I can truthfully say that this book is one I have been waiting for for more than a decade, and I
am therefore delighted that it has finally arrived. It was in the late 1990s, when I was working …

The goal of this article is to suggest that an extended family of Mediterranean welfare states
exists and that it consists of eight different nations, some of which have been ignored in the …

Democracy, Agency, and the State aims to contribute to a comparatively informed theory of
democracy. Professor O'Donnell begins by arguing that conceptions of'the …

The Euro Area, the Schengen Area, and Airbus-the'Anglosphere', the Franco-
German'motor'and Nordic cooperation–each illustrates how differentiation has become a …

Citizen participation is a central component of democratic governance. As participatory
schemes have grown in number and gained in social legitimacy over recent years, the …

What does federalism do to welfare states? This question arises in scholarly debates about
policy design as well as in discussions about the right political institutions for a country. It …

The literature on democratic consolidation emphasizes the importance of effective parties for
the functioning of democracy. Specifically, the institutional resilience of democracy and the …

Introduction: Coordinating for Cohesion in the Public Sector of the Future (COCOPS), as one
of the largest comparative public management research projects in Europe, intends to …

In this book, Enrico Padoan proposes an original middle-range theory to explain the
emergence and the internal organisation of anti-neoliberal populist parties in Latin America …

Despite the historical and political similarities between Portugal and Spain, the contentious
responses to austerity diverged in terms of number, rhythm and players. This book compares …