Routledge Research in Comparative Politics
Women in Executive Power: A Global Overview
1st Edition
Edited
By Gretchen Bauer, Manon Tremblay
October 14, 2024
Women in Executive Power studies the participation of women in the political executive around the world—notably in cabinet positions as ministers and sub-ministers and as heads of government and state. Providing multiple case studies in each chapter, the book provides regional overviews of nine ...
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
1st Edition
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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 ...
Climate Governance across the Globe: Pioneers, Leaders and Followers
1st Edition
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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
1st Edition
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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...
Coalition Government as a Reflection of a Nation’s Politics and Society: A Comparative Study of Parliamentary Parties and Cabinets in 12 Countries
1st Edition
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By Matt Evans
June 30, 2021
Through examination of parliamentary governments in twelve countries, this book demonstrates the ways in which study of the parties in governing coalitions, and their parliamentary opposition, provides insight into numerous aspects of countries’ cultural values, societal schisms, and the issues of ...
Exploring Organized Interests in Post-Communist Policy-Making: The "Missing Link"
1st Edition
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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 ...
Interest Group Organisation in the European Union: How Internal Organisational Structures Shape Interest Group Agency
1st Edition
By Michelle Hollman
September 30, 2020
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
1st Edition
By Joanna Rak
September 30, 2020
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 ...