Product Description: This new book introduces innovative research on democracy from the leading Comparative Manifestos Project (CMP). It outlines the achievements of the project to date, illustrates how its findings may be applied, lays out the future challenges it faces and examines how the field as a whole can advance...read more

Product Description: Sharing the costs of ill health is the mark of a civilised society. However, every society has limited healthcare resources, and must therefore make finely balanced decisions on how best to allocate them. The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has been responsible for the UK's health resource allocation for a decade...read more

Product Description: This wide-ranging text identifies and assesses the main conceptions of democracy from participationist to elitist. It proceeds to consider in detail a range of key issues in democratic theory in relation to which these conceptions can be distinguished...read more

Product Description: Developing a distinctive normative theory of political association, this book argues that the goods of democratic citizenship have been advanced by European integration in many respects, including environmental policy. In other respects, including social policy, primary political authority is best kept at the level of the nation-state...read more

The contributors to this book examine the issues of constitutional choice that face the governments and citizens of today's Europe. Divided into three sections this study addresses: questions of political legitimacy and the meaning of democratic deficit in the EU; the reality of what institutional reforms and decision making processes are possible; and the rights of citizenship and values that should be protected.

Product Description: The highly topical problems associated with public policy and risk are analysed in ten essays looking at the public understanding of risk, the policy-making process, and recent case studies. They will be of interest to general political scientists, sociologists and specialists in public policy, as well as those specifically working in the field of risk analysis...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Over the last thirty years, the European Union has created a system of environmental governance in Europe. This work seeks to understand this new system of environmental governance both at the European level and at the level of member states...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

The contributors to this study address the question of how political theory is relevent to the construction of new Europe and the tie-in issues of citizenship, social justice and political legitimacy.

Product Description: One the one hand, innovation in science of technology promises and delivers great benefits. On the other hand, it is increasingly perceived to threaten the values of health, safety and environmental protection that are so central to the outlook of citizens in the affluent countries of the world...read more

Product Description: This work argues that current approaches to pollution not only fail to deal with the challenge of existing and novel types of pollution, but also fail to take into account our changing understanding of its international scale and effects...read more