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  • Sharing Power, Securing Peace?

    Ethnic Inclusion and Civil War

    by Lars-Erik Cederman, Simon Hug, Julian Wucherpfennig ...
    Does power sharing bring peace? Policymakers around the world seem to think so. Yet, while there are many successful examples of power sharing in multi-ethnic states, such as Switzerland, South Africa and Indonesia, other instances show that such arrangements offer no guarantee against violent conflict, including Rwanda, Yugoslavia, Zimbabwe and South Sudan. Given this mixed record, it is not ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Altering Party Systems

    Strategic Behavior and the Emergence of New Political Parties in Western Democracies

    by Simon Hug ...
    Series series Interests, Identities, And Institutions In Comparative Politics
    New political parties have regularly appeared in developed democracies around the world. In some countries issues focusing on the environment, immigration, economic decline, and regional concerns have been brought to the forefront by new political parties. In other countries these issues have been addressed by established parties, and new issue-driven parties have failed to form. Most current ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • 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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  • Politicising Europe

    Integration and Mass Politics

    Edited by Swen Hutter, Edgar Grande, Hanspeter Kriesi ...
    Politicising Europe presents the most comprehensive contribution to empirical research on politicisation to date. The study is innovative in both conceptual and empirical terms. Conceptually, the contributors develop and apply a new index and typology of politicisation. Empirically, the volume presents a huge amount of original data, tracing politicisation in a comparative perspective over more ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • How Many Languages Do We Need?

    The Economics of Linguistic Diversity

    by Victor Ginsburgh, Shlomo Weber ...
    In the global economy, linguistic diversity influences economic and political development as well as public policies in positive and negative ways. It leads to financial costs, communication barriers, divisions in national unity, and, in some extreme cases, conflicts and war--but it also produces benefits related to group and individual identity. What are the specific advantages and disadvantages ... Read more

    $41.99 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

  • The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion

    by John R. Zaller ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Public Opinion and Political Psychology
    In this 1992 book John Zaller develops a comprehensive theory to explain how people acquire political information from elites and the mass media and convert it into political preferences. Using numerous specific examples, Zaller applies this theory to the dynamics of public opinion on a broad range of subjects, including domestic and foreign policy, trust in government, racial equality, and ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Public Choice III

    by Dennis C. Mueller ...
    This book represents a considerable revision and expansion of Public Choice II (1989). Six new chapters have been added, and several chapters from the previous edition have been extensively revised. The discussion of empirical work in public choice has been greatly expanded. As in the previous editions, all of the major topics of public choice are covered. These include: why the state exists, ... Read more

    $65.59 USD

  • Neither Liberal nor Conservative

    Ideological Innocence in the American Public

    by Donald R. Kinder, Nathan P. Kalmoe ...
    Series series Chicago Studies in American Politics
    Congress is crippled by ideological conflict. The political parties are more polarized today than at any time since the Civil War. Americans disagree, fiercely, about just about everything, from terrorism and national security, to taxes and government spending, to immigration and gay marriage.Well, American elites disagree fiercely. But average Americans do not. This, at least, was the position ... Read more

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  • Left and Right

    The Small World of Political Ideas

    by Christopher Cochrane ...
    Series Book 3 - McGill-Queen's Studies in Urban Governance
    The words "left" and "right" often signal a political divide in debates about topics as diverse as abortion, capital punishment, gun control, social welfare, taxation, immigration, and the environment. Despite claims that political polarization is in decline, its persistence suggests that it is inherent to our society. At the same time, variations in the perception of each side indicate that these ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Pillars of Prosperity

    The Political Economics of Development Clusters

    by Timothy Besley, Torsten Persson ...
    Series series The Yrjö Jahnsson Lectures
    How nations can promote peace, prosperity, and stability through cohesive political institutions"Little else is required to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism, but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice; all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things." So wrote Adam Smith a quarter of a millennium ago. Using the tools ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • All International Politics Is Local

    The Diffusion of Conflict, Integration, and Democratization

    by Kristian Skrede Gleditsch ...
    How does regional interdependence influence the prospects for conflict, integration, and democratization? Some researchers look at the international system at large and disregard the enormous regional variations. Others take the concept of sovereignty literally and treat each nation-state as fully independent. Kristian Skrede Gleditsch looks at disparate zones in the international system to see ... Read more

    $50.39 USD