Comparative politics

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 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.

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

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 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.

This book assesses the quality of democracy through the study of organized interests in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) since the collapse of communism in 1989 up to 2017.

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 the causes of corruption in the Middle East and North Africa through a systematic cross-national comparative analysis of fifteen countries in the region.

This book explores the varying ways in which political parties in Europe make arguably their most important decisions: the selection of their leaders.

This handbook provides an empirically rich analysis of referendums in Europe from the end of the Second World War to the present.

This book offers fresh insights to enhance and diversify our understanding of the modern history of the state and societies in today's Jordan, while also providing examples of why and how scholars can challenge the static and discursively government-minded approaches to minorities and minoritisation - especially the traditional emphasis on demographic balances.

This volume examines existing research documenting racial disproportionality and disparities in child welfare systems, the underlying factors that contribute to these phenomena and the harms that result at both the individual and community levels.

Becca Whitla uses liberationist, postcolonial, and decolonial methods to analyze hymns, congregational singing, and song-leading practices.

This book offers a comparative perspective on the semi-presidential regimes of Portugal and Timor-Leste, suggesting that they both reserve a "e;moderating power"e; for presidents in line with what was theorized by Benjamin Constant.

This book explores one of the most pressing public policy questions for the 2020s: how should we regulate cannabis?

This book provides a practical guide to how groups of people, everywhere, from the local village council to the United Nations Security Council, can best make collective decisions.

This book provides an original argument that rejects the idea of national MPs having but one 'standard' mode of representation.

This book provides original and controversial contributions into specific areas of Johannine studies, along with defenses of various traditional theological interpretations of John that are commonly overlooked in New Testament scholarship.

This volume, dedicated to the memory of Gerard Mannion (1970-2019), former Joseph and Winifred Amaturo Chair in Catholic Studies at Georgetown University, explores the topic of changing the church from a range of different theological perspectives.

This book evaluates the performance of consociational power-sharing arrangements in Europe.

This book explores the debate and politicisation of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) negotiations in the Spanish, French and British public spheres.

This book presents new conceptual and methodological approaches to studying religiosity in Europe.

This book analyses the politics of othering in the USA and Canada from the nineteenth century to the present day.

This book provides a comprehensive account of the phenomenon of identity in politics, featuring for the first time the question of individual emancipation.

This book presents in-depth analyses of the data gathered for 26 years by the Political Elites of Latin America project (PELA), the most comprehensive database about the topic in the world.

This book addresses the implications of current thinking on precarity, precariousness and the precariat for the study of International Relations and International Political Economy.

This edited volume explores the obstacles to and opportunities for the development and entrenchment of a sustainable and representative multinational federalism.

This is the first book that examines healthy human relationships in post-apartheid South Africa.

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In undemocratic settings, where modes of political participation and interest mediation are severely limited, protest may become a major form of political action.

This book examines the problem of constitutional change in times of crisis.

This book examines the decisions by Tony Blair and John Howard to take their nations into the 2003 Iraq War, and the questions these decisions raise about democratic governance.

This book argues that the macroeconomic policy adjustment models recommended by the IMF and the World Bank for implementation in many Muslim countries, with substantial donor financial support, have not been effective.

Drawing on comparative politics and social network analysis, this book examines how the domestic institutional and organizational settings, as well as the network governance patterns, determine variation in administrative responses to EU's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) in two European Union (EU) member states, Denmark and Greece.

This book examines ten reasons for global jihad today.