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  • Politicians in Hard Times

    Spanish and South European MPs Facing Citizens after the Great Recession

    Edited by Xavier Coller, Leonardo Sánchez-Ferrer ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book analyses the Spanish parliamentary elites in a comparative perspective within southern Europe. What has been the impact of the Great Recession on the configuration of parliaments and the diversity of legislators? Have new parties delivered better representation of citizens in terms of demographics (gender, age, social class), ideology or political attitudes and beliefs? This original ... Read more

    $134.99 USD

  • Political Representation in Southern Europe and Latin America

    Before and After the Great Recession and the Commodity Crisis

    Series series Routledge Research on Social and Political Elites
    This collective volume - with contributions from experts on these regions - examines broader questions about the current crises (The Great Recession and The Commodity Crisis) and the associated changes in political representation in both regions.It provides a general overview of political representation studies in Southern Europe and Latin America and builds bridges between the two traditions of ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Political Power in Spain

    The Multiple Divides between MPs and Citizens

    Edited by Xavier Coller, Fabiola Mota, Antonio M. Jaime-Castillo ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book explores why some people become politicians, how they represent citizens in parliaments, and what they think about democracy and its institutions. It analyses the results of the first survey of a representative sample of Spanish MPs (580 cases) and citizens. The study covers areas such as: social profiles; recruitment and selection; women in parliaments; motivation for politics; ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • The Selection of Politicians in Times of Crisis

    Edited by Xavier Coller, Guillermo Cordero, Antonio M. Jaime-Castillo ...
    Series series Routledge Research on Social and Political Elites
    Selecting candidates for elections is a major goal of political parties and a major function of political regimes in democratic systems. With the negative effects of the economic crisis being seen to translate into changes in voting patterns, and citizens using elections to punish parties in government for their roles in economic mismanagement or lack of response to the global economic crisis, a ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Democratizing Candidate Selection

    New Methods, Old Receipts?

    Edited by Guillermo Cordero, Xavier Coller ...
    This book studies the challenges to conventional politics posed by new ways of selecting candidates for legislative elections. The recent economic crisis had profound political consequences on politics, generating an upsurge in the demand for more participative ways of decision-making in politics channelled through social movements and individuals in different countries. Some parties have reacted ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

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    by Raul Gomez, Luis Ramiro ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Extremism and Democracy
    Radical Left Voters in Western Europe explores who votes for Radical Left Parties in contemporary Western Europe, and why.Once considered a relic of the past which was doomed to disappear in affluent societies, Radical Left Parties were able to survive unprecedented electoral crises in the 1980s and 1990s to become a stable and significant feature of contemporary West European politics. Despite ... Read more

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  • Towards a Comparative Analysis of Social Inequalities between Europe and Latin America

    Edited by Pedro López-Roldán, Sandra Fachelli ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access volume identifies the common and specific aspects of social mechanisms that generate inequalities, through comparative analyses of different dimensions in which inequalities are expressed. It includes studies on social inequalities in 5 European and 5 Latin American countries, along 11 thematic axes: inequalities in the labour market and labour trajectories; asymmetries in the ... 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 ...
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  • History of the Social Determinants of Health

    Global Histories, Contemporary Debates

    Edited by Harold J. Cook, Sanjoy Bhattacharya, Anne Hardy ...
    Every subject has its history, including the Social Determinants of Health. It is a subject that investigates differences in human health that occur because of social life, from income and class to family life and neighbourhood. Social determinants can have very large effects on longevity, just as do other determinants, such as the provision of medical care or clean drinking water. A Commission to ... Read more

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  • Europe's Crises

    Edited by Manuel Castells, Olivier Bouin, Joao Caraça, Gustavo Cardoso, John Thompson, Michel Wieviorka ...
    Today, the European Union is facing a crisis as serious as anything it has experienced since its origins more than half a century ago. What makes this so serious is that it is not a single crisis but rather multiple crises – the euro crisis, the migration/refugee crisis, Brexit, etc. – that overlap and reinforce one another, creating a cumulative array of challenges that threatens the very ... Read more

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  • Democracies and Dictatorships in Latin America

    Emergence, Survival, and Fall

    by Scott Mainwaring, Aníbal Pérez-Liñán ...
    This book presents a new theory for why political regimes emerge, and why they subsequently survive or break down. It then analyzes the emergence, survival and fall of democracies and dictatorships in Latin America since 1900. Scott Mainwaring and Aníbal Pérez-Liñán argue for a theoretical approach situated between long-term structural and cultural explanations and short-term explanations that ... Read more

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  • Southern Africa's Responses to International HIV/AIDS Norms (1990-2005)

    The Politics os Assimilation

    by Marco Antonio Vieira ...
    The southern African region has the worst HIV/AIDS epidemic in the world. In some countries, HIV infection affects nearly 40% of the adult population. This work shows that, despite the formal commitment of the governments of the region to follow international guidelines to combat the epidemic and the technical and financial support of powerful donors, three countries - Botswana,Mozambique and ... Read more

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