Belgian Exceptionalism: Belgian Politics between Realism and Surrealism

ISBN-13: 9780367610241 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 218 str.

Didier Caluwaerts; Min Reuchamps

Opis

This book takes stock of Belgium’s exceptional and – for some foreign observers –schizophrenic position in the political world and explains its idiosyncrasy to a non-Belgian audience.

Spis treści

Introduction: Belgium – why bother?  Part 1: Belgium on the Barricades  1. Compulsory voting: Anachronism or avant-garde?  2. The long-term effects of gender quotas in Belgium: Leading by example?  3. An analysis of electronic voting in Belgium: Do voters behave differently when facing a machine?  4. Thriving in an unfriendly territory: The peculiar rise of minipublics in consociational Belgium  Part 2: Belgium, a democracy in trouble  5. Challenging the cordon sanitaire in Belgium: A diachronic analysis  6. Breaking free from partitocracy: Do Belgian candidates stand out?  7. Coalition formation in Belgium: From exceptional complexity to regime breakdown?  8. Caretaker governments in Belgium: The new normal?  9. The changing dynamics of Belgian federalism: Is there a reversal of the paradox of federalism?  10. Voting for ‘the other side’? The curious case of the Brussels Capital Region  Part 3: Belgium and the world  11. Federalization of the Belgian national past: Do collaboration and colonization still matter?  12. The Europeanisation of Belgian parties: Both near and far?  13. Belgium in the UN Security Council: Still an active player?