Forthcoming Political Research Methods Books

Forthcoming Books

1. Research and International Trade Policy Negotiations

   Knowledge and Power in Latin America

   Edited by Mercedes Botto

   Series: Routledge Studies in Latin American Politics

   The international trade negotiations that were launched throughout Latin America in the 1990s created significant challenges for developing countries because of their complexity. In order to make informed decisions and successfully legitimize negotiating positions, governments and stakeholders...

   To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
2. Multi-Sited Ethnography

   Problems and Possibilities in the Translocation of Research Methods

   Edited by Simon Coleman, Pauline von Hellermann

   Series: Routledge Advances in Research Methods

   This collection of essays emerged out of intense conversations on multi-sited ethnography, prompted by a workshop held at the University of Sussex that brought together researchers from different institutional backgrounds and affiliations in Europe, the United States and Africa – including George...

   To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
3. 'Whither regional studies?'

   Edited by Andy Pike

   Series: Regions and Cities

   Regional studies are at a vibrant conjuncture. ‘Regions’ continue to provide a conceptual and analytical focus for often overlapping concerns with economic, social, political, cultural and ecological change. In the context of increased interest in inter- and multi-disciplinary approaches, ‘regions’...

   To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
4. European Union Intergovernmental Conferences

   Domestic preference formation, transgovernmental networks and the dynamics of compromise

   By Paul W. Thurner, Franz Urban Pappi

   Series: Routledge/UACES Contemporary European Studies

   This book provides a detailed examination of the complex negotiation processes surrounding intergovernmental conferences in the European Union. Since the Treaty of Amsterdam (1997) and its ‘appendix’, the Treaty of Nice in 2002, any reform of the treaty framework of the European Union seems...

   To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
5. The Origin of Electoral Systems in the Postwar Era

   A worldwide approach

   By Krister Lundell

   Series: Routledge Research in Comparative Politics

   This book explores and presents the influence of contextual factors on the choice of electoral systems for parliamentary elections in both democracies and non-democracies around the world. Taking a macroscopic approach, the author focuses on structural explanations, with an emphasis on general...

   To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
6. Disaster, Conflict and Society in Crises

   Everyday Politics of Crisis Response

   Edited by Dorothea Hilhorst

   Series: Routledge Humanitarian Studies

   Humanitarian crises - resulting from conflict, natural disaster or political collapse – are usually perceived as a complete break from normality, spurring special emergency policies and interventions. In reality, there are many continuities and discontinuities between crisis and normality. What...

   To Be Published June 27th 2013 by Routledge
7. Critical Terrorism Studies since 11 September 2001

   What Has Been Learned?

   Edited by David Miller, Jessie Blackbourn, Helen Dexter, Rani Dhanda

   Academic studies of ‘terrorism’ grew exponentially in number after the September 11 attacks. The problem was that much of this work of ‘orthodox’ terrorism studies was biased, often shoddily researched and was too closely identified with the power centres of Western states. Its denizens were often...

   To Be Published August 5th 2013 by Routledge
8. Critical Border Studies

   Broadening and Deepening the 'Lines in the Sand' Agenda

   Edited by Noel Parker, Nick Vaughan-Williams

   This edited collection formalises Critical Border Studies (CBS) as a distinctive approach within the interdisciplinary border studies literature. Although CBS represents a heterogeneous assemblage of thought, the hallmark of the approach is a basic dissatisfaction with the ‘Line in the Sand’...

   To Be Published August 13th 2013 by Routledge
9. Role Theory and the Cognitive Architecture of British Appeasement Decisions

   Symbolic and Strategic Interaction in World Politics

   By Stephen G. Walker

   Series: Role Theory and International Relations

   Appeasement is a controversial strategy of conflict management and resolution in world politics. Its reputation is sullied by foreign policy failures ending in war or defeat in which the appeasing state suffers diplomatic and military losses by making costly concessions to other states. Britain’s...

   To Be Published September 8th 2013 by Routledge
10. Issues and Methods in Comparative Politics

    An Introduction, 4th Edition

    By Todd Landman

    Building on the strengths of the third edition, this highly regarded textbook continues to provide the best introduction to the strategies of comparative research in political science. Divided into three parts, the book begins by examining different methods, applying these methods to dominant...

    To Be Published September 30th 2013 by Routledge