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Campaign organizers and the media appear to agree that voters' perceptions of party leaders have an important impact in elections: considerable effort is made to ensure that leaders look good, speak well, and that they are up in the polls. In contrast, the academic...
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OUP Oxford
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2011-05-12
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Why do strong opposition party organizations emerge in some democratizing countries, while those in others remain weak or quickly fragment on ethnic lines? From Protest to Parties provides an explanation for differences in opposition party strength in democratizing...
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OUP Oxford
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2011-04-28
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Political corruption is one of the globe's most pressing yet seemingly permanent problems. It is a root cause of low growth and inequality, and plagues numerous nations throughout the world in varying degrees. InPolitical Parties, Business Groups, and Corruption in...
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Oxford University Press
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2011-04-13
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By revealing the contextual conditions which promote or hinder democratic development, Comparative Politics shows how democracy may not be the best institutional arrangement given a country's unique set of historical, economic, social, cultural and international...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2011-03-01
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Principles of Political Science
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An exploration of how and why Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, China and India have initiated and developed nuclear energy programs and what challenges they face today. Were the nuclear programmes driven by the low energy endowment, a desire to pursue international prestige,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2011-02-15
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In The Oxford Handbook of the Politics of International Migration, leading migration experts Marc Rosenblum and Daniel Tichenor gather together 29 field specialists in an authoritative volume on the issue. Integrating the perspectives of the wide variety of fields that...
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Oxford University Press
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2011-02-15
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How can we strengthen the capacity of governments and parties to manage arrivals and departures at the top? Democracy requires reliable processes for the transfer of power from one generation of leaders to the next. This book introduces new analytical frameworks and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-01-27
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Governance of Public Sector Organizations a nalyzes recent changes in government administration by focusing on organizational forms and their effects. Contributors to this edited volume demonstrate how generations of reform result in increased complexity of government...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-10-27
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This is a major new comparison of the American and European political systems. By deploying a powerful new model to analyse the two systems it draws some challenging conclusions about their increasing similarity. Professor Fabbrini argues that the process of regional...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2010-08-19
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Can too much participation harm democracy? Democratic theory places great importance upon the conduct of elections, but it is not often recognized that the electoral game takes place in two arenas, not only between parties but also within them. This pioneering book...
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OUP Oxford
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2010-07-01
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The Real World of EU Accountability reports the findings of a major empirical study into patterns and practices of accountability in European governance.The product of a 4-year, path-breaking project, this book assesses to what extent and how the people that populate...
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OUP Oxford
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2010-06-24
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The Real World of EU Accountability reports the findings of a major empirical study into patterns and practices of accountability in European governance.The product of a 4-year, path-breaking project, this book assesses to what extent and how the people that populate...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2010-06-24
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In Europeanism the author attempts to identify and outline the political, economic, and social norms and values associated with Europe and Europeans. He argues that regardless of the doubts associated with the exercise of European integration and the work of the...
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OUP Oxford
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2010-06-03
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In Europeanism the author attempts to identify and outline the political, economic, and social norms and values associated with Europe and Europeans. He argues that regardless of the doubts associated with the exercise of European integration and the work of the...
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OUP Oxford
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2010-06-03
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The constitutional background of both legislatures and their procedures are described and where possible compared. Currently unsolved problems often have much in common, in vexed areas such as ethics requirements or how procedural rules permit minorities fair access to...
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OUP Oxford
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2010-06-03
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Analyzes the notion of the French exception and the ways in which it has informed both academic analysis and political commentary on France today. Adopting a comparative and interdisciplinary approach it examines the resilience of the notion of French exceptionalism and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-06-01
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Ethno-nationalism presents a multitude of challenges to the structure of the international political system and to the internal governance of states. This volume explores the multifaceted nature of these challenges across the world, while also examining how states have...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-05-19
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In The Political Power of Bad Ideas, Mark Schrad uses one of the greatest oddities of modern history--the broad diffusion throughout the Western world of alcohol-control legislation in the early twentieth century--to make a powerful argument about how bad policy ideas...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2010-03-24
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In recent years, political parties and national legislatures in more than one hundred countries have adopted quotas for the selection of female candidates to political office. Despite the rapid international diffusion of these measures, most research has focused on...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2010-03-04
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