33 research outputs found
Is Equality Good Medicine? Determinants of Life Expectancy in Industrialized Democracies
Disaffected Democracies: What's Troubling the Trilateral Countries Edited by Susan J. Pharr and Robert D. Putnam. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000. 348p. 19.95 paper.
European democracies /
Includes bibliographical references and index.Becoming modern in Europe and America: different history, different politics -- Political parties -- "The most specific manipulative instrument of politics": electoral systems and how votes are turned into seats -- From legislative to executive authority: cabinet formation -- Courts -- Referenda -- Federalism -- Social movements -- The state, corporatism, the great meltdown of 2008, and the Greek debt crisis of 2011 -- Policy outcomes -- The legacy of communism in Central and Eastern Europe -- Nationalism and ethnicity -- Power sharing in deeply divided communities -- The European Union -- Globalization and European democracies.Coolsaet, Ri