This book examines dominant parties in both established democracies and new democracies and explores the relationship between dominant parties and the democratic process. Bridging existing literatures the authors analyse dominant parties at national and sub-national d... Lees meer.

This book explores how governance structures - domestic political institutions international peacekeeping efforts armed interventions by other states - and natural resources affect the onset dynamics and the termination of civil wars. Written by leading researchers i... Lees meer.

Electronic Democracy analyses the impact of new information and communication technologies ICTs within representative democracy such as political parties pressure groups new social movements and executive and legislative bodies. Arguing for the validity of social p... Lees meer.

This book offers a cross-national analysis of contemporary issues and challenges for the governing of urban regions. This book offers a cross-national analysis of contemporary issues and challenges for the governing of urban regions. The case studies on Germany Spai... Lees meer.

This new book introduces innovative research on democracy from the leading Comparative Manifestos Project CMP . It details the key achievements of the project to date illustrates how its findings may be applied lays out the future challenges it faces and examines how... Lees meer.

This volume examines the recent changes which have occurred in party systems across Europe. It concludes that parties in many countries are no longer bare reflections of traditional social groups. Rather the structure in which parties compete is increasingly open and f... Lees meer.

Drawing on case studies from Denmark The Netherlands and the UK this book discusses new Information and Communication Technologies ICTs . Contributors argue that ICTs play an important role in the process of restructuring and redefining basic relations within the pol... Lees meer.

This book carves out a new area of democratisation studies by analysing the transnational dimension and the role of non state actors across three different geographical regions. Chapters use data from Europe Africa and Latin America. This book carves out a new area... Lees meer.

This volume examines and contributes to debates surrounding social capital social movements and the role of civil society in emerging forms of governance. This volume examines and contributes to debates surrounding social capital social movements and the role of... Lees meer.

This collection confirms the robust relationship between level of economic development and democracy but suggests that globalization is a key variable in determining the tenuous nature of this relationship. Development and Democracy confirms the robust relationship... Lees meer.

Drawing on case studies from Denmark The Netherlands and the UK this book discusses new information and communication technologies. It explores their role in the restructuring of Western democratic political systems. Drawing on case studies from Denmark The Nether... Lees meer.

The first comparative study of the politics of policy innovation in the field of unemployment. The contributors provide a thorough and lucid analysis of past government failures and look to possible future strategies. The problem of mass unemployment in western Eur... Lees meer.

The Transformation of Governance in the European Union presents a theoretically informed typology of modes of governance which is tested in a careful selection of comparative country and policy studies. The book presents a theoretically informed typology of modes of... Lees meer.

This book in bringing together some of the leading international scholars on electoral behaviour and communication studies provides the first ever stock-take of the state of this sub-discipline. The individual chapters present the most recent studies on campaign effec... Lees meer.

This original analysis asserts that countries once considered peripheral to the world order such as Brazil and Turkey are now forming regional power blocs of their own which could go on to hold the balance of power in the new world order. In contrast to most studie... Lees meer.