Routledge Research in Comparative Politics
Parliamentary Oversight Tools: A Comparative Analysis
1st Edition
By Riccardo Pelizzo, Frederick Stapenhurst
June 23, 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 19, 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
January 16, 2014
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 12, 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 11, 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 19, 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 07, 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
December 04, 2012
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 07, 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 25, 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 ...
Political Leadership, Parties and Citizens: The personalisation of leadership
1st Edition
Edited
By Jean Blondel, Jean-Louis Thiebault
April 25, 2013
Social structure may historically have been of primary importance in accounting for the attitudes and behaviour of many citizens, but now changes in social structure have diminished the role played by class and religious affiliation, whilst the significance of personality in political leadership ...
Post-communist Regime Change: A Comparative Study
1st Edition
By Jørgen Møller
April 15, 2013
This book seeks to explain the divergent political pathways of twenty six post-communist states, following the breakdown and eventual collapse of communism in 1989-1991. Considering the trajectories of individual states between 1990 – 2007, this book challenges two central bodies of theory ...