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010 $a 2014012398
020 $a9781138792593 (hardback)
020 $a1138792594 (hardback)
020 $z9781315761909 (ebk)
024 $a40024255223
035 $a(OCoLC)878024169
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn878024169
035 $a(NNC)11037923
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050 00 $aJC365$b.V44 2015
082 00 $a321.8$223
084 $aPOL007000$aPOL000000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aVeenendaal, Wouter,$eauthor.
245 10 $aPolitics and democracy in microstates /$cWouter Veenendaal.
264 1 $aAbingdon, Oxon ;$aNew York, NY :$bRoutledge,$c2015.
300 $axv, 225 pages ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
490 1 $aDemocratization studies ;$v29
520 $a"Why are small states statistically more likely to have a democratic political system? By addressing this question from a qualitative and comparative methodological angle, this book analyses the effects of a small population size on political competition and participation. By comparing the four microstates of San Marino (Europe), St. Kitts and Nevis (Caribbean), Seychelles (Africa), and Palau (Oceania), it provides fresh and stimulating insight, concluding that the political dynamics of microstates are not as democratic as commonly believed. Instead, it is found in all four cases that smallness results in personalistic politics, dominance of the political executive, patron-client relations between citizens and politicians, and the circumvention of formal political institutions. In addition, the book suggests that the study of formal institutions provides an incomplete image of microstate democracy and that informal characteristics of politics in microstates also need to be explored in order to better explain the influence of smallness on democracy. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of democracy, democratization, regional and decentralization studies and comparative politics"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
650 0 $aStates, Small$xPolitics and government.
650 0 $aDemocracy$zSan Marino.
650 0 $aDemocracy$zSaint Kitts and Nevis.
650 0 $aDemocracy$zSeychelles.
650 0 $aDemocracy$zPalau.
651 0 $aSan Marino$xPolitics and government.
651 0 $aSaint Kitts and Nevis$xPolitics and government.
651 0 $aSeychelles$xPolitics and government.
651 0 $aPalau$xPolitics and government.
650 7 $aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / General.$2bisacsh
830 0 $aDemocratization studies ;$v29.
852 00 $bleh$hJC365$i.V44 2015