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This 2006 book reviews fifty years of research on politics in Africa. It synthesizes insights from different scholarly approaches and offers an interpretation of the knowledge accumulated over the years. It discusses how research on African politics relates to the study of politics in other regions. It focuses on such key issues as the legacy of a movement approach to political change, the nature of the state, the economy of a location, the policy deficit, the agrarian question, gender and politics and ethnicity and conflict. It ends by reviewing what scholars agree upon and what the accumulated knowledge offers as insights for more effective political and policy reforms. This book is for undergraduate and graduate courses in African and Comparative Politics as well as development-oriented courses in Political Science and related disciplines. It is also of great relevance to governance and development analysts and practitioners in international organizations.

Political systems --- Africa --- Political science --- Comparative government. --- Science politique --- Institutions politiques comparées --- Afrique --- Politics and government --- Politique et gouvernement --- Institutions politiques comparées --- Comparative political systems --- Comparative politics --- Government, Comparative --- Political systems, Comparative --- Administration --- Civil government --- Commonwealth, The --- Government --- Political theory --- Political thought --- Politics --- Science, Political --- Social sciences --- State, The --- Social Sciences --- Political Science

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Popular elections are at the heart of representative democracy. Thus, understanding the laws and practices that govern such elections is essential to understanding modern democracy. In this book, Cox views electoral laws as posing a variety of coordination problems that political forces must solve. Coordination problems - and with them the necessity of negotiating withdrawals, strategic voting, and other species of strategic coordination - arise in all electoral systems. This book employs a unified game-theoretic model to study strategic coordination worldwide and that relies primarily on constituency-level rather than national aggregate data in testing theoretical propositions about the effects of electoral laws. This book also considers not just what happens when political forces succeed in solving the coordination problems inherent in the electoral system they face but also what happens when they fail.

Elections. --- Voting. --- Comparative government. --- Comparative political systems --- Comparative politics --- Government, Comparative --- Political systems, Comparative --- Polls --- Electoral politics --- Franchise --- #A9708A --- Political systems --- Political science --- Elections --- Politics, Practical --- Social choice --- Suffrage --- Plebiscite --- Political campaigns --- Representative government and representation --- Voting --- Comparative government --- Vote --- Institutions politiques comparées --- Balloting --- Social Sciences --- Political Science --- Élections --- Institutions politiques comparées --- Système électoral --- Etudes comparatives

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Why have dominant parties persisted in power for decades in countries spread across the globe? Why did most eventually lose? Why Dominant Parties Lose develops a theory of single-party dominance, its durability, and its breakdown into fully competitive democracy. Greene shows that dominant parties turn public resources into patronage goods to bias electoral competition in their favor and virtually win elections before election day without resorting to electoral fraud or bone-crushing repression. Opposition parties fail because their resource disadvantages force them to form as niche parties with appeals that are out of step with the average voter. When the political economy of dominance erodes, the partisan playing field becomes fairer and opposition parties can expand into catchall competitors that threaten the dominant party at the polls. Greene uses this argument to show why Mexico transformed from a dominant party authoritarian regime under PRI rule to a fully competitive democracy.

One-party systems. --- Opposition (Political science) --- Democratization --- Presidents --- Comparative government. --- Parti unique --- Opposition (Science politique) --- Démocratisation --- Présidents --- Institutions politiques comparées --- Election --- One-party systems --- Comparative government --- Démocratisation --- Présidents --- Institutions politiques comparées --- Comparative political systems --- Comparative politics --- Government, Comparative --- Political systems, Comparative --- Political science --- Presidency --- Heads of state --- Executive power --- Political opposition --- Divided government --- Single-party systems --- Political parties --- Social Sciences --- Political Science --- Democratization - Mexico --- Presidents - Mexico - Election - 2000

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This work provides a comprehensive introduction to local government and urban politics in contemporary Western Europe. The author shows how local government institutions have been subject to change as a response to Europeanisation.

Politics --- Western Europe --- Local government --- Comparative government. --- Europe, Western --- Politics and government --- #SBIB:35H1355 --- #SBIB:35H6010 --- #SBIB:014.IO --- Organisatie en beleid: lokale besturen: Europa: algemeen --- Bestuur en beleid: nationale en regionale studies: West-Europa: algemeen --- Europe, Western - Politics and government -. --- Local government. --- Comparative government --- Comparative political systems --- Comparative politics --- Gouvernement comparé --- Government [Comparative ] --- Institutions politiques -- Études comparatives --- Institutions politiques comparées --- Political systems [Comparative ] --- Politique comparée --- Régimes politiques --- Vergelijkend bestuur --- Government, Comparative --- Political systems, Comparative --- Local administration --- Township government --- Subnational governments --- Administrative and political divisions --- Decentralization in government --- Public administration --- Political science --- Europe [Western ] --- 1989 --- -Local government --- -Politics --- -Comparative government. --- -Comparative government

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Over the past three decades the effects of globalization and denationalization have created a division between 'winners' and 'losers' in Western Europe. This study examines the transformation of party political systems in six countries (Austria, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland and the UK) using opinion surveys, as well as newly collected data on election campaigns. The authors argue that, as a result of structural transformations and the strategic repositioning of political parties, Europe has observed the emergence of a tripolar configuration of political power, comprising the left, the moderate right, and the new populist right. They suggest that, through an emphasis on cultural issues such as mass immigration and resistance to European integration, the traditional focus of political debate - the economy - has been downplayed or reinterpreted in terms of this new political cleavage. This new analysis of Western European politics will interest all students of European politics and political sociology.

Political parties --- Europe --- Globalization --- Comparative government --- Mondialisation --- Institutions politiques comparées --- Political aspects --- Aspect politique --- Europe, Western --- Europe de l'Ouest --- Politics and government --- Politique et gouvernement --- #SBIB:324H43 --- 329 --- Politieke structuren: politieke partijen --- Politieke partijen. Partijwezen. Partijrecht --- Comparative government. --- 329 Politieke partijen. Partijwezen. Partijrecht --- Institutions politiques comparées --- Global cities --- Globalisation --- Internationalization --- International relations --- Anti-globalization movement --- Comparative political systems --- Comparative politics --- Government, Comparative --- Political systems, Comparative --- Political science --- Social Sciences --- Political Science --- Globalization - Political aspects - Europe, Western --- Europe, Western - Politics and government - 1989 --- -Globalization --- -Comparative government