Michael W. Bauer & Stefan Becker 
Democratic Backsliding and Public Administration [EPUB ebook] 
How Populists in Government Transform State Bureaucracies

In 2012, on the eve of Vladimir Putin »s inauguration for a controversial third term as president, mass protests ended in violent clashes between demonstrators and the police.  »;They ruined my big d …

Highlighting the high price paid by the United Nations and international peace builders that under-utilize the reflexive new paradigm approach to international relations (IR), this study develops an …

Is the EU able and prepared to deal with emerging Asia? Is an increasingly affluent Asia willing to engage with economically challenged Europe? This engaging volume presents the latest empirically in …

Political risk was first introduced as a component for assessing risk not directly linked to economic factors following the flow of capital from the US to Europe after the Second World War. However, …

Labour and social security law studies have addressed the topic of the decline of the standard employment relationship mainly from the point of view of the growing number of atypical relationships. O …

To date, critical analysis of the EMU project has largely been advanced from the centre-right spectrum of British politics. Comparable questions from the centre-left have failed to find a coherent vo …

With the increasing acceptance of evolutionary and institutional thinking among economists, general interest in the German Historical School has risen steadily during the last decade. This book trace …

This book asks whether foreign aid can help post-communist societies to steer their technological innovation systems in more environmentally sound directions. Mikael Sandberg examines the legacy of S …

The events of 1989, culminating in Tiananmen Square, highlighted the extent to which democratic ideals had taken root in China. Baogang He traces and evaluates the political discourse of democracy in …

Surveys the models of political phenomena that incorporate imperfect information, concentrating on  »full-rationality » approaches as opposed to bounded rationality models. …