Comparative politics

A compelling history of atheism in American public lifeA much-maligned minority throughout American history, atheists have been cast as a threat to the nation's moral fabric, barred from holding public office, and branded as irreligious misfits in a nation chosen by God.

The delegates to the 1787 Constitutional Convention blocked the establishment of Christianity as a national religion.

Contrary to popular claims, religion played a critical role in Barack Obama's 2008 election as president of the United States.

This book examines how constitutional laws aimed at protecting the environment are being implemented and applied throughout the world.

Leading political theorists Jason Brennan and Lisa Hill debate the drawbacks and benefits of voter turnout.

This volume explores the governance of the transforming Arctic from an international perspective.

This book explores the change and continuity in the idea of the nation state.

Long on the margins of both scholarly and policy concerns, the countries of the West African Sahel have recently attracted world attention, primarily as a key battleground in the global 'war on terror'.

A sizeable minority of people with no particular connection to Eastern religions now believe in reincarnation.

This Handbook offers a comprehensive treatment of transformations of the state, from its origins in different parts of the world and different time periods to its transformations since World War II in the advanced industrial countries, the post-Communist world, and the Global South.

Assesses what we know - and do not know - about comparative constitutional design and particular institutional choices concerning executive power and other issues.

Group empathy across lines of difference is a major force for reducing conflict, promoting cooperation, and counteracting ethnonationalism.

This volume is a collection of essays on medieval Spain, written by leading scholars on three continents, that celebrates the career of Thomas F.

Federal systems are praised for creating political stability, but they are also blamed for causing rigidity.

Contestation and Adaptation unravels the complexities of national-identity contestation among various ethnic minority groups in China.

What explains the variety of responses that states adopt toward different refugee groups?

Nineteenth-century Istanbul was an intellectual hub of rich discussions about Islam, in which leading reformists had a significant role.

This book examines how the Russian Orthodox Church developed during the period of Gorbachev's rule in the Soviet Union, a period characterised by perestroika (reform) and glasnost (openness).

What can populism and fundamentalism possibly have in common?

This Brief discusses the translation of global environmental norms across local contexts in France.

Learn to think deeply about the relationship between church and state in a way that goes beyond mere policy debates and current campaigns.

A deepening ecological crisis is rearing its head in sub-Saharan Africa, as it faces a myriad of challenges in regards to the development of its energy sector.

The wave of popular uprisings that swept across the Arab world starting in December 2010 rattled regimes from Morocco to Oman.

This book sheds an interdisciplinary light on 'transforming bodies': bodies that have been subjected to, contributed to, or have resisted social transformations within religious or secular contexts in contemporary Europe.

The economic downturn caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the unrest in the US following the unlawful death of George Floyd, and other sources of social unrest and insecurity, have brought to a head something that has been brewing in Western societies since the Great Recession of 2008: the disillusionment with liberal democracy as it evolved after World War II.

This book explores the relationship between oil pollution laws and environmental justice by comparing and contrasting the United States and Nigeria.

This book explores the political trajectories of various countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, tracing the shifts in party systems and regime transitions along a model-like trajectory that spans from revolutionism to authoritarianism and electoral Islamism.

What has been the impact of the EU on UK central government?

This book is the second of two studies which systematically explore territoriality of the vote in Europe.

This book provides a new interpretation of the Northern Irish Troubles.

Theopolitics and the Era of the Witness focuses on witnessing in the aftermath of political atrocity or genocide.

Offers an innovative look at why science and technology cannot alone meet the needs of energy policy making in the future.

Wie kann eine plurale Demokratie einerseits den Zusammenhalt der Bürgerinnen und Bürger ermöglichen, aber dennoch den Wettstreit zwischen spezifischen politischen Identitäten fördern?

Developing countries have quietly constructed a network of international agreements that redistribute wealth from the rich to the poor.

This book investigates public medical insurance reform in China and studies its effects from both institutional and empirical study perspectives.

This book examines the countervailing arguments in the religious exemption debate and explains why this issue continues to be so heated and controversial in modern-day America.

With North Atlantic post-World War II transatlantic dynamics as the subject, this volume inquires if its theoretical tenets hold in other epochs and Atlantic arenas.

Democracy and Civilization (1947) is concerned with philosophy, theology and politics, with the nature of history and civilization and politics, using the approach of Christian thinking.

In Uzbekistan, Central Asia's most populous country, Islam has been an ever-present factor in the lives of its people and a contentious force for political officials trying to build a secular and authoritarian government.

This book argues that South Africa is haunted by the spectre of reparation.

The role of business in American politics has provoked much controversy and attention over recent years.

On first consideration, one might not be inclined to view Adolf Hitler and Dietrich Bonhoeffer in relation to Jehanne d'Arc (Joan of Arc), but Brenda E.

This Element highlights several dimensions of civic opposition to the implementation of free market policies.

Gallons of ink have been spilled in examining the influence of Evangelicals on American politics.

Are Muslims Distinctive?

An inspiring collection of poems, meditations, and lyrics by one of the world’s most revered musical legends Bob Marley’s music defined a movement and forever changed a nation.