By Gerald Sussman
October 02, 2024
This book employs a political economic approach in exploring the underlying neoliberal foundations of politics and electioneering in both the USA and United Kingdom that have widened the divide among voters and, over time, led to a deep distrust of state institutions, including electoral politics ...
By Edoardo Guaschino
May 27, 2024
This book provides a comprehensive understanding of how, and under which conditions, regulators in the social sectors are able to influence political agendas and issue definitions. In these political processes, agencies may become the policy entrepreneurs which are able to prioritize issues, ...
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By Chen Friedberg, Gideon Rahat
March 28, 2024
This book examines two patterns of democracy – collegial and personal – through a comprehensive comparison of political institutions. It develops a conceptual, theoretical, and methodological basis for differentiating collegial and personal democracies. Central institutions in democracy are ...
By Simone Wegmann
January 29, 2024
Proposing a novel way to look at the consolidation of democratic regimes, this book presents important theoretical and empirical contributions to the study of democratic consolidation, legislative organization, and public opinion. Theoretically, Simone Wegmann brings legislatures into focus as the ...
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By Irene Dingeldey, Damian Grimshaw, Thorsten Schulten
May 31, 2023
This book goes beyond traditional minimum wage research to investigate the interplay between different country and sectoral institutional settings and actors’ strategies in the field of minimum wage policies. It asks which strategies and motives, namely free collective bargaining, fair pay and/or ...
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By Rüdiger K.W. Wurzel, Mikael Skou Andersen, Paul Tobin
January 09, 2023
This book takes an innovative approach to studying international climate governance by providing a critical analysis of climate leadership, pioneership and followership across the globe. The volume assesses the interactions between climate leaders, pioneers and followers, across multilevel and/or ...
By Elvis Bisong Tambe
January 09, 2023
This book examines why people vote in the newly consolidated democracies of Africa, Latin America, East Asia, and Central and Eastern European countries.It addresses the question of how well models or theories of electoral participation, initially developed in established democracies, "travel" to ...
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By Dorota Mokrosinska
January 09, 2023
This edited volume offers a critical discussion of the trade-offs between transparency and secrecy in the actual political practice of democratic states in Europe. As such, it answers to a growing need to systematically analyse the problem of secrecy in governance in this political and geographical...
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By Michael Dobbins, Rafał Riedel
May 19, 2021
This book examines organized interests in post-communist Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), providing incisive analyses in three critically important policy areas - healthcare, higher education and energy. The four countries surveyed – Poland, Hungary, Slovenia and the Czech Republic – afford rich ...
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By Agnieszka Kasińska-Metryka, Tomasz Gajewski
December 30, 2020
This book comprehensively describes the impact of modern technologies on political leadership by providing a new paradigm of the phenomenon of neo-leadership, that is political leadership oriented on creating both the image and political influence on the Internet. It examines its functioning in ...
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By Matt Evans
October 29, 2019
Through examination of parliamentary governments in twelve countries, this book demonstrates the ways in which study of the parties in governing coalitions, and their parliamentary opposition, provides insight into numerous aspects of countries’ cultural values, societal schisms, and the issues of ...
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By Keith Ewing, Jacob Rowbottom, Joo-Cheong Tham
August 09, 2018
This book explores the problems associated with regulating the funding of political parties and election campaigns in a timely assessment of a topic of great political controversy. From interest in Obama's capacity to raise vast sums of money, to scandals that have rocked UK and Australian ...