Routledge Research in Comparative Politics
Political Leadership, Parties and Citizens: The personalisation of leadership
1st Edition
Edited
By Jean Blondel, Jean-Louis Thiébault
April 24, 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 12, 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 ...
The International Politics of Democratization: Comparative perspectives
1st Edition
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By Nuno Severiano Teixeira
June 23, 2011
This book examines the international dimensions of democratization processes, showing the degree to which international actors, ranging from states to non-governmental players, have an influence on what were once thought of as exclusively domestic processes of political change. The contributors to...
Consociational Theory: McGarry and O’Leary and the Northern Ireland conflict
1st Edition
By Rupert Taylor
May 18, 2011
Consociational power sharing is increasingly gaining ground, right around the world, as a means for resolving political conflict in divided societies. In this volume, edited by Rupert Taylor, nineteen internationally-respected scholars engage in a lively debate about the merits of the theory ...
Semi-Presidentialism Outside Europe: A Comparative Study
1st Edition
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By Robert Elgie, Sophia Moestrup
February 08, 2011
This is the first academic study of the impact of semi-presidentialism in emerging democracies outside of Europe. Semi-presidentialism is where there is both a directly-elected fixed-term president and a prime minister who is responsible to the legislature. For the most part, semi-presidentialism ...
Social Democracy in Power: The Capacity to Reform
1st Edition
By Wolfgang Merkel, Alexander Petring, Christian Henkes, Christoph Egle
February 08, 2011
Globalization, European integration, and social change have devaluated traditional social democratic policy instruments. This book compares and explores how social democratic governments have had to adapt and whether they have successfully managed to uphold old social democratic goals and values in...
How Political Parties Respond: Interest Aggregation Revisited
1st Edition
By Kay Lawson, Thomas Poguntke
February 02, 2011
How Political Parties Respond focuses specifically on the question of interest aggregation. Do parties today perform that function? If so, how? If not, in what different ways do they seek to show themselves responsive to the electorate?This fascinating book studies these questions with reference to...
Women's Movements: Flourishing or in abeyance?
1st Edition
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By Sandra Grey, Marian Sawer
February 02, 2011
Written by leading women's movement scholars, this book is the first to systematically apply the idea of social movement abeyance to differing national and international contexts. Its starting point is the idea that the women's movement is over, an idea promoted in the media and encouraged by ...
Comparative Politics: The Principal-Agent Perspective
1st Edition
By Jan-Erik Lane
June 09, 2010
Starting from the principal-agent perspective, this book offers a new analysis of government. It interprets political institutions as devices designed to solve the omnipresent principal-agent game in politics. In other words how to select, instruct, monitor and evaluate political agents or elites ...
Citizenship and Involvement in European Democracies: A Comparative Analysis
1st Edition
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By Jan van Deth, José Ramón Montero, Anders Westholm
April 29, 2009
This unique study presents the results of a cross-national analysis of citizenship and participation among citizens in twelve European democracies. Research on the future and quality of contemporary democracy is usually restricted to focus either on political participation, on particular aspects of...
Democracy and Political Culture in Eastern Europe
1st Edition
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By Hans-Dieter Klingemann, Dieter Fuchs, Jan Zielonka
April 29, 2009
What is the relationship between democracy and political culture in countries undergoing major systemic change? Have subjective political orientations of citizens been important in shaping the development of democracy in central and eastern Europe after the fall of communism? These core questions ...
Representing Women in Parliament: A Comparative Study
1st Edition
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By Marian Sawer, Manon Tremblay, Linda Trimble
April 29, 2009
The first book-length treatment of the political representation of women in countries with parliamentary systems based on the Westminster model. Written by a major international team of authors, this new study features twelve chapters on both new and established parliaments, including Australia, ...