Compound democracies: why the United States and Europe are becoming similar

A major and broad-ranging new comparison of the American and European political systems that argues provocatively that they are growing increasingly similar and offers a compelling new model for understanding them. INDICE: Introduction; 1: Democratic transformations in Europe and America; Part I: Transatlantic democracies: The era of institutional divergence; 2:Differentiation in authority structures: state, nation and democracy in Europe and America; 3: Institutionalization of different governmental patterns: separation and fusion of powers in America and Europe; 4: Alternative paths to a modern social order: territoriality, market and welfare in America and Europe;5: Different structuring of partisan politics in America and Europe: the roleof parties in the political process; Part II: Transatlantic democracies: the era of institutional convergence; 6: American compound democracy and its challenges: the domestic implications of global power; 7: Structural transformationof European politics: the growth of supranational European Union; 8: Compounddemocracy in America and Europe: comparing the US and the EU; 9: The constitutionalization of the US and the EU compound democracies; 10: The puzzle of compound democracy: a comparative perspective; Bibliography

• ISBN: 978-0-19-956600-6
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 368
• Fecha Publicación: 19/08/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés