Comparative politics

Both studies of political power and Europeanization studies have tended to neglect central banks.

How, and to what extent, can religion be included within commitments to multiculturalism?

This book provides a detailed analysis of South Africa's actions on the UN Human Rights Council, examining the country's positions on civil and political rights, economic rights and development, social groups whose rights are frequently violated, and abuses in specific countries.

A unique exploration of the relationship between gender and nationalist conflict using the lens of cinema.

The book provides insights on decolonising media and communication studies education from diverse African scholars at different stages of their careers.

This book explores the secret police organizations of East Asian dictators: their origins, operations, and effects on ordinary citizens'' lives.

This is an analytical assessment of how the government can accelerate development and deployment of energy technologies, for researchers and policy makers.

The landscape of the Middle East has changed dramatically since 2011, as have the political arena and the discourse around democracy.

This book offers a new and critical perspective on the global reconciliation technology by highlighting its contingent and highly political character as an authoritative practice of post-conflict peacebuilding.

This Element offers an insight into the ways in which the countryside in Southeast Asia''s has been transformed over the past half century.

Brazil has undergone transformative change since the 1980s, from an authoritarian regime to a democratic society advancing on all frontspolitical, social, economic, and diplomatic.

This book studies the rollercoaster first year in office of the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA), which for many Europeans constituted the hope for a different Europe, beyond austerity and national egocentrism.

Ordering Power draws on theoretical insights to develop a unified framework for explaining the tremendous variation in state capacity and authoritarian durability in Southeast Asia.

The relationships between Africa and Europe are of high strategic importance.

La presente obra, centrada en el tema de la desigualdad económica, es fruto de una intensa y extensa investigación llevada a cabo por el autor a lo largo de más de tres años.

Health Politics in Europe: A Handbook is a major new reference work, which provides historical background and up-to-date information and analysis on health politics and health systems throughout Europe.

'The transformation of the US into an autocracy has advanced.

This book analyzes the economic reforms and political adjustments that took place in Cuba during the era of Raul Castro's leadership and its immediate aftermath, the first year of his successor, Miguel Diaz-Canel.

Greyhound racing emerged rapidly in Britain in 1926 but in its early years was subject to rabid institutional middle-class opposition largely because of the legal gambling opportunities it offered to the working class.

In 1845 two thinkers from the American hemisphere - the Argentinean statesman Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, and the fugitive ex-slave, abolitionist leader, and orator from the United States, Frederick Douglass - both published their first works.

In the 21st century, new kinds of challenges resulting from interdependence among states and globalization have had a determining impact of the conduct of diplomacy.

This book sketches an institutional political economy framework to discuss the interaction between development and foreign policy in the global South with reference to Turkey.

This book examines how the structure of electoral institutions may affect political corruption.

The first large-scale study of political participation in eighteen Latin American democracies, focusing on the political participation of the region's poorest citizens.

An original study of empire creation and its consequences, from ancient through early modern timesThe world's first great empires established by the ancient Persians, Chinese, and Romans are well known, but not the empires that emerged on their margins in response to them over the course of 2,500 years.

Investigates the efficacy of the European Union''s promotion of good governance through its funding and conditionalities both within EU proper and in the developing world.

Several years after the Arab Spring began, democracy remains elusive in the Middle East.

In Like Cattle and Horses Steve Smith connects the rise of Chinese nationalism to the growth of a Chinese working class.

Provides a comparative analysis of the ideational dimension of judicial review and its potential contribution to democratic governance.

This book argues that global rule-of-law standards in post-conflict states are reshaped in interactive translation processes between external and domestic actors.

This book is an examination of minority government performance in conjunction with the territorial distribution of state power and the territorial interests of political parties.

Der Band bündelt Analysen führender Wahlforscherinnen und Wahlforscher sowie Politikwissenschaftlerinnen und Politikwissenschaftler aus Deutschland zur Bundestagswahl 2021.

For at least two centuries, democratic representation has been at the center of debate.

This volume focuses on several theoretical topics in world politics and analyzes prominent cases of global conflicts and their potential peaceful resolution.

This theoretically innovative book shows how democratic social movements can use the welfare state to challenge domination in society.

This book traces the practices of migration control and its contestation in the European migration regime in times of intense politicization.

The Iran National Front and the Struggle for Democracy: 1949-Present explores the activities of the Iran National Front (INF).

Andreas Friedel lokalisiert die Ursachen der Funktionsschwächen des mit der Kontrolle der Nachrichtendienste des Bundes (BND, BfV und MAD) beauftragten Parlamentarischen Kontrollgremiums (PKGr) des Deutschen Bundestages.

The dilemma of democracy arises from two contrasting trends.

Political uncertainty and instability characterise many regions around the world and, increasingly, can be observed in more established democracies.

The ancient Indian text of Kautilya's Arthasastra comes forth as a valuable non-Western resource for understanding contemporary International Relations (IR).

Disabled women represent one of the most marginalised minority groups in the world, hence they are largely silent while their sexuality is ignored, suppressed, forbidden and buried underneath the carpet.

Explores how China has reached a threshold where continued success requires re-invention of its economy and politics.

This book examines the relationship between migration, diversification and inequality in Aotearoa/New Zealand.

This book analyzes and explains the ways in which major developing world cities respond to the challenge of urban violence.