Comparative politics

This book explores the commonalities between the struggles of the last years around the Mediterranean and tries to find the cultural roots of this season of protests and activism against repression and a growing systemic crisis.

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

This book contributes to emerging debates about Levelling Up the UK Economy, considering these alongside the nature of, and trends in, both the political economy and spatial disparities.

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 offers a comparative perspective on the new wave of revolutions in the MENA region.

This book examines similarities and differences in 31 European governments' responses to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Drawing on field-based data and experiences from the practice of democratic decentralization and local governance over the last three decades in Ghana, this book examines whether and how democratic decentralization and local governance reforms in developing countries have produced the anticipated development outcomes.

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

This book explores the foreign and security policies of Germany, France and the UK vis-a-vis China.

This book offers a systematic inquiry into how, why, and with what consequences media affects governments and the standing of prime ministers.

Shakespeare and the Cultural Politics of Conversion takes a close look at Shakespeare's engagement with the flurry of controversy and activity surrounding the concept of conversion in post-Reformation England.

This book analyzes key popular culture artifacts linked with United States' far-right extremism to illustrate how extremists use various narrative strategies to legitimate their interests and goals and to justify violent actions.

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

This book, first ethnographic attempt, examines negated spaces, practices, and relationships that have been intentionally or unintentionally dismissed from academic and non-academic studies, articles, reports, and policy papers that investigate and debate the experiences of Coptic Orthodox Christians in Egypt.

This book explores disrupted youth cohesion in France within the context of multiple ongoing global economic, migratory, social, political, and security-related crises.

This is a book about European integration and mainstream parties of the left, the main underlying question driving it being: Given that the communist left was fatally wounded by the collapse of the Berlin Wall; given that, since then, the terms 'left' and 'right' have not infrequently been attacked (especially by populists) as being no longer useful for making sense of politics; given that social democracy, understood as 'national Keynesianism' no longer appears to be viable (as reflected in its long-term electoral decline), what does it mean to be on the left in the early 21st century and what can be done to revive its fortunes?

This book provides a fresh perspective on the debate over the role of the state in East Asia's development history.

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?

This book presents a comparative perspective on different government communication strategies to COVID-19 around the globe.

This book identifies the main factors shaping the fortunes of democracy globally.

This book examines knowledge and policy transfer from the perspectives of Brazil and China.

This edited collection explores how party politics impacts the implementation of gender quotas in political representation across Europe.

This book assesses how governance has evolved in six nations - England, Australia, Canada, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands - between 1970 and 2018.

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

This book analyzes the transformation of ethnic and religious political parties in Turkey with special focus on their role in the country's democratization and regime changes.