Routledge Research in Comparative Politics
Democracy and Its Fragility: Mapping the Unstable Equilibrium
1st Edition
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By Monika Sawicka, Artur Gruszczak, Aleksandra Zdeb
October 20, 2025
This book explores democratic fragility, an underdeveloped concept in the analyses of contemporary political regimes. Diagnoses of fragility commonly occur when states are brought to the brink of the abyss. Democracy and Its Fragility: Mapping the Unstable Equilibrium builds on the premise that ...
Collegial Democracy versus Personal Democracy: ‘We' the People or ‘I' the People?
1st Edition
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By Chen Friedberg, Gideon Rahat
July 30, 2025
This book examines two patterns of democracy – collegial and personal – through a comprehensive comparison of political institutions. It develops a conceptual, theoretical, and methodological basis for differentiating collegial and personal democracies. Central institutions in democracy are ...
Coalition Politics in Central Eastern Europe: Governing in Times of Crisis
1st Edition
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By Torbjörn Bergman, Gabriella Ilonszki, Johan Hellström
May 06, 2025
This insightful book brings the study of coalitions and coalition governance in Central and Eastern European democracies up to date, with an analytical focus framed by difficult economic and social periods, such as the end of the economic crisis and the Coronavirus pandemic. The volume posits ...
Differentiated Integration Beyond Brexit: Revisiting Cleavage Perspective in Times of Multiple Crises
1st Edition
By Alexander Radunz, Rafał Riedel
April 14, 2025
This book examines differentiated integration in Europe, providing incisive analyses of domestic politics determinants – political conflict, party responses, citizens’ preferences and other supply and demand side elements. The four countries compared – Germany, Poland, Switzerland and the United ...
Fomenting Friendship: The Politics and Policy of Interpersonal Warmth
1st Edition
By Andrea Chandler
April 14, 2025
In studies of comparative politics and public policy specifically, interpersonal friendship has been generally regarded as a matter that belongs to the private domain, rather than a site for government intervention. And yet, friendship is inherently political. While friendships can and do evolve ...
Constitutionalization of Politics in Comparative Perspective
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By Paweł Laidler, Dariusz Stolicki, Łukasz Jakubiak, Jacek Sokołowski
November 25, 2024
Scholars from political science and law examine the latest research on the constitutionalization of politics in comparative perspective. The scope includes both inter- country and intra- country perspectives, institutional and systemic analyses, common and civil law systems, focusing on historical ...
Climate Agendas and Instability: Green Recovery Programs and Policy Change in the EU and US
1st Edition
By Frank Wendler
October 25, 2024
This book examines the expansion of climate governance frameworks in the EU and US and their re-framing as part of green industrial programs. Addressing research on how vectors of stability and punctuation interact to advance or block policy progress, the book breaks new ground by presenting a ...
Pandemic-Era Civil Disorder in Post-Communist EU Member States
1st Edition
By Joanna Rak
September 19, 2024
As public order policing become more prominently widespread so is the need to better explain why some instances of collective action transform into civil disorder. In this book, Joanna Rak advances a middle-range theory to better explain the sources of civil disorder in one of the ...
British and American Electoral Politics in the Age of Neoliberalism: Parallel Trajectories
1st Edition
By Gerald Sussman
September 05, 2024
This book employs a political economic approach in exploring the underlying neoliberal foundations of politics and electioneering in both the United States and the United Kingdom that have widened the divide among voters and, over time, led to a deep distrust of state institutions, including ...
Regulators as Agenda-Setters: How National Agencies Shape Public Issues
1st Edition
By Edoardo Guaschino
May 27, 2024
This book provides a comprehensive understanding of how, and under which conditions, regulators in the social sectors are able to influence political agendas and issue definitions. In these political processes, agencies may become the policy entrepreneurs which are able to prioritize issues, ...
The Power of Opposition: How Legislative Organization Influences Democratic Consolidation
1st Edition
By Simone Wegmann
January 29, 2024
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 ...
Minimum Wage Regimes: Statutory Regulation, Collective Bargaining and Adequate Levels
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By Irene Dingeldey, Damian Grimshaw, Thorsten Schulten
May 31, 2023
This book goes beyond traditional minimum wage research to investigate the interplay between different country and sectoral institutional settings and actors’ strategies in the field of minimum wage policies. It asks which strategies and motives, namely free collective bargaining, fair pay and/or ...