Veto player approaches have come to occupy a central role in comparative politics. This
article critically reviews the literature, focussing especially on veto player explanations of …

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 …

Political parties have long been recognized as essential institutions of democratic
governance. Both the organization of parties, and their relationships with citizens, the state …

Institutional theory plays a significant role in contemporary political science. As in the
previous editions, the new fourth edition provides an overview of the major institutional …

A discussion of the case study method which develops an integrative framework for causal
inference in small-n research. This framework is applied to research design tasks such as …

Table of Contents Preface 1 Introduction 1 2 The Westminster Model of Democracy 9 3 The
Consensus Model of Democracy 31 4 Thirty-Six Democracies 48 5 Party Systems: Two …

Dies ist die sechste, grundlegend überarbeitete, aktualisierte und erweiterte Auflage einer
Einführung in klassische und moderne Theorien der Demokratie, die erstmals 1995 …

Neste livro, alterno o termo modelo Westminster com o de modelo majoritário para referir-
me a um modelo genérico de democracia. Também é possível usá-lo de forma mais …

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

Die vergleichende Politikwissenschaft ist eine Teildisziplin der Politikwissenschaft, deren
Selbstverständnis sich durch die vergleichende Methode ergibt. Oftmals ist die …