Ecpr Press imprint: 42 books
New Perspectives on Negative Campaigning
Why Attack Politics Matters
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
Have you ever seen a politician fiercely attacking his opponent? Sure you have. Election campaigns without attacks on the rival candidate's performance, policy propositions and traits simply do not exist. Negative campaigning makes up a substantial part of election campaigns around the world. Though...
Global Tax Governance
What is Wrong with It and How to Fix It
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Commercial banks UBS and HSBC embroiled in scandals that in some cases exposed lawmakers themselves as tax evaders… multinationals Google and Apple using the Double Irish and other tax avoidance strategies… governments granting fiscal sweetheart deals behind closed doors (as in Luxembourg)......
National Institutions International Migration
Labour Markets, Welfare States and Immigration Policy
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2018
Despite the fact that immigration policy is today one of the most salient political issues in the OECD countries, we know surprisingly little about the factors behind the very different choices countries have made over the last decades when it comes to immigrant admission. Why has the balance between...
Between Nationalism and Europeanisation
Narratives of National Identity in Bulgaria and Macedonia
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Why do we need European integration in increasingly fragmented and antagonised European societies? How can European integration relate to the national stories we carry about who we are as a nation and where we belong? What to do with the national stories that tell traumatising tales of past loss and...
Coping with Complexity
How Voters Adapt to Unstable Parties
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
When parties undergo abrupt organisational changes between elections – such as when they fuse, split, join or abandon party lists – they alter profoundly the organisation and supply of electoral information to voters. The alternatives on the ballot are no longer fixed but need to be actively sought...
Greece in the Euro
Economic Delinquency or System Failure?
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Greece banked on EMU. Entry into the eurozone was its ticket to macroeconomic stability, its modernisation jacket and its gateway to global markets. So how did such a promising start turn to dust so quickly? Was Greece the delinquent eurozone member whose fiscal downfall nearly brought down some of...
Indigenous Politics
Institutions, Representation, Mobilisation
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2016
Over the last fifty years, indigenous politics has become an increasingly important field of study. Recognition of self-determination rights are being demanded by indigenous peoples around the world. Indigenous struggles for political representation are shaped by historical and social circumstances...
by Tariq Modood
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2019
Whether the recently settled religious minorities, Muslims, in particular, can be accommodated as religious groups in European countries has become a central political question and threatens to create long-term fault lines.
In this collection of essays, Tariq Modood argues that to grasp the...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
From small-scale experiments, deliberative mini-publics have recently taken a constitutional turn in Europe. Iceland and Ireland have turned to deliberative democracy to reform their constitutions. Estonia, Luxembourg and Romania have also experienced constitutional process in a deliberative mode....
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Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2018
The implications of the personalization of politics are necessarily widespread and can be found across many different aspects of contemporary democracies. Personalization should influence the way campaigns are waged, how voters determine their preferences, how officials (e.g., MPs) and institutions...
A Responsive Technocracy?
EU Politicisation and the Consumer Policies of the European Commission
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2016
This book challenges the common image of the European Commission as an insulated technocracy immune to political pressures. Based on an innovative combination of public opinion, protest and media data, it first demonstrates that European integration has become increasingly politicised since the 1990s....
Negotiations in the EU Council of Ministers
And All Must Have Prizes'
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Insiders and outsiders agree; there is something particular about negotiating in Brussels. This book analyses ten years of continuous negotiations about EU enlargement to the Western Balkans, answering questions such as When and how are decisions typically reached in the European Union? What is this...
Mixed Rules, Mixed Strategies
Parties and Candidates in Germany's Electoral System
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Sixty years of democratic representation in Germany allow us to study the working of a specific type of electoral system, namely a mixed system combining proportional and majoritarian rules, in great detail. Mixed systems have figured as a reference point in many reform debates of the recent past....
Institutionalisation of Political Parties
Comparative Cases
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2019
This edited collection builds directly upon the recently published book by Harmel, Svåsand, and Mjelde (Institutionalisation (and De-Institutionalisation) of Right-Wing Protest Parties: The Progress Parties in Denmark and Norway) and applies their conceptual framework to a wide range of additional...