[PDF] Politics In Europe Structures And Processes In Some Postindustrial Democracies eBook

Author : Michael Emerson
Publisher : CEPS
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 10,7 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Democracy
ISBN : 9290795921

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Approaches democratization of the European neighbourhood from two sides, first exploring developments in the states themselves and then examining what the European Union has been doing to promote the process.

Author : Robert Rohrschneider
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 731 pages
File Size : 30,85 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0198825080

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"How can democracies effectively represent citizens? The goal of this Handbook is to evaluate comprehensively how well the interests and preferences of mass publics become represented by institutions in liberal democracies. It first explores how the idea and institutions of liberal democracies were formed over centuries and became enshrined in Western political systems. The contributors to this Handbook, made up of the world's leading scholars on the various aspects of political representation, examine how well the political elites and parties who are charged with the representation of the public interest meet their duties. Clearly, institutions often fail to live up to their own representation goals. With this in mind, the contributors explore several challenges to the way that the system of representation is organized in modern democracies. For example, actors such as parties and established elites face rising distrust among electorates. Also, the rise of international problems such as migration and environmentalism suggests that the focus of democracies on nation states may have to shift to a more international level. All told, this Handbook illuminates the normative and functional challenges faced by representative institutions in liberal democracies"--

Author : David Charles Marsh
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 49,56 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780714632254

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First Published in 1983. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Howard J. Wiarda
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 33,50 MB
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1317078853

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Political Culture (defined as the values, beliefs, and behavioral patterns underlying the political system) has long had an uneasy relationship with political science. Identity politics is the latest incarnation of this conflict. Everyone agrees that culture and identity are important, specifically political culture, is important in understanding other countries and global regions, but no one agrees how much or how precisely to measure it. In this important book, well known Comparativist, Howard J. Wiarda, traces the long and controversial history of culture studies, and the relations of political culture and identity politics to political science. Under attack from structuralists, institutionalists, Marxists, and dependency writers, Wiarda examines and assesses the reasons for these attacks and why political culture went into decline only to have a new and transcendent renaissance and revival in the writings of Inglehart, Fukuyama, Putnam, Huntington and many others. Today, political culture, now updated to include identity politics, stands as one of these great explanatory paradigms in political science, the others being structuralism and institutionalism. Rather than seeing them as diametrically exposed, Howard Wiarda shows how they may be made complementary and woven together in more complex, multicausal explanations. This book is brief, highly readable, provocative and certain to stimulate discussion. It will be of interest to general readers and as a text in courses in international relations, comparative politics, foreign policy, and Third World studies.

Author : Howard J. Wiarda
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 48,66 MB
Release : 2018-03-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0429974566

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As ?must? reading for anyone interested in comparative politics, this text is designed to address the theoretical developments and approaches important to the comparative study of political systems today. These include: developmentalism, dependency theory, corporatism, state society relations, political economy, public policy analysis, indigenous theories of change, rational choice, and the new institutionalism. This text sees the new diversity of approaches as healthy and invigorating. The diversity in comparative politics over the past two decades has been reflected in prior editions of this book. Whereas these separate approaches once may have been regarded as fragmentary, now scholars have come to regard the diverse lines of inquiry as lending complimentary tools of analysis to our complex modern world. The emerging methods of comparative study often provide ?causeways? between previous ?islands of theory.? In this new edition, all the main approaches to comparative politics are represented in chapter length treatment. Several contributors revisit the topics they addressed in the prior editions, e.g. Tony Smith on dependency analysis, Lawrence Graham on public policy, and Joel Migdal on state-society relations. Most significantly, the third edition introduces readers to new, provocative analyses such as Paul Adams on corporatism, Anthony Gill on political economy; Ronald Inglehart on political culture; Gerardo Munck on rational choice, A. H. Somjee on indigenous theory, and Frank L. Wilson on the new institutionalism. Introductory and concluding essays by editor Howard J. Wiarda integrate the book, placing the different approaches in perspective.

Author : Jan-Erik Lane
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 33,40 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780714634456

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First Published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Jie Chen
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 14,75 MB
Release : 2010-06-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780674048966

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"Allies of the State is a finely tuned laser of a book. With a rigorous yet elegant research design deployed with great dexterity, the argument unfolds in tantalizing layers, as Chen and Dickson get us closer than ever to understanding the political attitudes and behavior of China's private entrepreneurs."ùScott Kennedy, author of The Business of Lobbying in China --