Comparative politics

This book examines why press freedom has not become part of the established international human rights debate, despite its centrality to democratic theory.

This book argues that Australia is vital to the US imperial project for global hegemony in the struggle among great powers, and why Australia's deep dependency on the US is incompatible with democracy and the security of the country.

This book explores the ways in which democratizing Muslim countries treat their ethnic minorities' requests of inclusiveness and autonomy.

The book considers some of the solutions proposed by Muslim activists and thinkers in their attempts to renew (tajdid) their ways of life and thought in accord with the demands of the age in which they lived.

This book analyzes the verticalization of coalition cabinets from the national to the sub-national level.

This book discusses the role of gender and participation within the context of budgeting and planning.

As the epicenter of Christianity has shifted towards Africa in recent decades, Pentecostalism has emerged as a particularly vibrant presence on the continent.

When do rising powers fail to establish legitimate regional leadership and instead face contestation by their regional challengers?

This book focuses on a little-studied yet virulent and devoted fascist faction that was active within Zionist circles during the 1920s and 1930s.

This book examines the role of gender in political conflicts worldwide, specifically the intersection between gender and terrorism.

This book explores the cultural policies of sub-states with strong nationalist inclinations-in particular, Quebec, Scotland, and Catalonia-and their trend, in recent years, towards promoting and supporting the cultural industries as a means of not just preserving their respective cultural identities, but of growing them.

While the discussions among Brexiters mainly focus on the referendum of 2016 or David Cameron's "e;great miscalculation"e; and its repercussions, this book looks at the Brexit as a process that began decades earlier.

The book focuses on the legal framework for the use of the bridging clauses of Article 48(7) TEU as well as on parliamentary participation in the process of activating these clauses.

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

In light of the public and scholarly debates on the challenges and problems of established democracies, such as a lack of participation, declining confidence in political elites, and the deteriorating capabilities of democratic institutions, this volume discusses the question whether democracy as such is in crisis.

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 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.