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200 00$aBelgian Exceptionalism $eBelgian Politics between Realism and Surrealism /$fedited by Didier Caluwaerts, Min Reuchamps
210  1$aAbingdon, Oxon :$cTaylor & Francis (Unlimited),$d2022.
215   $a1 online resource (xviii, 218 pages) $cillustrations
225 1 $aRoutledge advances in European politics
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330   $aThis 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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517   $aBelgian Exceptionalism
606   $aAuthoritarianism
606   $aSurrealism
615  0$aAuthoritarianism.
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