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Getting Involved: A Practical Approach to Deployment as a Nurse or Health Care Professional Volunteer
This chapter examines the general principles and considerations nurses and HCPs encounter when preparing to volunteer to respond to disasters. Disasters are increasing in frequency. Nurses, making up the major...
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Honesty above all else? Expectations and perceptions of political conduct in three established democracies
Many citizens across the liberal democratic world are highly critical of their elected representatives’ conduct. Drawing on original survey data from Britain, France and Germany, this paper offers a unique ins...
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Open AccessDemocratic Norms, Empirical Realities and Approaches to Improving Voter Turnout
Though falling turnout in recent decades has been recognised as a problem for democracy, the solutions that have been proposed have mostly been drawn from the realms of the marketplace and society, rather than...
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What National Governments Can and Can’t Do Well
In this chapter the second main component of the argument will be laid out in detail: the real scope for decision-making enjoyed by contemporary governments. Analysis of the limits imposed by the forces of glo...
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Putting Policies into Practice
This chapter provides an overview of the argument in accessible language, summarizing the main points developed in this volume and drawing out their practical implications for politics today.
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Introduction
This introduces the themes of the book, previews the main argument and provides a guide to subsequent chapters, outlining the case for a radically different approach to economic policy.
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Globalization and Its Effects
Chapter 2 will present evidence to support the first plank in the argument: the nature of the global economy and the constraints it imposes on policy makers. The evolution of globalization will be traced over ...
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Providing Citizen Support
This chapter will start where Chapter 3 ends, discussing in greater detail the forms of support which governments should seek to provide under the current circumstances. The main areas covered will be security...
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Focusing on Action: A Model Manifesto
This chapter is written in the style of a political manifesto, with the aim of engaging the reader and develo** a persuasive account of why our proposals make sense. It summarizes the demands of protest grou...
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A British Economy? Boxing with Shadows
This chapter argues that the notion of a ‘British economy’ is a myth in today’s globalized world. This has considerable implications for governments’ approaches to dealing with economic crisis. The underlying ...
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Tempests and Teacups: Politicians’ Reputations in the Wake of the Expenses Scandal
This chapter examines the impact of the 2009 MPs’ expenses scandal on public attitudes towards politicians and politics. Drawing on data from a three-wave representative panel survey fielded between early 2009...
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Paying for Support
The question that most readers will immediately ask is this: how can the support measures detailed in Chapter 4 be paid for? This chapter will address this issue head-on, setting out a variety of measures that...
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Conclusion
The analyses undertaken in this volume have demonstrated the importance of electoral institutions in sha** political development in the crucial years following regime transition in post-communist Europe. Pos...
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Party System Stability and Change
This chapter will examine the impact of electoral systems on party system stability, understood in terms of electoral volatility and the ability of new entrants into the electoral arena to penetrate the suppor...
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Electoral Systems and Post-Communist Transition
A significant body of empirical theory has been developed over the past forty years to explain the effects of electoral laws on the party systems of established democracies, most of which have historically bee...
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Electoral Participation
The aggregation of electoral preferences begins with the act of voting; the decision whether or not to vote thus makes a logical starting point for the analysis of the impact of electoral institutions on polit...
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Party System Size and Shape
In the last two chapters we considered the institutional factors that influence the inclusion of voters into the political process in post-communist Europe. In this part of the book we turn to an examination o...
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An Overview of Post-Communist Electoral Systems: Design and Measurement
The purpose of this chapter is to provide a descriptive overview of the range of electoral system designs in post-communist Europe and to elaborate ways of measuring them. The chapter is divided into three par...
