Comparative politics

Departing from the idea that political controversies are embedded in the very framework of European integration, this volume focuses on the relationship between politicisation and European democracy.

This book offers a synthesis of the main achievements and pending challenges during the thirty years of transitional justice in Chile after Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship.

This book examines the progress of institutionalisation of evaluation in American countries from various perspectives.

The book offers new insights into how ethnicity, language and regional-local identity interact within the context of Ukrainian political reform, and indicates how these reforms affect social cohesion among ethno-cultural groups.

This book examines the history of racial classifications in Puerto Rico censuses, starting with the Spanish censuses and continuing through the US ones.

From the erosion of state legitimacy in Lebanon to the use of smartphones in Kyrgyzstan, from a Polish suburb to the music scene in Azerbaijan, this volume attempts to explain why, in a variety of world regions, a substantial number of people tend to ignore or act against state rules.

This edited book explores the link between institutional reforms, governance and services delivery in the Global South, mapping how and to what extent resource-poor governments deliver public services to their citizens.

This book examines why authoritarian governments are willing to address environmental problems that have an international impact, such as CO2  emissions, but are reluctant to address problems that have only a domestic impact.

The book examines the nexus between political and religious thought within the Prussian old conservative milieu.

This book explores the complexity of the Syrian question and its effects on the foreign policies of Russia, Iran, and Turkey.

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.

The book examines whether small jurisdictions (states) are confronted with specific issues providing social security and how to deal with these issues.

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

This book studies values and attitudes in the Gulf region.

This book analyses the politicization of immigration and the European Union in Italy, the UK, and the European Parliament (EP) from 2015 to 2020.

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 book focuses on the European Union as an important actor in international relations and international political economy.

The focus of this book is on the experiences of government-sponsored refugees in the early stages of integrating into Canadian society.

The book offers perspectives from change makers.

This book addresses the central question of European solidarity in the face of a multitude of crises in Europe and focuses on its discursive manifestation in public debates.

This book explains the increasing incidences and normalisation of Islamophobia, by analysing the role of signifiers of free speech, censorship, and fatwa during the Satanic Verses affair in problematising the figure of the Muslim.

This book presents a cross-cultural investigation into the interplay between social capital and subjective well-being.

The economic downturn caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the unrest in the US following the unlawful death of George Floyd, and other sources of social unrest and insecurity, have brought to a head something that has been brewing in Western societies since the Great Recession of 2008: the disillusionment with liberal democracy as it evolved after World War II.

This book is about how opinion polls are reported in the media.

Political science research, especially in recent times, has recognized the centrality of party and executive leaders and their individual characteristics.

This book investigates the relation between Durkheim's sociology, Critical Theory, and the philosophy of social sciences.

This book interrogates Africa's pursuit of the Democratic Developmental State model by drawing on the experiences of Mauritius, Ethiopia, and Rwanda.

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 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.