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  • Parliamentary Communication in EU Affairs

    Connecting with the Electorate?

    Edited by Katrin Auel, Tapio Raunio ...
    Series series Library of Legislative Studies
    Over the last twenty years, the role of national parliaments in EU affairs has gained considerable academic attention. Much of the literature, however, has focused on parliamentary scrutiny and control in EU affairs. What tends to be generally overlooked is that the parliamentary communication function is at least as important in EU politics as the control function. Democratic legitimacy depends ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

  • The Europeanisation of Parliamentary Democracy

    Edited by Katrin Auel, Arthur Benz ...
    Series series Library of Legislative Studies
    This groundbreaking new study shows how the process of creating an ever closer European Union affects not only the policy-making, but also the politics and polity of the Member States. Empirical studies on the domestic impact of Europe identified different forms of Europeanization due to alternative mechanisms of internalising the new norms and rul ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • After Lisbon: National Parliaments in the European Union

    Series series West European Politics
    The role of national parliaments in EU matters has become an important subject in the debate over the democratic legitimacy of European Union decision-making. Strengthening parliamentary scrutiny and participation rights at both the domestic and the European level is often seen as an effective measure to address the perceived ‘democratic deficit’ of the EU – the reason for affording them a ... Read more

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    The Social Democratic party family is a central part of political life in the West. This book focuses on this party family as well as a unique political force in the industrialised world. It provides a critical comparative survey of when, where, how and why Social Democracy developed within established capitalist democracies.The book explains the electoral fortunes of Social Democratic parties, ... Read more

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  • The Politics of Electoral Reform

    Changing the Rules of Democracy

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  • Democracy and Political Change in the Third World

    Edited by Jeff Haynes ...
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    This book examines the experience of democracy in developing countries such as Mexico, Zambia, India and Indonesia. It considers the patchy democratic record of such countries, as well as investigating the relationship between external and domestic factors to democratisation. The contributors assess the importance to democratic progress of a number of key variables, including: *the ... Read more

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  • Representation and Democracy in the EU

    Does one come at the expense of the other?

    Series series Journal of European Integration Special Issues
    This book explores the various ways in which citizens are represented in EU policy-making. Most accounts naturally focus on the European Parliament as the prime source of democratic representation. This collection focuses instead on four other channels that are as and often more important: namely, representation via governments, national parliaments, civil society organisations and directly, via ... Read more

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  • Party Strategies in Western Europe

    Party Competition and Electoral Outcomes

    by Gemma Loomes ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in European Politics
    This book examines political party system change from a party-centric perspective and assesses how, and to what extent, established political parties in western Europe can maintain their dominant positions.Parties are increasingly competing in a changeable environment and this book assesses the ways in which political parties have tried to adapt to these changes, by undertaking a study of the ... Read more

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  • Multi-Level Party Politics in Western Europe

    by K. Detterbeck ...
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