To what extent are variations in public attitudes and outcomes of social/economic policies
caused by institutions like consociational democracy, corporatism and regimes of veto …

The ongoing use of the concept of 'corporatism'in industrial democracies has been stretched
to include overlapping but still distinctive realities, which in turn often produce different 'lists' …

This second edition of Doing Research in Political Science is a thoroughly revised and
updated version of the book that was originally published in 1999. In revising this edition we …

The bulk of current research on the transformation of modern welfare states has focused on
the issue of retrenchment and, in particular, on how cash-strapped governments have …

Diese Arbeit verknüpft die theoretische Demokratiediskussion mit dem neuen
Forschungsgebiet der Demokratiemessung. Zwei zentrale Fragen liegen der Untersuchung …

The New Institutional Politics is a comparative study of the impact of political institutions
upon outcomes, and covers some of the major themes in the new institutionalism. It looks at …

This article examines the relationship between national political and economic institutions
and environmental performance since the early 1970s in seventeen OECD countries. After …

Discussion of concepts in empirical democratic theory has proceeded down two main lines:
in terms of theory, from classical institutionalism to new institutionalism; in terms of …

In this concluding chapter, we shall try to assess the contemporary state of democracy as we
know it on the basis of the previous chapters of this volume. We shall do so in three steps …

Arend Lijphart's typology of democratic systems has been one of the major contributions to
comparative political science in the last decades. His differentiation between consensus and …