Ecpr Press imprint: 42 books
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...
Decision-Making under Ambiguity and Time Constraints
Assessing the Multiple-Streams Framework
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Policy issues have grown ever more complex and politically more contestable. So governments in advanced democracies often do not understand the problems they have to deal with and do not know how to solve them. Thus, rational problem-solving models are highly unconvincing. Conversely, the Multiple-Streams...
Immigration, Integration and Mobility
New Agendas in Migration Studies
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
A compilation of Adrian Favell's innovative and agenda-setting essays which, since the late 1990s, have charted the emergence of new migration patterns and politics in Europe. Tackling in turn issues of multiculturalism, immigrant integration, free movement, high skilled mobilities, new East-West...
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...
Institutionalisation (and De-Institutionalisation) of Right-Wing Protest Parties
The Progress Parties in Denmark and Norway
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2018
When it comes to party institutionalisation – at least for entrepreneurial right-wing protest parties -- leadership matters! That is the primary takeaway from this book.
Of the hundreds of new parties that have formed since the 1970s, many have fallen by the wayside, but others have gone...
Democracy and Subjective Rights
Democracy Without Demos
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2018
This book critically investigates the notion of democracy without demos by unravelling the link that modern history has established between the concepts of democracy and the sovereignty of the people. This task is imposed on us by globalization. The individualization of the subject of rights is the...
The Modern State Subverted
Risk and the Deconstruction of Solidarity
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Until recently, liberalism was, according to Karl Polanyi, embedded within civil society, working closely with a democratic state intent on addressing, in solidarity, the social risks associated with modern capitalism. Modern relations between society and the state. Today’s neoliberalism is, to...
Far Right Parties and Euroscepticism
Patterns of Opposition
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
Why do parties that belong to the same party family address the EU question differently? This book addresses this question through a systematic analysis of the EU positions of far right parties in Europe.
Starting from the assumption that far right parties are rational actors, the book argues that...
The European Public Servant
A Shared Administrative Identity?
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Sager & Overeem's timely analysis constitutes an original effort to integrate history of ideas and cutting-edge survey research. It presents the subject's ideational foundations as well as its modern manifestation in European administrative space. 'Sager & Overeem's excellent collection is...
Regional Actors in Multilateral Negotiations
Active and Successful?
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
Since the end of WWII, not only the number of international regimes and organizations, but also the number of regional organisations and groups increased considerably. Today, states are often members of regional and international organisations at the same time and cover similar policies in both. This...
From Maastricht to Brexit
Democracy, Constitutionalism and Citizenship in the EU
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2019
Is the European Union still a viable project? The last few years have been difficult both economically and politically, while its integrative function and legitimacy have been seriously tested. For many social, economic and geo-political reasons, its expansionary moment has stopped abruptly. On the...
Absorbing the Blow
Populist Parties and their Impact on Parties and Party Systems
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2018
The significance of populist parties and their presence in party systems is undeniable. Parties like the Dutch Freedom Party, the French National Front, and the Five Star Movement in Italy rank among the largest political parties in their party systems. Absorbing the Blowexamines the effect of populist...
by Stefano Bartolini
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2018
‘Politics’ is a noun that points to a field or sphere of human activity and interaction. ‘Political’ is an adjective that usually associates with other names to qualify and specify them. Political behaviour, political institutions, political participation and political groups denote special...