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Politics and Democracy in Microstates - Couverture rigide

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Veenendaal, Wouter

 
9781138792593: Politics and Democracy in Microstates
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1138792594 ISBN 13 : 9781138792593
Editeur : Routledge, 2014

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l'auteur

Wouter Veenendaal is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies, the Netherlands.

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Éditeur
Routledge
Date d'édition
2014
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1138792594
ISBN 13 
9781138792593
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
226
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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