Challenging the State: Devolution and the Battle for Partisan Credibility

Sonia Alonso

• Hardcover | Engels | Comparative Politics
• How do state parties react to the challenge of peripheral parties demanding political power to be devolved to their culturally distinct territories? I... Lees meer

The Reshaping of West European Party Politics

Christoffer Green-Pedersen

• Hardcover | Engels | Comparative Politics
• Long gone are the times when class-based political parties with extensive membership dominated politics. Instead, party politics has become issue-base... Lees meer

Democracy Transformed?

• Paperback | Engels | Comparative Politics
• The popular pressures for reforms of the democratic process have mounted across the OECD nations over the past generation. In response, democratic ins... Lees meer

Coalition Governance in Central Eastern Europe

• Hardcover | Engels | Comparative Politics
• Coalition government among different political parties is the way most European democracies are governed. Traditionally, the study of coalition politi... Lees meer

The New Kremlinology

Alexander Baturo, Jos Elkink

• Hardcover | Engels | Comparative Politics
• The New Kremlinology is the first in-depth examination of the development of regime personalization in Russia. In the post-Cold War period, many previ... Lees meer

The New Party Challenge

Tim Haughton, Kevin Deegan-Krause

• Hardcover | Engels | Comparative Politics
• Why do some parties live fast and die young, but others endure? And why are some party systems more stable than others? Based on a blend of data deriv... Lees meer

Party Politics in New Democracies

• Hardcover | Engels | Comparative Politics
• Comparative Politics is a series for students and teachers of political science that deals with contemporary government and politics. The General Edit... Lees meer

Parliaments and Coalitions

Lanny W Martin, Georg Vanberg

• Hardcover | Engels | Comparative Politics
• Coalition governments are the norm in most of the world's parliamentary democracies. Because these governments are comprised of multiple political par... Lees meer

Beyond Turnout

Shane P Singh

• Hardcover | Engels | Comparative Politics
• Compulsory voting is widely used in the democratic world, and it is well established that it increases electoral participation. Beyond Turnout: How Co... Lees meer

Beyond Party Members

Susan Scarrow

• Hardcover | Engels | Comparative Politics
• For more than a century party members have played a central role in many parliamentary democracies, helping political parties to mobilize voters, and ... Lees meer

Party Patronage and Party Government in European Democracies

Petr Kopecky, The Late Peter Mair, Maria Spirova

• Hardcover | Engels | Comparative Politics
• Party Patronage and Party Government in European Democracies brings together insights from the worlds of party politics and public administration in o... Lees meer

Redistricting in Comparative Perspective

• Hardcover | Engels | Comparative Politics
• The aim of this book is threefold. First to put in one place for the convenience of both scholars and practitioners the basic data on redistricting pr... Lees meer

Electoral Systems and Party Systems

Arend Lijphart

• Paperback | Engels | Comparative Politics
• The most fundamental element of representative democracy is the electoral system--translating citizens' votes into representatives' seats. Electoral s... Lees meer

Multi-Level Democracy

Lori Thorlakson

• Hardcover | Engels | Comparative Politics
• All federal systems face an internal tension between divisive and integrative political forces, striking a balance between providing local autonomy an... Lees meer

Parties and Democracy

Ian Budge, Hans Keman

• Paperback | Engels | Comparative Politics
• This book examines the actual behavior of 400 governments in 20 postwar democracies (including those of Western Europe, Japan, Australia, New Zealand,... Lees meer

Democratic Representation in Europe

• Hardcover | Engels | Comparative Politics
• Democratic Representation in Europe: Diversity, Change and Convergence explores representation as a core element of democracies in the modern era. Ove... Lees meer

Political Parties in the New Europe

Luther Kurt

• Hardcover | Engels | Comparative Politics
• The scope and intensity of the challenges currently faced by western European political parties is exceptionally large, threatening the viability of t... Lees meer

Political Parties in the New Europe

• Paperback | Engels | Comparative Politics
• The scope and intensity of the challenges currently faced by western European political parties is exceptionally large, threatening the viability of t... Lees meer

Voters Under Pressure

Ruth Dassonneville

• Hardcover | Engels | Comparative Politics
• This book examines changes in voters' electoral choices over time and investigates how these changes are linked to a growth in electoral volatility. R... Lees meer

Social Movements and Networks ' Relational Approaches to Collective Action '

• Hardcover | Engels | Comparative Politics
• For the first time in a single volume, leading social movement researchers map the full range of applications of network concepts and tools to their f... Lees meer

The Challenges of Intra-Party Democracy

William P Cross, Richard S Katz

• Hardcover | Engels | Comparative Politics
• The Challenges of Intra-Party Democracy provides a comprehensive examination of both the concept and the practice of intra-party democracy (IPD). Ackn... Lees meer

Political Leaders and Democratic Elections

• Paperback | Engels | Comparative Politics
• Outcomes of legislative elections are typically reported in terms of party support: how many votes and seats were obtained by each party? But in fact ... Lees meer

Intergovernmental Cooperation

Nicole Bolleyer

• Hardcover | Engels | Comparative Politics
• This text argues that governments' choices in favour or against strong intergovernmental institutions are not primarily driven by considerations of ef... Lees meer

Faces on the Ballot

Alan Renwick, Jean-Benoit Pilet

• Hardcover | Engels | Comparative Politics
• One of the key shifts in contemporary politics is the trend towards greater personalization. Collective actors such as political parties are losing re... Lees meer