Foundations of comparative politics : democracies of the modern world

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Title
"Foundations of comparative politics : democracies of the modern world"
Statement of Responsibility
Kenneth Newton, Jan W. Van Deth
Publisher
  • Cambridge University Press
  • 4th ed
Publication Year
  • 2021
Book size
26 cm
Series Name / No
  • : hardback

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Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index

Summary: "The first edition of this book was published in 2006, before the financial crash of 2008, Obama's election in the USA, Trump's unexpected win in 2016, Brexit, the war in Syria, and the rapid rise of refugees and migrants all over the world. In 2006 many western countries were beginning to register a decline in voting, party identification and political trust but it was too soon to say whether these were temporary fluctuations or the onset of longer-term trends. Some of the large parties of the centre ground were losing support and minor parties were appearing on the scene, but few managed to overtake the weakened major ones. Separatist movements were active all over the world, often many different ones in the same country, but most were small, even tiny, and success was rare. The troubles in Northern Ireland had been calmed by the Good Friday Agreement of 1998 and Kosovo gained its independence two years later. Nationalist movements were active in Catalonia and Scotland but nowhere near their future

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