Routledge Research in Comparative Politics
Russia's Regions and Comparative Subnational Politics
1st Edition
Edited
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 ...
The Political Power of Business: Structure and Information in Public Policy-Making
1st Edition
By Patrick Bernhagen
May 16, 2014
This book analyzes the influence of business in democratic politics. Advice from business actors regularly carries more weight with policymakers than other interests because it refers to the core of the state-market nexus in democratic capitalism: the consequences for voters and policymakers of ...
Government Accountability and Legislative Oversight
1st Edition
By Riccardo Pelizzo, Frederick Stapenhurst
December 16, 2013
The purpose of the book is to investigate parliaments’ capacity to oversee government activities, policies and budget legislation. By analysing the survey data that the World Bank Institute in collaboration with the Inter-Parliamentary Union collected from 120 parliaments, Pelizzo and Stapenhurst ...
Determinants of the Death Penalty: A Comparative Study of the World
1st Edition
By Carsten Anckar
December 11, 2013
Determinants of the Death Penalty seeks to explain the phenomenon of capital punishment - without recourse to value judgements - by identifying those characteristics common to countries that use the death penalty and those that mark countries which do not. This global study uses statistical ...
New Challenger Parties in Western Europe: A Comparative Analysis
1st Edition
By Airo Hino
November 08, 2013
This book provides a systematic and comparative account of the rise of ‘new challenger parties’ across Western Europe. It analyses how parties that challenge the conventional party system by addressing issues neglected by existing parties can succeed and fail. Systematically comparing 229 elections...
The Origin of Electoral Systems in the Postwar Era: A worldwide approach
1st Edition
By Krister Lundell
October 14, 2013
This book explores and presents the influence of contextual factors on the choice of electoral systems for parliamentary elections in both democracies and non-democracies around the world. Taking a macroscopic approach, the author focuses on structural explanations, with an emphasis on general ...
The Politics of International Law and Compliance: Serbia, Croatia and The Hague Tribunal
1st Edition
By Nikolas M. Rajkovic
October 03, 2013
Leading the debate on the domestic effect of the growing influence of international adjudication, this invaluable text examines Serbia and Croatia’s erratic record of compliance with the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY). Since the demise of the Milosevic and Tudjman ...
Political Disaffection in Contemporary Democracies: Social Capital, Institutions and Politics
1st Edition
By Mariano Torcal, José Ramón Montero
August 07, 2013
Citizens of many democracies are becoming more critical of basic political institutions and detached and disaffected from politics in general. This is a new comparative analysis of this trend that focuses on major democracies throughout Latin America, Asia and Central Europe. It brings together ...
The Rise of Regionalism: Causes of Regional Mobilization in Western Europe
1st Edition
By Rune Dahl Fitjar
August 06, 2013
During the past 40 years, regions have become increasingly important in Western Europe both as units of government and as sources for political mobilization. This book examines why regional identities are stronger in some regions than in others, and why regional elites attempt to mobilize the ...
Party Politics in the Western Balkans
1st Edition
Edited
By Vera Stojarová, Peter Emerson
April 24, 2013
This book examines the development of party politics in the region of Western Balkans, describing party politics and analyzing inter-ethnic or inter-party cooperation and competition. Beginning with a thematic overview of the electoral systems and their link to the party systems, the authors ...