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The Territorial Imperative
Cambridge University Press 1992; US$ 46.00The Territorial Imperative explores the interaction of politics and economics at the mesolevel of the polity. more...
Policy, Office, or Votes?
Cambridge University Press 1999; US$ 30.00This book examines the behaviour of political parties in situations where they experience conflict between two or more important objectives. more...
Economic Governance in the EU
Taylor and Francis 2011; US$ 145.00In the course of its development the EU has had to deal with an expanding policy agenda, covering ever more subjects and an increased diversity of instruments. It has also had to deal with an increased number of member states and an extended range of partners (regional authorities, non governmental organisations). These developments have greatly increased... more...
Russia as a Network State
Palgrave Macmillan 2011; US$ 90.00Discusses the ambiguous nature of the state in Russia, focusing on elite networks and their role in policy processes. This book examines the paradoxical dualism of state institutions and ruling networks, providing answers as to why some decisions are not implemented, and why the state exists despite the systemic inefficiency of its institutions. more...
The Limits of Transnationalism
Palgrave Macmillan 2011; US$ 90.00Through the application of public opinion, interview, and print-media analyses, this book provides evidence that the state of transnational identification among citizens in the EU as a result of post-Maastricht integration measures had limited effects in the member states to the extent that national political cultures and mass media orientations are... more...
Representing Europe's Citizens?
OUP Oxford 2007; US$ 109.99The past 15 years have seen declining public support for European integration, and widespread suggestions that a legitimacy crisis faces the European Union (EU). Many in the EU have believed that this problem could be effectively tackled by vesting greater powers in the European Parliament (EP), the Union's only directly-elected institution. The... more...
New Labour at the Centre
OUP Oxford 2004; US$ 124.99Taking as its starting-point Anthony Downs' seminal work, An Economic Theory of Democracy, this book draws upon insights generated within economics, political psychology, and the study of rhetoric to examine the way in which New Labour achieved and maintained its electoral hegemony from 1994.Journalists and politicians routinely attribute New Labour's... more...
Vom Symbol zur Realität
BWV Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag 2011; US$ 47.44Hauptbeschreibung Der Ostseeraum und der Osten Europas insgesamt kann als Laboratorium eines zukünftigen Europas betrachtet werden. Diese Deutung ist bis jetzt überproportional für die ökonomische Entwicklung, die sich zugleich als politische Modernisierungstheorie generiert, in Anspruch genommen worden. Zweifelsohne haben einige Länder Osteuropas... more...
The European Union and Party Politics in Central and Eastern Europe
Palgrave Macmillan 2006; US$ 115.00This book examines the influence of the EU on party politics in the ten 'new' EU countries from a variety of perspectives and using a range of empirical sources. The book thus makes an original and distinctive contribution both to contemporary EU studies and to the literature on CE party systems and party development. more...









