Routledge Research in Comparative Politics
Climate Governance across the Globe: Pioneers, Leaders and Followers
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By Rüdiger K.W. Wurzel, Mikael Skou Andersen, Paul Tobin
January 09, 2023
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 ...
Electoral Participation in Newly Consolidated Democracies: Turnout in Africa, Latin America, East Asia, and Post-Communist Europe
1st Edition
By Elvis Bisong Tambe
January 09, 2023
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 ...
The Future of Political Leadership in the Digital Age: Neo-Leadership, Image and Influence
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By Agnieszka Kasińska-Metryka, Tomasz Gajewski
January 09, 2023
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 ...
Transparency and Secrecy in European Democracies: Contested Trade-offs
1st Edition
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By Dorota Mokrosinska
January 09, 2023
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...
Exploring Organized Interests in Post-Communist Policy-Making: The "Missing Link"
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By Michael Dobbins, Rafał Riedel
May 19, 2021
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
1st Edition
By Christopher Rastrick
April 28, 2020
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&...
Corruption and Legislatures
1st Edition
By Riccardo Pelizzo, Frederick Stapenhurst
August 23, 2018
This book investigates parliaments’ role in curbing corruption. In addition to discussing the definition, causes, and costs of corruption and the role that parliaments have in reducing corruption, the authors consider contemporary issues that parliamentarians – and others – need to be ...
The Statecraft of Consensus Democracies in a Turbulent World: A Comparative Study of Austria, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Switzerland
1st Edition
By José Magone
August 14, 2018
Drawing on the work of Arend Lijphart, this book focuses on consensus democracies. These democracies entail a complex set of democratic institutional and conventional arrangements and can be regarded as a product of path-dependent development towards a national culture of compromise and bargaining....
Reward for High Public Office: Asian and Pacific Rim States
1st Edition
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By Christopher Hood, B. Guy Peters
August 09, 2018
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 ...
The Funding of Political Parties: Where Now?
1st Edition
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By Keith Ewing, Jacob Rowbottom, Joo-Cheong Tham
August 09, 2018
This book explores the problems associated with regulating the funding of political parties and election campaigns in a timely assessment of a topic of great political controversy. From interest in Obama's capacity to raise vast sums of money, to scandals that have rocked UK and Australian ...
The Politics of Think Tanks in Europe
1st Edition
By Jesper Dahl Kelstrup
April 25, 2018
In the 21st century, think tanks have become more than a buzzword in European public discourse. They now play important roles in the policy-making process by providing applied research, building networks and advocating policies. The book studies the development of think tanks and contemporary ...
Citizenship and Democracy in an Era of Crisis: Essays in honour of Jan W. van Deth
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By Thomas Poguntke, Sigrid Rossteutscher, Rudiger Schmitt-Beck, Sonja Zmerli
June 30, 2017
Democracies are transforming worldwide, but at the same time political inequality is increasing. This development threatens to leave growing portions of mass publics effectively ‘outside’ the political process. This volume brings together leading authorities in the field of democratic citizenship ...