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Culture and Politics
This concise, accessible text presents an overview of the relevance of culture for politics. Culture figures prominently in the theories of the great classics such as Marx, Durkheim and Weber. Recently, the cultural approach to politics has developed quickly, and the concept of political culture...
Published October 20th 2011 by Routledge
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Comparative Politics
The Principal-Agent Perspective
Series: Routledge Research in Comparative Politics
Starting from the principal-agent perspective, this book offers a new analysis of government. It interprets political institutions as devices designed to solve the omnipresent principal-agent game in politics. In other words how to select, instruct, monitor and evaluate political agents or elites...
Published June 9th 2010 by Routledge
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State Management
An Enquiry into Models of Public Administration & Management
State Management offers a comprehensive yet concise introduction to the new field of state management, presenting an analysis of basic questions within the theories of bureaucracy, policy-making, principal-agent modelling and policy networks. Focussing upon recent state transformation, it...
Published May 7th 2009 by Routledge
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Public Administration & Public Management
The Principal-Agent Perspective
A perspective on the public sector that presents a concise and comprehensive analysis of exactly what it is and how it operates. Governments in any society deliver a large number of services and goods to their populations. To get the job done, they need public management in order to steer...
Published September 21st 2005 by Routledge
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Democracy
A Comparative Approach
What is democracy? Under what conditions does it thrive? What are the consequences of democracy?This book aims to answer these questions and more by exploring different varieties of democracies around the world. It starts with definitions of democracy and then divides the concept into three...
Published March 26th 2003 by Routledge
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The Swiss Labyrinth
Institutions, Outcomes and Redesign
It can be argued that Switzerland has a peculiar set of political institutions, for example decentralized federalism, active referendum democracy, and La formule magique (grand coalition). This volume focuses upon the political and social outcomes of these institutions in the 1990s....
Published May 31st 2001 by Routledge
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New Public Management
An Introduction
New public management is a topical phrase to describe how management techniques from the private sector are now being applied to public services. This book provides a completely up-to-date overview of the main theoretical models of public sector management, and examines the key changes that have...
Published May 24th 2000 by Routledge
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The New Institutional Politics
Outcomes and Consequences
The New Institutional Politics is a comparative study of the impact of political institutions upon outcomes, and covers some of the major themes in the new institutionalism. It looks at how various democratic institutions like Konkordanzdemokratie or corporatism promote better outcomes than...
Published November 10th 1999 by Routledge
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Comparing Party System Change
Series: Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science
This volume examines the recent changes which have occurred in party systems across Europe. It concludes that parties in many countries are no longer bare reflections of traditional social groups. Rather, the structure in which parties compete is increasingly open and flexible, and subject to...
Published April 8th 1998 by Routledge
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Understanding the Swedish Model
Published October 31st 1991 by Routledge