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  • Sub-Municipal Governance in Europe

    Decentralization Beyond the Municipal Tier

    Edited by Nikolaos-Komninos Hlepas, Norbert Kersting, Sabine Kuhlmann, Pawel Swianiewicz, Filipe Teles ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book explores sub-municipal units’ (SMU) role in decision making, decentralized institutional innovation, social innovation and, in rural areas, service delivery. Focusing on fourteen European countries, the book examines the impact of political cultures, administrative traditions and local government systems on the functioning of the SMUs. An under-explored topic in the literature, this book ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Electronic Voting

    Second International Joint Conference, E-Vote-ID 2017, Bregenz, Austria, October 24-27, 2017, Proceedings

    Edited by Robert Krimmer, Melanie Volkamer, Nadja Braun Binder, Norbert Kersting, Olivier Pereira, Carsten Schürmann ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Joint Conference on Electronic Voting, E-Vote-ID 2017, held in Bregenz, Austria, in October 2017.The 16 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 48 submissions. In addition the book contains 3 keynote talks. The papers deal with security, usability and technical issues; administrative, ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Reforming Local Government in Europe

    Closing the Gap between Democracy and Efficiency

    Edited by Norbert Kersting, Angelika Vetter ...
    Series Book 4 - Urban and Regional Research International
    Worldwide processes of transnationalization are accompanied by new chal lenges for the democracies of the Western world. On the one hand these proc esses ask for more efficient and effective ways of policy-making. On the other hand the legitimacy of the political systems is also challenged by growing dif ficulties of bringing the citizens (back) to politics. This gets more and more difficult with ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

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  • Renegotiating the Welfare State

    Flexible Adjustment through Corporatist Concertation

    Edited by Gerhard Lehmbruch, Frans van Waarden ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Political Economy of the Welfare State
    Why have some countries have been more successful in welfare state reform than others? This book examines the experiences of various countries in reforming their welfare states through renegotiations between the state and peak associations of employers and employees. This corporatist concertation has been blamed for bringing about all the ills of the welfare state, but lately corporate ... Read more

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  • Varieties of Liberalization and the New Politics of Social Solidarity

    by Kathleen Thelen ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
    This book examines contemporary changes in labor market institutions in the United States, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, and the Netherlands, focusing on developments in industrial relations, vocational education and training, and labor market policy. It finds that there are in fact distinct varieties of liberalization associated with very different distributive outcomes. Most scholarship equates ... Read more

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  • Agenda Setting, Policies, and Political Systems

    A Comparative Approach

    by Peter John, Shaun Bevan, Will Jennings, Bryan D. Jones, Michelle C. Whyman, Sylvain Brouard, Emiliano Grossman, Isabelle Guinaudeau, Arco Timmermans, Gerard Breeman, Frédéric Varone, Isabelle Engeli, Pascal Sciarini, Roy Gava, Christian Breunig, Brandon Zicha, Anne Hardy, Jeroen Joly, Tobias Van Assche, Enrico Borghetto, Marcello Carammia, Francesco Zucchini, Laura Chaqués-Bonafont, Anna M. Palau, Luz M. Muñoz Marquez, Martial Foucault, Éric Montpetit ...
    What will gain the system's attention? "Explores the dynamics of a broad range of policy issues in different countries . . . an important scholarly contribution." — Political Studies ReviewBefore making significant policy decisions, political actors and parties must first craft an agenda designed to place certain issues at the center of political attention. The agenda-setting approach in political ... Read more

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  • The Professionalisation of Political Communication

    by Ralph Negrine, Christina Holtz-Bacha, Stylianos Papathanassopoulos ...
    Has the communication of politics become professionalised? Who are the ‘professionals’ and what part do they play in the political process? Can the process of professionalisation be observed in different political systems? These, and related questions, about the changing nature of practices in political communication are explored in this book that looks at developments across a number of different ... Read more

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  • The Comparative Politics of Education

    Teachers Unions and Education Systems around the World

    Edited by Susanne Wiborg, Terry M. Moe ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in the Comparative Politics of Education
    Public education is critically important to the human capital, social well-being, and economic prosperity of nations. It is also an intensely political realm of public policy that is heavily shaped by power and special interests. Yet political scientists rarely study education, and education researchers rarely study politics. This volume attempts to change that by promoting the development of a ... Read more

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  • The Routledge Handbook of Euroscepticism

    Edited by Benjamin Leruth, Nicholas Startin, Simon Usherwood ...
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  • The Oxford Handbook of Local and Regional Democracy in Europe

    Edited by John Loughlin, Frank Hendriks, Anders Lidström ...
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    The Oxford Handbook of Local and Regional Democracy in Europe analyses the state of play of democracy at the subnational level in the 27 member states of the EU plus Norway and Switzerland. It places subnational democracy in the context of the distinctive Anglo, the French, the German and Scandinavian state traditions in Europe asking to what extent these are still relevant today. The Handbook ... Read more

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