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  • Party Politics in European Microstates

    Edited by Fernando Casal Bértoa, Patrick Dumont ...
    Series series Routledge Studies on Political Parties and Party Systems
    This book represents the first comprehensive study of the evolution of parties and party systems in all nine democratic European states with less than one million inhabitants.As small political units have for long been considered to be most conducive to stable democracy, this volume analyses the actual role of political parties and partisan competition in the operation of modern democracy in those ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • 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

  • The Selection of Ministers around the World

    Edited by Keith Dowding, Patrick Dumont ...
    Series series Routledge Research on Social and Political Elites
    Governing cabinets are composed of ministers who come and go even as governments march on. They work for the chief executive, the prime minister or the president, for their parties and for the constituent groups from which they come. They are chosen for their role and dismissed from it for all sorts of reasons that vary across time and country.This book examines the process of selection, shuffling ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • European Integration and Consensus Politics in the Low Countries

    Edited by Hans Vollaard, Jan Beyers, Patrick Dumont ...
    Series series Europe and the Nation State
    The Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg are well-known cases of consensus politics. Decision-making in the Low Countries has been characterized by broad involvement, power sharing and making compromises. These countries were also founding member states of the European Union (EU) and its predecessors. However, the relationship between European integration and the tradition of domestic consensus ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Puzzles of Government Formation

    Coalition Theory and Deviant Cases

    Edited by Rudy W. Andeweg, Lieven De Winter, Patrick Dumont ...
    Series series Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science
    Understanding the formation of governments has always been central to political science. Traditionally this topic has been considered from a rational choice theory perspective and the empirical testing of these theories; however neither approach alone is able to explain a large proportion of actual coalition formations.This comparative volume brings together a rational choice theory perspective ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Selection of Ministers in Europe

    Hiring and Firing

    Edited by Keith Dowding, Patrick Dumont ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in European Politics
    This volume discusses the formation of government cabinets within twenty European democracies, providing the institutional background to the selection and de-selection of ministers.Exploring the historical and constitutional context to cabinet formation, this volume proceeds to provide vital data on the strategic issues that affect the selection of ministers. Covering states from all over Europe, ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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  • Policy-Making Processes and the European Constitution

    A Comparative Study of Member States and Accession Countries

    Edited by Thomas König, Simon Hug ...
    Series series Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science
    This new volume presents a wealth of fresh data documenting and analyzing the different positions taken by governments in the development of the European Constitution.It examines how such decisions have substantial effects on the sovereignty of nation states and on the lives of citizens, independent of the ratification of a constitution. Few efforts have been made to document constitution building ... Read more

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  • 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

  • Political Parties in Africa

    Ethnicity and Party Formation

    by Sebastian Elischer ...
    This book examines the effects of ethnicity on party politics in sub-Saharan Africa. Sebastian Elischer analyzes political parties in Ghana, Kenya and Namibia in detail, and provides a preliminary analysis of parties in seven other countries including Tanzania, Botswana, Senegal, Zambia, Malawi, Burkina Faso and Benin. Elischer finds that five party types exist: the mono-ethnic, the ethnic ... Read more

    $27.89 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

  • 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

  • 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