Comparative politics

Whether America was founded as a Christian nation or as a secular republic is one of the most fiercely debated questions in American history.

This book compares French and US news coverage of immigration from the 1970s to the 2000s.

This book examines the political consequences of growing religiosity in countries where politics are repressive and religious freedoms are in flux.

This book presents the results of extensive international comparative research into the effects of the economic and financial crisis on democratic institutions and social cohesion policies.

This revised and expanded edition of A World History of Ancient Political Thought examines the political thought of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Israel, Iran, India, China, Greece, Rome and early Christianity, from prehistory to c.

This book examines the impact of globalization upon Canada, Mexico and the United States.

The Muslim Brotherhood is one of the oldest and most influential Islamist movements.

First published in 2005, this timely volume challenges those who see faith schools as contributing positively to the well-being of society and responding to parent choice to think through the implications of September 11 for our multi-ethnic and multi-faith society without taking a position on the ultimate necessity of faith schools.

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Global development actors such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund claim that the shift to the poverty reduction strategy framework and emphasis on local participation address the social cost of earlier adjustment programs and help put aid-receiving countries back in control of their own development agenda.

This book covers critical issues in Nigeria's external relations since 1960.

Dieses Lehrbuch behandelt die internationalen Beziehungen in fünf Weltregionen: Europa, Naher und Mittlerer Osten, Afrika, Ost-und Südost-Asien und Südamerika.

Most members of Congress begin their careers through regularly scheduled elections, but terms may be cut short due to death, scandal, or different career opportunities.

A pathbreaking introduction to the controversial, contested and deeply political topic of development.

Dieses Buch untersucht in einem Querschnitt durch aktuelle und künftig zu erwartende Herausforderungen für Politik, Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft (Finanzen, Digitales, Kultur, Stadtentwicklung, Wohnen, Verkehr, Bildung, usw.

Maria Repnikova offers an innovative analysis of the media oversight role in China by examining how a volatile partnership is sustained between critical journalists and the state.

This book, first published in 2005, explains why radical right parties have advanced in a diverse array of democracies.

Through a comparative case study analysis of the United Kingdom and Germany, with references to the United States, this study examines the impetuses for and processes by which governments came to choose the points system for immigration control.

This book examines the national legal frameworks in place for internally displaced people in Nigeria and considers how they can be extended to provide further legal protection.

This book explores theories of conflict and peacebuilding and applies them to case studies from the Asia Pacific region, seeking to shift attention to the inherency of conflict, the constant danger of re-emergence, and the need to establish mechanisms to resolve it.

Argues that the decline of European social democracy is intertwined with the growth of novel manifestations of left progressive politics.

This volume discusses the process of union among the Protestant churches of Ontario soon after Confederation, and though the organic union is still incomplete, the "e;Protestant outlook"e; exists today even more certainly than it did in Canada West.

Tim Eyßell analysiert die Governance der kommunalen Sozialpolitik am Beispiel von Kommunen, die im Rahmen des Ausbaus der sozialen Dienste, wie aktuell der Kindertagesbetreuung, auf unterschiedliche Weise Träger für neu zu gründende Einrichtungen suchen.

To talk about religion is to talk about politics, identity, terrorism, migration, gender, and a host of other aspects of society.

In Legal Reasoning and Political Conflict, Cass R.

What does it mean to become religiously queer or queerly religious in one's everyday life?

Houses Divided provides new insights into the significance of the nineteenth-century evangelical schisms that arose initially over the moral question of African American bondage.

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Populism and Antitrust examines the influence of populism on competition law and shows how populism can lead to illiberal changes.

Roman Catholics constitute the most populous religious denomination in the United States, comprising one in four Americans.

Demons in the USA argues that the discourse on the demonic that developed in the nineteenth century continues to exert a powerful hold over the American spiritual imagination.

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This book analyses the politics of othering in the USA and Canada from the nineteenth century to the present day.

This book builds on work that examines the interactions between immigration and gender-based violence, to explore how both the justification and condemnation of violence in the name of religion further complicates our societal relationships.

Public and even scholarly debates usually focus on the integration problems of Muslim immigrants at the cost of overlooking the role of the growing number of migrant organizations in establishing a crucial link among immigrants themselves, as well as between them and their countries of origin and residence.

Urban planning practice in Sub-Saharan Africa increasingly encounters complexities due to the confluence of urbanisation, climate change, and their interconnected drivers and consequences.

The Russian Orthodox Church (1986) concentrates on the recent history of the church, examining the situation of Russian Orthodox believers in the Soviet Union.

This fourth volume of Michael Mann''s analytical history of social power covers the period from 1945 to the present.

This book provides an in-depth analysis of the social democratic parties in the four member states of the so-called "e;Visegrad Group"e;- Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia.

Archbishop Rowan Williams is the most gifted Anglican priest of his generation.

A groundbreaking analysis of how the genomic revolution is transforming American society and creating new social divisions-some along racial lines-that promise to fundamentally shape American politics for years to come.

In Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Syria, central governments historically pursued mono-nationalist ideologies and repressed Kurdish identity.

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

Focusing on British broadsheets such as The Times and The Guardian, and tabloid publications such as The Sun and The Daily Mail, this book looks at the visualization of post-colonial Britain through cartoons.

This book presents critical engagements with the work of Hent de Vries, widely regarded as one of the most important living philosophers of religion.

Why did Islamists respond so differently to the Arab Spring?