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.
Governments, NGOs and Anti-Corruption: The New Integrity Warriors
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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 ...
Mass Media and Political Communication in New Democracies
1st Edition
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By Katrin Voltmer
December 06, 2007
This book examines how political communication and the mass media have played a central role in the consolidation of emerging democracies around the world. Covering a broad range of political and cultural contexts, including Eastern and Southern Europe, Latin America, Asia and Africa, this new ...
Economic Voting
1st Edition
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By Han Dorussen, Michaell Taylor
December 04, 2007
Economic voting is a phenomenon that political scientists and economists can hardly overlook. There is ample evidence for a strong link between economic conditions and government popularity. However, not everything is that simple and this edited collection focuses on 'the comparative puzzle' of ...
Governance and Democracy: Comparing National, European and International Experiences
1st Edition
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By Arthur Benz, Ioannis Papadopoulos
December 04, 2007
For the first time, this new collection brings together country specialists, researchers on the European Union, and leading international relations scholars to tackle a crucial question: how compatible are today’s new patterns of ‘policy networks’ and ‘multi-level’ governance with democratic ...
The European Union's Roles in International Politics: Concepts and Analysis
1st Edition
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By Ole Elgström, Michael Smith
December 03, 2007
This new volume develops a conceptual framework for considering and evaluating the roles played by the EU in international politics, drawing upon the literatures of role analysis, international relations and European integration. It pays particular attention to five aspects of role analysis: role ...