European Politics surveys the history, institutions, and issues that are essential for understanding contemporary European politics. Exploring a central question-'What is Europe?', this text's themati
European Politics surveys the history, institutions, and issues that are essential for understanding contemporary European politics. Exploring a central question-'What is Europe?', this text's themati
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Paul Kubicek offers a comparative study of organized labor's fate in four postcommunist countries, and examines the political and economic consequences of labor's weakness. He notes that with few exce
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While Turkey has made major strides in democratic reforms in the late 1990s and early 2000s, progress has, in many ways, stalled. Turkey remains "democratic" in the sense that attaining political powe
Turkey is emerging as an important actor in world politics, exerting growing influence both in its immediate region and beyond. This book aims to understand and explain this phenomenon, utilizing a va
