Comparative politics

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 unique volume is about how ordinary people construct political meanings, form political emotions and identities, and become involved in or disengaged from political contests.

Christianity flourishes in areas facing profound dislocations amidst regime change and warfare.

Notwithstanding its contemporary critics, political representation remains at the core of democratic politics.

This book explores how politics, religion and cinema encounter and re-invent each other in contemporary Turkish cinema.

Pope Francis confuses many observers because his papacy does not fit neatly into any pre-established classificatory schemes.

This book explores the opportunities and obstacles to a presidential system in Turkey as proposed by the Justice and Development Party (AK Party).

This edited volume examines the importance and significance of the Christian population in the Middle East and North Africa from the rise of Islam to present day.

This book argues that Islam has been securitized in US foreign policy, especially during the W.

The link between gender and corruption has been studied since the late 1990s.

This book is about the ways in which modern enlightenment, rather than liberating humanity from tyranny, has subjected us to new servitude imposed by systems of mass manipulation, electronic vigilance, compulsive consumerism, and the horrors of a seemingly unending global war on terror.

This volume sheds new light upon the role of victims in the aftermath of violence.

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

This book investigates the causes and consequences of crisis in four countries of the Eurozone periphery - Greece, Spain, Portugal and Ireland.

This book provides an important overview of key criminology and criminal justice concerns in Japan.

This collection emphasizes a cross-disciplinary approach to the problem of scale, with essays ranging in subject matter from literature to film, architecture, the plastic arts, philosophy, and scientific and political writing.

This volume presents evidence-based research on citizens' experiences and reactions to the Great Recession in Europe.

This textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the political systems of all ASEAN countries and Timor-Leste from a comparative perspective.

This edited volume analyzes mistakes in different areas of international relations including the realms of security, foreign policy, finance, health, development, environmental policy and migration.

This book presents in-depth analyses of the wave of political protest and unrest that spread throughout Latin America between 2010 and 2015 in order to answer a question that has been challenging social scientists all over the region: why some countries have faced a divorce between their social movements and political parties while others have not?

This book provides a comprehensive discussion of the public policy and management issues that are encountered in the regulation of infrastructure and utilities.

What makes people identify with Europe?

This edited volume covers the development of the thought of the political realist Hans J.

This book studies political leadership at the local level, based on data from a survey of the mayors of cities of more than 10,000 inhabitants in 29 European countries carried out between 2014 and 2016.

This book examines the theoretical and practical relevance and challenges of the consociationalist model of democracy.

This book is a journey into the heart of an Islamic worldview.

This book provides a comprehensive explanation of human well-being outcomes by analyzing the role of domestic and international political factors.

This book examines employee welfare in British and German companies from the 19th century through to the present day.

This book discusses youth unemployment in post-revolutionary Tunisia, paying particular attention to the so-called skill mismatch.

This book focuses on the role of norms in the description, explanation, prediction and combat of corruption.

This book argues that citizenship is an inadequate solution to the problem of statelessness based on a critical investigation of the lived experiences of Kurdish and Palestinian diasporas in western Europe.

This edited collection analyses social inequality in the European Union, within and between countries.

This edited collection addresses a paradox at the heart of the European Union: if it is a constantly enlarging empire of governance, how can almost thirty member states design policies as an administrative whole, whilst narrowly approaching all political issues from one economic point of view?

This timely study analyzes social, economic, political, provider, and patient factors shaping collective patient involvement in European health care from the postwar period to the present day.

This book guides the reader through the many complications and contradictions that characterize popular contestation today, focusing on its socio-political, cultural, and aesthetic dimensions.

This book investigates how institutional differences, such as the roles of political parties and the regulation of electoral systems, affect the development of Internet election campaigns in the U.

Studying the political economy of welfare state reform, this edited collection focuses on the role of public opinion and organized interests in respect to policy change.

This book explores the changes underwent by the Orthodox Churches of Eastern and Southeastern Europe as they came into contact with modernity.

This book, uncovers the lived experiences of street-frequenting young people in Fiji.

This book explores the question of why and under which conditions right-wing populist parties receive electoral support.

This book provides a comparative, neo-institutionalist approach to the different factors impacting state adoption of-or refusal to adopt-same-sex marriage laws.

This book explains how history and traditions have shaped Timorese politics, as well as the role that Indonesia and ASEAN play for the country's future .

This book probes key issues pertaining to Africa's relations with global actors.

This book analyses the discourses of economic liberalization reform in six Western European countries - Germany, France, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Austria.

This book provides an in-depth analysis of the 'technocratic shift' in ministerial recruitment, measuring its extent and variations over time in fourteen European countries.

This book examines both the evolution of the Catholic vote in the US and the role of Catholic voters in the historic 2016 elections.

This book offers a nuanced and muti-layered approach towards comprehending the possibilities of democratization or likelihood of authoritarian resilience in the Muslim world.

This book chronologically analyzes thirteen key US Presidents, from Washington to Trump, to highlight how religion has informed or influence their politics and policies.

This book is a timely resource for the debate around "e;revitalizing"e; Canada's public diplomacy, bringing together some of the top scholars of Canadian public diplomacy and practitioners past and present to build a one-stop shop for thinking on the past, present, and future of Canadian engagement with foreign publics.

This book uses original research and interviews to consider the views of contemporary members of the Orange Order in Canada, including their sense of political and societal purpose, awareness of the decline of influence, views on their present circumstances, and hopes for the future of Orangeism in Canada.