9781783472062 | Edward Elgar Pub, January 31, 2016, cover price $110.00 | About this edition: 'This volume breaks new ground in addressing a number of critical issues confronting contemporary comparative politics, including the increasing interdependence of countries in the era of enhanced globalization, different levels of political authority and structures of governance, the search for elegant parsimonious explanation and the possibilities for a real accumulation of knowledge.

9781907301285 | European Consortium for Politcal, September 30, 2012, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: This book develops and applies an inventive theoretical approach, which combines different levels of analysis and activates a wide range of methods, to the comparative study of an important point that had been neglected so far, namely the real (or "de facto") independence of regulatory agencies.