Comparative politics

The interconnected ways that sexism functions in academic Islamic studies and how to shift professional norms toward parityDespite remarkable shifts in the demographics of Islamic studies in recent decades, the field continues to be dominated by men, who often relegate other scholars and their workparticularly research on genderto its periphery, while treating subfields in which men predominate as more rigorous and central.

This analysis of currents trends in financial regulation offers a roadmap for those countries considering adopting the Twin Peaks model.

Politics in a Religious World examines why US diplomacy often misunderstands, if not ignores, the role of religion in international conflicts.

Although there are over 200 million Orthodox Christians worldwide, 4 million of whom live in the United States, their history, beliefs, and practices are unfamiliar to most Americans.

For decades North Africa and the Middle East have experienced overlapping identities and integration processes.

The attacks in Paris in January and November 2015 heralded the beginning of a new wave of terrorism - one rooted in the ongoing conflict in Syria and Iraq.

Spotlights institutions'' sociality, temporality, efficiency and power.

This book focuses on Islam in Indonesia, showcasing the wide range of Muslim organisations, belief systems and movements, together with an analysis of the political behaviour of Indonesian Muslims.

The supposed link between immigration and crime is a highly contentious issue.

The book analyses how Africans and Africa relate to other parts of the multilateral world, and to the world in general, and how these relations stem from local, national and regional interactions in different parts of Africa, as well as Africa as a whole.

This book explores the relationship between the personality of political leaders, its interaction with top leadership positions and its impact on the respective parties' electoral performance and organization.

Paulos Mar Greogorios: A Reader is a compilation of the selected writings of Paulos Mar Gregorios, a metropolitan of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church of India and a former President of the World Council of Churches.

The study of institutions, a core concept in comparative politics, has produced many rich and influential theories on the economic and political effects of institutions, yet it has been less successful at theorizing their origins.

Demonstrations by far-right groups, such as the English Defence League, Britain First and PEGIDA, have caused considerable social and civic unrest in UK cities for nearly a decade.

This volume presents a contemporary analysis of the impact of China's rise on the Mekong Region at a critical point in Southeast Asian history.

Shaping Nations and Markets employs a mixed methods approach to contend that economic ideas, organization of domestic interests and their economic power, asymmetries of information, and political institutions do not sufficiently explain the formation of national interests in processes of trade liberalization.

This book analyzes a remarkable run of electoral victories by the opposition in postcommunist Europe and Eurasia from 1998 to 2005.

This book explores controversies surrounding free speech and open inquiry (FSOI) in various regions of the Anglophone world.

When Barack Obama praised the writings of philosopher theologian Reinhold Niebuhr in the run up to the 2008 US Presidential Elections, he joined a long line of top politicians who closely engaged with Niebuhr's ideas, including Tony Benn, Jimmy Carter, Martin Luther King Jr.

Law and Theology offers the definitive account of the relationship between law and theology in the Christian tradition.

The way people encounter ideas of Hinduism online is often shaped by global discourses of religion, pervasive Orientalism and (post)colonial scholarship.

Our world as it once was In August 2014, Farida was, like any ordinary teenager, enjoying the last days of summer before her final year at school.

This book focuses on the formal and informal reconciliation processes during conflict and post-conflict periods in various locations in the Asia-Pacific, and includes cases studies based on primary research conducted in countries such as Cambodia, Timor-Leste, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, India, South Thailand, Bougainville and the Solomon Islands.

This book examines and compares the emergence, development and impact of the party systems in post-colonial India and post-apartheid South Africa.

In the late eighteenth century, an influx of Protestant settlers to the mainly Catholic parish of Forkhill on the Ulster borderlands provoked clashes between natives and newcomers.

For millions of Africans, the social situation is dire.

In A Faith Not Worth Fighting For, editors Justin Bronson Barringer and Tripp York have assembled a number of essays by pastors, activists, and scholars in order to address the common questions and objections leveled against the Christian practice of nonviolence.

In diesem Buch werden wichtige Werke und Ansätze der politikorientierten Emotionenforschung in einen systematischen Zusammenhang gebracht.

Exploring the response of evangelicals to the collapse of 'Greater Christian Britain' in Australia in the long 1960s, this book provides a new religious perspective to the end of empire and a fresh national perspective to the end of Christendom.

This book investigates how nongovernmental organizations can become stronger advocates for citizens and better representatives of their interests.

This book examines the ways in which political discourses of crisis and 'newness' are (re)produced, circulated, naturalised, received and contested in Post-Mugabe Zimbabwe.

Providing the first book-length analysis of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), this volume asks how can it be ensured that the AfCFTA is effectively implemented to deliver inclusive trade in Africa.

Während die normative Begründung von Demokratie seit der Antike ein zentrales Thema der politischen Ideengeschichte darstellt, erhält die Rechtfertigung autoritärer Herrschaft bisher relativ wenig Aufmerksamkeit.

An exploration of how key provinces in China shape urban and regional development The rise of major metropolises across China since the 1990s has been a double-edged sword: although big cities function as economic powerhouses, concentrated urban growth can worsen regional inequalities, governance challenges, and social tensions.

Dictators and Dictatorships is a qualitative enquiry into the politics of authoritarian regimes.

In recent years, the Zimbabwe crisis rendered the country and its citizens to be a typical case of 'failed states', the world over.

This book examines the effectiveness and consistency of EU democracy promotion in its Eastern neighbourhood between 1991 and 2014.

This new history of the Christian right does not stop at national or religious boundaries.

Drawing on a global history of politicized writing, this book explores literature's utility as a mode of activism and aesthetic engagement with the political challenges of the current moment.

The recent proliferation of populist movements worldwide - along with the often dangerous, demagogic leaders that accompany them - have prompted questions about the underlying conditions that give rise to such troubling developments.

This book explores how norms-based international organizations, namely the Council of Europe and the OSCE, are still able to win in world politics.

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

During the last three decades, there has been a growing interest in systems that combine elements of parliamentarism and presidentialism.

What explains differences in the lobbying behaviour of interest groups?

Although religion is almost never a root cause, it often gets pulled into conflict as a powerful element, especially where conflicting parties have different religious identities.

Reflecting on over half a century of study on Chinese culture, Jordan Paper explores new ways of approaching religion in China.