Edited by GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies / Leibniz-Institut für Globale und Regionale Studien.
Recent issues:
No 18 Heike Holbig: Ideological Reform and Political Legitimacy in China: Challenges in the Post-Jiang Era; March 2006
No 17 Howard Loewen: Towards a Dynamic Model of the Interplay Between International Institutions; February 2006
No 16 Gero Erdmann and Ulf Engel: Neopatrimonialism Revisited − Beyond a Catch-All Concept; February 2006
No 15 Thomas Kern: Modernisierung und Demokratisierung: Das Erklärungspotenzial neuer differenzierungstheoretischer Ansätze am Fallbeispiel Südkoreas [ Modernization and Democratization: The Explanatory Potential of New Differentiation Theoretical Approaches on the Case of South Korea]; January 2006
No 14 Karsten Giese: Challenging Party Hegemony: Identity Work in China’s Emerging Virreal Places; January 2006
No 13 Daniel Flemes: Creating a Regional Security Community in Southern Latin America: The Institutionalisation of the Regional Defence and Security Policies; December 2005
No 12 Patrick Köllner and Matthias Basedau: Factionalism in Political Parties: An Analytical Framework for Comparative Studies; December 2005
No 11 Detlef Nolte and Francisco Sánchez: Representing Different Constituencies: Electoral Rules in Bicameral Systems in Latin America and Their Impact on Political Representation; November 2005
No 10 Joachim Betz: Die Institutionalisierung von Parteien und die Konsolidierung des Parteiensystems in Indien. Kriterien, Befund und Ursachen dauerhafer Defizite [ The Institutionalisation of Parties and the Consolidation of the Party System in India. Criteria, State and Causes of Persistent Defects]; October 2005
No 9 Dirk Nabers: Culture and Collective Action – Japan, Germany and the United States after September 11, 2001; September 2005
No 8 Patrick Köllner: The LDP at 50: The Rise, Power Resources, and Perspectives of Japan’s Dominant Party; September 2005
No 7 Wolfgang Hein and Lars Kohlmorgen: Global Health Governance: Conflicts on Global Social Rights; August 2005
No 6 Patrick Köllner: Formale und informelle Politik aus institutioneller Perspektive: Ein Analyseansatz für die vergleichenden Area Studies [ Formal and Informal Politics from an Institutional Perspective: An Analytical Approach for Comparative Area Studies]; August 2005
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