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  • Democracy in the Age of Globalization and Mediatization

    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book provides comprehensive coverage of the models of contemporary democracy; its social, cultural, economic and political prerequisites; its empirically existing varieties and its two major challenges - globalization and mediatization. The book also covers the global spread of democracy and its spread into supranational democracies. ... Read more

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  • How Europeans View and Evaluate Democracy Revisited

    Ten Years Later

    Series series Comparative Politics
    In 2012 How Europeans View and Evaluate Democracy assessed the Europeans' views and evaluations of the state of democracy after one of the deepest economic and financial crises worldwide. Against the most pessimistic “Zeitgeist,” the book found that there was overwhelming support for democracy in Europe, even if the breadth and scope of the citizens' demands for their democratic systems varied ... Read more

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  • Contentious Episodes in the Age of Austerity

    Studying the Dynamics of Government–Challenger Interactions

    Series series Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics
    Based on extensive data and analysis of sixty contentious episodes in twelve European countries, this book proposes a novel approach that takes a middle ground between narrative approaches and conventional protest event analysis. Looking particularly at responses to austerity policies in the aftermath of the Great Recession (2008–2015), the authors develop a rigorous conceptual framework that ... Read more

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  • European Party Politics in Times of Crisis

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  • Debating Unemployment Policy

    Political Communication and the Labour Market in Western Europe

    In 2008 the world experienced the Great Recession, a financial and economic crisis of enormous proportions and the greatest economic downturn since the 1930s. In its wake, unemployment became a key preoccupation of West European publics and politicians. This comparative study considers the policy debates surrounding unemployment in the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Denmark and ... Read more

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  • The Politics of Advanced Capitalism

    This book serves as a sequel to two distinguished volumes on capitalism: Continuity and Change in Contemporary Capitalism (Cambridge, 1999) and Order and Conflict in Contemporary Capitalism (1985). Both volumes took stock of major economic challenges advanced industrial democracies faced, as well as the ways political and economic elites dealt with them. However, during the last decades, the ... Read more

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  • Politicising Europe

    Integration and Mass Politics

    Politicising Europe presents the most comprehensive contribution to empirical research on politicisation to date. The study is innovative in both conceptual and empirical terms. Conceptually, the contributors develop and apply a new index and typology of politicisation. Empirically, the volume presents a huge amount of original data, tracing politicisation in a comparative perspective over more ... Read more

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  • The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Social Movements

    Series series Wiley Blackwell Companions to Sociology
    The most up-to-date and thorough compendium of scholarship on social movementsThis second edition of The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Social Movements features forty original essays from the field. With contributions from both established and ascendant scholars, the Companion seeks to present current research on social movements in all its diversity. It is the most up-to-date, comprehensive volume ... Read more

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  • Political Communication in Direct Democratic Campaigns

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    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
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  • How Europeans View and Evaluate Democracy

    Series series Comparative Politics
    Based on a new data-set covering 29 European and neighboring countries, this volume shows how, Europeans view and evaluate democracy: what are their conceptions of democracy, how do they assess the quality of democracy in their own country, and to what extent do they consider their country's democracy as legitimate? The study shows that Europeans share a common view of liberal democracy, which is ... Read more

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  • Pandemic Polity-Building

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