Electronic Democracy analyses the impact of new information and communication technologies (ICTs) within representative democracy, such as political parties, pressure groups, new social movements and executive and legislative bodies. Arguing for the validity of social perspective in theory building, it examines how representative democracies are adapting to new ICTs. It features a number of comparative studies focusing on the UK, the US, Sweden, Germany, Korea and Australia.
Electronic Democracy analyses the impact of new information and communication technologies (ICTs) within representative democracy, such as po...
This book presents a comparative study examining assisted reproductive technology policies in North America and Europe. Based on original and detailed research, this up-to-date volume establishes a knowledge base for understanding policy debates on topics such as embryonic stem cell research and therapeutic cloning.
This book presents a comparative study examining assisted reproductive technology policies in North America and Europe. Based on original and detailed...
This book examines how political communication and the mass media have played a central role in the consolidation of emerging democracies around the world.
Covering a broad range of political and cultural contexts, including Eastern and Southern Europe, Latin America, Asia and Africa, this new volume investigates the problems and conflicts arising in the process of establishing an independent media and competitive politics in post-autocratic societies. Considering the changing dynamic in the relationship between political actors, the media and their audience, the authors of...
This book examines how political communication and the mass media have played a central role in the consolidation of emerging democracies around th...
Delegation is an ubiquitous social phenomenon linked to the growing differentiation of modern societies. Delegation is one of several different modes of organisation that exist to make collective action successful, but has been overlooked and under-researched.
Using a rational choice institutional analysis and principal agent models, this book brings literature on delegation to bureaucracy, electorate to legislature to government within representative democracy together with literature on new forms of delegation such as non-majoritarian institutions, to provide a more complete and...
Delegation is an ubiquitous social phenomenon linked to the growing differentiation of modern societies. Delegation is one of several different mod...
This book aims to contribute to current debates on republicanism by examining the relationship between republican theory and practice in a variety of contexts. The claim that civic republicanism can better address contemporary political problems than either liberalism or communitarianism has recently achieved considerable prominence, and been much debated. This volume aims to confront normative theory with historical and comparative analysis in order to explore the claim that republican theory can address contemporary political problems in ways that are both valuable and significantly...
This book aims to contribute to current debates on republicanism by examining the relationship between republican theory and practice in a variety of ...
Understanding the formation of governments has always been central to political science. Traditionally this topic has been considered from a rational choice theory perspective and the empirical testing of these theories, however neither approach alone is able to explain a large proportion of actual coalition formations. This comparative volume brings together both strands to study government formation. The authors use rational theories to identify deviant cases, and then explore the formation of ten of these governments in detail. Finally, on the basis of this research the authors assess...
Understanding the formation of governments has always been central to political science. Traditionally this topic has been considered from a rational ...
For the first time, this new collection brings together country specialists, researchers on the European Union, and leading international relations scholars to tackle a crucial question: how compatible are today's new patterns of 'policy networks' and 'multi-level' governance with democratic standards?
This important question is attracting attention both in political science and in political practices. In political science, the question is mainly dealt with in separated sub-disciplines, which focus on different levels of politics. So far, no serious exchange has actually...
For the first time, this new collection brings together country specialists, researchers on the European Union, and leading international relations...
Health constitutes a core element of welfare states and a vital nerve in the trust relation between citizen and their governments. Focusing on the health sector, this book analyzes the closely interwoven relationship between the European Union and Member States. The authors explore the dynamic and multi-fold process of de-nationalizing health policies and illustrate how European policies develop in a sector that still appears to be under exclusively national competence. They describe the multiple forms and ways the Europeanization process takes, driven by market integration, public health...
Health constitutes a core element of welfare states and a vital nerve in the trust relation between citizen and their governments. Focusing on the hea...
Are modern democracies threatened by organized crime? Organized crime has evolved alongside capitalism, remaining one step ahead in order to profit from new and often transnational economic opportunities. It challenges social and political structures yet its strategies are strongly conditioned by the political institutions and the specific type of civil society in which they appear. This innovative volume examines the relationship between organized crime and the state, civil society and politics, and assesses the consequences and impact of organized crime on democracy. It contains chapters on...
Are modern democracies threatened by organized crime? Organized crime has evolved alongside capitalism, remaining one step ahead in order to profit fr...
A detailed new examination of the initiatives governments are exploring to reform the institutions and procedures of liberal democracy in order to provide more opportunities for political participation and inclusion.
Combining theory and empirical case studies, this is a systematic evaluation of the most visible and explicit efforts to engineer political participation via institutional reforms. Part I discusses the phenomenon of participatory engineering from a conceptual standpoint, while parts II, III and IV take a comparative, as well as an empirical, perspective. The...
A detailed new examination of the initiatives governments are exploring to reform the institutions and procedures of liberal democracy in order to ...
