Télécharger le livre :  How Sick Is British Democracy?

Forecasts of the death of democracy are often heard and the United Kingdom is on the death watch list. This book challenges such a gloomy view by carefully examining the health of the British body politic from Tony Blair’s time in Downing Street to the challenges of...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2021-05-21
Collection : Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century
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Télécharger le livre :  Europe and the Left

This edited volume revolves around two sets of questions. First, what do the 2019 European elections suggest about the extent to which the mainstream parties of the left are attempting to deal with their decline through an increased, common, emphasis on their project...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-10-12
Collection : Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century
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Télécharger le livre :  The Retreat of Liberal Democracy

This book is the product of three years of empirical research, four years in politics, and a lifetime in a country experiencing three different regimes. Transcending disciplinary boundaries, it provides a fresh answer to a simple yet profound question: why has liberal...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-08-26
Collection : Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century
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Télécharger le livre :  Contention and Regime Change in Asia

In undemocratic settings, where modes of political participation and interest mediation are severely limited, protest may become a major form of political action. When and why does popular upsurge occur in such a setting? What form does it take and what do people ask...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-08-24
Collection : Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century
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Télécharger le livre :  Social Democratic Parties and the Working Class

This open access book carefully explores the relationship between social democracy and its working-class electorate in Western Europe. Relying on different indicators, it demonstrates an important transformation in the class basis of social democracy. At the beginning...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-07-21
Collection : Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century
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Télécharger le livre :  Italian Populism and Constitutional Law

This edited volume explores the relationship between constitutionalism and populism in the Italian context. Italian populism is of interest to comparative lawyers for many reasons. Firstly, the country has a long-lasting tradition of anti-parliamentarism over the course...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-02-25
Collection : Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century
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Télécharger le livre :  The Origin of Dialogue in the News Media

This book develops a new theoretical framework for studying the interaction between political parties, the news media and citizens. The model addresses how political actors develop and push different arguments in a debate, how the news media select and communicate these...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2019-09-03
Collection : Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century
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Télécharger le livre :  Democracy Beyond Elections

This book provides the analytical framework for understanding the relationship between media scandals, executive accountability and the crisis of democracy. The empirical findings are based on an original database of 6000 media allegations and investigations in Russia,...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2019-08-28
Collection : Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century
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Télécharger le livre :  Autocratization in post-Cold War Political Regimes

This book deals with post-Cold War processes of autocratization, that is, regime change towards autocracy. While these processes are growing in number and frequency, autocratization remains a relatively understudied phenomenon, especially its most recent manifestations....
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-12-14
Collection : Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century
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Télécharger le livre :  State-Formation and Democratization

This book examines the connection between two major developments in the world: state-formation and democratization. Since 1946, the number of states has increased from 66 to almost 200 independent states, but our knowledge of these state-formation processes is limited....
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-07-16
Collection : Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century
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Télécharger le livre :  Democracy under Threat

This book addresses some of the most pressing questions of our time: Is democracy threatened by globalisation? Is there a legitimacy crisis in contemporary democracies?  Is the welfare state in individual countries under pressure from global trends? What are the...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-05-19
Collection : Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century
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Télécharger le livre :  Shaping Online News Performance

The author offers a comprehensive portrait of online news performance in Western countries in changing media environments. Drawing on a content analysis of 48 news outlets from different types of media organization in France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Switzerland,...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-05-29
Collection : Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century
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Télécharger le livre :  The Quality of Democracy in Africa

This book shows that democratization in sub-Saharan Africa can be successful, even if the government remains dominated by one major political party. If an institutionalized and strong opposition party – even when too weak to take power – challenges the dominant...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-04-07
Collection : Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century
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Télécharger le livre :  Democracy Promotion by Functional Cooperation

This book presents a novel 'governance model' of democracy promotion. In detailed case studies of EU cooperation with Moldova, Morocco, and Ukraine, it examines how the EU promotes democratic governance through functional cooperation in the fields of competition policy,...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-02-03
Collection : Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century
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Télécharger le livre :  Politicizing European Integration

This book offers a comprehensive treatment of the timely question of the politicization of European integration. It shows how this issue's complex linkages with traditional political divides pose a tough challenge to politicians and lead to bitter framing contests about...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-01-26
Collection : Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century
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Télécharger le livre :  Civil Society and Democracy Promotion

With contributions from experts on democracy promotion, this volume examines civil society development and external civil society promotion in post-socialist Europe. It focuses on countries with a failed or deficient process of democratic consolidation looking at...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-01-06
Collection : Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century
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Télécharger le livre :  Political Decision-Making in Switzerland

This in-depth study of the decision-making processes of the early 2000s shows that the Swiss consensus democracy has changed considerably. Power relations have transformed, conflict has increased, coalitions have become more unstable and outputs less predictable. Yet...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2015-06-15
Collection : Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century
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Télécharger le livre :  Comparing Mass Media in Established Democracies

This book examines the contribution of mass media to modern democracies, in comparative perspective. Part I deals with the conceptualization and implementation of a systematic framework to assess democratic media performance, both in terms of media systems and content....
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2014-09-10
Collection : Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century
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Télécharger le livre :  Democracy in the Age of Globalization and Mediatization

This book provides comprehensive coverage of the models of contemporary democracy; its social, cultural, economic and political prerequisites; its empirically existing varieties and its two major challenges - globalization and mediatization. The book also covers the...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2013-01-11
Collection : Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century
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Télécharger le livre :  Campaign Strategy in Direct Democracy

In the first study of comparative direct-democracy, Laurent Bernhard explores the nature of direct-democratic campaigning in Switzerland. The author examines four policy areas: immigration, healthcare, welfare and economic liberalism focussing on interviews with...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2012-10-30
Collection : Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century
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