Rowman Littlefield International: 550 books
Banking Union as a Shock Absorber
Lessons for the Eurozone from the US
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
The Great Financial Crisis, which started in 2007-08, was originally called the ‘sub-prime’ crisis because its origins could be traced to excessive lending in the real estate sector in the US, concentrated mostly in sunbelt states like Nevada, Florida and California. There were similar pockets...
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...
The Political Economy of the 2014-2020 Common Agricultural Policy
An Imperfect Storm
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
After five years of debates, consultations and negotiations, the European institutions reached an agreement in 2013 on the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) for the 2014-2020 period. The outcome has major implications for the EU’s budget and farmers’ incomes, but also for Europe’s environment,...
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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,...
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...
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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...
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...
Endgame for the Centre Left?
The Retreat of Social Democracy Across Europe
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
After a period of electoral dominance, centre-left parties in western Europe have suffered a dramatic erosion of support; the vote share enjoyed by social democrats is at its lowest ever level. Social democracy stands at a point of great promise, but also peril.
This book explores these themes...
Immigrants and Poverty
The Role of Labour Market and Welfare State Access
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2018
Inequality has been rising in advanced industrialised countries. At the same time, increased immigration has accentuated the ethnic diversity of those countries. Both developments have created challenges for advanced industrialised countries to integrate immigrants into the country.
Immigration...
The People's Verdict
Adding Informed Citizen Voices to Public Decision-Making
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2017
We live in a time when trust in government and politicians is in short supply. People claim to be tired of ‘experts’ and the divide between facts and opinion has been blurred. The art of offering simple solutions to complex problems is tipping the scale away from nuanced, multifaceted answers...
Parties and Party Systems
A Framework for Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
In this rich and broad-ranging volume, Giovanni Sartori outlines what is now recognised to be the most comprehensive and authoritative approach to the classification of party systems. He also offers an extensive review of the concept and rationale of the political party, and develops a sharp critique...
Cartelisation, Convergence or Increasing Similarities?
Lessons from Parties in Parliament
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2018
It is often suggested that political parties are becoming increasingly alike, and that party politics has turned into an elite affair where political professionals collude to further their self-interest rather than work to represent the interests of their constituents. In recent decades this diagnosis...