The Statecraft of Consensus Democracies in a Turbulent World: A Comparative Study of Austria, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Switzerland

by Jose M. Magone

Drawing on the work of Arend Lijphart, this book focuses on consensus democracies. These democracies entail a complex set of democratic institutional and conventional arrangements and can be regarded as a product of path-dependent development towards a national culture of compromise and bargaining.

Taking a multi-dimensional and multi-spatial approach, this book examines the West central European consensus democracies of Austria, Belgium,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415502780
• ISBN13: 9780415502788
• Release Date: December 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 342 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.2"