Comparative politics

An expert on developing nations offers "e;accessible and very sensible analysis"e; of America's promotion of democracy abroad-and why it often fails (Publishers Weekly).

The Caribbean does not immediately come to mind when we think about ISIS – and yet, in 2017, Trinidad and Tobago ranked first place in the list of western countries with the highest rates of foreign-fighter radicalization, with over 240 nationals travelling to Syria and Iraq to join ISIS' caliphate.

A voluntary public funding system for political campaigns is necessary to reverse the trend toward income inequality.

This book provides a comprehensive overview on the long-term care systems in 12 EU member states and Norway.

This book presents the first comprehensive analysis of the major treaty reforms over the past two decades, to consider whether the path from the Single European Act in 1985 to the present Constitutional Treaty has been pushed by the Franco-German tandem, or has been the result of leadership provided the Commission or smaller member states.

A short walk from the glistening Nile nestled in a dusty Cairo street lies the Coptic Church of St.

In exploring the connections between religion, violence and cities, the book probes the extent to which religion moderates or exacerbates violence in an increasingly urbanised world.

This book provides insightful observations and analyses of Asian citizens' behaviour associated with requests to get a permit in conditions typically characterized by bureaucratic callousness.

The author assesses the main theories developed to account for and explain why and how authoritarian regimes give way to democratic ones.

The publication of this volume marks the Ten Year Anniversary of the Postcolonialism and Religions series.

This book studies the reactions of India, Brazil, and South Africa the three main non-proliferation actors of the Global South to Iran's nuclear program.

Many today place great hope in law as a vehicle for the transformation of society and accept that law is autonomous, universal, and above all, secular.

This book argues that political Islam (represented by its moderate and militant forms) has failed to govern effectively or successfully due to its inability to reconcile its discursive understanding of Islam, centered on literal justice, with the dominant neo-liberal value of freedom.

Peter Beyer has been a central figure in the debate about religion and globalization for many years, this volume is a collection of essays on the relation between religion and globalization with special emphasis on the concept of religion, its modern forms and on the relation of religion to the state.

This book explores the dynamics of health system decentralization and recentralization, investigating why and how the territorial organization of health systems changes or remains stable over time.

In the current political climate it is impossible not to speculate about the correlation between American national identity and religious beliefs.

The essential user''s guide to the Varieties of Democracy project, the world''s most advanced and comprehensive dataset on democracy.

This book provides a critical account of the concept of international protection.

Rudolf von Jhering (1818–1892) ist neben Friedrich Carl von Savigny der wohl bekannteste Vertreter der Pandektenwissenschaft im 19.

Nearly fifty distinct religious bodies exclusive of traditional churches existed in the province of Alberta when the author, a graduate student of sociology who was later ordained a priest of the Anglican Church, undertook his studies for this volume, the sixth in a series sponsored by the Canadian Social Science Research Council relating to the background and development of the Social Credit movement.

During the past three decades, health care systems in the East Asian regions of China, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan have undergone major changes.

This book documents and explains an underexamined paradigm shift in Brazil''s racial politics and subjectivity in recent decades.

Explores the local politics of mining in Africa, explaining when communities benefit, and when conflict and repression occur.

Die Türkisch-Islamische Union (DİTİB) ist die größte islamische Organisation in Deutschland.

Focuses on state structure and formation, arguing that a cohesive state structure is as important as effective industrial policy in developmental success.

The focus of this book is the unique socio-political and socio-cultural community of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the golden age of the late fifteenth to early seventeenth century.

The book offers a processual and discursive perspective on how individuals exit the Muslim Brotherhood.

This volume explains and evaluates Australia''s federal system and the options for reform from various comparative and disciplinary perspectives.

This exploration of local and global conflicts over access to water provides a socio-legal perspective on transnational governance.

Development economists and practitioners agree that close collaboration between business and government improves industrial policy, yet little research exists on how best to organize that.

This 2006 book provides a theory of the logic of survival of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).

Over the past thirty years the comparative study of policy agendas under the aegis of the Comparative Agendas Project (CAP) has become one of the fastest growing sub-field in policy research.

Should religion and politics be kept apart?

One third of humanity is governed by two capitals, New Delhi and Beijing.

This book focuses on religious tolerance and intolerance in terms of practices, institutions, and intellectual habits.

This volume provides a detailed evaluation of a unique education program implemented in secondary schools in Georgia to enhance teachers' religious literacy and their ability to promote this in schools and classrooms.

Reflecting on the deep and complex changes in Georgian politics over the last quarter of a century, this book highlights the domestic and international developments that have shaped Georgia as a state and society.

This is an up-to-date, comprehensive history of all Christian denominations in the Korean peninsula set within a global religious and geopolitical context.

This major new account of the politics of modern Ireland offers a rigorous analysis of the forces which shaped both how the Irish state governed itself from the period since 1987 and how it lost its economic sovereignty in 2010.

This book explores the historical development of post-war immigration politics in Norway, Sweden and Denmark from the perspective of the welfare state, examining how welfare states with high ambitions, generous and inclusive welfare schemes and a strong sense of egalitarianism cope with the pressures of immigration and growing diversities.

This volume unfolds the ebbs and flows of Muslim thought in different regions of the world, as well as the struggles between the different intellectual discourses that have surfaced against this backdrop.

In order for transparency measures to fight corruption, they must be paired with enforcement.

Privatisierung ist keine wirtschaftliche Notwendigkeit, sondern das Ergebnis von Politik.

Radicalisation has become an important part of the twenty-first-century security and political landscape.

Maps the roles in governance that courts are undertaking and how they matter in the political life of these nations.

This book analyses whether the design of the institutions of Southern African Development Community (SADC) reflects the community's treaty objectives and principles of democracy and the rule of law.