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.
Electronic Democracy: Mobilisation, Organisation and Participation via new ICTs
1st Edition
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By Rachel Gibson, Andrea Römmele, Steven Ward
May 16, 2014
Electronic Democracy analyses the impact of new information and communication technologies (ICTs) within representative democracy, such as political parties, pressure groups, new social movements and executive and legislative bodies. Arguing for the validity of social perspective in theory building...
Cultural Theory as Political Science
1st Edition
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By Gunnar Grendstad, Per Selle, Michael Thompson
September 03, 2013
This is the first major European political science book to discuss the growing interdisciplinary field of 'cultural theory', proposing a coherent and viable alternative to mainstream political science. The authors argue that three elements - social relations, cultural bias and behavioural strategy ...
Another Europe: Conceptions and practices of democracy in the European Social Forums
1st Edition
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By Donatella Della Porta
May 31, 2013
Given the recent focus on the challenges to representative democracy, and the search for new institutions and procedures that can help to channel increasing participation, this book offers empirical insights on alternative conceptions of democracy and the actors that promote them. With a ...
European and North American Policy Change: Drivers and Dynamics
1st Edition
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By Giliberto Capano, Michael Howlett
April 09, 2013
The issue of policy dynamics is a key one in policy studies and one which is particularly amenable to comparative policy research. This edited volume brings together some of the leading scholars in the field to examine the definition, conceptualization and operationalization of policy change. ...
Referendums and Representative Democracy: Responsiveness, Accountability and Deliberation
1st Edition
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By Maija Setälä, Theo Schiller
April 09, 2013
This volume analyses how the use of referendums affects the central functions and characteristics of representative democracy. It provides a balanced account of the interaction between referendums and representative institutions and actors, seeking to evaluate whether referendums supplement or ...
Religion and Politics in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa
1st Edition
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By Jeffrey Haynes
April 09, 2013
In the early twenty-first century, it is now clear that religion is increasingly influential in the political realm in ways which call into question the principles and practices of secularism. The Iranian revolution of 1978-9 marked the decisive ‘reappearance’ of political religion in global ...
Education in Political Science: Discovering a neglected field
1st Edition
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By Anja P. Jakobi, Kerstin Martens, Klaus Dieter Wolf
March 21, 2013
This pioneering volume is devoted to the analysis of education from the perspective of political science, applying the full range of the discipline’s analytical perspectives and methodological tools. The contributions demonstrate how education policy can be explored systematically from a variety ...
The Future of Political Community
1st Edition
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By Gideon Baker, Jens Bartelson
March 21, 2013
This book explores the alternative futures of political community and moves beyond the critique of what is wrong with existing, state-based forms of political community. It does so not with the defence of a particular normative model of political community in mind, but rather in the quest for new ...
The Discursive Politics of Gender Equality: Stretching, Bending and Policy-Making
1st Edition
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By Emanuela Lombardo, Petra Meier, Mieke Verloo
September 10, 2012
This book explores the discursive constructions of gender equality and the implications of these understandings in a broad range of policy fields. Using gender equality as a prime example, a number of internationally renowned scholars offer a new vocabulary to identify and study processes of the ...
Participatory Democracy and Political Participation: Can Participatory Engineering Bring Citizens Back In?
1st Edition
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By Thomas Zittel, Dieter Fuchs
March 21, 2012
A detailed new examination of the initiatives governments are exploring to reform the institutions and procedures of liberal democracy in order to provide more opportunities for political participation and inclusion. Combining theory and empirical case studies, this is a systematic evaluation of ...
Resources, Governance and Civil Conflict
1st Edition
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By Magnus Öberg, Kaare Strøm
March 21, 2012
This book explores how governance structures - domestic political institutions, international peacekeeping efforts, armed interventions by other states - and natural resources affect the onset, dynamics and the termination of civil wars. Written by leading researchers in the field of conflict ...
Transnational Private Governance and its Limits
1st Edition
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By Jean-Christophe Graz, Andreas Nölke
January 20, 2012
This volume explores a variety of forms of transnational private governance where non-state actors cooperate across borders to establish rules and standards accepted as legitimate by other agents. Transnational private governance is a core feature of the devolution of power that we observe in the ...