Comparative Politics

This book provides a thematic and cross-national analysis of the key actors in local government that form the crucial components of effective and democratic policy making. Focussing on the second tier of local government, it examines new empirical data on councillors from this level of government in..

This book provides a thematic and cross-national analysis of the key actors in local government that form the crucial components of effective and democratic policy making...

This new book build a clear understanding of how constitutional decisions taken in the EU are of great societal and scientific relevance. It shows how these decisions have substantial effects on the sovereignty of a growing number of European nation states and on the lives of European citizens, inde..

Drawing on data from the largest cross-national survey on political culture for the last half a century, this is an original and comprehensive study of the attitudes to political and social life among the citizens of eighteen countries in Europe and Asia...

This book fills a growing gap in the literature on international development by addressing the debates about good governance and institution-building within the context of political development...

This book fills a growing gap in the literature on international development by addressing the debates about good governance and institution-building within the context of political development...

This book provides an overview of, and new contributions to the study of political discussion in comparative politics. It examines deliberation and discussion as the object of analysis and the consequences of political discussion and deliberation...

Explores the increasing importance of personality in leadership. It focuses on the relationship and psychological dimension between citizens and political leaders, with case studies on Britain and Northern Ireland, France, Italy, Poland, Japan and Thailand...

Explores the increasing importance of personality in leadership. It focuses on the relationship and psychological dimension between citizens and political leaders, with case studies on Britain and Northern Ireland, France, Italy, Poland, Japan and Thailand...

This book examines different forms of political participation in democracies, and in what way the delegation of public responsibilities—or, the diffusion of politics—has affected patterns of participation since the 1980s...

Comparing successful and unsuccessful reform drives by Japanese leaders, Alisa Gaunder argues that the quality of political leadership is the crucial determinant of whether parties in positions of dominance, pass or reject policies...

By comparing the four microstates of San Marino (Europe), St. Kitts and Nevis (Caribbean), Seychelles (Africa), and Palau (Oceania), it provides fresh and stimulating insight, concluding that the political dynamics of microstates are not as democratic as commonly believed. Instead, it is found in al..