Comparative politics

The book explores the effect of financial globalization on Latin American economic policy-making.

India, Bharat and Pakistan, the second book of the Bharat Trilogy, takes the discussion forward from its bestselling predecessor, India That Is Bharat.

Providing a valuable resource for secondary school and college students as well as the general public investigating the process of governance in different countries, this book provides a comprehensive comparative summary of how governments are constituted and operated worldwide.

Compares authoritarian Morocco and democratizing Tunisia to examine whether autocracies make fundamentally different immigration policies than democracies.

This book focuses on International migration among the Chinese long before European colonists set foot on the Asian continent.

Is it possible to disagree politically and love unconditionally?

Weaving together the stories of activists, American Jewish leaders, and Israeli officials in the wake of the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948, Covenant Brothers portrays the dramatic rise of evangelical Christian Zionism as it gained prominence in American politics, Israeli diplomacy, and international relations after World War II.

This study reassesses the influence and philosophy of Ibn Taymiyya, one of the greatest medieval Islamic theologians.

In today's globalized world, halal (meaning 'permissible' or 'lawful') is about more than food.

This ebook is now available from Bloomsbury Academic.

Analyzes institutional bypasses, a strategy to promote change and implement reforms in developing countries.

Authority is something we experience every day, but is it necessary?

This book challengesthe prevailing view that local authorities are irrelevant in immigrationpolicy-making.

The contributors attempt to look into how China and Europe differently interpret political concepts such as: sovereignty, soft power, human rights, democracy, stability, strategic partnership, multilateralism/multipolarization, and global governance, to examine what implications of their conceptual gaps may have on China-EU relations.

India is the world's tenth largest economy and possesses the world's fourth largest military.

This book argues that basic demographic forces are essential to understanding the rise of Evangelical Republicans and Secular Democrats.

The fraught relationship between Saudi Arabia and Iran is usually attributed to sectarian differences, even by the states' own elites.

In a subtle but powerful reading of the shifting relationships between development, hegemony, and social transformation in post-independence Latin America, Ronaldo Munck argues that Latin American subaltern knowledge makes a genuine contribution to the current search for a social order which is sustainable and equitable.

This book throws new light on the study of India's development through an exploration of the triangular relationship between federalism, nationalism and the development process.

Focusing on the three Scandinavian countries, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, Policy Learning from Canada is a systematic study of the international relevance of the Canadian immigration and integration policy model.

Originally published in 1967, reissued now with a new introduction, Africa in Search of Democracy in the author's words was 'a humble contribution to Africa's search for political wisdom whereby to avoid destruction'.

This book finds and explores a gender gap in political support in the Occupied Palestinian Territories whereby more women than men support Hamas, and more men than women support Fatah.

This book challenges the conventional wisdom that territorial conflicts in Jerusalem and Northern Ireland were inevitable.

This book offers an intellectual history of one of the leading Shi'i thinkers and religious leaders of the 20th-century in Lebanon, Shaykh Muhammad Mahdi Shams al-Din.

A provocative account of Jewish encounters with the public baths of ancient RomePublic bathhouses embodied the Roman way of life, from food and fashion to sculpture and sports.

Using the conceptual framework of populism as discourse, Ritchie Savage provides a comparative analysis of U.

This research monograph examines presidential constitutional conventions and the role they play in the political systems of four Central European countries - the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, and Poland.

This book offers a series of original arguments on the relationships that Western interest groups have with the Chinese state.

Since the Enlightenment period, German-Jewish intellectuals have been prominent voices in the multi-facetted discourse on the reinterpretation of Jewish tradition in light of modern thinking.

This book re-examines the claim of the Conservative Party to be the 'national party' and in its politics to express the enduring 'national interest'.

Enrico Michelini illustrates that sport plays a very marginal role in the contemporary health promotion.

What do the occult sciences, seances with the souls of the dead, and appeals to saintly powers have to do with rationality?

Das vorliegende Buch deckt den Zusammenhang zwischen Außenpolitik und Kultur auf.

This book examines the information reported by the media regarding the interaction between the Black Panther Party and government agents in the Bay Area of California (1967–1973).

Why did Donald Trump follow Barack Obama into the White House?

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

This book argues that both liberal democracy and state capacity need strengthening to deliver effective development.

The United States remains a deeply religious country and religion plays an inextricably critical role in American politics.

Presents an empirically and theoretically rich sociological study of two Chinese diaspora protest movements: Falun Gong and the Chinese democracy movement.

Originally published in 1972, this book covers South African history from the earliest times up to 1968.

'Detailed and impeccably researched.

This book analyzes social movements across a range of countries in the non-Western world: Bosnia, Brazil, Egypt, India, Iran, Palestine, Russia, Syria, Turkey and Ukraine in the period 2008 to 2016.

Written by one of the premier scholars on the European Union and hailed as the best undergraduate text on the subject, this book has been thoroughly revised and updated to include the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty.