9781604266115: Politics in Europe
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Thoroughly updated, Politics in Europe remains an approachable, yet rigorous introduction to the region. Its strong analytic framework and organization, coupled with detailed country coverage, ensure that students not only get a robust introduction to each country, but also are able to make meaningful cross-national comparisons.

Key updates include: an expanded introduction that situates European politics within a comparative framework; more substantive discussions in the "Future of..." chapters; the latest in European politics, including the election in Britain, the aftermath of the deaths of Polish government leaders, the financial crisis affecting Greece and other European countries, and more; updates of key social and political issues including immigration, gender, religion, civic society, and trans-Atlantic relations; and up-to-date tables and figures with key cross-national data.

 

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M. Donald Hancock is professor emeritus of political science at Vanderbilt University. He has previously taught at Columbia University, the University of Texas (UT) at Austin, and the universities of Bielefeld and Mannheim in Germany. Hancock is the founding director of two centers for European Studies―the first at UT Austin and the second, founded in 1981, at Vanderbilt. The latter is now designated the Max Kade Center for European and German Studies (which Hancock has also served as associate director for outreach activities). He is the coauthor (with Henry Krisch) of Politics in Germany (2009), and co-editor and coauthor of Transitions to Capitalism and Democracy in Russia and Central Europe (2000), German Unification: Process and Outcomes (1994), and Managing Modern Capitalism: Industrial Renewal and Workplace Democracy in the United States and Western Europe (1991). Hancock has served as co-chair of the Council for European Studies and as president of the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Studies and the Conference Group on German Politics. He is currently working on a collaborative study of economic, societal, and military security in the Baltic region.

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With its thorough and systematic analyses of politics in the major European countries, this textbook works great in introductory courses. Besides explaining institutional rules and structures, the authors, who are all long-standing country experts, usefully examine how governmental decisions are actually made and what goals public policy-makers have pursued and accomplished.

Author: Kurt Weyland

Politics in Europe offers enough depth to introduce students to European countries individually and in their unique contexts while structuring chapter discussion uniformly and systematically to facilitate cross-country comparisons. This balance is difficult to find, based on my experience with other available texts on European politics. Author: Michelle Williams

The knowledge in the United States about Europe and vice versa is diminishing; therefore a book like Politics in Europe. is all the more important. Its updated fifth edition provides a brilliant and highly readable analysis of Europe’s major players. The book is an excellent overview of politics in Europe with its broad scope, in-depth coverage and cross-national comparison. It enables the reader to gain a thorough understanding of the context of European national politics: the political framework, the decision-making, the role of political parties and the uses of political power in each country. Author: Dietmar Herz

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  • PublisherCQ Press
  • Publication date2011
  • ISBN 10 1604266112
  • ISBN 13 9781604266115
  • BindingPaperback
  • Edition number5
  • Number of pages800
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