Comparative politics

Reviews recent lessons about decentralized governance and implications for future development programs and policies.

This book offers the first comprehensive analysis of nationalist violence in postwar Europe and of its complex causes.

En este libro el Arzobispo Jose Gomez ofrece algunas ideas practicas, personales y llenas de entusiasmo al debate nacional sobre inmigracion, senalando el camino a la recuperacion de los grandes ideales de Estados Unidos de America.

This volume employs a comparative approach to cast light on representation and representative processes from a communications perspective.

India's over 200 million Dalits, once called "e;untouchables,"e; have been mobilized by social movements and political parties, but the outcomes of this mobilization are puzzling.

This book explores the links between religion, states, social welfare and social change in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.

Die Geschichtsphilosophen haben Gott aus der Welt nur verschieden hinausinterpretiert; es kommt aber darauf an, ihn in ihr wiederzuentdecken.

The Second Ku Klux Klan's success in the 1920s remains one of the order's most enduring mysteries.

This book examines the dynamics of neoliberal urban governance through a comparative analysis of Buenos Aires and Chicago, with a special focus on gentrification processes in both cities from 2011 to 2021.

This book explores the cultural policies of sub-states with strong nationalist inclinations-in particular, Quebec, Scotland, and Catalonia-and their trend, in recent years, towards promoting and supporting the cultural industries as a means of not just preserving their respective cultural identities, but of growing them.

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

Although human rights belong to all persons on the basis of their humanity, this book demonstrates that in the practice of international human rights law, the freedom to be non-religious or atheist does not receive the same protection as the freedom to be religious.

This book addresses the implications of current thinking on precarity, precariousness and the precariat for the study of International Relations and International Political Economy.

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.

This book revisits the discourse theories of Habermas and Foucault in a Chinese context.

This book offers a systematic inquiry into how, why, and with what consequences media affects governments and the standing of prime ministers.

This book develops a new theory of the conditions under which in-group pride can facilitate out-group tolerance.

Electoral Systems examines the six principle types of electoral system currently in use in more than seventy of the world's democracies.

This book examines the commonalities of Christianity, Judaism and Islam, and presents martyr narratives as a resource for resisting political violence.

This is a book about redistribution and inequality in political unions.

Preaching in the Purple Zone is a resource for helping the church understand the challenges facing parish pastors, while encouraging and equipping preachers to address the vital justice issues of our time.

This is the first book to focus on the significance of religion during President Obama's years in the White House.

This comprehensive volume brings together a diverse set of scholars to analyse candidate nomination, intra-party democracy, and election violence in Africa.

Since the introduction of the fast track land reform programme in 2000, Zimbabwe has undergone major economic and political shifts and these have had a profound impact on both urban and rural livelihoods.

Public and private forms of violence have co-evolved rather than competed in America''s political development since the nineteenth century.

The 2018/2019 Indonesian elections were among the most divisive elections in Indonesian history, where identity politics and ethno-religious sentiments were prevalent not just during the 2019 presidential election, but also during the 2018 regional executive elections as well.

Public and private forms of violence have co-evolved rather than competed in America''s political development since the nineteenth century.

A new theory of market power politics that explains when and why states will delay cooperation or even fight wars in pursuit of this elusive goal.

This book provides a critical history of the distinctive tradition of Indian secularism known as Tolerance.

In light of recent Supreme Court decisions, this book defends traditional religious protections under the First Amendment.

Terrorist organizations and international criminal networks pose an increasing danger to the world.

Der Klimawandel erfordert eine politisch gesteuerte Transformation der etablierten Energiesysteme.

This book analyses the reasons for women's participation in the various Lebanese and Palestinian militias involved in the Lebanese Civil War (1975-1990).

This book poses a radical challenge to the legend of Socrates bequeathed by Plato and echoed by scholars through the ages: that Socrates was an innocent sage convicted and sentenced to death by the democratic mob, for merely questioning the political and religious ideas of his time.

This book aims to enhance understanding of the academia, policymakers, and general readers about the development challenges and constraints on long-term economic growth of Pakistan.

This book offers a chance for greater understanding of the political and religious groups in Islam that have contributed to events pre and post September 11th, and clearer insights into Muslim/Christian relations today.

The most comprehensive analysis of how the public views unilateral presidential power and why they punish presidents who use it.

Buddhism in the Modern World explores the challenges faced by Buddhism today, the distinctive forms that it has taken and the individuals and movements that have shaped it.

Der Sammelband thematisiert den demografischen Wandel als Megatrend, der Regionen sehr unterschiedlich und immer wieder neu herausfordert.

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.

Pulpit and Politics presents the most current and comprehensive examination of the religious beliefs and political behavior of American clergy at the advent of the new millennium.

This book explores the digital transformations of democracy and democratic societies.

In his compelling new book, The Catholic Case for Trump, Austin Ruse cuts through leftist lies aimed at squashing the Catholic vote and offers his audience broken down into three categories of Liberal, Faithful, and Generic Catholics a guide as to why all Catholics should not only vote for President Trump, but do so enthusiastically with confidence that he is the only moral choice.

Republic to restoration cuts across artificial divides between periods and disciplines,often imposed for reasons of convenience rather than reality.