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11. Participatory Democracy and Political Participation

    Can Participatory Engineering Bring Citizens Back In?

    Edited by Thomas Zittel, Dieter Fuchs

    Series: Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science

    A detailed new examination of the initiatives governments are exploring to reform the institutions and procedures of liberal democracy in order to provide more opportunities for political participation and inclusion. Combining theory and empirical case studies, this is a systematic evaluation of...

    Published March 21st 2012 by Routledge
12. Parliamentary Roles in Modern Legislatures

    Edited by Magnus Blomgren, Olivier Rozenberg

    Series: Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science

    This book gathers the most influential authors on role research and legislative studies to examine the different roles that MPs are playing in modern-day legislatures. It provides a comprehensive and critical overview of current research on legislative roles, summarises previous research, presents...

    Published February 6th 2012 by Routledge
13. Transnational Private Governance and its Limits

    Edited by Jean-Christophe Graz, Andreas Nölke

    Series: Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science

    This volume explores a variety of forms of transnational private governance where non-state actors cooperate across borders to establish rules and standards accepted as legitimate by other agents. Transnational private governance is a core feature of the devolution of power that we observe in the...

    Published January 19th 2012 by Routledge
14. New Participatory Dimensions in Civil Society

    Professionalization and Individualized Collective Action

    Edited by Jan van Deth, William Maloney

    Series: Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science

    This book examines citizen engagement in contemporary democratic politics and the development of new participatory forms. Based on empirical information gathered from citizens, activists and organizations, it examines the changing face of democratic participation. Advanced democracies are ‘plagued’...

    Published December 12th 2011 by Routledge
15. Ageing Populations in Post-Industrial Democracies

    Comparative Studies of Policies and Politics

    Edited by Pieter Vanhuysse, Achim Goerres

    Series: Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science

    Most advanced democracies are currently experiencing accelerated population ageing, which fundamentally changes not just their demographic composition; it can also be expected to have far-reaching political and policy consequences. This volume brings together an expert set of scholars from Europe...

    Published October 3rd 2011 by Routledge
16. Politics of Religion in Western Europe

    Modernities in conflict?

    Edited by François Foret, Xabier Itçaina

    Series: Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science

    Religion is becoming increasingly important to the study of political science and to re-examine key concepts, such as democracy, securitization, foreign policy analysis, and international relations. The secularization of Europe is often understood according to the concept of ‘multiple modernities’...

    Published August 21st 2011 by Routledge
17. New Regionalism and the European Union

    Dialogues, Comparisons and New Research Directions

    Edited by Alex Warleigh-Lack, Nick Robinson, Ben Rosamond

    Series: Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science

    The debates on regionalism have been polarized between European Union (EU) scholars and non-EU scholars, with the assumption being that regionalism within the EU and other regions of the world are quite distinct, with little to be learnt from dialogue with each other. This book challenges such...

    Published May 26th 2011 by Routledge
18. Puzzles of Government Formation

    Coalition Theory and Deviant Cases

    Edited by Rudy W. Andeweg, Lieven De Winter, Patrick Dumont

    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...

    Published March 31st 2011 by Routledge
19. Administrative Reforms and Democratic Governance

    Edited by Jean-Michel Eymeri-Douzans, Jon Pierre

    Series: Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science

    After a quarter of a century of implementation of New Public Management (NPM) reform strategies, this book assesses the major real outcomes of these reforms on states and public sectors, at both the organisational level and a more political level. Unlike most previous accounts of reform, this book...

    Published March 15th 2011 by Routledge
20. Policy-Making Processes and the European Constitution

    A Comparative Study of Member States and Accession Countries

    Edited by Thomas König, Simon Hug

    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...

    Published March 13th 2011 by Routledge