Virginia Government offers an excellent introduction to the political institutions, actors, and policy processes of the Old Dominion state.

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Taking a global, comparative look at voting and elections, this Fourth Edition has new chapters on authoritarian elections and regime change, electoral integrity, and voting behaviour

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Jan Werts brings a unique perspective to the European Council. As a journalist, he has reported on the spot from virtually every European Council meeting since 1975, a witness to countless episodes of last-minute arm-twisting and creative compromise. As a scholar, he wrote the first ever doctoral dissertation on the European Council, published in 1992. In 2008 he carried the story forward to the verge of the start of the permanent presidency. In this latest book, against the background of the...

The Ultimate EU Handbook is a comprehensive 500-page guide to the EU institutions and other bodies, their history, what they do, and how they do it.

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