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  • European Integration in Times of Crisis

    Theoretical perspectives

    Edited by Demosthenes Ioannou, Patrick Leblond, Arne Niemann ...
    Series series Journal of European Public Policy Series
    Few events over the past few decades have given rise to an amount of debate and speculation concerning the state of the European Union (EU) and the future of European integration as the economic and financial crisis that began in 2007. In spite of substantial media, policy-making and academic attention, the fundamental questions of why and how the euro area (EA) has remained not only intact but ... Read more

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  • Dominance and Decline

    Making Sense of Recent Canadian Elections

    by Andre Blais, Joanna Everitt, Patrick Fournier, Neil Nevitte, Elisabeth Gidengil ...
    Coming out of the 2000 Canadian federal election, the dominance of the Liberal Party seemed assured. By 2011 the situation had completely reversed: the Liberals suffered a crushing defeat, failing even to become the official opposition and recording their lowest ever share of the vote. Dominance and Decline provides a comprehensive, comparative account of Canadian election outcomes from 2000 ... Read more

    $30.39 CAD

  • Politics in the Age of Austerity

    Edited by Wolfgang Streeck, Armin Schäfer ...
    In a world of increasing austerity measures, democratic politics comes under pressure. With the need to consolidate budgets and to accommodate financial markets, the responsiveness of governments to voters declines. However, democracy depends on choice. Citizens must be able to influence the course of government through elections and if a change in government cannot translate into different ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Aid from International NGOs

    Blind Spots on the AID Allocation Map

    by Dirk-Jan Koch ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Development Economics
    International NGOs are increasingly important players within the new aid architecture but their geographic choices remain uncharted territory. This book focuses on patterns of development assistance, mapping, while analysing and assessing the country choices of the largest international NGOs. Koch's approach is interdisciplinary and uses qualitative, quantitative and experimental methods to ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • Laboratories against Democracy

    How National Parties Transformed State Politics

    by Jacob M. Grumbach ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in American Politics
    As national political fights are waged at the state level, democracy itself pays the priceOver the past generation, the Democratic and Republican parties have each become nationally coordinated political teams. American political institutions, on the other hand, remain highly decentralized. Laboratories against Democracy shows how national political conflicts are increasingly flowing through the ... Read more

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  • Comparative Welfare State Politics

    by Kees van Kersbergen, Barbara Vis ...
    Welfare state reform occurs in all advanced capitalist democracies, but it does not occur in identical ways, to the same degree or with similar consequences. In Comparative Welfare State Politics, Kees van Kersbergen and Barbara Vis explain the political opportunities and constraints of welfare state reform by asking 'big' questions. Why did we need a welfare state in the first place? How did we ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Governing the World Economy

    by Willem Molle ...
    The major problems the world faces have increased since the turn of the millennium. Recurrent storms on the financial markets have ravaged many countries, poverty is still widespread, notwithstanding decades of massive development aid, the environment remains in acute jeopardy and the major world institutions have often reached an impasse in attempting to combat these difficulties.The issues ask ... Read more

    $114.04 CAD

  • Varieties of Liberalization and the New Politics of Social Solidarity

    by Kathleen Thelen ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
    This book examines contemporary changes in labor market institutions in the United States, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, and the Netherlands, focusing on developments in industrial relations, vocational education and training, and labor market policy. It finds that there are in fact distinct varieties of liberalization associated with very different distributive outcomes. Most scholarship equates ... Read more

    $31.19 CAD

  • The Political Construction of Business Interests

    Coordination, Growth, and Equality

    by Cathie Jo Martin, Duane Swank ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
    Many societies use labor market coordination to maximize economic growth and equality, yet employers' willing cooperation with government and labor is something of a mystery. The Political Construction of Business Interests recounts employers' struggles to define their collective social identities at turning points in capitalist development. Employers are most likely to support social investments ... Read more

    $37.59 CAD

  • Power, Money, and Trade

    Decisions that Shape Global Economic Relations

    by Mark R. Brawley ...
    This book is an introduction to International Relations that uses examples from International Political Economy (IPE). It presents the theories and paradigms of International Relations in the context of the issues of trade, investment, and monetary relations. Largely it does so by developing historical cases of pivotal events in the evolution of the IPE to illustrate the strengths and weaknesses ... Read more

    $43.19 CAD

  • Votes, Vetoes, and the Political Economy of International Trade Agreements

    by Edward D. Mansfield, Helen V. Milner ...
    Preferential trading arrangements (PTAs) play an increasingly prominent role in the global political economy, two notable examples being the European Union and the North American Free Trade Agreement. These agreements foster economic integration among member states by enhancing their access to one another's markets. Yet despite the importance of PTAs to international trade and world politics, ... Read more

    $42.89 CAD

  • Fragility, Aid, and State-building

    Understanding Diverse Trajectories

    Edited by Rachel M Gisselquist ...
    Series series ThirdWorlds
    Fragile states pose major development and security challenges. Considerable international resources are therefore devoted to state-building and institutional strengthening in fragile states, with generally mixed results. This volume explores how unpacking the concept of fragility and studying its dimensions and forms can help to build policy-relevant understandings of how states become more ... Read more

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