After some seventeen years as co-editor of the ECPR/Oxford University Press Comparative Politics series, Ken Newton (University of Southampton) retired from the post on the 1 August 2007, to be replaced by David Farrell (University of Manchester). Professor Farrell will work alongside the continuing co-editor Alfio Mastropaolo (University of Turin).
Comparative Politics is a series for students and teachers of political science that deals with contemporary issues in comparative government and politics. As Comparative European Politics it produced a series of high-quality books following its foundation in 1990, but now takes on a broader form and title – Comparative Politics. As the process of globalisation proceeds, and as Europe becomes ever more enmeshed in world trends and events, it is necessary to expand the scope of the series.
A full list of all books published in the series since its launch in 1990 is below.
Budge and Keman, Parties and Democracy (hb) May-90
Meny and Knapp, Government and Politics in Western Europe 1st edn (hb) May-90, 1st edn (pb) May-90, 2nd edn (hb) Jun-93, 2nd edn (pb) Jun-93, 3rd edn (hb) Jun-98, 3rd edn (pb) Jun-98
Laver and Schofield, Multiparty Government (hb) Jun-90, (pb) Apr-91
Lewin, Self-Interest and Public Interest in Western Politics (hb) Apr-91, (pb) Apr-91
Lane, McKay, Newton, Political Data Handbook (hb) Nov-91
Page, Localism and Centralism in Europe (hb) Nov-91
Budge and Keman, Parties and Democracy (pb) Sep-93
Lijphart, Electoral Systems and Party Systems (hb) Jan-94, (pb) Nov-95
Scarrow, Parties and their Members (hb) Mar-96
Lane, McKay, Newton, Political Data Handbook 2nd edn (hb) Dec-96
Rohrschneider, Learning Democracy (hb) May-99
Flora, Kuhnle, Urwin, State Formation, Nation-Building, and Mass Politics in Europe (hb) Jun-99
Elgie, Semi-Presidentialism in Europe (hb) Sep-99
Mueller and Strøm, Coalition Governments in Western Europe (hb) Sep-00, (pb) May-03
Best and Cotta, Parliamentary Representatives in Europe 1848–2000 (hb) Oct-00
Dalton and Wattenberg, Parties Without Partisans (hb) Nov-00
Colomer, Political Institutions (hb) Feb-01, (pb) Mar-03
Shugart and Wattenberg, Mixed-Member Electoral Systems (hb) Feb-01
Elgie, Divided Government in Comparative Perspective (hb) Nov-01
Dalton and Wattenberg, Parties Without Partisans (pb) Mar-02
Gunther, Linz, Montero, Political Parties (hb) Mar-02, (pb) Mar-02
Webb, Farrell, Holliday, Political Parties in Advanced Industrial Democracies (hb) Sep-02, (pb) Sep-02
Luther and Mueller-Rommel, Political Parties in a Changing Europe (hb) Nov-02
Diani and McAdam, Social Movements and Networks (hb) Feb-03, (pb) Feb-03
Shugart and Wattenberg, Mixed-Member Electoral Systems (pb) Feb-03
Ignazi, Extreme Right Parties in Western Europe (hb) May-03, (pb) Sep-06
Strøm, Mueller, and Bergman, Delegation and Accountability in Parliamentary Democracies (hb) Nov-03
Rootes, Environmental Protest in Western Europe (hb) Dec-03
Cain, Dalton, Scarrow, Democracy Transformed (hb) Dec-03, (pb) Jan-06
Dalton, Democratic Changes, Democratic Choices (hb) Mar-04, (pb) Jan-07
Anderson et al, Losers' Consent (hb) Jan-05
Poguntke and Webb, The Presidentialization of Politics (hb) Mar-05, (pb) Apr-07
Thomassen, The European Voter (hb) Jul-05
Luther and Mueller-Rommel, Political Parties in the New Europe (pb) Aug-05
Roller, The Performance of Democracies (hb) Sep-05
McDonald and Budge, Elections, Parties, Democracy (hb) Nov-05
Strøm, Mueller, and Bergman, Delegation and Accountability in Parliamentary Democracies (pb) Jan-06
Dalton and Shin, Citizens, Democracy, and Markets Around the Pacific Rim (hb) Nov-06
Rootes, Environmental Protest in Western Europe (pb) Apr-07
Webb and White, Party Politics in New Democracies (hb) Sep-07
Anderson et al, Loser's Consent (pb) Oct-07
For further information about the series, please either contact the editors (alfio.mastropaolo@unito.it or david.farrell@manchester.ac.uk) or see the Oxford University Press website http://www.oup.co.uk.
