Routledge Research in Comparative Politics
Protecting Immigrant Rights in Mexico: Understanding the State-Civil Society Nexus
1st Edition
By Laura Valeria Gonzalez-Murphy
June 23, 2015
The state-civil society relationship to migration policy is an area both largely unexplored and little understood in current scholarly literature. Laura González-Murphy offers a timely analysis of the changing role played by civil society in the formulation and implementation of government policies...
Immigration and Public Opinion in Liberal Democracies
1st Edition
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By Gary P. Freeman, Randall Hansen, David L. Leal
May 21, 2015
Although ambivalence characterizes the stance of scholars toward the desirability of close opinion-policy linkages in general, it is especially evident with regard to immigration. The controversy and disagreement about whether public opinion should drive immigration policy are among the factors ...
Parties, Elections, and Policy Reforms in Western Europe: Voting for Social Pacts
1st Edition
By Kerstin Hamann, John Kelly
April 23, 2015
Social pacts – policy agreements between governments, labor unions and sometimes employer organizations – began to emerge in many countries in the 1980s. The most common explanations for social pacts tend to focus on economic factors, influenced by industrial relations institutions such as highly ...
The Globalization of Motherhood: Deconstructions and reconstructions of biology and care
1st Edition
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By Wendy Chavkin, JaneMaree Maher
April 09, 2015
The convergence of dramatic declines in birth rates worldwide, aside from sub-Saharan Africa, the rise of untrammelled global movement of capital, people and information, and the rapid-fire dissemination of a host of new medical technologies has led to the "globalization of motherhood". This book ...
Rewards for High Public Office in Europe and North America
1st Edition
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By Marleen Brans, Guy Peters
November 10, 2014
Anyone observing the recent scandals in the United Kingdom could not fail to understand the political importance of the rewards of high public office. The British experience has been extreme but by no means unique, and many countries have experienced political over the pay and perquisites of public...
Young People and Politics: Political Engagement in the Anglo-American Democracies
1st Edition
By Aaron Martin
November 10, 2014
This book examines young people’s political engagement in the Anglo-American democracies. It is often alleged that young people are disengaged from politics on a number of levels. The commonly held view is that young people don’t vote, they do not trust politicians and have low levels of political...
African Parliamentary Reform
1st Edition
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By Frederick Stapenhurst, Rasheed Draman, Andrew Imlach, Alexander Hamilton, Cindy Kroon
October 29, 2014
Some of the most far-reaching and innovative parliamentary reform is occurring in Africa. While these reforms are not yet widespread across the continent, parliaments in some African countries are asserting their independence as policymakers, as overseers of government and as the guardian of ...
European Governmentality: The Liberal Drift of Multilevel Governance
1st Edition
By Richard Münch
September 11, 2014
This book contributes to the literature on the change of governance in the context of its European multilevel organization. The integration of Europe is a process of fundamental social change: a process of constructing a European society and of deconstructing the national societies. Münch ...
International Security, Conflict and Gender: 'HIV/AIDS is Another War'
1st Edition
By Hakan Seckinelgin
September 11, 2014
This book challenges the conventional security-based international policy frameworks that have developed for dealing with HIV/AIDS during and after conflicts, and examines first-hand evidence and experiences of conflict and HIV/AIDS. Since the turn of the century international policy agenda on ...
Russia's Regions and Comparative Subnational Politics
1st Edition
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By William M. Reisinger
September 11, 2014
Subnational political units are growing in influence in national and international affairs, drawing increasing scholarly attention to politics beyond national capitals. In this book, leading Russian and Western political scientists contribute to debates in comparative politics by examining Russia’s...
Inclusion and Exclusion in the Liberal Competition State: The Cult of the Individual
1st Edition
By Richard Münch
July 03, 2014
This book examines the increasingly international division of labour, which promotes transnational integration. It analyses the change in worker solidarity as it moves from collective national welfare to a transnational inclusion of workers from various links in the production chain. Examining ...
Parliamentary Oversight Tools: A Comparative Analysis
1st Edition
By Riccardo Pelizzo, Frederick Stapenhurst
June 19, 2014
This book investigates Parliaments’ capacity to oversee government activities, policies and expenditures. Utilising a comparative approach, the book presents a new examination of oversight tools and discusses the conditions under which such tools are employed effectively. The result of a 9-year ...