Comparative politics

Zwischen dem Erscheinen der ersten Auflage dieses Bandes vor zwei Jahren und der nun vorliegenden zweiten, überarbeiteten Auflage ist die euro­ päische Integration weiter vorangeschritten.

This book mines the early history of modern Lebanon, focusing on the country's Jewish community and examining inter-Lebanese relations.

This edited volume analyzes how migration, the conformation of urban areas, and globalization impact Latin American geopolitics.

This book argues that the relationship between political parties, civil service and party insider groups in Bulgaria is oligarchic.

Britain faces huge challenges: inequality, public services under constant pressure, climate change - and in the long term, the impacts of automation and artificial intelligence.

This book traces the practices of migration control and its contestation in the European migration regime in times of intense politicization.

This book analyses the coverage of elections that occurred between September 2015 and February 2016 in six European countries (Greece, Portugal, Poland, Croatia, Spain and Ireland).

This book provides an alternative approach to regionalism in neglected parts of the world.

This book carries out a comparative analysis of the power struggles over the post-neoliberal social security reforms in Venezuela and Ecuador.

This book examines how patterns of political representation, party system, and political culture have changed in Southern Europe following the "e;Great Recession"e; of 2008.

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This book analyses the coverage of elections that occurred between September 2015 and February 2016 in six European countries (Greece, Portugal, Poland, Croatia, Spain and Ireland).

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

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.

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 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.