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oapen-20.500.12657-514242021-11-12T02:48:17Z Belgian Exceptionalism Caluwaerts, Didier Reuchamps, Min Politics and government Comparative politics bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JP Politics & government bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JP Politics & government::JPB Comparative politics This book takes stock of Belgium’s exceptional and – for some foreign observers –schizophrenic position in the political world and explains its idiosyncrasy to a non-Belgian audience. Offering a broad and comprehensive analysis of Belgian politics, the guiding questions throughout each of the chapters of this book are: Is Belgium a political enigma, and why? Along which axes is Belgium "exceptional" compared to other countries? And what insights does a comparative study of Belgian politics have to offer? The book therefore provides a critical assessment of how Belgian politics "stands out" internationally, both in good and bad ways – including consociationalism, federalism, democratic innovations, Euroscepticism, government formation, gender equality, among others – and which factors can explain Belgium’s exceptional position. Based on cutting-edge research findings, the book will be of wide interest to scholars and students of Belgian politics, European Politics and Comparative politics. 2021-11-11T11:33:36Z 2021-11-11T11:33:36Z 2022 book ONIX_20211111_9781000517262_10 9781000517262 9780367610272 9780367610241 9781003104643 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/51424 eng Routledge Advances in European Politics application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781000517262.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781003104643 10.4324/9781003104643 7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bb 9781000517262 9780367610272 9780367610241 9781003104643 Routledge 236 open access
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This book takes stock of Belgium’s exceptional and – for some foreign observers –schizophrenic position in the political world and explains its idiosyncrasy to a non-Belgian audience. Offering a broad and comprehensive analysis of Belgian politics, the guiding questions throughout each of the chapters of this book are: Is Belgium a political enigma, and why? Along which axes is Belgium "exceptional" compared to other countries? And what insights does a comparative study of Belgian politics have to offer? The book therefore provides a critical assessment of how Belgian politics "stands out" internationally, both in good and bad ways – including consociationalism, federalism, democratic innovations, Euroscepticism, government formation, gender equality, among others – and which factors can explain Belgium’s exceptional position. Based on cutting-edge research findings, the book will be of wide interest to scholars and students of Belgian politics, European Politics and Comparative politics.
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