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381. Exploring Civil Society

     Political and Cultural Contexts

     Edited by Marlies Glasius, David Lewis, Hakan Seckinelgin

     This volume explores how the idea of civil society has been translated in different cultural contexts and examines its impact on politics worldwide. Comparing and contrasting civil society in Latin America and Eastern Europe, Western Europe and the United States, Africa and South Asia, and the...

     Published August 18th 2004 by Routledge
382. Determinants of the Death Penalty

     A Comparative Study of the World

     By Carsten Anckar

     Series: Routledge Research in Comparative Politics

     Determinants of the Death Penalty seeks to explain the phenomenon of capital punishment - without recourse to value judgements - by identifying those characteristics common to countries that use the death penalty and those that mark countries which do not. This global study uses statistical...

     Published July 21st 2004 by Routledge
383. National Electronic Government

     Comparing Governance Structures in Multi-Layer Administrations

     Edited by Martin Eifert, Jan Ole Püschel

     Series: Routledge Research in Information Technology and Society

     This volume presents a comparative study to evaluate the success of the implementation of e-government in the UK, US, France, Germany, Finland, Australia and Japan. The detailed study examines national e-government strategies and their institutional framework of coordination and cooperation by...

     Published June 30th 2004 by Routledge
384. Rethinking Ethnicity

     Majority Groups and Dominant Minorities

     Edited by Eric P. Kaufmann

     The impact of liberal globalization and multiculturalism means that nations are under pressure to transform their national identities from an ethnic to a civic mode. This has led, in many cases, to dominant ethnic decline, but also to its peripheral revival in the form of far right politics. At the...

     Published April 21st 2004 by Routledge
385. Asian Regional Governance

     Crisis and Change

     By Kanishka Jayasuriya

     Jayasuriya looks at the changing global and domestic political economies shaping the new regionalism in Asia, and examines the relationship between regional domestic, political and economic structures and forms of regional governance. Well-known contributors in the field focus...

     Published January 7th 2004 by Routledge
386. Comparative Biomedical Policy

     Governing Assisted Reproductive Technologies

     Edited by Ivar A. Bleiklie, Malcolm L. Goggin, Christine Rothmayr

     Series: Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science

     This book presents a comparative study examining assisted reproductive technology policies in North America and Europe. Based on original and detailed research, this up-to-date volume establishes a knowledge base for understanding policy debates on topics such as embryonic stem cell research and...

     Published December 3rd 2003 by Routledge
387. Europeanization and Transnational States

     Comparing Nordic Central Governments

     By Bengt Jacobsson, Per Lægreid, Ove K. Pedersen

     This book investigates what happens to an organized political unit when it becomes part of a larger entity and, in particular, how increased European integration and the tentative moves towards a transnational state will affect the European Union's nation state. Europeanization and Transnational...

     Published October 22nd 2003 by Routledge
388. International Intervention in the Balkans since 1995

     Edited by Peter Siani-Davies

     Series: Routledge Advances in European Politics

     This volume offers an analysis of the activities of the international community in the Balkans since the 1995 Dayton Agreement. There has been substantial investment in the region but so far the gains have been limited and doubts remain as to the extent that sustainable security has been enhanced....

     Published September 10th 2003 by Routledge
389. Democratization

     A Comparative Analysis of 170 Countries

     By Tatu Vanhanen

     Series: Routledge Research in Comparative Politics

     This book examines the relationship between indicators of resource distribution and democratization in the group of 170 countries with data ranging from the 1850s to the present day. Vanhanen constructs a compelling argument, concluding that the emergence of democracy is closely linked to resource...

     Published September 3rd 2003 by Routledge
390. The European Union & Democratization

     Reluctant States

     By Paul Kubicek

     Series: Europe and the Nation State

     The European Union has been a key actor in promoting democratization and providing assistance to encourage political change. This book assesses the EU's contribution to democratization by looking at the failures and states that offered resistance to EU pressure to reform, aiming to understand how...

     Published August 13th 2003 by Routledge