Comparative politics

This book addresses the potential existence of shared foundational principles in the work of Immanuel Kant and a range of African political thought, as well as their suitability in facilitating just and fair cross-cultural dialogue.

In the wake of same-sex marriage legalization, most religious conservatives realize that they now share a minority viewpoint on many social issues.

This book offers an analysis of Putin's approval ratings from the fall of the USSR to the present day.

This book presents an analysis of five anticorruption agencies (ACAs) from Serbia, Macedonia and Croatia, exploring the impact of organisational factors and leadership on their enforcement patterns during the first decade of the transitional reforms (2001-2012).

This book examines regulatory capacity beyond the nation state.

This edited collection draws on case studies from around the world to shed light on the sometimes contentious topic of populism.

This book examines the process of presidentialisation of political parties in the Western Balkans.

This book analyses the attitudes of Muslim citizens toward international and regional actors.

This volume offers an up-to-date overview of the much-debated issue of how a democracy may defend itself against those who want to subvert it.

Though many of the longest and most devastating internal armed conflicts have been fought within the boundaries of democratic states, these countries employ some of the highest numbers of human rights prosecutions.

This book explores the normative foundations of ASEAN and the EU.

This book provides a global overview of populist actors and strategies around the globe from a comparative perspective.

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

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.

This book examines how student debt informs the political action and participation of university students.

Minimum income schemes (MIS) have become key social protection institutions for European citizens, but we know little regarding the logic and dynamics of institutional change in this policy field.

This book engages thinkers from different religious and humanist traditions in response to Pope Francis's pronouncements on interreligious dialogue.

Based on two unique survey studies of elites in Norway, this book examines whether elite attitudes towards central national issues have changed in the wake of international and national events and developments since 2000.

This edited volume builds and expands on the groundbreaking work of Robert Brenner and Ellen Meiksins Wood on the origins of capitalism.

This book considers local autonomy, measured as a multidimensional concept, from a cross-country comparative perspective, and examines how variations can be explained and what their consequences are.

This book explores the institution of the International Criminal Court (ICC) as a policy instrument.

This edited volume investigates the ethical and emotional challenges of conducting fieldwork in Africa.

In its portrayal of Judaism as a worldwide conspiracy dedicated to the destruction of Christian civilization, the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion remains one of the most infamous documents ever written.

This book investigates agency in the historical resistance movement in Kashmir by initiating a fresh conversation about Muslim Kashmiri women.

This book examines the nature of transnational organized crime and gangs, and how these diverse organizations contribute to violence, especially in so-called fragile states across Central and Latin America.

This book addresses one main question: whether the United States has a cohesive foreign policy for Africa.

Hierarchical relationships-rules that structure both international and domestic politics-are pervasive.

This book examines the problem of accountability in two African political systems, South Africa and Nigeria.

This book considers the ways in which public administration (PA) has been studied in Europe over the last forty years, and examines in particular the contribution of EGPA, the European Group for Public Administration, both to the growth of a truly pan-European PA, and to the future of PA in Europe.

This book explores the images and perceptions of the EU in the eyes of their Strategic Partners.

New forms of solidarity are being shaped as a response to the European "e;refugee crisis.

This book examines civil society empowerment during the EU enlargement process.

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This book reveals aspects of the rise and fall of the European and Iranian Left, their conceptualization of Marxism and ideological formations.

This book analyzes the development of Islam and Muslim communities in the West, including influences from abroad, relations with the state and society, and internal community dynamics.

This book studies governance capacity and governance legitimacy for societal security and crisis management.

This book examines how opposition groups respond to the dilemma posed by authoritarian elections in the Arab World, with specific focus on Jordan and Algeria.

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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.

This book examines the connection between two major developments in the world: state-formation and democratization.

This is the first book devoted entirely to exploring Zizek's peculiar kind of Paulinism.

This book is the first comprehensive analysis of the instrumental value of democracy in a comparative perspective.

This book shows how an encounter with everyday nationhood in the northern United Arab Emirates can make us revisit the classics of sociology as continuous analytical world-views.

This book chronicles Japan's rice farmers who live in mainly rural areas in the west and south of Japan through original interviews conducted in Japanese.

This volume casts a fresh look on how the political spaces of the Western Balkan states (Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo, Macedonia and Albania) are shaped, governed and transformed during the EU accession process.

This book looks at the fundamental components of national identity as understood by ordinary nation members, and the way in which it is mobilised by political elites.

This edited volume provides a critical account of the theories and policies that have informed work in the field of early childhood and explores how they have operated in practice.

This edited volume examines child exploitation in the Global South.

This book provides an analysis of the politics of consumption and how the 'educated consumer' plays a vital role in advancing responsible market practices and consumption.

This book analyses a middle position between single enumerations in a regular federal-like and a regular autonomy-like distribution of legislative powers by examining constitutional legislation in three countries (Canada, Denmark and Finland) that have established separate enumerations for the national level and the sub-state level.