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This book traces the struggles over the institutions of political representation in Central and Eastern Europe, focusing on the factors that have held women back over the post-communist period, as well as on the growing evidence for change throughout the region. Post-communist Europe has long raised two puzzles for scholars of women's representation in politics

Representative democracy and the problem of institutionalizing local participatory governance / Nils Hertting and Clarissa Kugelberg -- Tricky for good reasons : institutionalizing local participatory governance in representative democracy / Marianne Danielsson, Nils Hertting and Erik-Hans Klijn -- Participatory governance and the need for an analysis inspired by ethnography : two dialogue meetings / Clarissa Kugelberg -- A Trojan horse in the representative system : participatory governance in Rotterdam and the redevelopment of the Fenix Storehouses / Lieselot Vandenbussche and Jasper Eshuis -- Participatory governance as an embryonic opportunity structure : the case of the young adult center in northern Botkyrka / Clarissa Kugelberg -- Residents' participation under representative rule : the redefinition of public comments on municipal action through the promotion of "participatory democracy" / Virginie Anquetin -- Institutionalization of local participatory governance in France, the Netherlands and Sweden : three arguments reconsidered / Nils Hertting and Erik-Hans Klijn.

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Are politics local? Why? Where? When? How do we measure local versus national politics? And what are the effects? This book provides answers to these questions, within an explicitly comparative framework, including both advanced and developing democracies. It does so by using a statistically-based and graphical account of party nationalization, providing methodology and data for legislative elections covering scores of parties across dozens of countries. The book divides party nationalization into two dimensions - static and dynamic - to capture different aspects of localism, both with important implications for representation. Static nationalization measures the consistency in a party's support across the country and thus shows whether parties are able to encompass local concerns into their platforms. Dynamic nationalization, in turn, measures the consistency among the districts in over-time change in electoral results, under the presumption that where districts differ in their electoral responses, local factors must drive politics. Each of the two dimensions, in sum, considers representation from the perspective of the mix of national versus local politics.