The Capacity to Reform

By Wolfgang Merkel, Alexander Petring, Christian Henkes, Christoph Egle

Globalization, European integration, and social change have devaluated traditional social democratic policy instruments. This book compares and explores how social democratic governments have had to...

April 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-43820-9 (Routledge)

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The Crisis of Global Environmental Governance

Towards a new political economy of sustainability

Edited by Jacob Park, Ken Conca, Matthias Finger

More than twenty years after the Bruntland Commission report, Our Common Future, we have yet to secure the basis for a serious approach to global...

March 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-44920-5 (Routledge)

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A World of Polities

Essays on Global Politics

By Yale H. Ferguson, Richard W. Mansbach

Yale H. Ferguson and Richard W. Mansbach have made a significant contribution to our contemporary understanding of global politics. This collection contains some of their...

March 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-77218-1 (Routledge)

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Ethical Theory, Institutional Design and Social Struggles

By Raffaele Marchetti

This book defends the case for the expansion of the democratic model to the global political sphere. Concentrating on the democratic deficit of international affairs,...

March 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-43719-6 (Routledge)

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Edited by David Coen

March 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-44917-5 (Routledge)

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In Power for the First Time

Edited by Kris Deschouwer

Party literature is largely focused on the rise and success of new parties and their effects on party systems and older parties. This book, on...

February 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-40499-0 (Routledge)

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Consensus and Social Conflict in Ageing Societies

By Patrik Marier

Population ageing and slower economic growth have raised serious questions about the willingness and ability of governments to maintain current social policies. Within this new...

February 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-42599-5 (Routledge)

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Understanding Comparative Politics

A Framework for Analysis

By Mehran Kamrava

Comparative politics has undergone significant theoretical changes in recent decades. Particularly since the 1980s, a new generation of scholars have revamped and rejuvinated the study...

January 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-77305-8 (Routledge)

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Environmental Movements and Transnational Politics

Edited by Brian Doherty, Timothy Doyle

Globalisation is about transnational politics. While nation-state governments increasingly struggle with this new politics, which moves beneath, between and beyond national borders, others entities like...

January 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-46439-0 (Routledge)

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Edited by Mark T. Berger, Douglas A. Borer

The rise and fall of the Cold War coincided with the universalization and consolidation of the modern nation-state as the key unit of the wider...

January 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-46479-6 (Routledge)

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