Political Survival of Small Parties in Europe

Jae-Jae Spoon

• Hardcover | Engels | New Comparative Politics
• It is often thought that small party survival or failure is a result of institutional constraints, the behavior of large parties, and the choices of i... Lees meer

Democracy, Dictatorship, and Term Limits

Alexander Baturo

• Hardcover | Engels | New Comparative Politics
• A national constitution or other statute typically specifies restrictions on executive power, often including a limit to the number of terms the chief... Lees meer

Development in Multiple Dimensions

Alexander Lee

• Hardcover | New Comparative Politics
• Elite groups vary in their needs and levels of power, thus wielding differing levels of influence on state policy Lees meer

Democracy, Electoral Systems, and Judicial Empowerment in Developing Countries

Bumba Mukherjee, Vineeta Yadav

• Hardcover | Engels | New Comparative Politics
• The power granted to the courts, both in a nation's constitution and in practice, reveals much about the willingness of the legislative and executive ... Lees meer

The Latin American Voter

• Hardcover | Engels | New Comparative Politics
• In this volume, experts on Latin American public opinion and political behavior employ region-wide public opinion studies, elite surveys, experiments,... Lees meer

The Quality of Divided Democracies

Licia Cianetti

• Hardcover | Engels | New Comparative Politics
• The Quality of Divided Democracies contemplates how democracy works, or fails to work, in ethnoculturally divided societies. It advances a new theoret... Lees meer

The Causes of Post-Mobilization Leadership Change and Continuity

Vasili Rukhadze

• Hardcover | Engels | New Comparative Politics
• Vasili Rukhadze examines the factors that contributed to post-uprising leadership durability in the Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan, and Georgia in 2004-12, after... Lees meer

Mixed-Member Electoral Systems in Constitutional Context

Nathan F Batto, Chi Huang, Alexander C Tan, Gary W Cox

• Hardcover | Engels | New Comparative Politics
• Reformers have promoted mixed-member electoral systems as the "best of both worlds." In this volume, internationally recognized political scientists e... Lees meer

Veto Power

Jonathan Slapin

• Hardcover | Engels | New Comparative Politics
• "This is a terrific book. The questions that Slapin asks about intergovernmental conferences (IGCs) in the European Union are extraordinarily importan... Lees meer

Curbing Bailouts

Guillermo Rosas

• Hardcover | Engels | New Comparative Politics
• "Rosas's compelling theory and wide-ranging empirical evidence yield a persuasive but surprising conclusion in light of the financial meltdown of 2008... Lees meer

The Madisonian Turn

Torbjorn Bergman, Kaare Strom

• Hardcover | Engels | New Comparative Politics
• " The Madisonian Turn is an outstanding assessment of the functioning of democratic institutions in the Nordic countries. If democracy is in trouble i... Lees meer

The Political Influence of Business in the European Union

Andreas Dur, David Marshall, Patrick Bernhagen

• Hardcover | New Comparative Politics
• Counters the notion that business interests control EU policy by showing how information controls lobbying Lees meer

Political Survival of Small Parties in Europe

Jae-Jae Spoon

• Paperback | Engels | New Comparative Politics
• It is often thought that small party survival or failure is a result of institutional constraints, the behavior of large parties, and the choices of i... Lees meer

The European Union and the Rise of Regionalist Parties

Seth Kincaid Jolly

• Paperback | Engels | New Comparative Politics
• Rather than weakening the forces of nationalism among member states, the expanding power of the European Union actually fosters conditions favorable t... Lees meer

The European Union and the Rise of Regionalist Parties

Seth Kincaid Jolly

• Hardcover | Engels | New Comparative Politics
• Rather than weakening the forces of nationalism among member states, the expanding power of the European Union actually fosters conditions favorable t... Lees meer

Party Mandates and Democracy

• Hardcover | New Comparative Politics
• Contrary to public opinion, election promises are often fulfilled Lees meer

The Madisonian Turn

• Paperback | Engels | New Comparative Politics
• Parliamentary democracy is the most common regime type in the contemporary political world, but the quality of governance depends on effective parliam... Lees meer

The Latin American Voter

• Paperback | Engels | New Comparative Politics
• In this volume, experts on Latin American public opinion and political behavior employ region-wide public opinion studies, elite surveys, experiments,... Lees meer