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  • Handbook on Coalition Politics

    Edited by Thomas Bräuninger, Marc Debus ...
    Series series Elgar Handbooks in Political Science
    This comprehensive Handbook explores how coalition governments function, from their creation to their dissolution, examining the challenges and opportunities they present in modern democracies. Drawing on the latest research, contributing authors outline the impact of institutions, voter behaviour and party dynamics in shaping coalition politics.Leading experts discuss the coalition life cycle, ... Read more

    $67.99 CAD

  • The Politics of Legislative Debates

    Edited by Hanna Back, Marc Debus, Jorge M. Fernandes ...
    Series series The Oxford Politics of Institutions
    Legislative debates make democracy and representation work. Political actors engage in legislative debates to make their voice heard to voters. Parties use debates to shore up their brand. This book makes the most comprehensive study of legislative debates thus far, looking at the politics of legislative debates in 33 liberal democracies in Europe, North America and Latin America, Africa, Asia, ... Read more

    $110.99 CAD

  • Reform Processes and Policy Change

    Veto Players and Decision-Making in Modern Democracies

    Edited by Thomas König, George Tsebelis, Marc Debus ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    George Tsebelis’ veto players approach has become a prominent theory to analyze various research questions in political science. Studies that apply veto player theory deal with the impact of institutions and partisan preferences of legislative activity and policy outcomes. It is used to measure the degree of policy change and, thus, reform capacity in national and international political systems. ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

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    Why Economists Get It Wrong

    by Morten Jerven ...
    Series series African Arguments
    'A valuable corrective to the fraying narrative of [African] failure.'Foreign AffairsNot so long ago, Africa was being described as the hopeless continent. Recently, though, talk has turned to Africa rising, with enthusiastic voices exclaiming the potential for economic growth across many of its countries.What, then, is the truth behind Africa's growth, or lack of it? In this provocative book, ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Veto Players

    How Political Institutions Work

    by George Tsebelis ...
    Political scientists have long classified systems of government as parliamentary or presidential, two-party or multiparty, and so on. But such distinctions often fail to provide useful insights. For example, how are we to compare the United States, a presidential bicameral regime with two weak parties, to Denmark, a parliamentary unicameral regime with many strong parties? Veto Players advances an ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • Voters and Voting

    An Introduction

    by Jocelyn A J Evans ...
    ′This clear and comprehensive textbook will be invaluable for undergraduate and graduate courses on elections and voting behaviour. Complex theoretical and statistical ideas are explained lucidly and effectively - no mean achievement′- Representation′Voters and Voting fills a yawning gap in the study of elections and votingbehaviour. No other book today matches the breadth and depth of ... Read more

    $131.19 CAD

  • Clarity of Responsibility, Accountability, and Corruption

    by Leslie A. Schwindt-Bayer, Margit Tavits ...
    Corruption is a significant problem for democracies throughout the world. Even the most democratic countries constantly face the threat of corruption and the consequences of it at the polls. Why are some governments more corrupt than others, even after considering cultural, social, and political characteristics? In Clarity of Responsibility, Accountability, and Corruption, the authors argue that ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Fragility, Aid, and State-building

    Understanding Diverse Trajectories

    Edited by Rachel M Gisselquist ...
    Series series ThirdWorlds
    Fragile states pose major development and security challenges. Considerable international resources are therefore devoted to state-building and institutional strengthening in fragile states, with generally mixed results. This volume explores how unpacking the concept of fragility and studying its dimensions and forms can help to build policy-relevant understandings of how states become more ... Read more

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  • Votes, Vetoes, and the Political Economy of International Trade Agreements

    by Edward D. Mansfield, Helen V. Milner ...
    Preferential trading arrangements (PTAs) play an increasingly prominent role in the global political economy, two notable examples being the European Union and the North American Free Trade Agreement. These agreements foster economic integration among member states by enhancing their access to one another's markets. Yet despite the importance of PTAs to international trade and world politics, ... Read more

    $42.89 CAD

  • Protest, Repression and Political Regimes

    An Empirical Analysis of Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa

    by Sabine C. Carey ...
    Series series Security and Governance
    This volume investigates the relationship between protest, repression and political regimes in Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa.Considering how different political regimes use repression and respond to popular protest, this book analyzes the relationship between protest and repression in Africa and Latin America between the late 1970s and the beginning of the twenty first century. Drawing on ... Read more

    $63.20 CAD

  • Parliamentary Oversight Tools

    A Comparative Analysis

    by Riccardo Pelizzo, Frederick Stapenhurst ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Comparative Politics
    This book investigates Parliaments’ capacity to oversee government activities, policies and expenditures. Utilising a comparative approach, the book presents a new examination of oversight tools and discusses the conditions under which such tools are employed effectively.The result of a 9-year collaboration between the authors, this book draws from the findings of survey data collected by the ... Read more

    $114.99 CAD

  • Patterns of Parliamentary Behavior

    Passage of Legislation Across Western Europe

    by Herbert Döring ...
    This volume begins where the first Döring book of 1995 finished by considering what effects the rules had on legislative output during the same period. It addresses four distinct yet complementary research topics: - the connection between a number of veto players and law production in West European parliamentary democracies - the impact of closed versus open rules - the effects of committee ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD