Comparative politics

This volume offers an overview of the critical challenges faced by aspiring African entrepreneurs and their coping strategies to sustain and develop their businesses.

This edited volume offers an understanding of how the international community, as a collection of significant actors including major states and intergovernmental institutions, has responded to the important political and social development of the Arab Spring.

This book challenges the common perception that global politics is making progress on indigenous issues and argues that the current global care for indigeneity is, in effect, violent in nature.

This book sheds light on how Hizbullah has transformed religious rituals and supernatural narratives in order to mobilize the Shi'a community.

This book argues that homophobia plays a fundamental role in disputes for hegemony between antagonists during political transitions.

This book argues that the primary political obstacle holding women back in the twenty-first century is a bait and switch promising but simultaneously undercutting gender equality.

This book addresses the paradox of uneven electricity in one of the fastest growing and now petro rich economies, Ghana, by addressing the question of why one of the most hydro rich countries in sub-Saharan Africa produces irregular access for all but 'swing' voter regions of the country.

This book is designed to provide specialists, spectators, and students with a brief and engaging exploration of media usage by radical groups and the laws regulating these grey areas of Jihadi propaganda activities.

This book explores various forms of highly skilled mobility in the European Union, assessing the potential for this movement to contribute to individual and societal development.

This volume, incorporating the work of scholars from various parts of the globe, taps the wisdom of the Westphalian (and post-Westphalian) world on the use of federalism and secession as tools for managing regional conflicts.

This book examines how European issues have played out in Serbian and Croatian party politics since 2000, in the context of significant challenges brought by European integration of the Western Balkans.

This book studies party leaders from selection to post-presidency.

This book examines the practice of international election observation in a Caribbean context.

Langan reclaims neo-colonialism as an analytical force for making sense of the failure of 'development' strategies in many African states in an era of free market globalisation.

This volume is the first collection in the field of wellbeing studies that places politics centre stage.

This edited volume brings together alternative and innovative approaches in conflict resolution.

This book is concerned with the ideology of Islamophobia as a cultural racism, and argues that in order to understand its prevalence we must focus not only on what Islamophobia is, but also why diversely situated individuals and groups choose to employ its narratives and tropes.

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 investigates spatial institutional variation and its influence on entrepreneurial activity in the Russian Federation, building on an innovative geometric clustering approach.

This book examines how the severe economic downturn following the 2007-2008 financial crisis affected the structural integration and quality of life of urban migrants in Europe and North America.

This book compares the constitutional politics in Canada and the United Kingdom - two complex, multilevel, plurinational states.

This comparative study explores the impact of populist majoritarianism on Greek and Turkish democratic transition.

This book analyzes how Chinese think tanks have become essential actors in today's Chinese foreign policy and diplomatic practices.

This book aims to advance the understanding of cultural property in armed conflict, and its significance for anti-terrorism and peace-building strategies.

This book analyzes the relationship between art and politics in two contrasting modern dictatorships.

This book analyses post-deportation outcomes and focuses on what happens to migrants and failed asylum seekers after deportation.

This book analyzes Revolutionary Committees during the Cultural Revolution period in the People's Republic of China.

This book is designed to present a fully developed theory of international crisis and conflict, along with substantial evidence of these two closely related phenomena.

This collection addresses the perennial philosophical and theological issues of human finitude and the potentiality for evil.

This book offers vivid insights into policies of religious education in schools since the series of wars in former Yugoslavia in the 1990's.

This book is the most updated and comprehensive look at efforts to protect the Amazon, home to half of the world's remaining tropical forests.

This book examines the paradoxical relationship between the religious and political behaviors of American and British Evangelicals, who exhibit nearly identical religious canon and practice, but sharply divergent political beliefs and action.

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 book contributes to the discourse on post-colonial and globalization theories, focusing on Nigeria's transition to a federal system of government.

This book explores how the recent development of Muslim countries as a group has fallen far short of non-Muslim countries, which, some have concluded, may be a result of Islamic teachings.

This book deals with the sudden demise of Islamists in Egypt and prospects for democratization.

This book is an empirical comparative study of the complexity of religion in the public spheres of the five Nordic countries.

This edited collection presents the concept of lived citizenship as a fruitful avenue for exploring the role played by social work practices in the lives of people in vulnerable positions.

This book explores the complex history of Catalonia in relation to Spain from an economic and political perspective.

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 takes radical aim at the conventional conduct of international relations analysis.

This book argues that Islam's role in state nationalism is the best predictor of the Islamization of government using two most different cases: Turkey, which was an aggressively secular country until recently, and Pakistan, a country that is synonymous with Islamization.

This book provides an overview of the sudden ascendancy of Islamism in post-Mubarak Egypt and a detailed history of the power grab by the Muslim Brotherhood.

The book explores the organization, conduct and supervision of elections in emerging democracies.

This book takes on the challenge of conceptually thinking Paraguayan cultural history within the broader field of Latin American studies.

This edited collection explores citizenship in a transnational perspective, with a focus on Australia, Canada, and New Zealand.

This book traces the connections between diverging postwar European integration policies and intra-Christian divisions to argue that supranational integration originates from Roman Catholic internationalism, and that resistance to integration, conversely, is based in Protestantism.

This volume examines the ways in which the socio-economic elites of the region have transformed and expanded the material bases of their power from the inception of neo-liberal policies in the 1970s through to the so-called progressive 'pink tide' governments of the past two decades.

This book addresses the challenge of reforming defense and military policy-making in newly democratized nations.

This book presents a comprehensive study of the influence of Immanuel Kant's Critical Philosophy in the Russian Empire, spanning the period from the late 19th century to the Bolshevik Revolution.