European Politics: A comparative Introduction (Comparative Government and Politics)

This is a major new thematically organized introductory text on European Politics covering West, Central and Eastern Europe in an integrated way. Illustrated throughout with a wide range of boxes, figures and tables, the book uses Sweden, the UK, the Netherlands, France, Spain, Italy, Germany, the Czech Republic and Poland as examples for systematic comparison throughout, adding consideration of a range of other countries as particularly relevant in each chapter to provide a concise but comprehensive introduction to governance and politics across the whole continent.