Politics and International Relations 2011 (UK) - Routledge

comPArAtive
Politics
ForthcomiNg
democratic Innovations
Theories, Practice & Evaluation
Edited by Kenneth Newton and Brigitte Geissel
This text is the most comprehensive account of various
democratic innovations. Written by an outstanding team
of international experts it examines the theories behind
these democratic innovations, how they have worked in
practice and evaluates their success or failure.
Selected Contents: Introduction Forms of Democratic
Innovation direct democracy 1. Parties And Direct
Democracy Ian Budge 2. Direct Democracy Hanspeter Kriesi
Deliberation 3. Deliberative Polling Jim Fishkin
4. Deliberative Democracy and Mini-Publics Graham Smith
5. Deliberative Democracy and Power in Global Justice
Movements Dieter Rucht Co-Governance 6. When
Democratic Innovations Let The People Decide: An Evaluation
of Co-Governance Experiments Julien Talpin E-Democracy
7. Engagement, Deliberation and the Internet Andrew
Chadwick. Challenges of Comparing Democratic Innovations
8. On the Impacts of Democratic Innovations in Europe
Brigitte Geissel 9. New and Old Forms of Citizens‘
Engagement David Beetham 10. Conclusion Brigitte Geissel
September 2011: 234 x 156: 288pp
Hb: 978-0-415-66919-1: £75.00
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The democracy
Advantage, Revised Edition
How Democracies Promote Prosperity and
Peace
Morton H. Halperin, Open Society Institute, USA,
Joseph T. Siegle, National Defense University, USA
and Michael M. Weinstein, Robin Hood
Foundation, USA
The Democracy Advantage
provides an empiricallygrounded
analysis of the
consistently positive
development track record of
poor countries with democratic
governments versus those with
more oppressive political
systems. Building on the
democratic peace literature,
Halperin, Siegle, and Weinstein
connect the dots of how
democracy and development
contribute to lower levels of intrastate conflict and
popular support for extremist ideologies. This analysis
provides a foundation for a series of policy
recommendations for how democracy can become a
more central feature of US and international
engagement in the developing world. The Democracy
Advantage is an evenly argued liberal internationalist
justification for making democracy a central feature of
US foreign policy.
2009: 229 x 152: 296pp
Pb: 978-0-415-99065-3: £22.99
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Comparative Politics
Continuity and Breakdown in the
Contemporary World
Paul W. Zagorski, Pittsburg State University, USA
’Zagorski has written a book
that is at once in-depth and
accessible, thorough in its
coverage of the topic and
rich in the examples it
employs. With meticulous
care, the book begins by
introducing the basic
foundations of the discipline
and then moves on to the
phenomenon of political
continuity and breakdown,
modernization and
revolution, dictatorship and democracy,
patrimonialism and autocracy, and globalization
and postmodernity, all the meanwhile grounding
his analysis in a wide array of case studies. I highly
recommend this book to anyone interested in the
study of comparative politics.’ - Mehran Kamrava,
Georgetown University School of Foreign Serivice, Qatar
’This is a lively textbook that provides an engaging
introduction for undergraduates to the field of
comparative politics. By focusing on alternative
theoretical approaches to the comparative study of
political regimes, Zagorski makes a valuable
addition to the pedagogical arsenal of modern
political science.’ - Richard Snyder, Brown University,
USA
2009: 178 x 254: 640pp
Hb: 978-0-415-77728-5: £90.00
Pb: 978-0-415-77729-2: £27.99
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3rd edition
Comparative European
Politics
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Edited by Josep M. Colomer,
University Pompeu Fabra,
Barcelona, Spain
2008: 246 x 174: 320pp
Hb: 978-0-415-43755-4: £85.00
Pb: 978-0-415-43756-1: £23.99
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comPArAtive Politics
The Rise of Regional
Authority
A Comparative Study of 42 Democracies
Liesbet Hooghe and Gary Marks, both at
University of North Carolina, USA and
Arjan H. Schakel, University of Edinburgh, UK
’This book represents a major advance in the study
of regional government and spatial rescaling. It is a
fascinating study in its own right, but also an
invaluable data set for scholars of comparative
government and politics.’ - Michael Keating,
University of Aberdeen, UK
’The study of decentralized governance, multi-level
politics and regional governance is of mounting
importance in a broad swath of the social sciences.
To date, researchers have been stuck with very
dissatisfying public finance data from the IMF,
horrible indicators from the Polity data set and
sundry other sources of dubious value. This book
fills a gaping hole in that literature.’ - Erik Wibbels,
Duke University, USA
Selected Contents: 1. Measuring Regional Authority 2.
Operationalizing Regional Authority 3. Validation of the
Regional Authority Index 4. An Era of Regionalization
Appendix A: Profiles of Regional Reform in 42 Countries
(1950–2006) Appendix B: Country and Regional Scores
March 2010: 234 x 156: 240pp
Hb: 978-0-415-57836-3: £90.00
Pb: 978-0-415-57776-2: £24.99
eBook: 978-0-203-85217-0
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