Title:Democracy, governance, and economic performance : East and Southeast Asia
Author(s):MARSH, Ian; BLONDEL, Jean; INOGUCHI, TakashiDate:1999Type of Publication:BookAbstract:The states of East and Southeast Asia constitute a fertile setting for exploring the links between political and economic development -subjects usually considered in isolation. Democratization occurred, or was consolidated, ...
Title:Comparative government : an introduction
Author(s):BLONDEL, JeanDate:1990Type of Publication:BookAbstract:A comprehensive and systematic introduction to the institutions and patterns of behavior of political systems worldwide. The book is concept rather than country based, looking in the depth at the key elements necessary to ...
Title:Cabinets in Western Europe (2nd edition)
Author(s):BLONDEL, Jean; MÜLLER-ROMMEL, FerdinandDate:1997Type of Publication:BookAbstract:This is the fully updated second edition of the presentation of the structure and workings of the national cabinets in Western European countries today. This book is based on a common framework which enables the reader to ...
Title:Cabinets in Western Europe
Author(s):BLONDEL, Jean; MÜLLER-ROMMEL, FerdinandDate:1988Type of Publication:BookAbstract:This is the first-ever presentation of the structure and workings of the national cabinets in Western European countries today; this presentation is based on a common framework which enables the reader to compare their ...
Title:Soldiers as police : the French and Prussian Armies and the policing of popular protest, 1889-1914
Author(s):JOHANSEN, AnjaDate:2005Type of Publication:BookAbstract:In the 1890s German authorities began to move away from using the military for policing social and political unrest, while France did not experience similar movement until the 1920s. Johansen (U. of Dundee, UK) looks for ...
Title:El acercamiento hispano-neerlandés (1648-1678)
Author(s):HERRERO SANCHEZ, ManuelDate:2000Type of Publication:BookAbstract:El acercamiento hispano-neerlandés (1648-1678) analiza el revolucionario cambio efectuado en las relaciones bilaterales entre la Monarquía Hispánica y las Provincias Unidas a partir de la firma de la paz de Munster, que ...
Title:Regulation of the power sector
Author(s):PÉREZ-ARRIAGA, Ignacio J.Date:2013Type of Publication:BookSeries/Report no.:[Florence School of Regulation]Abstract:Regulation of the Power Sector is a unified, consistent and comprehensive treatment of the theories and practicalities of regulation in modern power-supply systems. The need for generation to occur at the time of use ...
Title:Cabinets in Eastern Europe
Author(s):BLONDEL, Jean; MÜLLER-ROMMEL, FerdinandDate:2001Type of Publication:BookAbstract:'Cabinets in Eastern Europe' is a comprehensive study which enables the reader to compare the origins, structure, composition and activities of these cabinets and to draw lessons from this comparison. Each chapter begins ...
Title:Clandestine political violence
Author(s):DELLA PORTA, DonatellaDate:2013Type of Publication:BookSeries/Report no.:[COSMOS]Abstract:'Clandestine Political Violence' compares four types of clandestine political violence: left-wing (in Italy and Germany), right-wing (in Italy), ethnonationalist (in Spain) and religious fundamentalist (in Islamist clandestine ...
Title:Mediation and protest movements
Author(s):CAMMAERTS, Bart; MATTONI, Alice; MCCURDY, PatrickDate:2013Type of Publication:BookSeries/Report no.:[COSMOS]Abstract:Over the past year, international and national media have been full of stories about protest movements and tumultuous social upheaval from Tunisia to California. But scholars have not yet fully addressed the connection ...
Title:Advances in the visual analysis of social movements
Author(s):DOERR, Nicole; MATTONI, Alice; TEUNE, SimonDate:2013Type of Publication:BookSeries/Report no.:[COSMOS]Abstract:This special issue of Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change highlights the importance of visuals in the current study of social movements. It is indispensable reading as it introduces new analytical concepts ...
Title:Disciplining terror : how experts invented "terrorism"
Author(s):STAMPNITZKY, LisaDate:2013Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Since 9/11 we have been told that terrorists are pathological evildoers, beyond our comprehension. Before the 1970s, however, hijackings, assassinations, and other acts we now call 'terrorism' were considered the work of ...
Title:Can democracy be saved? : participation, deliberation and social movements
Author(s):DELLA PORTA, DonatellaDate:2013Type of Publication:BookSeries/Report no.:[COSMOS]Abstract:Financial crisis, economic globalization and the strengthening of neoliberal policies present stark challenges to traditional conceptions of representative democracy. Yet, at the same time, new opportunities are emerging ...
Title:Countering terrorism in Britain and France : institutions, norms and the shadow of the past
Author(s):FOLEY, FrankDate:2013Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Though Britain and France have faced a similar threat from Islamist terrorism in the years following September 11 2001, they have often responded in different ways to the challenges it posed. This groundbreaking work offers ...
Title:I soggetti del pluralismo : classi, partiti, sindacati
Author(s):PIZZORNO, AlessandroDate:1980Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Attraverso quali intrecci si sono allacciate in Italia le alleanze fra ceti medi e potere? Attraverso quale evoluzione sono passate le organizzazioni dei partiti politici italiani e la loro posizione nei confronti dello ...
Title:The resurgence of class conflict in Western Europe since 1968
Author(s):CROUCH, Colin; PIZZORNO, AlessandroDate:1978Type of Publication:BookAbstract:A team of European social scientists investigated the various facets of increased militancy in the late 1960s. The results are contained in individual essays, which take account of the changes that preceded and were ...
Title:DSGE models in macroeconomics : estimation, evaluation, and new development
Author(s):BALKE, Nathan S.; CANOVA, Fabio; MILANI, Fabio; WYNNE, Mark A.Date:2012Type of Publication:BookAbstract:This volume of Advances in Econometrics is devoted to dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) models. The editors (of Southern Methodist U., the U. of California, and the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas in the US; and ...