Routledge Research in Comparative Politics
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&...
Health and Political Engagement
1st Edition
By Mikko Mattila, Lauri Rapeli, Hanna Wass, Peter Söderlund
December 12, 2019
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
1st Edition
By Steffen Hurka
December 12, 2019
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 ...
Institutions, Partisanship and Credibility in Global Financial Markets
1st Edition
By Hye Jee Cho
March 21, 2019
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 ...
Growth, Crisis, Democracy: The Political Economy of Social Coalitions and Policy Regime Change
1st Edition
Edited
By Hideko Magara, Bruno Amable
January 23, 2019
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 ...
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 ...
Policy Change under New Democratic Capitalism
1st Edition
Edited
By Hideko Magara
August 14, 2018
Democratic capitalism in developed countries has been facing an unprecedented crisis since 2008. Its political manageability is declining sharply. Both democracy and capitalism now involve crucial risks that are significantly more serious than those observed in earlier periods. The notion of policy...
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
Edited
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
Edited
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 ...
Generations, Political Participation and Social Change in Western Europe
1st Edition
By Maria Grasso
February 05, 2018
This new comparative analysis shows that there are reasons to be concerned about the future of democratic politics. Younger generations have become disengaged from the political process. The evidence presented in this comprehensive study shows that they are not just less likely than older ...