A major feature of the political development of Western democracies is the growth of indigenous, ethnic and national groups striving for political self-determination. This book analyses the institutional responses individual governments have made to these demands. Sub-State Nationalism provides a much needed categorization and genuinely comparative analysis of the political voice gained by sub-state national groups in multinational democratic communities. The book includes international case-studies drawn from Canada, New Zealand, Australia and the USA. It covers the empirical...
A major feature of the political development of Western democracies is the growth of indigenous, ethnic and national groups striving for political sel...
The collapse of communism was widely heralded as the dawn of democracy across the former Soviet region. However, the political outcome has been much less uniform. The post-communist states have developed political systems from democracy to dictatorship. Using examples and empirical data collected from twenty-six former Soviet states, Graeme Gill provides a detailed comparative analysis of the core issues of regime change, the creation of civil society, economic reform and the changing nature of post-communism. Within these individual cases, it becomes clear that political outcomes have...
The collapse of communism was widely heralded as the dawn of democracy across the former Soviet region. However, the political outcome has been much l...
This text offers a comparative analysis of the changes in ideology and policy programmes on economic policy of the British Labour party and the German SPD (Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands). Using an historical institutional approach, Knut Roder focuses on labour market policies - particularly labour market policies - and explains the process of policy change. It reveals the labour party's and the SPD's search for an alternative economic policy approach during their long spell in opposition in the 1980s and 1990s, and illuminates how both parties arrived at the current third way / Neue...
This text offers a comparative analysis of the changes in ideology and policy programmes on economic policy of the British Labour party and the German...
The fall of the Berlin Wall showed democratic revolutions to be extremely important events in the modern world, yet these have neither been added to the revolutionary canon nor adequately incorporated into the literature on democratic transitions. In theorizing peaceful popular uprisings against dictatorships and comparing them across Asia and Eastern Europe, Democratic Revolutions revives a much-neglected concept. Despite enormous differences between Asia and Eastern Europe, there are striking similarities between the peaceful, spontaneous, urban-based and cross-class democratic uprisings...
The fall of the Berlin Wall showed democratic revolutions to be extremely important events in the modern world, yet these have neither been added to t...
Democratization provides an in-depth investigation into the causes of democracy. The author analyses and compares data from 170 countries, in order to construct a compelling argument, concluding that democratization is closely linked to resource distribution.
Democratization provides an in-depth investigation into the causes of democracy. The author analyses and compares data from 170 countries, in order to...
Determinants of the Death Penalty seeks to explain the phenomenon of capital punishment - without recourse to value judgements - by identifying those characteristics common to countries that use the death penalty and those that mark countries which do not. This global study uses statistical analysis to relate the popularity of the death penalty to physical, cultural, social, economical, institutional, actor oriented and historical factors. Separate studies are conducted for democracies and non-democracies and within four regional contexts. The book also contains an in-depth...
Determinants of the Death Penalty seeks to explain the phenomenon of capital punishment - without recourse to value judgements - by identifyi...
Citizens of many democracies are becoming more critical of basic political institutions and detached and disaffected from politics in general.
This is a new comparative analysis of this trend that focuses on major democracies throughout Latin America, Asia and Central Europe. It brings together leading scholars to address three key areas of the current debate:
the conceptual discussion surrounding political disaffection
the factors causing voters to turn away from politics
the actual consequences for democracy
This is a...
Citizens of many democracies are becoming more critical of basic political institutions and detached and disaffected from politics in gener...
Policy and Party Competition (1992) established itself as one of the mainstream data sources used by political scientists, when exploring the policy positions of political parties and has become a standard data resource for comparative political science.
This new book updates and radically extends this work, providing a wide-ranging empirical overview of party policy in 47 modern democracies, including all of the new democracies of Eastern Europe. The book is divided into three parts:
· Part I introduces the study,...
Policy and Party Competition (1992) established itself as one of the mainstream data sources used by political scientists, when exploring th...
This new study reveals how institutional practices and discourses shape the way men and women are conceived of, and how through this process, gender stereotypes and expectations are created.
Informed by the latest research and trends, these expert authors examine the way in which domestic and global institutions shape and reflect gender interests and the extent to which feminists can challenge gender norms through political institutions.
They examine regional, national and international institutions including the EU, ICC and UN and take a broad view of political institutions...
This new study reveals how institutional practices and discourses shape the way men and women are conceived of, and how through this process, gende...
Making a case for separating citizenship from nationality, this book comparatively examines a selection of nation-states in terms of their definitions of nationality and citizenship, and the way in which the association of some with the European Union has transformed these definitions.
In a combination of case studies from Europe and the Middle East, this book's comparative framework addresses the question of citizenship and ethnic conflict from the foundation of the nation-state, to the current challenges raised by globalization. This edited volume examines six...
Making a case for separating citizenship from nationality, this book comparatively examines a selection of nation-states in terms of their definiti...
