Comparative politics

This book offers an analytic history of Britannia (first England and Wales and then Great Britain) over eight hundred years of political turmoil, intermingled with economic stagnation, followed by the engine of the industrial revolution.

Beginning in 2010, there has been a consolidating cooperation among existing powers in the Euro-Mediterranean in face of the rapid de-stabilization of the Arab region.

The book analyzes the topic of judicial reforms in four countries of South-East Europe, focusing on two specific factors that have influenced the reforms in the past two decades: the role played by the European Union in light of the east Enlargement process and the legacies of the communist regimes.

This book presents a collection of texts by the German philosopher and physicist Carl Friedrich von Weizsacker (1912-2007), for use in seminars on philosophy, mainly epistemology and the philosophy of physics or foundations of quantum mechanics, but also for courses on German philosophy of the 20th century or the philosophy of science.

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This is a memorial for Karl Wolfgang Deutsch, a pioneering political scientist, international relations specialist and peace scholar of the 20th century.

This book situates ethnic heterogeneity in the larger discussion of the welfare state and its redistributive outcomes, poverty and inequality.

This book highlights various cutting-edge topics and approaches to cooperation and regional integration in South Asia.

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Mitte der 1970er Jahre trafen einander zwei Studenten an der juristischen Fakultät der Universität Wien, beide aus katholischem Elternhaus, beide politisch interessiert.

Heute existieren zwei große Ansichten zu Mitteleuropa.

This book critically examines the many complex entanglements between AIDS activism and HIV science.

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In den vergangenen Jahrzehnten hat die religiöse und kulturelle Vielfalt in Deutschland zugenommen und als gesellschaftspolitisches Thema an Gewicht gewonnen.

Diese Einführung in die Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft integriert verschiedene Perspektiven: Ausgehend von zentralen Begriffen der Politikwissenschaft (z.

In Europa hat es in den letzten Jahren mehr offenen, vor allem auch gewalttätigen Antisemitismus gegeben als in den meisten Jahrzehnten nach 1945.

The link between the individual and the state or religious community on the other hand, does not occur without tension.

Narratives or storytelling are a feature of the everyday life of all who work in government.

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 represents the work of the European Research Network: Inclusive Society and the Role of Social Work, which comprises researchers from Barcelona, Spain; Koblenz, Germany; Maastricht, The Netherlands; and Zagreb, Croatia.

This book explores engagement between the trade and investment law regimes and the extent to which this is being driven by Preferential Trade and Investment Agreements (PTIAs).

This book analyzes how mainstream and new parties are building their digital platforms and transitioning from traditional (offline) organizations into the digital world.

This book analyses protests against the Great Recession in the European periphery.

This book focuses on territorial policies as instruments for local development in Europe's periphery.

This book offers a nuanced and muti-layered approach towards comprehending the possibilities of democratization or likelihood of authoritarian resilience in the Muslim world.

This volume offers an empirically rich, theoretically informed study of the shifting intersections of nation/alism, gender and sexuality.

This book systematically introduces the practice of restorative justice in India, as a resource for comparative criminal justice research.

This book analyses the participatory budgeting practice as it has evolved in evaluated countries, focusing on what is substantially at stake concerning the budget and issues involved, the actual participation, the way such processes are organised and administered, and the outcomes of such processes.

This is a memorial for Karl Wolfgang Deutsch, a pioneering political scientist, international relations specialist and peace scholar of the 20th century.

This book examines the use and potential impact of deepfakes, a type of synthetic computer-generated media, primarily images and videos, capable of both creating artificial representations of non-existent individuals and showing actual individuals doing things they did not do.

This Brief discusses the adoption of the mixed member proportional (MMP) electoral system in New Zealand and its subsequent effect on representation for women.

This contributed volume is the first in-depth analysis of the health policies of populist radical right (PRR) parties worldwide and their actual involvement in health care.

How might political opposition shape regime outcomes over time in an authoritarian system?

This book looks at how both advocacy groups in New Zealand and Australia use political marketing to conduct advocacy and support Israeli and Palestinian public diplomacy and nation branding.

This book questions whether and to what extent a conjunctural phenomenon such as an economic crisis can bring about lasting political consequences.

This book examines employee welfare in British and German companies from the 19th century through to the present day.

This book analyzes how COVID-19 impacted politics and how politics shaped the response to the pandemic in Latin America, the region which has become the epicenter of the global health crisis started in China.

This book is authored by some of the renowned scholars in Africa who take on the task to understand how Kenya is governed in this century from a public policy perspective.

In terms of practical-theology's critical reflection on marginalized people's wounds in a wider society, this book investigates the question, "e;How to proclaim the good news in response to first-generation Korean immigrants' contextual suffering in the United Sates?

Conspiracy Theories in the United States and the Middle East is the first book to approach conspiracy theorizing from a decidedly comparative and interdisciplinary perspective.

This book examines the evolution of the state of exception in which the Turkish Cypriot community has developed and how its relationship with Turkey has been transformed.

Conspiracy Theories in the United States and the Middle East is the first book to approach conspiracy theorizing from a decidedly comparative and interdisciplinary perspective.

This book presents a holistic perspective and analysis of democratic practice, processes, and governance in South Africa.

This book explores the international diffusion of Participatory Budgeting (PB), a local policy created in 1989 in Porto Alegre, Brazil, which has now spread worldwide.

This book offers a critical and insightful study of various doctoral programs in law, focusing on the English-speaking world.

This book discusses the role of millennials in political leadership and governance in Africa going forward.

This book explores key contemporary issues of democracy in our globalized and highly technologized world.