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Regulators as Agenda-Setters How National Agencies Shape Public Issues

Regulators as Agenda-Setters: How National Agencies Shape Public Issues

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Edoardo Guaschino
May 27, 2024

This book provides a comprehensive understanding of how, and under which conditions, regulators in the social sectors are able to influence political agendas and issue definitions. In these political processes, agencies may become the policy entrepreneurs which are able to prioritize issues, ...

Collegial Democracy versus Personal Democracy ‘We' the People or ‘I' the People?

Collegial Democracy versus Personal Democracy: ‘We' the People or ‘I' the People?

1st Edition

Forthcoming

Edited By Chen Friedberg, Gideon Rahat
March 29, 2024

This book examines two patterns of democracy – collegial and personal – through a comprehensive comparison of political institutions. It develops a conceptual, theoretical, and methodological basis for differentiating collegial and personal democracies. Central institutions in democracy are ...

The Power of Opposition How Legislative Organization Influences Democratic Consolidation

The Power of Opposition: How Legislative Organization Influences Democratic Consolidation

1st Edition

By Simone Wegmann
January 29, 2024

Proposing a novel way to look at the consolidation of democratic regimes, this book presents important theoretical and empirical contributions to the study of democratic consolidation, legislative organization, and public opinion. Theoretically, Simone Wegmann brings legislatures into focus as the ...

Coalition Politics in Central Eastern Europe Governing in Times of Crisis

Coalition Politics in Central Eastern Europe: Governing in Times of Crisis

1st Edition

Edited By Torbjörn Bergman, Gabriella Ilonszki, Johan Hellström
December 01, 2023

This insightful book brings the study of coalitions and coalition governance in Central and Eastern European democracies up to date, with an analytical focus framed by difficult economic and social periods, such as the end of the economic crisis and the Coronavirus pandemic. The volume posits ...

Differentiated Integration Beyond Brexit Revisiting Cleavage Perspective in Times of Multiple Crises

Differentiated Integration Beyond Brexit: Revisiting Cleavage Perspective in Times of Multiple Crises

1st Edition

By Alexander Radunz, Rafał Riedel
November 30, 2023

This book examines differentiated integration in Europe, providing incisive analyses of domestic politics determinants – political conflict, party responses, citizens’ preferences and other supply and demand side elements. The four countries compared – Germany, Poland, Switzerland and the United ...

Minimum Wage Regimes Statutory Regulation, Collective Bargaining and Adequate Levels

Minimum Wage Regimes: Statutory Regulation, Collective Bargaining and Adequate Levels

1st Edition

Edited By Irene Dingeldey, Damian Grimshaw, Thorsten Schulten
May 31, 2023

This book goes beyond traditional minimum wage research to investigate the interplay between different country and sectoral institutional settings and actors’ strategies in the field of minimum wage policies. It asks which strategies and motives, namely free collective bargaining, fair pay and/or ...

Climate Governance across the Globe Pioneers, Leaders and Followers

Climate Governance across the Globe: Pioneers, Leaders and Followers

1st Edition

Edited By Rüdiger K.W. Wurzel, Mikael Skou Andersen, Paul Tobin
January 09, 2023

This book takes an innovative approach to studying international climate governance by providing a critical analysis of climate leadership, pioneership and followership across the globe. The volume assesses the interactions between climate leaders, pioneers and followers, across multilevel and/or ...

Electoral Participation in Newly Consolidated Democracies Turnout in Africa, Latin America, East Asia, and Post-Communist Europe

Electoral Participation in Newly Consolidated Democracies: Turnout in Africa, Latin America, East Asia, and Post-Communist Europe

1st Edition

By Elvis Bisong Tambe
January 09, 2023

This book examines why people vote in the newly consolidated democracies of Africa, Latin America, East Asia, and Central and Eastern European countries.It addresses the question of how well models or theories of electoral participation, initially developed in established democracies, "travel" to ...

The Future of Political Leadership in the Digital Age Neo-Leadership, Image and Influence

The Future of Political Leadership in the Digital Age: Neo-Leadership, Image and Influence

1st Edition

Edited By Agnieszka Kasińska-Metryka, Tomasz Gajewski
January 09, 2023

This book comprehensively describes the impact of modern technologies on political leadership by providing a new paradigm of the phenomenon of neo-leadership, that is political leadership oriented on creating both the image and political influence on the Internet. It examines its functioning in ...

Transparency and Secrecy in European Democracies Contested Trade-offs

Transparency and Secrecy in European Democracies: Contested Trade-offs

1st Edition

Edited By Dorota Mokrosinska
January 09, 2023

This edited volume offers a critical discussion of the trade-offs between transparency and secrecy in the actual political practice of democratic states in Europe. As such, it answers to a growing need to systematically analyse the problem of secrecy in governance in this political and geographical...

Exploring Organized Interests in Post-Communist Policy-Making The

Exploring Organized Interests in Post-Communist Policy-Making: The "Missing Link"

1st Edition

Edited By Michael Dobbins, Rafał Riedel
May 19, 2021

This book examines organized interests in post-communist Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), providing incisive analyses in three critically important policy areas - healthcare, higher education and energy. The four countries surveyed – Poland, Hungary, Slovenia and the Czech Republic – afford rich ...

Think Tanks in the US and EU The Role of Policy Institutes in Washington and Brussels

Think Tanks in the US and EU: The Role of Policy Institutes in Washington and Brussels

1st Edition

By Christopher Rastrick
April 28, 2020

Why do US and EU think tanks diverge in their roles, priorities, and main constituencies? Providing the first substantive analytical comparison of think tanks in Washington and Brussels, this book explores the differences that exist and why they developed. Two principal variables are identified&...

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