02293nam 2200421 450 991077478890332120230225084016.01-000-51726-8(CKB)4900000000547602(NjHacI)994900000000547602(EXLCZ)99490000000054760220230225d2022 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierBelgian Exceptionalism Belgian Politics between Realism and Surrealism /edited by Didier Caluwaerts, Min ReuchampsAbingdon, Oxon :Taylor & Francis (Unlimited),2022.1 online resource (xviii, 218 pages) illustrationsRoutledge advances in European politics0-367-61024-8 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.Routledge advances in European politics.Belgian ExceptionalismAuthoritarianismSurrealismAuthoritarianism.Surrealism.320.9493Caluwaerts DidierReuchamps MinNjHacINjHaclBOOK9910774788903321Belgian Exceptionalism2436445UNINA