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Critical citizens : global support for democratic government.
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ISBN: 0198295685 9780198295686 Year: 1999 Publisher: Oxford Oxford university press

On message : communicating the campaign
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ISBN: 0761960740 0761960732 1446233529 1857022122 128255977X 9786612559778 0857022121 Year: 1999 Publisher: London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE,

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Drawing together contemporary research on elections and political communication, this text aims to explore the role of the news media in British voting behaviour.

Democratic phoenix : reinventing political activism
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ISBN: 0521811775 0521010535 0511610076 Year: 2002 Publisher: New York (N.Y.) : Cambridge university press,

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Conventional wisdom suggests that citizens in many countries have become disengaged from the traditional channels of political participation. Commentators highlight warning signs including sagging electoral turnout, rising anti-party sentiment, and the decay of civic organizations. But are these concerns justified? This book, first published in 2002, compares systematic evidence for electoral turnout, party membership, and civic activism in countries around the world and suggests good reasons to question assumptions of decline. Not only is the obituary for older forms of political activism premature, but new forms of civic engagement may have emerged in modern societies to supplement traditional modes. The process of societal modernization and rising levels of human capital are primarily responsible, although participation is also explained by the structure of the state, the role of agencies, and social inequalities.

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Community organization --- Political sociology --- Political participation --- Political action committees --- Elections --- Voting --- #SBIB:324H50 --- #SBIB:024.IO --- Polls --- Politics, Practical --- Social choice --- Suffrage --- Electoral politics --- Franchise --- Political science --- Plebiscite --- Political campaigns --- Representative government and representation --- PACs (Political action committees) --- Pressure groups --- Citizen participation --- Community action --- Community involvement --- Community participation --- Involvement, Community --- Mass political behavior --- Participation, Citizen --- Participation, Community --- Participation, Political --- Political activity --- Political behavior --- Political rights --- Social participation --- Political activists --- Politieke participatie en legitimiteit (referenda, directe democratie, publieke opinie...) --- Elections. --- Political participation. --- Political parties. --- Pressure groups. --- Social movements. --- Political parties --- Social movements --- Movements, Social --- Social history --- Social psychology --- Advocacy groups --- Interest groups --- Political interest groups --- Special interest groups (Pressure groups) --- Functional representation --- Lobbying --- Policy networks --- Social control --- Parties, Political --- Party systems, Political --- Political party systems --- Divided government --- Intra-party disagreements (Political parties) --- Political conventions --- Social Sciences --- Political Science


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Democratic deficit : critical citizens revisited
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ISBN: 9780521197519 9780521127448 0521197511 0521127440 9780511973383 9781139042260 1139042262 0511973381 9781139044899 1139044893 9781139038355 1139038354 9781283053945 1283053942 1139036033 1107214947 9786613053947 1139041495 1139040723 Year: 2011 Publisher: New York : Cambridge University Press,

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"This book focuses on 'democratic deficits', reflecting how far the perceived democratic performance of any state diverges from public expectations. Norris examines the reasons behind the democratic deficit and analyzes the consequences for active citizenship, for governance, and ultimately, for democratization"-- "Many fear that democracies are suffering from a legitimacy crisis. This book focuses on ,♯d︢emocratic deficits,,♯ ̮reflecting how far the perceived democratic performance of any state diverges from public expectations. Pippa Norris examines the symptoms by comparing system support in more than fifty societies worldwide, challenging the pervasive claim that most established democracies have experienced a steadily rising tide of political disaffection during the third-wave era. The book diagnoses the reasons behind the democratic deficit, including demand (rising public aspirations for democracy), information (negative news about government), and supply (the performance and structure of democratic regimes). Finally, Norris examines the consequences for active citizenship, for governance, and ultimately, for democratization. This book provides fresh insights into major issues at the heart of comparative politics, public opinion, political culture, political behavior, democratic governance, political psychology, political communications, public policymaking, comparative sociology, cross-national survey analysis, and the dynamics of the democratization process"--

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Political systems --- Political sociology --- Democratization. --- Democracy. --- Public administration --- Political indicators. --- Comparative government. --- #SBIB:324H20 --- #SBIB:324H50 --- #SBIB:35H500 --- Comparative political systems --- Comparative politics --- Government, Comparative --- Political systems, Comparative --- Political science --- Indicators, Political --- Political statistics --- Self-government --- Equality --- Representative government and representation --- Republics --- Democratic consolidation --- Democratic transition --- New democracies --- Evaluation. --- Politologie: theorieën (democratie, comparatieve studieën….) --- Politieke participatie en legitimiteit (referenda, directe democratie, publieke opinie...) --- Bestuur en samenleving: algemene werken --- Comparative government --- Democracy --- Democratization --- Political indicators --- Evaluation --- Political participation. --- Legitimacy of governments. --- Governments, Legitimacy of --- Legitimacy (Constitutional law) --- Consensus (Social sciences) --- Revolutions --- Sovereignty --- State, The --- General will --- Political stability --- Regime change --- Citizen participation --- Community action --- Community involvement --- Community participation --- Involvement, Community --- Mass political behavior --- Participation, Citizen --- Participation, Community --- Participation, Political --- Political activity --- Political behavior --- Political rights --- Social participation --- Political activists --- Politics, Practical --- Public opinion. --- Social Sciences --- Political Science --- Public administration - Evaluation.


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Politics and sexual equality: the comparative position of women in western democracies
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ISBN: 1555870724 Year: 1987 Publisher: Boulder, Colo. Rienner

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Electoral engineering
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ISBN: 0521829771 0521536715 0511187521 9780511187520 9780521536714 9780521829779 0511184859 9780511184857 0511185685 9780511185687 9780511790980 0511790988 1280449314 9781280449314 0511186592 9780511186592 9786610449316 6610449317 1107147999 9781107147997 0511313616 9780511313615 Year: 2004 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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From Kosovo to Kabul, the last decade witnessed growing interest in ?electoral engineering?. Reformers have sought to achieve either greater government accountability through majoritarian arrangements or wider parliamentary diversity through proportional formula. Underlying the normative debates are important claims about the impact and consequences of electoral reform for political representation and voting behavior. The study compares and evaluates two broad schools of thought, each offering contracting expectations. One popular approach claims that formal rules define electoral incentives facing parties, politicians and citizens. By changing these rules, rational choice institutionalism claims that we have the capacity to shape political behavior. Alternative cultural modernization theories differ in their emphasis on the primary motors driving human behavior, their expectations about the pace of change, and also their assumptions about the ability of formal institutional rules to alter, rather than adapt to, deeply embedded and habitual social norms and patterns of human behavior.

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International relations. Foreign policy --- Affiliation aux partis politiques --- Comparative government --- Comparative political systems --- Comparative politics --- Elections --- Gouvernement comparé --- Gouvernement représentatif --- Government [Comparative ] --- Institutions politiques -- Études comparatives --- Institutions politiques comparées --- Opérations de vote --- Parlementarisme --- Parliamentary government --- Partis politiques [Affiliation aux ] --- Party affiliation --- Political affiliation --- Political representation --- Political systems [Comparative ] --- Politieke partijen [Toetreding tot de ] --- Politique comparée --- Representation --- Representative government and representation --- Régimes politiques --- Scrutin --- Secret de vote --- Self-government --- Stemmen (Politiek) --- Sécurité de vote --- Toetreding tot de politieke partijen --- Vergelijkend bestuur --- Verkiezingen --- Volksvertegenwoordiging --- Vote --- Vote secret --- Votes --- Voting --- Élections--Modalités --- Elections. --- Voting. --- Party affiliation. --- Representative government and representation. --- Comparative government. --- Partis politiques --- Adhésion --- 342.8 --- #SBIB:041.IO --- #SBIB:324H42 --- Government, Comparative --- Political systems, Comparative --- Political science --- Constitutional history --- Constitutional law --- Democracy --- Republics --- Suffrage --- Affiliation, Party --- Political parties --- Polls --- Politics, Practical --- Social choice --- Electoral politics --- Franchise --- Plebiscite --- Political campaigns --- Kiesrecht --(algemeen) --- Politieke structuren: verkiezingen --- Membership --- 342.8 Kiesrecht --(algemeen) --- Adhérents d'un parti --- Adhésion politique --- Adhésion à un parti --- Affiliation [Party ] --- Affiliation à un parti --- Appartenance à un parti --- Membres d'un parti --- Partis politiques -- Adhésion --- Partis politiques -- Membres --- Political parties -- Membership --- Gouvernement représentatif --- Institutions politiques comparées --- Adhésion --- Balloting --- Social Sciences --- Political Science

Radical right
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ISBN: 052161385X 9780521613859 0521849144 9780521849142 9780511615955 9780511139888 0511139888 9780511140655 0511140657 9780511139123 0511139128 9781280416194 128041619X 9786610416196 6610416192 0511615957 9780511139128 0511139123 0511140657 9780511301094 051130109X 1107153220 0511182910 Year: 2005 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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During recent decades, radical right parties have been surging in popularity in many nations, gaining legislative seats, enjoying the legitimacy endowed by ministerial office, and striding the corridors of government power. The popularity of leaders such as Le Pen, Haider, and Fortuyn has aroused widespread popular concern and a burgeoning scholarly literature. Despite the interest, little consensus has emerged about the primary factors driving this phenomenon. The puzzle is to explain why radical right parties have advanced in a diverse array of democracies - including in Austria, Canada, Norway, France, Italy, New Zealand, Switzerland, Israel, Romania, Russia, and Chile - while failing to make comparable gains in similar societies elsewhere, such as in Sweden, Britain, and the United States. This book, first published in 2005, expands our understanding of support for radical right parties through presenting an integrated new theory which is then tested systematically using a wealth of cross-national survey evidence covering almost forty countries.

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Political parties --- Conservatism --- Right-wing extremists --- Radicalism --- Political culture --- Right and Left (Political science) --- Conservatisme --- Extrémistes de droite --- Radicalisme --- Partis politiques --- Culture politique --- Droite et gauche (Science politique) --- Cross-cultural studies. --- Cross-cultural studies --- Etudes transculturelles --- CROSS-CULTURAL STUDIES -- 329.18 --- CONSERVATISM -- 323.21 --- RIGHT-WING EXTREMISTS -- 323.21 --- RADICALISM -- 329.18 --- #SBIB:054.AANKOOP --- #SBIB:321H80 --- #SBIB:324H43 --- Westerse politieke en sociale theorieën vanaf de 19e eeuw: personalisme, traditionalisme, conservatisme, republicanisme ... --- Politieke structuren: politieke partijen --- Extrémistes de droite --- Far-right extremists --- Radicals --- Left (Political science) --- Left and right (Political science) --- Right (Political science) --- Political science --- Extremism, Political --- Ideological extremism --- Political extremism --- Parties, Political --- Party systems, Political --- Political party systems --- Divided government --- Intra-party disagreements (Political parties) --- Political conventions --- Culture --- Conservativism --- Neo-conservatism --- New Right --- Sociology --- Westerse politieke en sociale theorieën vanaf de 19e eeuw: personalisme, traditionalisme, conservatisme, republicanisme .. --- Right wing extremists --- Right and left (Political science) --- Westerse politieke en sociale theorieën vanaf de 19e eeuw: personalisme, traditionalisme, conservatisme, republicanisme . --- Westerse politieke en sociale theorieën vanaf de 19e eeuw: personalisme, traditionalisme, conservatisme, republicanisme --- Social Sciences --- Political Science --- Conservatism - Cross-cultural studies --- Right-wing extremists - Cross-cultural studies --- Radicalism - Cross-cultural studies --- Political parties - Cross-cultural studies --- Political culture - Cross-cultural studies --- Right and Left (Political science) - Cross-cultural studies


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Driving democracy
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ISBN: 9780521694803 9780521873192 0521694809 0521873193 9780511790614 9780511424342 0511424345 0511423861 9780511423864 0511790619 9786611775834 6611775838 9780511422690 1107197910 1281775835 0511422695 0511422032 0511423357 Year: 2008 Publisher: Cambridge New York Cambridge University Press

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Proposals for power-sharing constitutions remain controversial, as highlighted by current debates in Iraq, Afghanistan, Nepal, and Sudan. This book updates and refines the theory of consociationalism, taking account of the flood of contemporary innovations in power-sharing institutions that have occurred worldwide. The book classifies and compares four types of political institutions: the electoral system, parliamentary or presidential executives, unitary or federal states, and the structure and independence of the mass media. The study tests the potential advantages and disadvantages of each of these institutions for democratic governance. Cross-national time-series data concerning trends in democracy are analyzed for all countries worldwide since the early 1970s. Chapters are enriched by comparing detailed case studies. The mixed-method research design illuminates the underlying causal mechanisms by examining historical developments and processes of institutional change within particular nations and regions.

British by-elections : the volatile electorate
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ISBN: 0198273304 Year: 1990 Publisher: Oxford Clarendon Press

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