Forthcoming Democracy Books

Forthcoming Books

1. Dealing with the Legacy of Authoritarianism

   The “Politics of the Past” in Southern European Democracies

   Edited by Antonio Costa Pinto, Leonardo Morlino

   In recent years the agenda of how to ‘deal with the past’ has become a central dimension of the quality of contemporary democracies. Many years after the process of authoritarian breakdown, consolidated democracies revisit the past either symbolically or to punish the elites associated with the...

   To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
2. The European Union, Russia and the Shared Neighbourhood

   Edited by Jackie Gower, Graham Timmins

   Series: Routledge Europe-Asia Studies

   The conflict in South Ossetia in the summer of 2008 and the Ukrainian energy crisis in early 2009 served to highlight the tensions that continue to influence EU-Russia relations in regard to the region comprising the former republics of the Soviet Union or the ‘shared neighbourhood’. This book...

   To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
3. Grassroots Elections in China

   Edited by Kevin O'Brien, Suisheng Zhao

   Twenty years after the launch of village elections, the time is ripe to assess the progress and impact of China’s most notable political reform. Where have elections been conducted well and where have they been conducted poorly? How have procedures changed over the years and have elections truly...

   To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
4. Promoting Party Politics in Emerging Democracies

   Edited by Peter Burnell, Andre Gerrits

   This book offers a critical and comparative examination of international support to political parties and party systems in emerging and prospective new democracies in several world regions. It combines the insights of a strong international grouping of leading academics and pioneering doctoral...

   To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
5. Perpetrators, Accomplices and Victims in Twentieth-Century Politics

   Reckoning with the Past

   Edited by Anatoly M. Khazanov, Stanley Payne

   Series: Totalitarianism Movements and Political Religions

   These studies examine the ways in which succeeding democratic regimes have dealt with, or have ignored (and in several cases sugar-coated) an authoritarian or totalitarian past from 1943 to the present. They treat the relationship with democratization and the different ways in which collective...

   To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
6. Europe and the Management of Globalization

   Edited by Wade Jacoby, Sophie Meunier

   Series: Journal of European Public Policy Special Issues as Books

   European politicians often speak of their efforts to 'manage globalization.' At one level, this is merely a rhetorical device to make globalization more palatable to citizens and prove that policy-makers are still firmly in control of their country’s fate. This volume argues that the advocacy of...

   To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
7. The European Union's Democratization Agenda in the Mediterranean

   Edited by Michelle Pace, Peter Seeberg

   Democracy promotion in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) remains a central pillar of the foreign policy of the European Union (EU). Rather than concentrating on the relations between the incumbent authoritarian regimes and the opposition in the relevant countries, and on the degree to which...

   To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
8. Parliaments and Citizens

   Edited by Cristina Leston-Bandeira

   Series: Library of Legislative Studies

   The relationship between parliaments and citizens is one of the least studied subjects in legislative studies, yet this is a crucial dimension to understand parliaments and the role they play in our political systems. Furthermore, this relationship has gained considerable visibility over the...

   To Be Published June 2nd 2013 by Routledge
9. The Transition to Democracy in Hungary

   Árpád Göncz and the Post-Communist Hungarian Presidency

   By Dae Soon Kim

   Series: BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies

   Unlike in other countries of Eastern Europe where the opposition to communism came in the form of single mass movements led by charismatic leaders such as Václav Havel and Lech Walesa, in Hungary the opposition was very fragmented, brought together and made effective only by the authoritative,...

   To Be Published June 17th 2013 by Routledge
10. The EU’s Democracy Promotion and the Mediterranean Neighbours

    Orientation, Ownership and Dialogue in Jordan and Turkey

    By Ann-Kristin Jonasson

    Series: Routledge Advances in European Politics

    This book provides a systematic analysis of the EU’s extensive, but so far largely failed, efforts to promote democracy in the Mediterranean region, thoroughly assessing its democracy promotion in relation to two Mediterranean countries – Jordan and Turkey. By pinpointing essential prerequisites...

    To Be Published June 18th 2013 by Routledge