European politics. A comparative introduction. 3rd edition

Contents:

1. Europe: A Continent in the Making
2. The End of the Nation State?
3. From Government to Governance: Running the State, Making Policy and Policing the Constitution
4. Governments and Parliaments: A Long Way from Equality
5. Parties: How the Past Affects the Present, and An Uncertain Future
6. Elections, Voting and Referendums: Systems, Turnout, Preferences and Unpredictability
7. The Media: Player and Recorder
8. Participation and Pressure Politics: Civil Society, Organised Interests and Social Movements
9. Politics Over Markets: Does Politics – and Left and Right – Still Matter?
10. Not Wanted but Needed: Migrants and Minorities
11. Protecting and Promoting: Europe's International Politics
The fully revised 3rd edition of this textbook provides an introduction to the governance and politics of Europe. An accessible, up-to-date guide, it covers the institutions and issues that matter, and uses 9 representative countries as case studies throughout.

Thematically structured to address the key institutions and issues, it is genuinely pan-European in scope. Although no country is ignored, a range of representative countries (the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Sweden and the UK) as well as the European Union itself, are used as key examples throughout the book and each of them is the subject of an in-depth double-page country profiles.

The third edition has been fully revised and updated to take account of the latest developments and now includes coverage of the Eurozone crisis, governments' austerity measures and recent legislation affecting privacy and human rights.