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Zusatztext This book most importantly makes significant theoretical contributions to the study of institutional change. As scholarship at its best, it will likely elicit many responses, especially regarding the frequency of changes in core democratic rules and their bundling... Highly recommended. Informationen zum Autor Camille Bedock is a FNRS postdoctoral researcher in the Centre d'étude de la vie politique (CEVIPOL) at the Université libre de Bruxelles since September 2016. Her work focuses on democratic reforms in consolidated democracies, and on the changes of democracy in a context of decline of political support. She has published in numerous journals such as The European Political Science Review, Representation, French Politics, the Revue Française de Science Politique, and the European Review of Social Sciences. Klappentext This volume explores when, why, and how, democratic institutions are reformed. Zusammenfassung This volume explores when, why, and how, democratic institutions are reformed. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I: Reforms of the Core Democratic Rules and their Contextual Determinants 1: Why Study Bundles of Reforms? The Debate on Democratic Institutions 2: To Reform or Not to Reform? The Determinants and Processes of Institutional Change in Established Democracies 3: The Changes to Core Democratic Rules in Western Europe, 1990-2010: An Overview 4: Disentangling the Long- and Short- Term Determinants of the Reforms of Core Democratic Rules: A Model for Western Europe, 1990-2010 Part II: The Mechanisms of Reform of the Core Democratic Rules 5: The Mechanisms of Institutional Reforms in Action: The Politics of Bundles of Reforms 6: You Win Some, You Lose Some: The Various Fortunes of Institutional Reforms in Ireland Since 2011 7: An Unexpected Journey: The Quinquennat and the Reordering of the Electoral Calendar in France, 2000-2001 8: Bundling the Bundles: Coalition Dynamics and Institutional Reforms in Italy, 2003-2006 Conclusion ...
