Hanspeter Kriesi: 6 books

Direct Democratic Choice sets out to understand how the citizens actually decide in direct-democratic votes. Author Hanspeter Kriesi has analyzed nearly twenty years of post-election surveys in Switzerland (1981-1999), which he has contextualized according to the various political issues and the relevant...

What are the consequences of globalization for the structure of political conflicts in Western Europe? How are political conflicts organized and articulated in the twenty-first century? And how does the transformation of territorial boundaries affect the scope and content of political conflicts? This...

Popular protests are on the rise in China. However, since protesters rely on existing channels of participation and on patronage by elite backers, the state has been able to stymie attempts to generalize resistance and no large scale political movements have significantly challenged party rule. Yet...

Le processus de la modernisation politique qui a son origine en Europe aboutit à la constitution de l’État-nation et du régime démocratique. Cet ouvrage trace l’histoire de la formation des États-nations et de l’intégration de la population dans les systèmes politiques des démocraties...

Le système politique est peu connu et pourtant il s’agit d’un système très original auquel cet ouvrage introduit tous ceux et celles qui aimeraient en savoir plus. Dans un premier temps, ce livre décrit les institutions fondamentales – la neutralité, le fédéralisme et la démocratie directe....

First published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.