Comparative politics

This book presents a comprehensive analysis of the alterations and problems caused by new technologies in all fields of politics.

Two decades since the enactment of South Africa's present constitution, the durability and endurance of 'past' inequalities and injustices illustrate that the 'new South Africa' - lauded as a miracle nation with the best constitution in the world - can no longer be regarded as an unqualified success.

This special issue of the German Political Science Quarterly addresses the transformation and the sustainability of European party democracies, both at the level of party organization as well as party systems and competition.

Africa lies at the centre of the international community's peacebuilding interventions, and the continent's rich multitude of actors, ideas, relationships, practices, experiences, locations, and contexts in turn shapes the possibilities and practices of contemporary peacebuilding.

Offers the first book-length comparative study of resilience, examining this increasingly influential topic as it is experienced across different countries and policy sectors.

Employs a framework rooted in social ecology and historical institutionalism to explain recent changes to China''s judiciary.

This book addresses whether Islamist groups are a threat to democratization.

Is the Atlantic World in a state of crisis?

A comparative study of the role of political parties and movements in the founding and survival of developing world democracies.

Under what conditions do citizens most effectively connect to the democratic process?

This book presents a holistic perspective and analysis of democratic practice, processes, and governance in South Africa.

Broadening the Debate on EU-Africa Relations is designed to expand the scope of our understanding of the multi-layered relationship between the European Union and African political actors in order to shape both the academic and policy level discourse.

This book develops a detailed, disaggregated theoretical and empirical framework that explains variations in mass killing by authoritarian regimes globally, with a specific focus on Pakistan, Indonesia, and Malaysia.

Even in Latin America's most socially and economically stable countries, new parties emerge constantly, old parties collapse, and party systems across the region are notoriously fragile.

This volume offers an overview of the critical challenges faced by aspiring African entrepreneurs and their coping strategies to sustain and develop their businesses.

From the perspectives of the political sciences as well as literature and language studies, this volume looks comparatively at Canadian and European constellations of cultural and linguistic diversity.

Argues that the interaction of formal institutions and the quality of democracy explain patterns of private sector development across Africa.

This interdisciplinary volume presents a comprehensive framework to understand political awareness.

This book focuses on the indicators of fragility and the resilience of state-led interventions to address them in sub-Saharan Africa.

This book sheds light on how Member States and EU neighbours relate to Russia.

A vivid portrait of the man behind the writings, placing Orwell and his work at the centre of the current political landscape.

This edited volume revolves around two sets of questions.

Winner of the 2023 Marc Raeff Book Prize; A 2023 REFORC Book Award Longlist TitleThis book highlights the main features and trends of Russian political thought in an era when sovereignty, state, and politics, as understood in Western Christendom, were non-existent in Russia, or were only beginning to be articulated.

As the voting public continues to diversify across the United States, political candidates, and particularly white candidates, increasingly recognize the importance of making appeals to voters who do not look like themselves.

The Political Construction of Business Interests recounts employers'' struggles to define their collective social identities at turning points in capitalist development.

This book examines the responses of the United Nations and a range of countries to the terror attacks on September 11, 2001.

Despite the recent proliferation of literature on nationalism and on social policy, relatively little has been written to analyse the possible interaction between the two.

On October 1, 2019, the People's Republic of China (PRC) will celebrate the 70th anniversary of its founding.

The Oxford Handbook of Modern Greek Politics is a major new contribution to the study of contemporary European and Greek politics.

This volume explores the issues and debates surrounding the ongoing processes of democratization in sub-Saharan Africa, illuminating the central dynamics characterizing Africa's democratic experiments, and considering the connections between democratization and economic, social, and cultural developments on the continent.

Disenfranchising Democracy examines the exclusions that accompany democratization and provides a theory of the expansion and restriction of voting rights.

While primary elections are most often associated with presidential candidates in the United States, similar methods for selecting party leaders and candidates are becoming increasingly common in parliamentary democracies around the world.

A critical analysis of the connections that the United States Supreme Court has made between campaign finance regulations and voters' behavior.

This book provides an insightful sociological study of the shrinking Japanese population through a regional variation perspective as it varies significantly by municipality, even within the same prefecture.

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The announcement of a Health and Human Services (HHS) rule requiring insurance providers to cover the costs of contraception as part of the Affordable Care Act sparked widespread political controversy.

Andrews-Lee offers a novel explanation for the persistence of charismatic movements and highlights the resulting challenges for democracy.

This book argues that homophobia plays a fundamental role in disputes for hegemony between antagonists during political transitions.

This book shows that the design of electoral rules shapes how political leaders make health policies in response to social forces.

As North African, Middle Eastern, and Sahelian societies adapt to the post-Arab Spring era and the rise of violence across the area, various groups find in Islam an answer to the challenges of the era.