This Element provides a critical review of existing literature on the role of ideas and
institutions in the politics of public policy with the aim of contributing to the study of the …

The complex relationship between globalization and European integration was largely
shaped in the 1970s. During this decade, globalization began, for the first time, to threaten …

Although the idea that existing policies can have major effects on politics and policy
development is hardly new, the last three decades witnessed a major expansion of policy …

Democratic regression has become a worrying phenomenon in the last years. Social
science has provided a variety of explanations why democratic regimes have lost …

Countries adopted a variety of social policy responses to reduce the social risks
exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, which in some cases took the form of institutional …

Where party identification is in decay or in flux, alternative political identifications have
gained centrality. In this Element, the author develops a typology of post-partisan political …

It is common wisdom that central banks in the postwar (1945-1970s) period were passive
bureaucracies constrained by fixed-exchange rates and inflationist fiscal policies. This view …

The effects of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic cuts across every facet of a
nation's life. The near collapse of economies with the attendant job losses has brought forth …

State-owned enterprises make up roughly 10 percent of the world economy, yet they are
woefully understudied. This handbook offers the first synthesis of the topic since the 1980s …

This book applies the analytical approach called Historical Institutionalism (HI)-so far mostly
used within comparative politics-to the field of International Relations (IR). It provides an …