gateway Initiative and the effects it has produced on the ground in Africa. By employing a framework of analysis grounded in neorealism and geo-economics, this study aims to understand to what ext...

social sciences political science

• European University Institute
• Italy
• English

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Tesis doctoral 2026

'We are the contaminating agents between past and future' : personal trajectories and motives to become a far-right young activist in Italy

PELLEGRI, Silvia

Since 2022, Fratelli d'Italia, a far-right party with a neo-fascist heritage, has governed Italy, making its membership an increasingly significant object of scholarly inquiry. Drawing on in depth semi-structured interviews with young far-right activists, this dissertation examines their biographical pathways to join t...

• European University Institute
• Italy
• English

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Tesis doctoral 2026

Emancipatory peace versus victor’s peace : measuring normative shifts in peace agreements through computational text analysis (1990-2023)

VAN MARLE, Anne Willemijn

In a time when the Liberal International Order is undermined both from the outside and from within, this thesis tries to capture the influence of system-level liberal norms on peace mediation. Building on innovations in text-as-data approaches in the social sciences, it conducts a multi-measure computational text analy...

social sciences political science

• European University Institute
• Italy
• English

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Tesis doctoral 2026

Documents and disclosure in the Digital Age :the CJEU, the European Ombudsman, and the Limits of Regulation 1049/2001

MCGRANE, Mark Dillon

Regulation 1049/2001 was enacted in 2001 to give democratic effect to the constitutional right of access to EU institutional documents. Its design rested on assumptions about the form accountability-relevant information takes, about who holds it, and about how citizens can identify and access it. Those assumptions were...

• European University Institute
• Italy
• English

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Tesis doctoral 2026 Acceso abierto

Abordatge genòmic personalitzat per a la identificació de la causa molecular en pacients amb distròfies hereditàries

Esteve i Garcia, Anna

[cat] Les distròfies hereditàries de la retina (DHR) constitueixen un grup heterogeni de malalties minoritàries caracteritzades per la disfunció primària dels fotoreceptors o de l’epiteli pigmentari i comporten una pèrdua progressiva de la visió. Malgrat els avenços en les tècniques de seqüenciació massiva, fins a un 4...

Human molecular genetics Malalties de la retina Sequential analysis Genètica molecular humana

• Universitat de Barcelona
• Spain
• Catalan; Valencian

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