Ecpr Press imprint: 42 books
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
For a while now, political science as a discipline has been big enough (in terms of the number of academics) and analytically mature enough to justify reflections on and reviews of its achievements. In fact, there is no lack of general handbooks, dictionaries and 'state of the art' assessments (as...
People, States and Fear
An Agenda for International Security Studies in the Post-Cold War Era
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
The second edition of this widely acclaimed book takes as its main theme the question of how states and societies pursue freedom from threat in an environment in which competitive relations are inescapable across the political, economic, military, societal and environmental landscapes. Throughout,...
by Richard Rose
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Richard Rose’s memoir vividly describes first-hand experience of the transformation of politics in Europe and the United States since 1940. He has been teargassed in Chicago, seen walls go up in Belfast and come down in Berlin. The author’s education in the streets and in the corridors of political...
Conditional Democracy
The Contemporary Debate on Political Reform in Chinese Universities
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Little is known about the political views of non-dissident Chinese intellectuals. For this book, Émilie Frenkiel has been granted unprecedented access to the discussions of politically committed Chinese who have been part of the intellectual debate on post-Tiananmen reform. Her in-depth research...
Why aren't they there?
The Political Representation of Women, Ethnic Groups and Issue Positions in Legislatures
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Why Aren't They There? is a comprehensive study of political representation in a cross-national format. It examines the representation of women, ethnic groups, and policy positions in a cross-country comparison. The book includes an analysis of the representation of women over time, and presents...
Just Democracy
The Rawls-Machiavelli Programme
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Philippe Van Parijs is one of the world's leading political philosophers. In this book, he argues that the purpose of democracy should be to promote justice - we need not just democracy (in the sense of unqualified democracy) but a just democracy. Machiavelli and Rawls must be brought together. In...
by
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
This book continues the editors' work (started in the volume “Masters of Political Science”) of highlighting and re-evaluating the contributions of the most important political scientists who have gone before. Its basis is the belief that the future development and sophistication of the discipline...
by Peter Jones
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2018
The diverse make-up of modern societies has long been a major preoccupation of political philosophy. It has also been a prominent focus for public policy. How should a society provide for the differences exhibited by its population? Should it view them with indifference, or seek to diminish them in...
Political Violence in Context
Time, Space and Milieu
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Context is crucial to understanding the causes of political violence and the form it takes. This book examines how time, space and supportive milieux decisively shape the pattern and pace of such violence. While much of the work in this field focuses on individual psychology or radical ideology, Bosi,...
Inclusion and Exclusion in Europe
Migration, Work and Employment Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2018
Recent decades have seen the EU grappling with a major struggle between the securitization of its external borders and demand for exploitable and disposable cheap workforce in various sectors. As a result, the EU has multiplied its borders by pushing them both outwards and inwards, and the distinction...
Citizens in Europe
Essays on Democracy, Constitutionalism and European Integration
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
This interdisciplinary collection of essays by a constitutionalist and a political sociologist examines how fragmented societies can be held together by appropriate and effective constitutional arrangements providing for bonds of democratic citizenship. Exploring the political order dilemmas of capitalist...
Cleavages, Institutions and Competition
Understanding Vote Nationalisation in Western Europe (1965-2015)
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
The study of how party systems are structured across territorial lines is a crucial research topic for political scientists, and one fraught with consequences for the political system and the democratic process. Cleavages, Institutions and Competition addresses this topic and raises the following...
Mind the Gap
Political Participation and Representation in Belgium
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
Mind the Gap is a book on the difficult times of modern representative democracy, and on the way in which political science is trying to make sense of it. Forecasting election results has become a very risky business, and explaining the often-surprising results must increasingly rely on case-by-case...
Parties, Governments and Voters in Finland
Politics Under Fundamental Societal Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
This book is the story of what happens to parties, governments and voters when the fundamental features that conditioned party formation and voter alignments undergo rapid change. It is this that makes the Finnish case interesting and, as far as possible, this book examines Finland in a comparative...