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21. New Parties in Government

    In Power for the First Time

    Edited by Kris Deschouwer

    Series: Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science

    Party literature is largely focused on the rise and success of new parties and their effects on party systems and older parties. This book, on the other hand, provides a valuable and original addition to such literature by analyzing what happens to a party when it enters government for the first...

    Published February 9th 2011 by Routledge
22. The Role of Governments in Legislative Agenda Setting

    Edited by Bjorn Erik Rasch, George Tsebelis

    Series: Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science

    Setting the agenda for parliament is the most significant institutional weapon for governments to shape policy outcomes, because governments with significant agenda setting powers, like France or the UK, are able to produce the outcomes they prefer, while governments that lack agenda setting powers...

    Published November 7th 2010 by Routledge
23. The Political Representation of Immigrants and Minorities

    Voters, Parties and Parliaments in Liberal Democracies

    Edited by Karen Bird, Thomas Saalfeld, Andreas M. Wüst

    Series: Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science

    In 2005, almost 700,000 immigrants acquired the citizenship of a member state of the European Union; over 600,000 became US citizens; nearly 100,000 became Australians and approximately 200,000 Canadians. 2005 was not an exceptional year. During the past decades, many advanced liberal democracies...

    Published August 12th 2010 by Routledge
24. Democratic Politics and Party Competition

    Edited by Judith Bara, Albert Weale

    Series: Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science

    This new book introduces innovative research on democracy from the leading Comparative Manifestos Project (CMP). It details the key achievements of the project to date, illustrates how its findings may be applied, lays out the future challenges it faces and examines how the field as...

    Published July 29th 2010 by Routledge
25. Governments, NGOs and Anti-Corruption

    The New Integrity Warriors

    Edited by Luís de Sousa, Barry Hindess, Peter Larmour

    Series: Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science

    The purpose of this book is to understand the rise, future and implications of two important new kinds of "integrity warriors" - official anti-corruption agencies (ACAs) and anti-corruption NGOs – and to locate them in a wider context and history of anti-corruption activity. Key issues of...

    Published July 29th 2010 by Routledge
26. In Pursuit of Sustainable Development

    New governance practices at the sub-national level in Europe

    Edited by Susan Baker, Katarina Eckerberg

    Series: Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science

    The book explores how implementation strategies engage sub-national, regional and local actors in the promotion of sustainable development. Following the obligations incurred at the Rio Earth Summit and the related UNCED process, European states began to produce sustainable development strategies...

    Published July 29th 2010 by Routledge
27. International Organizations and Implementation

    Enforcers, Managers, Authorities?

    Edited by Jutta Joachim, Bob Reinalda, Bertjan Verbeek

    Series: Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science

    International organizations have once more become subjects of investigation for a whole range of scholars: political scientists, international relations specialists, organization theorists, and policy experts alike. The end of the Cold War, increased globalization, and the intensification of...

    Published July 29th 2010 by Routledge
28. Civil Societies and Social Movements

    Potentials and Problems

    Edited by Derrick Purdue

    Series: Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science

    This volume examines and contributes to debates surrounding social capital, social movements and the role of civil society in emerging forms of governance. The authors adopt a broad range of research approaches, from testing hypotheses drawn from rationale choice theory against available...

    Published June 9th 2010 by Routledge
29. Political Discussion in Modern Democracies

    A Comparative Perspective

    Edited by Michael R. Wolf, Laura Morales, Ken'ichi Ikeda

    Series: Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science

    The study of political discussion has been broken into sub-categories including deliberative democracy, discursive studies, dynamics of interpersonal communication, and discussion network analyses, with substantial numbers of books and articles covering each. However, these areas are often treated...

    Published May 11th 2010 by Routledge
30. Dominant Political Parties and Democracy

    Concepts, Measures, Cases and Comparisons

    Edited by Matthijs Bogaards, Françoise Boucek

    Series: Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science

    This book examines dominant parties in both established democracies and new democracies and explores the relationship between dominant parties and the democratic process. Bridging existing literatures, the authors analyse dominant parties at national and sub-national, district and intra-party...

    Published May 4th 2010 by Routledge