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Transparency and Secrecy in European Democracies
Contested Trade-offs
Inbunden, 2020
2517 kr
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This edited volume offers a critical discussion of the trade-offs between transparency and secrecy in the actual political practice of democratic states in Europe. As such, it answers to a growing need to systematically analyse the problem of secrecy in governance in this political and geographical …
Growth, Crisis, Democracy
The Political Economy of Social Coalitions and Policy Regime Change
Av Hideko Magara, Bruno Amable
Häftad, 2019
751 kr
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Since the global financial crisis of 2008, advanced economies have been making various efforts to overcome the economic impasse. While the contrast between the countries that have escaped from the crisis relatively quickly and those still suffering from serious problems is becoming clearer, a new …
Institutions, Partisanship and Credibility in Global Financial Markets
Av Hye Jee Cho
Häftad, 2019
743 kr
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Increasingly integrated global financial markets have been shaken by a series of severe shocks in recent decades, from Mexico’s Tequila crisis to the upheavals in the Eurozone. These crises have demonstrated that signs of uncertain local economic and political conditions can result in market …
Climate Governance across the Globe
Pioneers, Leaders and Followers
Av Rüdiger K.W. Wurzel, Mikael Skou Andersen m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
2508 kr
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This book takes an innovative approach to studying international climate governance by providing a critical analysis of climate leadership, pioneership and followership across the globe.The volume assesses the interactions between climate leaders, pioneers and followers, across multilevel and/or …
Power of Opposition
How Legislative Organization Influences Democratic Consolidation
Inbunden, 2022
2508 kr
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Proposing a novel way to look at the consolidation of democratic regimes, this book presents important theoretical and empirical contributions to the study of democratic consolidation, legislative organization, and public opinion.Theoretically, Simone Wegmann brings legislatures into focus as the …
Electoral Participation in Newly Consolidated Democracies
Turnout in Africa, Latin America, East Asia, and Post-Communist Europe
Inbunden, 2021
2508 kr
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This book examines why people vote in the newly consolidated democracies of Africa, Latin America, East Asia, and Central and Eastern European countries.It addresses the question of how well models or theories of electoral participation, initially developed in established democracies, "travel" to …
Exploring Organized Interests in Post-Communist Policy-Making
The "Missing Link"
Av Michael Dobbins, Rafał Riedel
Inbunden, 2021
2508 kr
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This book examines organized interests in post-communist Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), providing incisive analyses in three critically important policy areas - healthcare, higher education and energy. The four countries surveyed – Poland, Hungary, Slovenia and the Czech Republic – afford rich …
Exploring Organized Interests in Post-Communist Policy-Making
The "Missing Link"
Av Michael Dobbins, Rafał Riedel
Häftad, 2021
632 kr
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This book examines organized interests in post-communist Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), providing incisive analyses in three critically important policy areas - healthcare, higher education and energy. The four countries surveyed – Poland, Hungary, Slovenia and the Czech Republic – afford rich …
Think Tanks in the US and EU
The Role of Policy Institutes in Washington and Brussels
Häftad, 2020
690 kr
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Why do US and EU think tanks diverge in their roles, priorities, and main constituencies? Providing the first substantive analytical comparison of think tanks in Washington and Brussels, this book explores the differences that exist and why they developed. Two principal variables are identified – …
Transparency and Secrecy in European Democracies
Contested Trade-offs
Häftad, 2023
647 kr
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This edited volume offers a critical discussion of the trade-offs between transparency and secrecy in the actual political practice of democratic states in Europe. As such, it answers to a growing need to systematically analyse the problem of secrecy in governance in this political and geographical …
Climate Governance across the Globe
Pioneers, Leaders and Followers
Av Rüdiger K.W. Wurzel, Mikael Skou Andersen m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
647 kr
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This book takes an innovative approach to studying international climate governance by providing a critical analysis of climate leadership, pioneership and followership across the globe.The volume assesses the interactions between climate leaders, pioneers and followers, across multilevel and/or …
Interest Group Organisation in the European Union
How Internal Organisational Structures Shape Interest Group Agency
Häftad, 2020
690 kr
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The investigation of the internal workings of interest groups opens the view on the behavioural dynamics within these organisations. By analysing their intraorganisational structures, this book explains how groups prepare to become active in the European Union and why we observe contact, conflict …
Theorizing Cultures of Political Violence in Times of Austerity
Studying Social Movements in Comparative Perspective
Av Joanna Rak
Häftad, 2020
719 kr
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After the multidimensional financial crisis of 2008, the member states of the Eurozone imposed a set of economic policies to save their economies. Socially unpopular cuts contributed to the occurrence of violent movements that both opposed austerity policies and created animosity towards the …
Future of Political Leadership in the Digital Age
Neo-Leadership, Image and Influence
Av Agnieszka Kasińska-Metryka, Tomasz Gajewski
Inbunden, 2020
2508 kr
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This book comprehensively describes the impact of modern technologies on political leadership by providing a new paradigm of the phenomenon of neo-leadership, that is political leadership oriented on creating both the image and political influence on the Internet. It examines its functioning in the …
Future of Political Leadership in the Digital Age
Neo-Leadership, Image and Influence
Av Agnieszka Kasińska-Metryka, Tomasz Gajewski
Häftad, 2023
647 kr
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This book comprehensively describes the impact of modern technologies on political leadership by providing a new paradigm of the phenomenon of neo-leadership, that is political leadership oriented on creating both the image and political influence on the Internet. It examines its functioning in the …
Electoral Participation in Newly Consolidated Democracies
Turnout in Africa, Latin America, East Asia, and Post-Communist Europe
Häftad, 2023
645 kr
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This book examines why people vote in the newly consolidated democracies of Africa, Latin America, East Asia, and Central and Eastern European countries.It addresses the question of how well models or theories of electoral participation, initially developed in established democracies, "travel" to …
Health and Political Engagement
Av Mikko Mattila, Lauri Rapeli m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
372 kr
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Social scientists have only recently begun to explore the link between health and political engagement. Understanding this relationship is vitally important from both a scholarly and a policy-making perspective. This book is the first to offer a comprehensive account of health and political …
Rampage Shootings and Gun Control
Politicization and Policy Change in Western Europe
Häftad, 2019
693 kr
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While the causes of rampage violence have been analysed thoroughly in diverse academic disciplines, we hardly know anything about the factors that affect their consequences for public policy. This book addresses rampage shootings in Western Europe and their conditional impact on politicization and …
Sub-State Nationalism
A Comparative Analysis of Institutional Design
Inbunden, 2002
2517 kr
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A major feature of the political development of Western democracies is the growth of indigenous, ethnic and national groups striving for political self-determination. This book analyses the institutional responses individual governments have made to these demands. Sub-State Nationalism provides a …
Reward for High Public Office
Asian and Pacific Rim States
Av Christopher Hood, B. Guy Peters
Inbunden, 2002
2592 kr
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The choices made by governments about how to reward their top employees reveal a great deal about their values and their assumptions about governing. This book examines rewards of high public office in seven Asian political systems, a particularly rich set of cases for exploring the causes and …
Democratic Revolutions
Asia and Eastern Europe
Inbunden, 2003
2592 kr
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Despite enormous differences between Asia and Eastern Europe, there are striking similarities between the peaceful, spontaneous, urban-based and cross-class democratic uprisings against unyielding dictatorships that have occurred in the two regions. The book explores the kind of non-democratic …
Democratization
A Comparative Analysis of 170 Countries
Inbunden, 2003
2517 kr
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This book examines the relationship between indicators of resource distribution and democratization in the group of 170 countries with data ranging from the 1850s to the present day. Vanhanen constructs a compelling argument, concluding that the emergence of democracy is closely linked to resource …
Determinants of the Death Penalty
A Comparative Study of the World
Inbunden, 2004
2517 kr
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Determinants of the Death Penalty seeks to explain the phenomenon of capital punishment - without recourse to value judgements - by identifying those characteristics common to countries that use the death penalty and those that mark countries which do not. This global study uses statistical …
Political Disaffection in Contemporary Democracies
Social Capital, Institutions and Politics
Av Mariano Torcal, José Ramón Montero
Inbunden, 2006
1530 kr
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Citizens of many democracies are becoming more critical of basic political institutions and detached and disaffected from politics in general. This is a new comparative analysis of this trend that focuses on major democracies throughout Latin America, Asia and Central Europe. It brings together …
How Political Parties Respond
Interest Aggregation Revisited
Av Kay Lawson, Thomas Poguntke
Inbunden, 2004
2525 kr
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How Political Parties Respond focuses specifically on the question of interest aggregation. Do parties today perform that function? If so, how? If not, in what different ways do they seek to show themselves responsive to the electorate?This fascinating book studies these questions with reference to …
Party Policy in Modern Democracies
Av Kenneth Benoit, Michael Laver
Inbunden, 2006
2525 kr
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A new and wide-ranging empirical overview of party policy in 47 modern democracies, including all of the new democracies of Eastern Europe.It updates and radically extends Policy and Party Competition (1992), which established itself as a key mainstream data source for all political scientists …
Politics of Women's Interests
New Comparative Perspectives
Inbunden, 2006
768 kr
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This new study reveals how institutional practices and discourses shape the way men and women are conceived of, and how through this process, gender stereotypes and expectations are created.Informed by the latest research and trends, these expert authors examine the way in which domestic and global …
Citizenship and Ethnic Conflict
Challenging the Nation-State
Inbunden, 2005
1530 kr
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Making a new case for separating citizenship from nationality, this book comparatively examines a key selection of nation-states in terms of their definitions of nationality and citizenship, and the ways in which the association of some with the European Union has transformed these definitions.In a …
Women, Quotas and Politics
Av ude Dahlerup
Inbunden, 2005
2525 kr
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This is the first world-wide, comparative study of the controversial new trends of gender quotas now emerging in global politics, presenting a comprehensive overview of changes in women’s parliamentary representation across the world. This is important reading for all those working to increase …
Semi-Presidentialism Outside Europe
A Comparative Study
Av Robert Elgie, Sophia Moestrup
Inbunden, 2007
2525 kr
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This is the first academic study of the impact of semi-presidentialism in emerging democracies outside of Europe. Semi-presidentialism is where there is both a directly-elected fixed-term president and a prime minister who is responsible to the legislature. For the most part, semi-presidentialism …
