The Oxford Handbook of Political Representation in Liberal Democracies

ISBN-13: 9780198825081 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 736 str.

Robert Rohrschneider; Jacques Thomassen

Opis

The Handbook of Political Representation in Liberal Democracies offers a state-of-the-art assessment of the functioning of political representation in liberal democracies.

Recenzje

This work provides a comprehensive foundation for understanding current conceptualizations of representation in liberal democracies. Highly recommended. Lower- and upper-division undergraduates. Graduate students, faculty, and professionals. R. V. Labaree, University of Southern California, CHOICE

O autorze

Robert Rohrschneider is Sir Robert Worcester Distinguished Professor of International Public Opinion and Survey Research at the University of Kansas. He teaches Comparative Politics and his research focuses on Comparative Public Opinion, Political Parties, Democratic Representation in Western and Central-Eastern Europe. Jacques Thomassen is an emeritus professor of political science at the University of Twente in the Netherlands. He is member and former secretary general of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has held visiting positions at the universities of Michigan, Harvard, Mannheim, the Australian National University, and the European University Institute. He published widely on issues of political representation, electoral behaviour, democracy, and legitimacy. He was a founding member of the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (CSES) and participated in many other projects of comparative political research. Among his publications are Elections and Democracy: Representation and Accountability OUP 2014; Myth and Reality of the Legitimacy Crisis: Explaining trends and cross-national differences in established democracies OUP 2017.