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The European voter : a comparative study of modern democracies.
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ISBN: 0199273219 9780199273218 Year: 2005 Publisher: Oxford Oxford university press

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This book provides a systematic comparative analysis of how and why voting behaviour has changed in Europe in recent decades. It has been widely argued that radical changes have occurred in the how and why of voting behaviour in Europe as a result of changes in the structure of society, most notably the rise in material affluence and educational attainment, and the decline in religious observance and the size of the working class. But most tests of this proposition have been undertaken on single countries. This book, however, systematically tests the validity of this proposition across various European countries. The argument that social change has altered voting behaviour has been increasingly challenged on the grounds that it takes too little account of changes in the choices that are put before voters by the parties, such as the promises and proposals that are put forward at election time. This book, therefore, also assesses the relative explanatory power of claims that voting behaviour has changed because of changes in society against claims that it responds to changes in the offerings of political parties.And it is clear from the analyses reported in this book that contrary to the claims of much of the extant literature, the latter argument appears better able to account for many of the patterns and changes in European voting behaviour, and thus the book constitutes an important challenge to much current academic orthodoxy. This is the first book to provide a systematic comparison of the long-term dynamics of the voting behaviour of individual voters across such a wide range of European countries, taking into account the dynamics of the choices put before voters by the parties and, for the first time, relating this to the way voters behave. "Comparative Politics" is a series for students and teachers of political science that deals with contemporary issues in comparative government and politics. The General Editors are Max Kaase, Professor of Political Science, Vice President and Dean, School of Humanities and Social Science, International University Bremen; and Kenneth Newton, Professor of Comparative Politics, University of Southampton. The series is published in association with the European Consortium for Political Research.

Political representation and legitimacy in the European Union
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ISBN: 0198296614 9780198296614 Year: 1999 Publisher: Oxford New York Tokyo Oxford University Press


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The Oxford handbook of political representation in liberal democracies
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ISBN: 9780191863769 9780192558695 0192558692 Year: 2020 Publisher: New York, NY Oxford University Press

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"How can democracies effectively represent citizens? The goal of this Handbook is to evaluate comprehensively how well the interests and preferences of mass publics become represented by institutions in liberal democracies. It first explores how the idea and institutions of liberal democracies were formed over centuries and became enshrined in Western political systems. The contributors to this Handbook, made up of the world's leading scholars on the various aspects of political representation, examine how well the political elites and parties who are charged with the representation of the public interest meet their duties. Clearly, institutions often fail to live up to their own representation goals. With this in mind, the contributors explore several challenges to the way that the system of representation is organized in modern democracies. For example, actors such as parties and established elites face rising distrust among electorates. Also, the rise of international problems such as migration and environmentalism suggests that the focus of democracies on nation states may have to shift to a more international level. All told, this Handbook illuminates the normative and functional challenges faced by representative institutions in liberal democracies"--


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Political representation and European Union governance
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ISBN: 9780415582940 Year: 2011 Publisher: London Routledge

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The European Parliament: moving toward democracy in the EU
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ISBN: 0742501256 Year: 2002 Publisher: Lanham, Md Rowman & Littlefield

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The European Parliament : moving toward democracy in the EU
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ISBN: 0742501264 Year: 2002 Publisher: Totowa Rowman & Littlefield

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De wankele democratie : heeft de democratie haar beste tijd gehad?
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ISBN: 9789035140523 Year: 2014 Publisher: Amsterdam Prometheus/Bert Bakker

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The Making of the New Negro
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ISBN: 9789089643193 9789048514236 Year: 2012 Volume: *3 Publisher: Amsterdam

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The Making of the New Negro onderzoekt zwarte mannelijkheid in de periode van de Harlem Renaissance, die lange tijd weinig wetenschappelijke aandacht trok, totdat in de jaren negentig veel geleerden ontdekten hoe complex, belangrijk en boeiend deze tijd was. Anna Pochmara maakt gebruik van Afro-Amerikaanse teksten, Amerikaanse archieven, niet-gepubliceerde geschriften en gelijktijdig Europees discours. Dit boek richt zich zowel op de canonieke New Negro Movement en Afro-Amerikaanse cultuur, vertegenwoordigd door onder anderen W.E.B. DuBois, Booker T. Washington, Alain Locke en Richard Wright, als op schrijvers die ondanks hun betekenis voor de beweging niet zo veel wetenschappelijke aandacht hebben gekregen, zoals Wallace Thurman. Pochmara combineert gender, seksualiteit en raciale studies met analyse en literair-historisch onderzoek.

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