This book opens the institutional Pandora's box of conflict management, focusing on two central questions: To what degree do Latin American political ...

What is solidarity and what makes us think it is something important? Is it just an abstract idea or something more like a prosocial practice that can ...

Is the European Union still a viable project? The last few years have been difficult both economically and politically, while its integrative function ...

Most experts on divided societies and institutional design broadly agree that it is more difficult to establish and maintain a stable, functioning democracy ...

The book analyses the influence of religion on political parties and party politics in contemporary democracies. To do so, it compares five cases of ...

This book re-examines what democracy is, in the context of democratic disenchantment and surge of support for populist parties, in most, if not all, ...

In the past decade, the way we look at political representation has changed. A new wave of thinking shows how representation rises from claims to speak ...

Using a mix of quantitative methods and case study research, this book critically assesses the impact of party governments in different institutional ...

T his book presents the most systematic and consistent study to date of the 'consequences of context' for the process through which citizens' decide on ...

Stein Rokkan (1921-1979) introduced the concepts of 'centre and periphery' and 'counterculture'. He also formulated the idea that 'votes count but resources ...