Comparative politics

This edited volume explores Nigeria's domestic and international politics and its implications for the country's national development and international status.

Over the past thirty years the comparative study of policy agendas under the aegis of the Comparative Agendas Project (CAP) has become one of the fastest growing sub-field in policy research.

This book highlights the main factors determining the quality of public administration in conflict affected countries; and assesses to what extent the conflict determines and impacts on the performance of public administration in affected countries.

This book aims to establish a dialogue around the various "e;urban sanctuary"e; policies and other formal or informal practices of hospitality toward migrants that have emerged or been strengthened in cities in the Americas in the last decade.

Despite any evidence against it, political parties still represent the most important collective actor in a democratic political system.

This book investigates how political parties from 12 European countries used Facebook to inform, interact with and mobilise voters at the 2019 European Parliament election.

This handbook provides a meaningful overview of topical themes within family sociology as an academic field as well as empirical realities in various societal contexts across Europe.

This book examines the emergence of a culture of migration through outward migration as a country-specific phenomenon and analyzes it from different perspectives, covering various aspects such as the history of a country, its migration flows, migration push factors, social, economic, and political issues, as well as individual values.

This book examines the increasing territorialisation of party competition and the relaxation of unitarian rule through devolution, presenting a long-term analysis of electoral developments in the United Kingdom since the end of the Second World War.

This book examines the populist communication of mainstream parties in Germany, Austria, Italy, and Spain.

This book explores the digital transformations of democracy and democratic societies.

This edited volume addresses how single mothers and fathers are represented in novels, self-help literature, daily newspapers, film and television, as well as within their own narratives in interviews on social media.

For a long time, volunteering lacked standardized data sets allowing methodologically robust comparative analyses and global policy making.

This volume presents the most recent joint study of the research group Religion and Human Rights.

Evidence suggests that economies with technology transfer initiatives provide a better supply of high-quality jobs and tend to be characterized by entrepreneurs with higher innovation contributions.

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.

This book analyses the Spanish parliamentary elites in a comparative perspective within southern Europe.

In light of the growing support for populist political actors, this book examines political party behavior and political positions towards the integration process in the European Union.

Moving from a historical and cultural perspective, this book examines the geo-political and socio-economic changes involving the enlarged Mediterranean.

This first study of faith-based development NGOs' (FBOs) political roles focuses on how U.

This book investigates the impact of internet use on anti-government protesting under authoritarian rule.

This book is based upon a comparative public administration research project, initiated by the Hertie School of Governance (Germany) and the Bertelsmann Foundation (Germany) and supported by a network of researchers from many EU countries.

This book examines the most significant factors accounting for the decline of union density during the neoliberal period, focusing on the case of Mexico.

This edited book provides a first overview of how populist parties responded to the COVID-19 pandemic crisis in Europe.

This book offers a broad perspective of revolutionary territorial politics by putting secession in the context of other forms of revolutionary territorial politics.

This book examines gender- and integration-specific needs of women migrants by using a unique analytic framework, covering both qualitative and quantitative methods and techniques.

This book explains why the Israeli-Palestinian dispute is so difficult to resolve by showing that it consists of multiple distinct conflicts.

This book explores the continuity of oligarchic rule in the Americas of the modern period, with a focus on the variable compatibility of oligarchic rule and democratic government.

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

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.

The book represents original research in a field of study rarely pursued while analysing the intellectual dimensions of disputes over ethically sensitive issues that occur in European Union politics.

This volume addresses our global crisis by turning to Augustine, a master at integrating disciplines, philosophies, and human experiences in times of upheaval.

This book explores the agency of Jinn, the so-called "e;demons of Islam"e;.

This book explores and elaborates three theories of public reason, drawn from Rawlsian political liberalism, natural law theory, and Confucianism.

This book offers a re-evaluation of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, the prominent Italian Renaissance philosopher and prince of Concord.

This book analyzes the threshold candidates of immigrant background need to overcome to run for legislative office.

This book explores the variations in the transformation of the Asian developmental state in South Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan.

This book analyses the policies of recognition that were developed and implemented to improve the autonomy and socio-economic well-being of Maori in New Zealand and of indigenous and Afro-descendent people in Colombia.

This book explores the ways in which different generations think about how the welfare state is organised at present, and how it will be organised in future.

This book explores the idea of socialism from three angles and raises the questions if socialism is possible, inevitable, and desirable.

This volume represents the beginning of a 'cross pollination' of different social scientific disciplines, bridging the boundaries between national and disciplinary epistemic communities in the worlds of European welfare markets.

This edited collection brings together academics, artists and members of civil society organizations to engage in a discussion about the ideas of living with others, through concepts such as cosmopolitanism, solidarity, and conviviality, and the practices of doing so.

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.

This volume addresses three things many people do not discuss candidly with strangers or mere acquaintances: God, sex, and politics.

This book illuminates the interconnections between politics and religion through the lens of artistic production, exploring how art inspired by religion functioned as a form of resistance, directed against both Romanian national communism (1960-1989) and, latterly, consumerist society and its global market.

This book is the first to systematically examine the connection between religion and transitional justice in post-communism.

This book investigates spatial institutional variation and its influence on entrepreneurial activity in the Russian Federation, building on an innovative geometric clustering approach.

This book investigates studies on colonialism and anti-colonialism from Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and Latin America.

This book decisively advances the academic debate on politicisation beyond the state of the art.

This edited volume revolves around two sets of questions.