Comparative politics

This edited volume offers solutions on the challenges of religious pluralisation from a European perspective.

This book is the third volume in a trilogy that traces the development of the academic subject of International Relations, or what was often referred to in the interwar years as International Studies.

This book explores the consequences of lowering the voting age to 16 from a global perspective, bringing together empirical research from countries where at least some 16-year-olds are able to vote.

Marketization is one of the most powerful reform doctrines reshaping the organization of public service delivery throughout the last four decades.

"e;A much needed, sobering look at the seductive promises of new technologies.

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

The Palgrave Handbook of the Public Servant examines what it means to be a public servant in today's world(s) where globalisation and neoliberalism have proliferated the number of actors who contribute to the public purpose sector and created new spaces that public servants now operate in.

This book provides a timely and unique contribution to current debates on how effectively voluntary party quotas address the persistent underrepresentation of women in legislatures.

This volume examines the Africa-Asia relationship from a transregional perspective, namely as a set of emergent social, political and economic practices spanning a number of analytical and spatial scales.

The primary aim of this book is to provide clear and reliable information on a number of central topics in comparative law.

"e;This is not only the best collection of essays on the political economy of Southeast Asia, but also, as a singular achievement of the "e;Murdoch School"e;, one of the rarest of books that demonstrates how knowledge production travels across generations, institutions and time periods, thereby continually enriching itself.

This book provides a comparative and historical analysis of totalitarianism and considers why Spain became totalitarian during its inquisition but not France; and why Germany became totalitarian during the previous century, but not Sweden.

"e;This timely book provides insight into the changing role of the 'hospital' in the face of technological, organizational innovation and ever-tightening health budgets.

This book offers an intellectual history of one of the leading Shi'i thinkers and religious leaders of the 20th-century in Lebanon, Shaykh Muhammad Mahdi Shams al-Din.

This book explores non-state actors that are or have been migratory, crossing borders as a matter of practice and identity.

This work provides an innovative new look at police ethics, including results from an updated version of the classic Police Integrity Questionnaire, including new social and technological advances.

This book seeks to consistently explain the role of ideas and institutions in policy outcomes, and addresses the problem of how resource nationalism causes a deficit of public accountability in oil producing countries from Latin America and the Caribbean.

This volume highlights three intertwined aspects of the global context of Orthodox Christianity: religion, politics, and human rights.

This book analyzes the historical quest of the Islamic Republic of Iran to export its revolution to the Muslim countries in the Middle East and beyond.

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The book offers a processual and discursive perspective on how individuals exit the Muslim Brotherhood.

While the Arab Uprisings presented new opportunities for the empowerment of women, the sidelining of women remains a constant risk in the post-revolutionist MENA countries.

This edited volume maps the development of the use of political campaigning and marketing techniques in countries of the former Communist Bloc over the last thirty years.

This book shows the remarkable diversification in Turkey's international political economy landscape in the 2000s: its domestic political-economy framework, instrumental alternatives and geographic outreach.

This book examines the "e;left turn"e; in Latin American politics, specifically through the lens of Ecuador and the effects of the Citizens' Revolution's actions and public policies on relevant actors and institutions.

This book examines the determinants and consequences of policy responsiveness and change, and how policy issues get onto the media and legislative agenda in a transitional democracy.

This book explores street art's contributions to democracy in Latin America through a comparative study of five cities: Bogota (Colombia), Sao Paulo (Brazil), Valparaiso (Chile), Oaxaca (Mexico) and Havana (Cuba).

This book presents a unique, comprehensive yet accessible look at security in Africa.

The rise of populism in the West has led to attacks on the legitimacy of scientific expertise in political decision making.

"e;This book makes a vital contribution to the current literature on human well-being.

This book explores how traditional Sunni Muslim conceptions have informed or shaped Islamization strategies in contemporary Turkey.

This book explores the thirty-year trajectory of the Free Patriotic Movement that aimed to achieve the freedom, sovereignty and independence of Lebanon from the Lebanese political elite and Syrian hegemony.

This book is designed as a timely analysis of the rise of post-modern conservatism in many Western countries across the globe.

This book provides an in-depth account of the politics of the Eurozone crisis in Italy, Spain, Greece, Portugal, Cyprus and Malta, mapping the positions expressed by the governments of Southern EU countries during the Eurozone crisis negotiations, including Greece's bailout deal, the so-called "e;Six Pack"e; and the "e;Fiscal Compact"e; and exploring the process of domestic preference formation.

The book analyzes different critical attitudes towards European integration from a multidisciplinary perspective.

This book provides an overview of governance and development in the Mesoamerican Region (MAR), the design and scope of the Plan Puebla Panama (PPP), its relationship to pre-existing regional organisms and its transformation into Proyecto Mesoamerica.

This book examines the effects of preferential voting on intraparty electoral competition and voting behavior.

This book examines the changing dynamics of stabilisation efforts in the Middle East and North Africa.

This book analyses the rise in xenophobia, racism, and radical right political parties, movements, and violent groups over recent years.

This book addresses the challenge of providing for the free exercise of religion without allowing religious exercise by some individuals and groups to impinge upon the conscientious convictions of others.

The Palgrave Handbook of Global Perspectives on Emotional Labor in Public Service challenges traditional public administration theory and its disavowal of the emotive component to public service delivery.

Orthodox Churches, like most religious bodies, are inherently political: they seek to defend their core values and must engage in politics to do so, whether by promoting certain legislation or seeking to block other legislation.

This book brings a radically new voice to the debate in the field of Chinese politics and labor movement.

This book explores the origins of nationalism and the ideal of nation/state congruency since early-modern European thought, their transformation over time and endurance in contemporary political thought and IR theory.

This book examines key issues in Christianity from various philosophical points of view.

The book is the first systematic and comparative effort to capture political culture in the Baltic countries, including political orientation and support for democracy.

This book is the second volume in a trilogy that traces the development of the academic subject of International Relations, or what was often referred to in the interwar years as International Studies.

This book analyzes the economic reforms and political adjustments that took place in Cuba during the era of Raul Castro's leadership and its immediate aftermath, the first year of his successor, Miguel Diaz-Canel.

This book provides an innovative and in-depth analysis of how attitudes towards democracy and political institutions differ across 31 countries in Europe, and how these attitudes have fluctuated over time.

This book strives to answer two interrelated questions: Why have certain states in the Americas been more successful than others at creating stable democratic regimes?