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.
Policy-Making Processes and the European Constitution: A Comparative Study of Member States and Accession Countries
1st Edition
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By Thomas König, Simon Hug
March 11, 2011
This new volume presents a wealth of fresh data documenting and analyzing the different positions taken by governments in the development of the European Constitution. It examines how such decisions have substantial effects on the sovereignty of nation states and on the lives of ...
New Parties in Government: In Power for the First Time
1st Edition
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By Kris Deschouwer
February 09, 2011
Party literature is largely focused on the rise and success of new parties and their effects on party systems and older parties. This book, on the other hand, provides a valuable and original addition to such literature by analyzing what happens to a party when it enters government for the first ...
In Pursuit of Sustainable Development: New governance practices at the sub-national level in Europe
1st Edition
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By Susan Baker, Katarina Eckerberg
September 23, 2010
The book explores how implementation strategies engage sub-national, regional and local actors in the promotion of sustainable development. Following the obligations incurred at the Rio Earth Summit and the related UNCED process, European states began to produce sustainable development strategies ...
Democratic Politics and Party Competition
1st Edition
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By Judith Bara, Albert Weale
August 10, 2010
This new book introduces innovative research on democracy from the leading Comparative Manifestos Project (CMP). It details the key achievements of the project to date, illustrates how its findings may be applied, lays out the future challenges it faces and examines how the field as ...
Governments, NGOs and Anti-Corruption: The New Integrity Warriors
1st Edition
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By Luís de Sousa, Barry Hindess, Peter Larmour
August 10, 2010
The purpose of this book is to understand the rise, future and implications of two important new kinds of "integrity warriors" - official anti-corruption agencies (ACAs) and anti-corruption NGOs – and to locate them in a wider context and history of anti-corruption activity. Key issues of ...
International Organizations and Implementation: Enforcers, Managers, Authorities?
1st Edition
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By Jutta Joachim, Bob Reinalda, Bertjan Verbeek
August 10, 2010
International organizations have once more become subjects of investigation for a whole range of scholars: political scientists, international relations specialists, organization theorists, and policy experts alike. The end of the Cold War, increased globalization, and the intensification of ...
Civil Societies and Social Movements: Potentials and Problems
1st Edition
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By Derrick Purdue
June 09, 2010
This volume examines and contributes to debates surrounding social capital, social movements and the role of civil society in emerging forms of governance. The authors adopt a broad range of research approaches, from testing hypotheses drawn from rationale choice theory against available ...
Delegation in Contemporary Democracies
1st Edition
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By Fabrizio Gilardi, Dietmar Braun
March 10, 2009
Delegation is an ubiquitous social phenomenon linked to the growing differentiation of modern societies. Delegation is one of several different modes of organisation that exist to make collective action successful, but has been overlooked and under-researched.Using a rational choice institutional ...
Democracy and the Role of Associations: Political, Strutural and Social Contexts
1st Edition
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By Sigrid Rossteutscher
March 05, 2009
Voluntary associations have been presented as a solution to political apathy and cynicism towards representative democracy. The authors collected in this volume, however, argue that these claims require more robust substantiation and seek to critically examine the crucial link between the ...
The Territorial Politics of Welfare
1st Edition
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By Nicola McEwen, Luis Moreno
March 05, 2009
This is a major contribution to our understanding of European integration. It analyzes for the first time, in a highly systematic fashion, European integration as transnational political society formation in a common political space. Four conceptual chapters discuss different approaches to ...
Metropolitan Governance in the 21st Century: Capacity, Democracy and the Dynamics of Place
1st Edition
By Hubert Heinelt, Daniel Kübler
February 27, 2009
This book offers a cross-national analysis of contemporary issues and challenges for the governing of urban regions. The case studies on Germany, Spain, France, Greece, The Netherlands, Finland, the UK, Switzerland, Australia, the US and Canada, place particular emphasis on the tensions building on...
Organised Crime and the Challenge to Democracy
1st Edition
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By Felia Allum, Renate Siebert
May 09, 2008
This innovative book investigates the paradoxical situation whereby organized crime groups, authoritarian in nature and anti-democratic in practice, perform at their best in democratic countries. It uses examples from the United States, Japan, Russia, South America, France, Italy and the European ...