Cambridge University Press, 2022. — 396 p. Global governance has come under increasing pressure since the end of the Cold War. In some issue areas, these pressures have led to significant changes in the architecture of governance institutions. In others, institutions have resisted pressures for change. This volume explores what accounts for this divergence in architecture by...
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 664 p. Presidential term limits restrict the maximum length of time that presidents can serve in office. They stipulate the length of terms the presidents can serve between elections and the number of terms that presidents are permitted to serve. While comparative scholarship has long studied important institutions such presidential vs....
Routledge, 2017. — 417 p. This Handbook presents the first comprehensive study of policy analytical practices from a comparative perspective. It explores emerging developments and innovations in the field and advances knowledge of the nature and quality of policy analysis across different countries and at different levels of government by all relevant actors, both inside and...
Oxford University Press, 2009. — 992 p. What does democracy expect of its citizens, and how does the citizenry match these expectations? This Oxford Handbook examines the role of the citizen in contemporary politics, based on essays from the world's leading scholars of political behavior research. The recent expansion of democracy has both given new rights and created new...
Oxford University Press, 2016. — 843 p. — (Oxford University Press). — ISBN10: 0199662819. — ISBN13: 978-0199662814. The Oxford Handbook of Historical Institutionalism offers an authoritative and accessible state-of-the-art analysis of the historical institutionalism research tradition in Political Science. Devoted to the study of how temporal processes and events influence the...
Farnham: Ashgate, 2010. — xviii + 229 p. This book is devoted to the study sub-national politics in contemporary Russia. There are 12 chapters which cover political, social and economic developments in Russia’s regions. By the end of the 2000s Russia had become an increasingly authoritarian state, which was characterised by the following features: outrageously unfair and...
Cambridge University Press, 2012. — 296 p. "Joseph Jupille's Procedural Politics is a first-rate work of institutional analysis, combining the theoretical elegance and methodological sophistication of the very best rational-choice work on United States Congressional institutions with a rigorous quantitative and qualitative study of the politics of the European Union. Jupille's...
Cambridge University Press, 2001. — 282 p. "Amie Kreppel has produced an innovative and empirically rich study... This book will no doubt become standard reading by EU scholars as well as theoretically minded comparativists interested in the evolution of legislative systems." Journal of Politics
Łódź: Społecznej Akademii Nauk, 2019. — 407 s. Nauka o państwie jest bardzo stara. Wielu myślicieli obserwowało współczesne im instytucje państwowe oraz analizowało wcześniejsze, formułując na tej podstawie oceny i wnioski uogólniające – bieżące i wybiegające w przyszłość. Państwem zajmują się współcześnie przedstawiciele wielu dyscyplin naukowych, starając się określić jego...
Kyiv, 2005. - 152 p. Good Governance and the Need for Consensus Building – A Framework for Democratic Transition. Democratic Consensus Development. The Presidential Election and Constitutional Reform. The Election Campaign and Ukraine’s Political Evolution. International Orientation and Foreign Support. After the Orange Revolution: New Challenges for Government and Civil Society.
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 753 p. In many discussions of nations' development, we often focus on their economic and social development. Is it becoming wealthier? Is its society modernizing? Is it becoming more technologically sophisticated? Are social outcomes improving for the broad mass of the public? The process of development policy implementation, however, is always...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. — 880 p. — (Oxford Handbooks). — ISBN: 978-0-19-969158-6. This Handbook offers a comprehensive treatment of transformations of the state, from its origins in different parts of the world and different time periods to its transformations since World War II in the advanced industrial countries, the post-Communist world, and the Global South....
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 652 p. Unpacking the major debates, this Oxford Handbook brings together leading authors of the field to provide a state-of-the-art guide to governance in areas of limited statehood where state authorities cannot implement and enforce central decisions and/or to uphold the monopoly over the means of violence. While areas of limited statehood can...
6th Edition. — Routledge, 2006. — 504 p. — ISBN13: 978-1405832557. Lucid presentation of a fascinating subject with pictures and sketches of (arguably) the oldest seat of democracy. The recent departure from European Union is perhaps an important point that may be covered in the next edition. Otherwise most of the text remains relevant. The authors are experienced officials...
Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2018. — 330 p. Corruption, fake news, and the "informational autocracy" sustaining Putin in power. After fading into the background for many years following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia suddenly emerged as a new threat — at least in the minds of many Westerners. But Western assumptions about Russia, and in particular...
The book by the famous American political scientist analyzes the possibilities of transforming political institutions due to the presence of the so-called "veto players" - subjects of the political process capable of blocking decision-making.
Routledge, 2023. — 437 p. This handbook showcases the rich varieties of legislatures that exist in Asia and explains how political power is constituted in 17 jurisdictions in East, Southeast, and South Asia. Legislatures in Asia come in all stripes. Liberal democracies co-exist cheek by jowl with autocracies; semi-democratic and competitive authoritarian systems abound. While...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. — 357 p. This book offers a new interpretation of the evolution and modernization of social order in China’s grass-roots communities. Traditionally, social order at the grass-roots level was maintained through an organic combination of self-rule by the people and authority rule by political leaders. As a hybrid form of social order, therefore, it not...
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