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Politics and Democracy in Microstates (Record no. 6400)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781317646587
037 ## - SOURCE OF ACQUISITION
Source of stock number/acquisition Taylor & Francis
Terms of availability GBP 49.99
Form of issue BB
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Subject category code POL007000
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Subject category code POL000000
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Subject category code 321.8
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100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Wouter Veenendaal
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Title Politics and Democracy in Microstates
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Edition statement 1
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. Oxford
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Routledge
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 20141017
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 242 p
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Expansion of summary note Why are small states statistically more likely to have a democratic political system? By addressing this question from a qualitative and comparative methodological angle, this book analyses the effects of a small population size on political competition and participation. By comparing the four microstates of San Marino (Europe), St. Kitts and Nevis (Caribbean), Seychelles (Africa), and Palau (Oceania), it provides fresh and stimulating insight, concluding that the political dynamics of microstates are not as democratic as commonly believed. Instead, it is found in all four cases that smallness results in personalistic politics, dominance of the political executive, patron-client relations between citizens and politicians, and the circumvention of formal political institutions. In addition, the book suggests that the study of formal institutions provides an incomplete image of microstate democracy and that informal characteristics of politics in microstates also need to be explored in order to better explain the influence of smallness on democracy. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of democracy, democratization, regional and decentralization studies and comparative politics.

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