European Politics Catalog 2013

Contemporary European Politics

A Comparative Introduction

By José Magone

In this important new introductory textbook, José Magone provides an accessible and comprehensive introduction to contemporary European politics. The unification of the European continent since the Fall of the Berlin wall in 1989 and the collapse of communist regimes in Central and Eastern Europe...

Published August 24th 2010 by Routledge

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

Ethnic Diversity and the Nation State

National Cultural Autonomy Revisited

By David Smith, John Hiden

Series: Routledge Innovations in Political Theory

This book explores a largely forgotten legacy of multicultural political thought and practice from within Eastern Europe and examines its relevance to post-Cold War debates on state and nationhood. Featuring a Preface by former UK Home Secretary Charles Clarke, it weaves theory and practice to...

Published April 15th 2012 by Routledge

Non-Great Powers in International Politics

The English School and Nordic Internationalism

By Annika Bergman-Rosamond

Series: New International Relations

This book develops a theoretical framework drawn from the English School of international theory to explore the contribution of non-great powers within the international society of states. In doing so the author asks whether the analysis of such actors as well as their distinct contributions to...

To Be Published January 29th 2014 by Routledge

Paying Our High Public Officials

Evaluating the Political Justifications of Top Wages in the Public Sector

By Teun J. Dekker

Series: Routledge Research in Public Administration and Public Policy

In almost every liberal democratic society, an issue that is a topic of constant and passionate public discussion is how much that country’s ministers, legislators, senior civil servants, and senior judges should be paid. Nor is this surprising; the issue has considerable voyeuristic appeal,...

Published December 10th 2012 by Routledge

Securitization of Property Squatting in Europe

By Mary Manjikian

Series: Routledge Research in Urban Politics and Policy

Housing is no longer about having a place to live – but about state pressures to conform, norms and policies regarding citizenship, and practices of surveillance and security. Breaking new ground in the field of urban politics and international relations, Securitization of Property Squatting in...

Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge

The Changing Face of European Identity

A Seven-Nation Study of (Supra)National Attachments

Edited by Richard Robyn

Series: Routledge Advances in European Politics

Drawing upon systematic research using Q Methodology in seven countries - Denmark, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Italy, Netherlands and Sweden - this volume presents the results of the most extensive effort yet at cross-cultural, subjective assessment of national and supranational identity....

Published June 21st 2012 by Routledge

The Cultural Politics of Europe

European Capitals of Culture and European Union since the 1980s

Edited by Kiran Klaus Patel

Series: Routledge/UACES Contemporary European Studies

Culture is one of the most complex and contested fields of European integration. This book analyzes EU cultural politics since their emergence in the 1980s with a particular focus on the European Capital of Culture program, the flagship of EU cultural policy. It discusses both the central as well...

Published December 10th 2012 by Routledge

Bureaucrats as Law-makers

Committee decision-making in the EU Council of Ministers

By Frank Häge

Series: Routledge/UACES Contemporary European Studies

The Council of Ministers is one of the most powerful institutions of the European Union (EU) and plays a major role in the European policy-making process. Drawing on formal theory and combining quantitative and qualitative methods in an innovative fashion, this book provides novel insights into the...

Published July 22nd 2012 by Routledge

The European Union and South East Europe

The Dynamics of Europeanization and Multilevel Governance

By Andrew Geddes, Charles Lees, Andrew Taylor

Series: Routledge/UACES Contemporary European Studies

This book explores the interaction of the EU in Greece, Slovenia, Croatia, and Macedonia in three key policy sectors – cohesion, border managements and the environment – and assesses the degree to which the European Union’s engagement with the democracies of South East Europe has promoted...

Published July 4th 2012 by Routledge

Refugees, Security and the European Union

By Sarah Leonard, Christian Kaunert

Series: Routledge/UACES Contemporary European Studies

Asylum and migration are amongst the most contentious political issues in Europe and it has been argued that migrants and asylum-seekers have been securitized in the EU and socially constructed as security threats. This book analyses the extent and the modalities of the securitization of...

To Be Published December 30th 2013 by Routledge

Europeanization and the European Economic Area

Iceland's Participation in the EU's Policy Process

By Johanna Jonsdottir

Series: Routledge/UACES Contemporary European Studies

This book examines Europeanization in the European Economic Area (EEA), exploring whether non-member states can have an input into EU decision-making and whether the EU can successfully export its policies within the framework of the EEA. Iceland, Norway and Liechtenstein, while not EU member...

Published December 12th 2012 by Routledge

The Multicultural Dilemma

Migration, Ethnic Politics, and State Intermediation

Edited by Michelle Williams

This work seeks to explore the contemporary challenge of government in multicultural societies, drawing together a wide range of contributors to examine how ethnic difference could better understood and mediated by modern nation states. Divided into three sections, the book centres round the notion...

Published November 18th 2012 by Routledge

International Politics and National Political Regimes

Promoting Democracy – Promoting Autocracy

Edited by Peter Burnell, Oliver Schlumberger

There is much speculation about whether democracy is still advancing around the world and the influence that leading authoritarian or semi-authoritarian regimes such as Russia are starting to have on the trends. This collection assesses global trends in democratisation, reviews the condition of...

Published December 4th 2011 by Routledge

Denmark and the European Union

Edited by Anders Wivel, Lee Miles

Series: Europe and the Nation State

This book offers an accessible, coherent and comprehensive analysis of the recent, contemporary and future challenges and possibilities facing Denmark in the European integration process. The book traces the formal as well as the informal ways of influence and adaptation in Denmark’s relations...

To Be Published July 17th 2013 by Routledge

Switzerland and the European Union

A Close, Contradictory and Misunderstood Relationship

Edited by Clive H. Church

Series: Europe and the Nation State

Despite its geographical centrality and its considerable economic involvement in Europe, Switzerland remains unusual in that it is neither a member of the European Union or the European Economic Area. At a time when the Union is both expanding and seeking to develop its integration, the country...

Published December 12th 2011 by Routledge

Europeanization and Domestic Policy Change

The Case of Italy

By Paolo Graziano

Series: Europe and the Nation State

This book examines the impact of Europeanization on the domestic politics of EU member states, focussing on agricultural policy, cohesion policy and employment policy with a detailed comparative case study on Italy. Though a founding member, Italy has often had an uneasy relationship with the EU...

Published November 15th 2012 by Routledge