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How Europeans View and Evaluate Democracy Revisited
Ten Years Later
Av Mónica Ferrín, Hanspeter Kriesi m. fl.
Inbunden, 2025
1504 kr
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In 2012 How Europeans View and Evaluate Democracy assessed the Europeans' views and evaluations of the state of democracy after one of the deepest economic and financial crises worldwide. Against the most pessimistic “Zeitgeist,” the book found that there was overwhelming support for democracy in …
The Government Party
Political Dominance in Democracy
Inbunden, 2022
1333 kr
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Democracy thrives on vigorous competition between political parties. However, in several established democracies one party manages to dominate national politics for decades at a time, seemingly creating a democratic one-party unnatural democracy. This book examines five such countries - Canada, …
The President's Dilemma in Asia
Av Don S. Lee
Inbunden, 2024
1112 kr
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The President's Dilemma in Asia provides one of the first comprehensive and comparative theory of presidential government formation. In the authoritarian era, presidents had greater control over key institutional actors in the process, such as the legislature, the ruling party, and the bureaucracy. …
Minority Governments in Comparative Perspective
Av Bonnie Field, Bonnie N Field m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
1789 kr
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Approximately one-third of parliamentary democracies are or are typically ruled by a minority government - a situation where the party or parties represented at cabinet do not between them hold a majority of seats in the national legislature. Minority governments are particularly interesting in …
Economics and Politics Revisited
Executive Approval and the New Calculus of Support
Av Timothy Hellwig, Matthew Singer
Inbunden, 2023
1542 kr
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What drives government popularity? For decades, scholars, journalists, and political pundits alike have converged on a single answer: the economy. A rising economy lifts the popularity of the government, and if the economy's fortunes turn south, so too does that of the government. This conventional …
Centrist Anti-Establishment Parties and Their Struggle for Survival
Av Sarah Engler
Inbunden, 2023
1084 kr
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How do parties survive when newness is their only selling point? This scholarly volume explores the most successful group of new political parties in Central and Eastern Europe: centrist anti-establishment parties (CAPs). These parties often claim to be neither 'left nor right', strongly criticize …
Voters Under Pressure
Group-Based Cross-Pressure and Electoral Volatility
Inbunden, 2022
2078 kr
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This book examines changes in voters' electoral choices over time and investigates how these changes are linked to a growth in electoral volatility. Ruth Dassonneville's core argument, supported by extensive empirical data, is that group-based cross-pressures lead to instability in voters' choices. …
The New Kremlinology
Understanding Regime Personalization in Russia
Av Alexander Baturo, Jos Elkink
Inbunden, 2021
1682 kr
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The New Kremlinology is the first in-depth examination of the development of regime personalization in Russia.In the post-Cold War period, many previously democratizing countries experienced authoritarian reversals whereby incumbent leaders took over and gravitated towards personalist rule. …
Coalition Agreements as Control Devices
Coalition Governance in Western and Eastern Europe
Av Heike Klüver, Hanna Bäck m. fl.
Inbunden, 2023
1095 kr
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Many coalition cabinets negotiate lengthy coalition contracts outlining the agenda for the time in office. Not only does negotiating these agreements take up time and resources, but compromises have to be made, which may result in cabinet conflicts and electoral costs. This book explores why …
Electoral Systems and Party Systems
A Study of Twenty-Seven Democracies, 1945-1990
Inbunden, 1994
2627 kr
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An electoral system is the most fundamental element of representative democracy, translating citizen's votes into representatives' seats. It is also the most potent practical instrument available to democratic reformers.This systematic and comprehensive study describes and classifies the 70 …
Self-Interest and Public Interest in Western Politics
Av Lewin
Häftad, 1991
693 kr
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Is it self-interest or public interest that dominates Western politics? This question has been debated in many fields, and through the 1980s a consensus developed, supported by extensive research, that in their political decisions and actions people are largely motivated by self-interest, not by …
Localism and Centralism in Europe
The Political and Legal Bases of Local Self-Government
Inbunden, 1991
821 kr
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Why do some countries appear to be far more centralized than others? In some countries local government has responsibility for a wide range of public services, while in others these services are delivered by national and other non-local bodies. Moreover national government oversees the operation of …
Parties and Their Members
Organizing for Victory in Britain and Germany
Inbunden, 1996
1224 kr
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Why would parties continue to care about membership enrollment in an age of television campaigning and direct-mail fundraising? To answer this question, Parties and their Members traces organizing strategies employed by British and German membership parties during the past half century. Using …
Parties and Democracy
Coalition Formation and Government Functioning in Twenty States
Av Ian Budge, Hans Keman
Häftad, 1993
895 kr
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Parties and Democracy studies the actual behaviour of some four hundred governments in twenty post-war democracies. The conclusion that parties do function in accordance with modern democratic theory will serve to put moral justifications of democracy and descriptions of the system on a firmer …
State Formation, Nation-Building, and Mass Politics in Europe
The Theory of Stein Rokkan
Av Stein Rokkan, Stein Kuhnle m. fl.
Inbunden, 1999
5010 kr
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Stein Rokkan was one of the leading social scientists of the post-war world. He was a prolific writer, yet nowhere is his contribution to social science - the conceptual and developmental map of Europe - presented in an integrated and systematic way. Stein Rokkan had plans to do this but died …
Political Data Handbook
OECD Countries
Av Jan-Erik Lane, David McKay m. fl.
Inbunden, 1996
3177 kr
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This fully revised and updated edition of an established reference book, provides in one volume the most comprehensive and detailed statistical guide available to the government and politics of the twenty-four countries in the OECD.There is no lack of statistical data about the OECD countries (the …
Electoral Systems and Party Systems
A Study of Twenty-Seven Democracies, 1945-1990
Häftad, 1995
1628 kr
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An electoral system is the most fundamental element of representative democracy, translating citizen's votes into representatives' seats. It is also the most potent practical instrument available to democratic reformers.This systematic and comprehensive study describes and classifies the 70 …
Extreme Right Parties in Western Europe
Av Piero Ignazi
Inbunden, 2003
2673 kr
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This book has three aims. Firstly, it explores the extreme right in order to assess its ideological meaning and its political expression. Beginning with a discussion of the meaning and usefulness of the Left-Right distinction, it deals with the varying significance of the term 'right' and discusses …
Semi-Presidentialism in Europe
Av Robert Elgie
Inbunden, 1999
3794 kr
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Semi-Presidentialism is the term used to describe the constitutional arrangement where there is a directly elected president and a prime-minister who is responsible to parliament. Examples of semi-presidential regimes include Finland, France, Portugal, Poland, Russia, and Ukraine. These countries …
Learning Democracy
Democratic and Economic Values in Unified Germany
Inbunden, 1999
4121 kr
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The fall of the Berlin wall raised many questions about Germany and post-socialist countries. Given East Germany's authoritarian history, how democratic are its citizens now? What kind of democracy do they want a liberal or socialist democracy? What economic system do they prefer? How have they …
Divided Government in Comparative Perspective
Av Robert Elgie
Inbunden, 2001
3491 kr
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Divided government occurs when the executive fails to enjoy majority support in at least one working house of the legislature. To date, the study of divided government has focused almost exclusively on the United States. However, divided government occurs much more widely. It occurs in other …
Political Parties
Old Concepts and New Challenges
Av Richard Gunther, José Ramón Montero m. fl.
Inbunden, 2002
3406 kr
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This book, with contributions from leading scholars in the field, presents a critical overview of much of the recent literature on political parties. It systematically assesses the capacity of existing concepts, typologies, and methodological approaches to deal with contemporary parties. It …
Coalition Governments in Western Europe
Av ,, Kaare m. fl.
Häftad, 2003
1353 kr
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Coalition Governments in Western Europe is the most comprehensive empirical analysis to date of coalition politics. Based on a large cross-national data collection, covering the entire post-war period from 1945 to 1999, it is the first systematic study of the institutions of governance and conflict …
Delegation and Accountability in Parliamentary Democracies
Av Kaare Strøm, Wolfgang C. Müller m. fl.
Inbunden, 2003
4002 kr
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Parliamentary democracy is the most common way of organizing delegation and accountability in contemporary democracies. Yet knowledge of this type of regime has been incomplete and often unsystematic. Delegation and Accountability in Parliamentary Democracies offers new conceptual clarity on the …
Parliamentary Representatives in Europe 1848-2000
Legislative Recruitment and Careers in Eleven European Countries
Av Heinrich Best, Maurizio Cotta
Inbunden, 2000
5606 kr
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Parliamentary Representatives in Europe 1848-2000 deals with long-term changes in parliamentary recruitment and patterns of political careers in eleven European countries (Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain and the United Kingdom) from the …
Party Reform
The Causes, Challenges, and Consequences of Organizational Change
Av Anika Gauja
Inbunden, 2016
1985 kr
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Party Reform is a new comparative study of the politics of party organization. The book provides a novel perspective in party scholarship and develops the concept of 'reform' as distinct from evolutionary and incremental processes of party change. As an outcome, reform is captured in deliberate and …
The Politics of Party Leadership
A Cross-National Perspective
Av William Cross, Jean-Benoit Pilet
Inbunden, 2015
1968 kr
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Making use of a unique data set that includes more than 1000 leadership elections from over 100 parties in 14 countries over an almost 50 year period, this volume provides the first comprehensive, comparative examination of how parties choose their leaders and the impact of the different decisions …
Organizing Political Parties
Representation, Participation, and Power
Av SCARROW ET AL, Susan E. Scarrow m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
1940 kr
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Political party organizations play large roles in democracies, yet their organizations differ widely, and their statutes change much more frequently than constitutions or electoral laws. How do these differences, and these frequent changes, affect the operation of democracy? This book seeks to …
How Europeans View and Evaluate Democracy
Av KRIESI FERRÍN, Mónica Ferrín m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
2169 kr
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Based on a new data-set covering 29 European and neighboring countries, this volume shows how, Europeans view and evaluate democracy: what are their conceptions of democracy, how do they assess the quality of democracy in their own country, and to what extent do they consider their country's …
Parliaments in Time
The Evolution of Legislative Democracy in Western Europe, 1866-2015
Inbunden, 2018
2031 kr
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Comparative Politics is a series for researchers, teachers, and students of political science that deals with contemporary government and politics. Global in scope, books in the series are characterized by a stress on comparative analysis and strong methodological rigour. The series is published in …
