Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science
About the Book Series
The Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science series is published in association with the European Consortium for Political Research - the leading organisation concerned with the growth and development of political science in Europe. The series presents high-quality edited volumes on topics at the leading edge of current interest in political science and related fields, with contributions from European scholars and others who have presented work at ECPR workshops and research groups.
Administrative Reforms and Democratic Governance
1st Edition
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By Jean-Michel Eymeri-Douzans, Jon Pierre
October 14, 2024
After a quarter of a century of implementation of New Public Management (NPM) reform strategies, this book assesses the major real outcomes of these reforms on states and public sectors, at both the organisational level and a more political level. Unlike most previous accounts of reform, this book ...
New Regionalism and the European Union: Dialogues, Comparisons and New Research Directions
1st Edition
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By Alex Warleigh-Lack, Nick Robinson, Ben Rosamond
October 14, 2024
The debates on regionalism have been polarized between European Union (EU) scholars and non-EU scholars, with the assumption being that regionalism within the EU and other regions of the world are quite distinct, with little to be learnt from dialogue with each other. This book challenges such...
Politics of Religion in Western Europe: Modernities in conflict?
1st Edition
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By François Foret, Xabier Itçaina
October 14, 2024
Religion is becoming increasingly important to the study of political science and to re-examine key concepts, such as democracy, securitization, foreign policy analysis, and international relations. The secularization of Europe is often understood according to the concept of ‘multiple modernities’—...
Puzzles of Government Formation: Coalition Theory and Deviant Cases
1st Edition
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By Rudy W. Andeweg, Lieven De Winter, Patrick Dumont
October 14, 2024
Understanding the formation of governments has always been central to political science. Traditionally this topic has been considered from a rational choice theory perspective and the empirical testing of these theories; however neither approach alone is able to explain a large proportion of actual...
Parliamentary Roles in Modern Legislatures
1st Edition
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By Magnus Blomgren, Olivier Rozenberg
May 22, 2017
This book gathers the most influential authors on role research and legislative studies to examine the different roles that MPs are playing in modern-day legislatures. It provides a comprehensive and critical overview of current research on legislative roles, summarises previous research, presents ...
Public Opinion and the International Use of Force
1st Edition
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By Philip Everts, Pierangelo Isernia
August 26, 2016
Recent years have witnessed a growing interest in the relationship between public opinion and foreign policy in Western democracies. This international board of contributors examine the ways in which the connection between public opinion and the use of military force has developed since the end of ...
Party Government in the New Europe
1st Edition
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By Hans Keman, Ferdinand Muller-Rommel
August 19, 2016
This truly comparative volume examines the "life cycle" of party governments in Europe from 1990 onwards, and analyses its role and function in contemporary European parliamentary democracies. The life and the performance of party governments in Europe became more and more volatile and publicly ...
Democracy without Borders: Transnationalisation and Conditionality in New Democracies
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By Jean Grugel
May 26, 2016
This book carves out a new area of democratisation studies by analysing the transnational dimension and the role of non state actors across three different geographical regions. Chapters utilise empirical data from Europe, Africa and Latin America....
Political Theory and the European Union: Legitimacy, Constitutional Choice and Citizenship
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By Michael Nentwich, Albert Weale
May 20, 2016
The contributors to this book examine the issues of constitutional choice that face the governments and citizens of today's Europe. Divided into three sections this study addresses: questions of political legitimacy and the meaning of democratic deficit in the EU; the reality of what institutional ...
Intra-Party Politics and Coalition Governments
1st Edition
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By Daniela Giannetti, Kenneth Benoit
February 29, 2016
This book explores how intra-party politics affects government formation and termination in parliamentary systems, where the norm is the formation of coalition governments. The authors look beyond party cohesion and discipline in parliamentary democracies to take a broader view, assuming a ...
Liberal Democracy and Environmentalism: The End of Environmentalism?
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By Yoram Levy, Marcel Wissenburg
February 29, 2016
In recent decades, environmental issues have increasingly been incorporated into liberal democratic thought and political practice. Environmentalism and ecologism have become fashionable, even respectable schools of political thought. This apparently successful integration of environmental ...
Health Governance in Europe: Issues, Challenges, and Theories
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By Monika Steffen
December 18, 2015
Health constitutes a core element of welfare states and a vital nerve in the trust relation between citizen and their governments. Focusing on the health sector, this book analyzes the closely interwoven relationship between the European Union and Member States.The authors explore the dynamic and ...