This book is unique in analysing the new Scottish parliament from a systematically comparative perspective. Its basic premise is that since devolution in 1999, Scotland can be considered a Scandinavian-style democracy...
The Scourge of Genocide collects essays, reviews, and reportage on the subjects of genocide and crimes against humanity by Adam Jones, recently selected one of "Fifty Key Thinkers on the Holocaust and Genocide."..
This book takes a comparative approach to local government across 14 European countries, looking at processes of decentralisation, regionalisation and reforms of local government...
This book examines the process of selection, shuffling and removal of ministers in national cabinets around the world. Drawing on original data over several decades, it offers a series of case studies of countries from around the world with differing institutional and cultural structures including p..
This book examines the process of selection, shuffling and removal of ministers in national cabinets around the world. Drawing on original data over several decades, it offers a series of case studies of countries from around the world with differing institutional and cultural structures including p..
This book, originally published in 1978, constitutes a genuinely comparative study of the world's only truly succesful democratic socialist parties: the Social Democraic Parties of Denmark, Norway and Sweden. The measure of achievement is not merely political success, the fact that in Scandinavia th..
This book, originally published in 1978, constitutes a genuinely comparative study of the world's only truly succesful democratic socialist parties: the Social Democraic Parties of Denmark, Norway and Sweden. The measure of achievement is not merely political success, the fact that in Scandinavia th..
Since the European-wide domination of social democratic governments during the mid- to late-1990s, Right-wing parties have returned to power in Italy, France and Spain. This volume assesses the subsequent periods of incumbency of these governments, considering the salient features of each in their r..