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Title:Politica in Italia: i fatti dell'anno e le interpretazioni. Edizione 2012 Editor(s):BOSCO, Anna; MCDONNELL, DuncanDate:2012Citation:Bologna, Il Mulino, 2012, Collana "Ricerche e studi dell'Istituto Carlo Cattaneo"Type:BookAbstract:This volume examines and analyzes events in Italy during 2011: a year which saw the fall of the Berlusconi government amidst a severe financial crisis and its replacement by a cabinet of unelected technocratic ministers, ...
Title:The political Author(s):BARTOLINI, Stefano Date:2018Citation:London : Rowman & Littlefield, 2018, ECPR monographsType:BookAbstract:'Politics' is a noun that points to a field or sphere of human activity and interaction. 'Political' is an adjective that usually associates with other names to qualify and specify them. Political behaviour, political ...
Title:Political Allegiance after European Integration Author(s):WHITE, JonathanDate:2011Citation:Basingstoke/New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, Palgrave studies in European Union politicsVersion:Published version of EUI PhD thesis, 2007Type:BookAbstract:How should political community be seen in the context of European integration? This book combines a theoretical treatment of political allegiance with a study of ordinary citizens, examining how taxi-drivers in Britain, ...
Title:Political Communication in Direct Democratic Campaigns: Enlightening or manipulating? Editor(s):KRIESI, Hanspeter Date:2012Citation:Houndmills/Basingstoke/Hampshire/New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, Challenges to democracy in the 21st century seriesType:BookAbstract:The contributors to this volume analyze the communication processes in Swiss direct democratic campaigns and their effect on the information processing and opinion formation of the citizen public. The book adopts an ...
Title:Political Conflict in Western Europe Author(s):KRIESI, Hanspeter ; GRANDE, Edgar; DOLEZAL, Martin; HELBLING, Marc ; HÖGLINGER, Dominic; HUTTER, Swen ; WÜEST, BrunoDate:2012Citation:Cambridge/New York, Cambridge University Press, 2012Type:BookSeries/Number:[COSMOS]Abstract:What are the consequences of globalization for the structure of political conflicts in Western Europe? How are political conflicts organized and articulated in the twenty-first century? And how does the transformation of ...
Title:Political cultures in Asia and Europe : citizens, states and societal values Author(s):BLONDEL, Jean ; INOGUCHI, TakashiDate:2006Citation:London ; New York : Routledge, 2006, Politics in Asia seriesType:BookAbstract:This book is a study of the attitudes to political and social life among the citizens of eighteen countries in Western Europe, East and Southeast Asia. Drawing on data from the largest cross-national survey on political ...
Title:The political economy of competitiveness in an enlarged Europe Author(s):PELLEGRIN, JulieDate:2001Citation:Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave, 2001Version:Published version of EUI PhD thesis, 1997Type:BookAbstract:Central and Eastern European countries are entering the development race at a crucial juncture in EU enlargement and the wider phenomenon of globalization. In the face of hesitant and controversial EU policy, these countries ...
Title:The political economy of monetary solidarity : understanding the euro experiment Author(s):SCHELKLE, Waltraud Date:2017Citation:Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017Type:BookAbstract:Creating the European monetary union between diverse and unequal nation states is one of the biggest social experiments in history. This book offers an explanation of how the euro experiment came about and was sustained ...
Title:The political foundations of judicial independence in dictatorship and democracy Author(s):EPPERLY, BradDate:2019Citation:Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019Type:BookAbstract:This book argues that explaining judicial independence-considered the fundamental question of comparative law and politics-requires a perspective that spans the democracy/autocracy divide. Rather than seeking separate ...
Title:Political Institutions and Elderly Care Policy: Comparative politics of long-term care in advanced democracies Author(s):HIEDA, TakeshiDate:2012Citation:Houndmills/Basingstoke/Hampshire/New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012Version:Published version of EUI PhD thesis, 2010Type:BookAbstract:Although most advanced industrialized countries are facing population aging and other social changes, public long-term care programs for the aged are remarkably diverse across them. This book accounts for the variations ...
Title:Political leadership : towards a general analysis Author(s):BLONDEL, Jean Date:1987Citation:London ; Beverly Hills : SAGE, 1987Type:BookAbstract:Political leaders are the most universal, recognized, and talked about element of political life. However, the general analysis of political leadership has been little advanced. In this book Professor Blondel provides a ...
Title:Political leadership, parties and citizens : the personalisation of leadership Author(s):BLONDEL, Jean ; THIEBAULT, Jean-Louis; CZERNICKA, Katarzyna; INOGUCHI, Takashi; PATHMANAND, Ukrist; VENTURINO, FulvioDate:2010Citation:London ; New York : Routledge, 2010, Routledge research in comparative politics ; 30Type:BookAbstract:Social structure may historically have been of primary importance in accounting for the attitudes and behavior of many citizens, but now changes in social structure have diminished the role played by class and religious ...
Title:Political participation, diffused governance, and the transformation of democracy : patterns of change Author(s):PETERS, YvetteDate:2018Citation:Abingdon : Routledge, 2018, Democratization studiesVersion:Published version of EUI PhD thesis, 2011Type:BookAbstract:Although democratic governments have introduced a number of institutional reforms in part intended to increase citizens’ political involvement, studies show a continued decline in regular political engagement. This book ...
Title:Political parties and democracy : contemporary Western Europe and Asia Editor(s):INOGUCHI, Takashi; BLONDEL, Jean Date:2012Citation:New York ; Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, Asia todayType:BookAbstract:The role of political parties in a democracy is often under scrutiny. Rhetoric crying for more effective or reflective or representative democracy often lacks data to back up its claims. This book provides readers with a ...
Title:Political Representation and EU Governance Editor(s):MAIR, Peter; THOMASSEN, JacquesDate:2010Citation:London/New York, Routledge, 2010, Special issue of the Journal of European Public Policy, 2010, 17, 1Type:Book
Title:Political Representation and European Union Governance Editor(s):MAIR, Peter; THOMASSEN, JacquesDate:2010Citation:London/New York, Routledge, 2011Version:The book is a reproduction of the Journal of European Public Policy, 17, issue 1Type:BookAbstract:This book confronts and discusses different conceptions of political representation with respect to their application to the system of multi-level governance in the European Union. Political representation is an essentially ...
Title:Political science in Europe : achievements, challenges, prospects Editor(s):BONCOURT, Thibaud ; ENGELI, Isabelle; GARZIA, Diego Date:2020Citation:London : Rowman & Littlefield, 2020Type:BookAbstract:The last half-century has been a defining period for the development of political science in Europe: disciplinary norms have become institutionalized in professional organizations, training units, and research centres; the ...
Title:Political sociology : selected readings Editor(s):PIZZORNO, AlessandroDate:1971Citation:Harmondsworth : Penguin Books, 1971, Penguin modern sociology readingsType:Book
Title:Political strategies and social movements in Latin America : the Zapatistas and Bolivian Cocaleros Author(s):OIKONOMAKIS, Leonidas Date:2019Citation:Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2019Version:Published version of EUI PhD thesis, 2016Type:BookAbstract:This book investigates how social movements form their political strategies in their quest for social change and -when they shift from one strategy to another- why and how that happens. The author creates a model which ...
Title:The political system of the European Union Author(s):HIX, Simon ; HØYLAND, BjørnDate:2022Citation:London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022.Type:BookAbstract:Starting from the observation that the European Union now possesses many of the attributes of modern political systems, Hix and Høyland take an innovative approach to analysing, researching and teaching the EU. Using the ...

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