Hanspeter Kriesi & Alexander H. Trechsel 
Politics of Switzerland [PDF ebook] 
Continuity and Change in a Consensus Democracy

Social media has emerged as a powerful tool that reaches a wide audience with minimum time and effort. It has a diverse role in society and human life and can boost the visibility of information that …

This book describes how American society has evolved over the past half century by examining the cultural context for political change. It explores the profound alterations that have occurred in …

Public–private partnerships (PPPs) are arrangements between government and private actors with the objective of providing public infrastructure, facilities and services. Three fundamental questions f …

With the explosion of national, international, and multinational actors becoming involved in ocean exploitation, concern has arisen over how this common resource is to be managed. One focus of these …

This book maps Indo-US relations from the turn of the last century. Amidst the changing world order, the bilateral ties between two of the world’s greatest democracies have evolved from the thorny ex …

The Labour government elected in 1997 pledged to reform the Westminster parliament by modernising the House of Commons and removing the hereditary peers from the House of Lords. Events have …

This book examines the militant Irish republican movement in the United States from the final months of the Irish Civil War through to the Second World War. The narrative carefully and creatively …

The Group of Eight has become a central actor in global governance with a steadily expanding role and agenda. The leaders” summits remain at the apex of the G8 system, but the leaders” work is …

The public expects organizations to come together and cooperate in times of crisis, yet we know that organizations often fall short of this anticipation. Today inter-organizational structures are the …

There is a perceived North-South divide in British politics. In this study, William Field points out that this divide marks the resurgence of a core-periphery cleavage which was also dominant in …