Table of Contents

I. Introduction II. Britain 1. The Making of the Modern British State 2. Political Economy and Development 3. Governance and Policymaking 4. Representation and Participation 5. British Politics in Transition III. France 6. The Making of the Modern French State 7. Political Economy and Development 8. Governance and Policymaking 9. Representation and Participation 10. French Politics in Transition IV. Germany 11. The Making of the Modern German State 12. Political Economy and Development 13. Governance and Policymaking 14. Representation and Participation 15. German Politics in Transition V. Italy 16. The Making of the Modern Italian State 17. Political Economy and Development 18. Governance and Policymaking 19. Representation and Participation 20. Italian Politics in Transition VI. Russia in Transition 21. The Making of the Modern Russian State 22. Political Economy and Development 23. Governance and Policymaking 24. Representation and Participation 25. Russian Politics in Transition VII. East-Central Europe in Transition 26. The Making of Modern East-Central Europe 27. Political Economy and Development 28. Governance and Policymaking 29. Representation and Participation 30. East-Central European Politics in Transition VIII. The European Union and the Future of European Politics 31. The Making of the European System 32. Politics and Economics in the Development of the European Union 33. The Institutions of the European Union 34. The EU and Its Policies 35. Euro-Politics in Transition IX. EU Europe: Variations on a Theme

About the Author

Mark Kesselman is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Columbia University and was senior editor of the International Political Science Review from 2009-2017. His research focuses on the political economy of French and European politics. His publications include THE AMBIGUOUS CONSENSUS (1967), THE FRENCH WORKERS' MOVEMENT (1984), THE POLITICS OF GLOBALIZATION: A READER (2012) and THE POLITICS OF POWER (2013). His articles have appeared in The American Political Science Review, World Politics and Comparative Politics. In 2017 he received the Charles A. McCoy Career Achievement Award of the American Political Science Association's Caucus for a New Political Science. Joel Krieger is the Norma Wilentz Hess Professor of Political Science at Wellesley College. He is author of REAGAN, THATCHER, AND THE POLITICS OF DECLINE (Oxford University Press, 1986) and BRITISH POLITICS IN THE GLOBAL AGE (Oxford University Press, 1999). He is the editor-in-chief of THE OXFORD COMPANION TO COMPARATIVE POLITICS (Oxford University Press, 2014). Christopher S. Allen is an associate professor at the University of Georgia, where he teaches courses in comparative politics and political economy. He has held research fellowships at the Harvard Business School, Johns Hopkins University, and from the German Marshall Fund. He is the editor of THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE GERMAN POLITICAL PARTY SYSTEM (Berghahn, 1999), and is working on a study of democratic representation in parliamentary and presidential systems.