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  • New Developments in the Study of Coalition Governments

    Edited by Patrick Dumont, Bernard Grofman, Torbjörn Bergman, Tom Louwerse ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This edited volume suggests promising new avenues of research in analyzing coalition politics. Written by a group of leading scholars, the book clarifies a number of concepts too often taken for granted in the existing literature, performs theoretically-driven and methodologically novel comparative studies of the effects of institutions on coalition formation, revisits old empirical puzzles, ... Read more

    $125.09 USD

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    Why Economists Get It Wrong

    by Morten Jerven ...
    Series series African Arguments
    'A valuable corrective to the fraying narrative of [African] failure.'Foreign AffairsNot so long ago, Africa was being described as the hopeless continent. Recently, though, talk has turned to Africa rising, with enthusiastic voices exclaiming the potential for economic growth across many of its countries.What, then, is the truth behind Africa's growth, or lack of it? In this provocative book, ... Read more

    $22.19 USD

  • Veto Players

    How Political Institutions Work

    by George Tsebelis ...
    Political scientists have long classified systems of government as parliamentary or presidential, two-party or multiparty, and so on. But such distinctions often fail to provide useful insights. For example, how are we to compare the United States, a presidential bicameral regime with two weak parties, to Denmark, a parliamentary unicameral regime with many strong parties? Veto Players advances an ... Read more

    $33.89 USD

  • Beyond Social Democracy

    The Transformation of the Left in Emerging Knowledge Societies

    Edited by Silja Häusermann, Herbert Kitschelt ...
    Beyond Social Democracy examines the electoral decline of social democratic parties and how distinctive strategic moves might enable them to salvage different segments of their former electoral coalitions. Social democratic decline, however, does not imply the demise of basic tenets of the parties' programmatic appeals. Under the impact of novel twenty-first-century political-economic challenges, ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Who Votes Now?

    Demographics, Issues, Inequality, and Turnout in the United States

    by Jan E. Leighley, Jonathan Nagler ...
    Who Votes Now? compares the demographic characteristics and political views of voters and nonvoters in American presidential elections since 1972 and examines how electoral reforms and the choices offered by candidates influence voter turnout. Drawing on a wealth of data from the U.S. Census Bureau's Current Population Survey and the American National Election Studies, Jan Leighley and Jonathan ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Clarity of Responsibility, Accountability, and Corruption

    by Leslie A. Schwindt-Bayer, Margit Tavits ...
    Corruption is a significant problem for democracies throughout the world. Even the most democratic countries constantly face the threat of corruption and the consequences of it at the polls. Why are some governments more corrupt than others, even after considering cultural, social, and political characteristics? In Clarity of Responsibility, Accountability, and Corruption, the authors argue that ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Voters and Voting

    An Introduction

    by Jocelyn A J Evans ...
    ′This clear and comprehensive textbook will be invaluable for undergraduate and graduate courses on elections and voting behaviour. Complex theoretical and statistical ideas are explained lucidly and effectively - no mean achievement′- Representation′Voters and Voting fills a yawning gap in the study of elections and votingbehaviour. No other book today matches the breadth and depth of ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

  • Votes, Vetoes, and the Political Economy of International Trade Agreements

    by Edward D. Mansfield, Helen V. Milner ...
    Preferential trading arrangements (PTAs) play an increasingly prominent role in the global political economy, two notable examples being the European Union and the North American Free Trade Agreement. These agreements foster economic integration among member states by enhancing their access to one another's markets. Yet despite the importance of PTAs to international trade and world politics, ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Sailing the Water's Edge

    The Domestic Politics of American Foreign Policy

    by Dustin Tingley, Helen V. Milner ...
    How U.S. domestic politics shapes the nation's foreign policyWhen engaging with other countries, the U.S. government has a number of different policy instruments at its disposal, including foreign aid, international trade, and the use of military force. But what determines which policies are chosen? Does the United States rely too much on the use of military power and coercion in its foreign ... Read more

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  • Dynamic Democracy

    Public Opinion, Elections, and Policymaking in the American States

    by Devin Caughey, Christopher Warshaw ...
    Series series Chicago Studies in American Politics
    A new perspective on policy responsiveness in American government.Scholars of American politics have long been skeptical of ordinary citizens’ capacity to influence, let alone control, their governments. Drawing on over eight decades of state-level evidence on public opinion, elections, and policymaking, Devin Caughey and Christopher Warshaw pose a powerful challenge to this pessimistic view. ... Read more

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  • Determinants of Success in UN Peacekeeping Operations

    by Jacques L. Koko, Essoh J. M. C. Essis ...
    This book examines forty-six UN peacekeeping operations, initiated from 1956 through 2006 to manage cases of intrastate and interstate conflicts, to identify the most significant factors that could help to explain the success or lack of success of such operations. Factor analysis is used to exploit the correlations between independent variables in order to regroup them into a smaller set of ... Read more

    $34.79 USD

  • Parliamentary Oversight Tools

    A Comparative Analysis

    by Riccardo Pelizzo, Frederick Stapenhurst ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Comparative Politics
    This book investigates Parliaments’ capacity to oversee government activities, policies and expenditures. Utilising a comparative approach, the book presents a new examination of oversight tools and discusses the conditions under which such tools are employed effectively.The result of a 9-year collaboration between the authors, this book draws from the findings of survey data collected by the ... Read more

    $77.99 USD