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Handbook on Trust in Public Governance
This Handbook explores the transformative power of trust for relations within and between political, legislative, administrative, regulatory and judicial actors, as well as societal actors and citizens. Adopting a multi-actor and multi-level perspective, it highlights the centrality of functional trust and distrust in enhancing the resilience, effectiveness and legitimacy of current governance systems.
Party People
This book presents a candidate-based approach to party evolution, conceptualizing candidates as 'party genes' that ultimately decide what a party does and what it stands for. It draws on extensive new data from Central and Eastern Europe and beyond to show that candidate change is linked to changes in party organization, programmes, and leadership.
Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Corruption Law
Presenting the broad spectrum of interdisciplinary academic research on corruption, this essential reference book examines anti-corruption legislation, governance mechanisms, international instruments, and other preventative measures intended to tackle corruption. Including over 100 entries and adopting a comprehensive approach to researching and combating corruption, this Encyclopedia covers the key ideas, concepts, and theories in corruption law.
In Praise of Skepticism
A culture of trust is usually claimed to have many public benefits--by lubricating markets, managing organizations, legitimating governments, and facilitating collective action. Any signs of its decline are, and should be, a matter of serious concern. Yet, In Praise of Skepticism recognizes that trust has two faces. Confidence in anti-vax theories has weakened herd immunity. Faith in Q-Anon conspiracy theories triggered insurrection. Disasters flow from gullible beliefs in fake Covid-19 cures, Madoff pyramid schemes, Russian claims of Ukrainian Nazis, and the Big Lie denying President Biden's legitimate election. Trustworthiness involves an informal social contract by which principals author...
Divided Nation
In recent decades, US politics has become increasingly fraught and divided. This book evaluates the current state of American democracy, centered on the theme of polarization and dysfunction, through key policy, behavioral, and institutional issues. These dynamics and debates include increasing partisanship, declining public trust in institutions, the nationalization of politics, politicization of media and the Courts, outside interests’ influence in Congress, election administration, and more. Authored by an expert group of contributors working at the cutting edge of political science research, this volume provides in-depth analysis of the causes, mechanisms, and consequences of these problems, and offers possible solutions to them.
Promising Democracy
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Dressed for Politics
The aim of this dissertation is to examine and test the theory of publicity's civilizing effect. The theory is tested on business lobbyists-presumably the most market-oriented actors in politics-trying to influence environmental policy decisions on two extreme points of the transparency scale: the notoriously opaque European Commission, on the one hand, and the Swedish government, with its centuries old 'publicity principle', on the other. The author begins by asking professional lobbying consultants to provide a guided tour of politics: how would they advise lobbyists to act in both private and public lobbying situations? The results of these interviews are compared and contrasted with an analysis of a unique sample of actual lobbying documents: previously confidential lobbying letters as well as public letters and press releases.
