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  • Citizen Politics and Democracy

    Public Opinion and Political Parties in Advanced Industrial Societies

    Since its first edition in 1988, Citizen Politics has provided a concise examination of citizens' political behavior and politicians' responses in advanced industrial democracies. It communicates findings from state-of-the-art research on parties, public opinion, and voters in a way that is at once accessible and comprehensive. It argues that ordinary people do, in fact, have what it takes to meet ... Read more

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  • Economics and Politics Revisited

    Executive Approval and the New Calculus of Support

    Series series Comparative Politics
    What drives government popularity? For decades, scholars, journalists, and political pundits alike have converged on a single answer: the economy. A rising economy lifts the popularity of the government, and if the economy's fortunes turn south, so too does that of the government. This conventional wisdom informs politicians' decisions as well as the scholarly commentary on parties and elections. ... Read more

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  • Democracy Under Siege?

    Parties, Voters, and Elections After the Great Recession

    Series series Comparative Study of Electoral Systems
    The Global Financial Crisis of 2008-2009 was catalyst for the most precipitous economic downturn in eight decades. This book examines how the GFC and ensuing Great Recession affected electoral politics in the world's developed democracies. The initial wave of research on the crisis concluded it did little to change the established relationships between voters, parties, and elections. Yet nearly a ... Read more

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  • Globalization and Mass Politics

    Retaining the Room to Maneuver

    Series series Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
    This book analyzes how increases in international trade, finance, and production have altered voter decisions, political party positions, and the types of public issues that parties focus on in postindustrial democracies. Although many studies interrogate whether internationalization matters in regard to policy outcomes and how globalization relates to mass protest, few examine globalization and ... Read more

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    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

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  • Affluence and Influence

    Economic Inequality and Political Power in America

    by Martin Gilens ...
    Why policymaking in the United States privileges the rich over the poorCan a country be a democracy if its government only responds to the preferences of the rich? In an ideal democracy, all citizens should have equal influence on government policy—but as this book demonstrates, America's policymakers respond almost exclusively to the preferences of the economically advantaged. Affluence and ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of the Political Economy of International Trade

    Edited by Lisa L. Martin ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of the Politics of International Trade surveys the literature on the politics of international trade and highlights the most exciting recent scholarly developments. It examines the impact of domestic societal actors, domestic institutions, and international interactions on trade policy and trade flows, as well as building on this basic analytical framework. Including ... Read more

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  • Do Political Campaigns Matter?

    Campaign Effects in Elections and Referendums

    Series series Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science
    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 effects in North America, Europe and Australasia. As a whole, the book provides a cross-national assessment of the theme of political ... Read more

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  • The EU Comitology System in Theory and Practice

    Keeping an Eye on the Commission?

    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    EU law consists of several thousand acts of which the overwhelming majority are made by the Commission. The Commission is controlled by comitology, a system of committees of member state representatives that are consulted when new acts are proposed. This book looks at why the system was created, how it functions and how it has evolved. ... Read more

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  • Electoral Systems and Governance

    How Diversity Can Improve Policy-Making

    Series series Routledge Research in Comparative Politics
    Diversity and dissent have been shown to improve decision-making in small groups. This understanding can be extended to the political arena and in turn it can enlighten ideas about policy-making.This book focuses on the relationship between electoral institutions and policy outcomes in order to effectively explore the impact of diversity and dissent on the political arena. In doing so, it provides ... Read more

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  • Conflict Resolution in the Twenty-first Century

    Principles, Methods, and Approaches

    In the past, arbitration, direct bargaining, the use of intermediaries, and deference to international institutions were relatively successful tools for managing interstate conflict. In the face of terrorism, intrastate wars, and the multitude of other threats in the post–Cold War era, however, the conflict resolution tool kit must include preventive diplomacy, humanitarian intervention, regional ... Read more

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  • Poor Numbers

    How We Are Misled by African Development Statistics and What to Do about It

    by Morten Jerven ...
    Series series Cornell Studies in Political Economy
    One of the most urgent challenges in African economic development is to devise a strategy for improving statistical capacity. Reliable statistics, including estimates of economic growth rates and per-capita income, are basic to the operation of governments in developing countries and vital to nongovernmental organizations and other entities that provide financial aid to them. Rich countries and ... Read more

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