The Interchange Between Democratic Institutions and the Globalisation of the Economy

Project Information

DemoTrans

Grant agreement ID: 101059288

DOI

10.3030/101059288

EC signature date 2 June 2022

Start date 1 September 2022

End date 31 August 2026

Funded under

• Culture, creativity and inclusive society

Total cost

€ 2 630 148,75

EU contribution

€ 2 630 148,75

Coordinated by

KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN
Belgium

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Deliverables

Documents, reports (8)

Project website (WP5)

Creation of main project web-site

Dissemination plan (WP5)

Plan for dissemination and exploitation including communication activities

Policy brief and blog I (WP3)

A policy brief and blog post describing the key findings of T3.1 for a policy audience

Policy brief and blog (WP2)

Policy brief on T2.2 and T2.3 and blog post describing the key findings of the task for a policy audience

Updated project status update

Updated report on project status

Policy brief and blog (WP1)

A policy brief and blog post describing the key findings of T1.1-3 for a policy audience

Project status updates (WP5)

Report on project status

Project leaflet (WP5)

Project leaflet

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (4)

Website article on the thematic workshop (WP4)

In the article, we discuss the (policy) relevant insights from the thematic conference on accountable corporations.

Website article on the thematic workshop (WP3)

In this article, we discuss the (policy) relevant insights from the thematic workshop on revitalizing democratic governance.

Website article on the thematic conference (WP2)

In the article, we discuss the (policy) relevant insights from the thematic conference on accountable corporations.

Video human rights (WP2)

A video summarising key findings with the focus on human rights impact of business corporations for a lay audience

Other (1)

Project social media (WP5)

Project social media profiles and regular updates

Data Management Plan (1)

Data management plan (WP5)

Data management plan

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (21)

Czech political candidate and donation datasets

Author(s): Lukáš Linek, Michael Škvrňák, Michal Šoltés, Vítězslav Titl
Published in: Scientific Data, Issue 12, 2025, ISSN 2052-4463
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/S41597-025-04617-5

EU-induced financialisation and its impact on the Greek wage share, 1999–2021

Author(s): Giorgos Gouzoulis, Panagiotis (Takis) Iliopoulos, Giorgos Galanis
Published in: European Journal of Industrial Relations, 2024, ISSN 0959-6801
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/09596801241292046

Fancy seeing you here…again: Uncovering individual-level panel data in repeated cross-sectional surveys

Author(s): Benny Geys
Published in: Public Administration Review, 2023, ISSN 1540-6210
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1111/PUAR.13693

Intraorganizational mobility and employees’ work-related contact patterns: evidence from panel data in the European Commission

Author(s): Francesca P Vantaggiato, Zuzana Murdoch, Hussein Kassim, Benny Geys, Sara Connolly
Published in: Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Issue 34, 2024, ISSN 1053-1858
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
DOI: 10.1093/jopart/muae014

I’m a Survivor: Political Dynamics in Bureaucratic Elites’ Partisan Identification

Author(s): BENNY GEYS, PER LÆGREID, ZUZANA MURDOCH, SUSAN WEBB YACKEE
Published in: American Political Science Review, 2024, ISSN 0003-0554
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
DOI: 10.1017/S0003055424000844

A post-politics earnings penalty? Evidence from politicians' lifetime income trajectories (1970–2019)

Author(s): Benny Geys, Rune J. Sørensen
Published in: Kyklos, Issue 77(1), 57–76, 2024, ISSN 1467-6435
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1111/kykl.12358

It's about time! Temporal dynamics and longitudinal research designs in public administration

Author(s): Zuzana Murdoch, Muiris MacCarthaigh, Benny Geys
Published in: Public Administration Review, 2023, ISSN 1540-6210
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1111/puar.13758

Identifying Politically Connected Firms: A Machine Learning Approach

Author(s): Vitezslav Titl, Deni Mazrekaj, Fritz Schiltz
Published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2023, ISSN 1468-0084
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1111/obes.12586

European funds and green public procurement

Author(s): Ruben Nicolas, Vítězslav Titl, Fredo Schotanus
Published in: Ecological Economics, Issue 227, 2024, ISSN 0921-8009
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108400

Tracking innovation via green patent classification systems: Are we truly capturing circular economy progress?

Author(s): Anne Rainville, Irma Dikker, Magnus Buggenhagen
Published in: Journal of Cleaner Production, Issue 486, 2024, ISSN 0959-6526
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2024.144385

Green Public Procurement in Mission-Orientated Innovation Systems: Leveraging Voluntary Standards to Improve Sustainability Performance of Municipalities

Author(s): Rainville, Anne
Published in: Sustainability, 2022, ISSN 2071-1050
Publisher: mdpi
DOI: 10.3390/su14148591

Staff reallocations and employee attitudes towards organizational aims: evidence using longitudinal data from the European Commission

Author(s): Benny Geys, Sara Connolly, Hussein Kassim, Zuzana Murdoch
Published in: Public Management Review, 2023, ISSN 1471-9045
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1080/14719037.2023.2222139

The impact of terrorism on civil servants: Longitudinal evidence from the July 22, 2011 attack in Norway

Author(s): Benny Geys, Per Lægreid, Zuzana Murdoch, Jarle Trondal
Published in: Public Administration Review, 2023, ISSN 1540-6210
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1111/PUAR.13694

Discretion and political favoritism: Evidence from two reforms in public procurement

Author(s): Marly Tatiana Celis Galvez, Vitezslav Titl, Fredo Schotanus
Published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2024, ISSN 0038-4038
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/soej.12709

Organizational stability and resocialization in public administrations: Theory and evidence from Norwegian civil servants (1986–2016)

Author(s): Benny Geys, Per Lægreid, Zuzana Murdoch, Jarle Trondal
Published in: Public Administration, 2023, ISSN 1467-9299
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1111/PADM.12968

Time tactics in public administration: evidence from a survey experiment

Author(s): Vibeke Kroken, Zuzana Murdoch, Benny Geys
Published in: West European Politics, 2025, ISSN 0140-2382
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
DOI: 10.1080/01402382.2025.2499996

The Big Four: Multiple Functions and Power in Global Value Chains

Author(s): Panagiotis (Takis) Iliopoulos & Dariusz Wójcik
Published in: Global Networks-A Journal Of Transnational Affairs;, Issue 25: e12507, 2024, ISSN 1470-2266
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1111/glob.12507

The cost of favoritism in public procurement

Author(s): Bruno Baranek, Vıtezslav Titl
Published in: Journal of Law and Economics, 2024, ISSN 0022-2186
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
DOI: 10.1086/727793

The expenditure composition and trade-offs in local government budgets

Author(s): Panagiotis (Takis) Iliopoulos, Kristof De Witte
Published in: Socio-economic planning sciences, Issue 93, 2024, ISSN 0038-0121
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.seps.2024.101900

Information shocks and parental response in education. A case study of an open government initiative

Author(s): Silvia Palmaccio, Fritz Schiltz, Kristof De Witte
Published in: Government Information Quarterly, Issue Volume 39, Issue 3, 2022, ISSN 0740-624X
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.giq.2022.101702

Public Employees as Elected Politicians: Assessing Direct and Indirect Substantive Effects of Passive Representation

Author(s): Benny Geys, Zuzana Murdoch, and Rune J. Sørensen
Published in: Journal of Politics, 2023, ISSN 0022-3816
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
DOI: 10.1086/726918

Other (28)

EFFECTS OF CORPORATE TRANSPARENCY ON TAX AVOIDANCE: EVIDENCE FROM COUNTRY-BY-COUNTRY REPORTING

Author(s): Petr Janský, Tijmen Tuisma, Kristof De Witte, Vitezslav Titl, Miroslav Palanský
Published in: IES Working Papers, Issue 4, 2023
Publisher: Institute of Economic Studies, Charles University

Hide-seek-hide? On the effects of financial secrecy

Author(s): Janský, P., Palanská, T., Palanský, M.
Published in: Tax Justice Network Working Paper, Issue 2024-03, 2024
Publisher: Tax Justice Network
DOI: 10.17605/OSF.IO/9HDUS

The Proposal for a New Fiscal Governance in the EU: An Overlapping Overhaul

Author(s): Wim Moesen
Published in: DemoTrans Policy Brief Series, Issue 17, 2024
Publisher: DemoTrans

Accompanying Briefing: Video on human rights impact of corporations

Author(s): Luke Holland
Published in: DemoTrans Briefings, 2025
Publisher: DemoTrans
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.15429849

Sustainable budgeting and financial balance: which lever will you pull?

Author(s): Giovanna D’Inverno, Francesco Vidoli, Kristof De Witte
Published in: DemoTrans Policy Brief Series, Issue 1, 2023
Publisher: DemoTrans
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.12543188

Global minimum tax and profit shifting

Author(s): Boukal, Tomáš; Janský, Petr; Palanský, Miroslav
Published in: IES Working Paper Series, Issue No. 39/2024, 2024
Publisher: Institute of Economic Studies (IES), Charles University

Demand-Side Innovation Policy to Achieve Sustainability Missions: The role of voluntary standards in green procurement by municipalities

Author(s): Anne Rainville and Pelle Berkhout
Published in: DemoTrans Policy Brief Series, Issue 19, 2025
Publisher: DemoTrans

Identifying Politically Connected Firms: A Machine Learning Approach

Author(s): VITEZSLAV TITL, DENI MAZREKAJ, FRITZ SCHILTZ3
Published in: DemoTrans Policy Brief Series, Issue 7, 2023
Publisher: DemoTrans

Fiscal consequences of corporate tax avoidance by multinationals

Author(s): Katarzyna Bilicka, Evgeniya Dubinina, Petr Janský
Published in: DemoTrans Policy Brief Series, Issue 13, 2024
Publisher: DemoTrans
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.12543753

On what basis to award public contracts

Author(s): Fredo Schotanus
Published in: DemoTrans Policy Brief Series, Issue 16, 2024
Publisher: DemoTrans

Taming the Oligopolists in the Shadows: The Big Four and the Governance of Global Value Chains

Author(s): Panagiotis Iliopoulos, Dariusz Wójcik
Published in: DemoTrans Policy Brief Series, Issue 21, 2025
Publisher: DemoTrans
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.15866085

Shallow and Uneven Progress towards Global Financial Transparency: Evidence from the Financial Secrecy Index

Author(s): Petr Janský, Miroslav Palanský, Dariusz Wojcik
Published in: DemoTrans Policy Brief Series, Issue 14, 2024
Publisher: DemoTrans
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.12543793

Using Regional Products to Study Regional Representation in the European Parliament

Author(s): Martijn Huysmans, Niels Gheyle
Published in: DemoTrans Policy Brief Series, Issue 8, 2023
Publisher: DemoTrans

The One and Only: Single-Bidding in Public Procurement

Author(s): Vitezslav Titl
Published in: U.S.E. Research Institute Working Paper Series, Issue 23-08, 2023, ISSN 2666-8238
Publisher: U.S.E. Research Institute

Political Representation of Public Sector Employees

Author(s): Zuzana Murdoch, Benny Geys, Rune Sørensen
Published in: DemoTrans Policy Brief Series, Issue 4, 2023
Publisher: DemoTrans
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.12543445

Never Waste a Good Crisis: Did Tax-Avoiding Firms also Record Excessive Profits During the Pandemic?

Author(s): Tuinsma, Tijmen; De Witte, Kristof; Titl, Vítězslav
Published in: DemoTrans Policy Brief Series, Issue 20, 2025
Publisher: DemoTrans
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.15044262

Profit shifting of multinational corporations in the European Union and worldwide

Author(s): Javier Garcia-Bernardo, Petr Janský
Published in: DemoTrans Policy Brief Series, Issue 11, 2024
Publisher: DemoTrans
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.12543664

Effective tax rates of multinational corporations in European countries

Author(s): Javier Garcia-Bernardo, Petr Janský, Thomas Tørsløv
Published in: DemoTrans Policy Brief Series, Issue 12, 2024
Publisher: DemoTrans
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.12543706

Monitoring and Evaluating Policy Reforms in the EU

Author(s): Panagiotis (Takis) Iliopoulos, Kristof De Witte
Published in: DemoTrans Policy Brief Series, Issue 9, 2023
Publisher: DemoTrans

Public Buyers Want to Go Green – Even When It's Hard

Author(s): Balbach, Thomas; Lammers, Wouter; Van de Walle, Steven
Published in: DemoTrans Policy Brief Series, Issue 22, 2025
Publisher: DemoTrans Project
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.16940243

A systematic literature review on the effect of municipal mergers

Author(s): Tao Zheng, Bindong Sun, Kristof De Witte
Published in: DemoTrans Policy Brief Series, Issue 2, 2023
Publisher: DemoTrans

Financialization and the Decline of Trade Union Membership in the EU

Author(s): Giorgos Gouzoulis, Giorgos Galanis, Panagiotis Iliopoulos
Published in: DemoTrans Policy Brief Series, Issue 18, 2024
Publisher: DemoTrans

A systematic literature review on the effect of municipal mergers

Author(s): Tao Zhenga, Bindong Sunb, Kristof De Witte
Published in: 2023
Publisher: DemoTrans
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.12780203

The Bigger, the Better? Population Size and Satisfaction with Municipal Services

Author(s): Øivind Bogen, Zuzana Murdoch, Benny Geys
Published in: DemoTrans Policy Brief Series, Issue 5, 2023
Publisher: DemoTrans
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.12543482

From a One-Off European Windfall Levy on Energy Excess Profits towards a European Sovereign Fund

Author(s): Wim Moesen
Published in: DemoTrans Policy Brief Series, Issue 3, 2023
Publisher: DemoTrans

European funds and green public procurement

Author(s): Ruben Nicolas, Vitezslav Titl, Fredo Schotanus
Published in: DemoTrans Policy Brief Series, Issue 10, 2024
Publisher: DemoTrans

On the drivers of extremist voting: economic and cultural dimensions.

Author(s): Lorenzo Catalano, Kristof De Witte
Published in: DemoTrans Policy Brief Series, Issue 15, 2024
Publisher: DemoTrans

Municipal Budget Trade-Offs: Which services do local governments sacrifice under budget rules?

Author(s): Panagiotis (Takis) Iliopoulos, Kristof De Witte
Published in: DemoTrans Policy Brief Series, Issue 6, 2023
Publisher: DemoTrans

Monographic books (2)

Futures for the Public Sector

Published in: 2024
Publisher: Leuven University Press
DOI: 10.11116/9789461666246

Futures for the Public Sector

Author(s): Geert Bouckaert (Editor), Annie Hondeghem (Editor), Trui Steen (Editor), Steven Van de Walle (Editor)
Published in: 2025, ISBN 9789461666246
Publisher: Leuven University Press
DOI: 10.11116/9789461666246