Comparative politics

"e;Quality of governance: Values and violations arrives at a time when governance faces new and often dire challenges and as traditional democratic values strain against the rise of authoritarian forms of populism and anti-government sentiment.

This book is a critical resource for understanding the relationship between gender, social policy and women's activism in Latin America, with specific reference to Chile.

This book analyses the role of evidence in taking wellbeing from an issue that has government attention to one that leads to significant policy change.

This book focuses on two key aspects of hate crime in the UK since 1945: those motivated by racial and religious prejudices.

This book's leading goal is to explain why some states in the Americas have been markedly more effective than others at forming stable democratic regimes.

This book develops a novel way of thinking about crises in world politics.

This book studies the cultural, societal, and ideological factors absent from popular discourse on Vladimir Putin's Russia, contesting the misleading mainstream assumption that Putin is the all-powerful sovereign of Russia.

This book analyses the evolving engagement of the United States and Cuba, along with the impact of this relationship on Cuba-CARICOM relations and the Caribbean.

This book introduces political science of religion - a coherent approach to the study of the political role of religion grounded in political science.

This book contains fresh insights into ecumenism and, notwithstanding claims of an "e;ecumenical winter,"e; affirms the view that we are actually moving into a "e;new ecumenical spring.

This book describes and compares the circumstances and lived experiences of religious minorities in Tunisia, Morocco, and Israel in the 1970s, countries where the identity and mission of the state are strongly and explicitly tied to the religion of the majority.

"e;In their comparative analysis of several universities from different parts of the world, the authors make a case for the critical roles that higher education institutions can play in building the civic framework in a society.

This edited volume presents a detailed account of the dynamics of socioeconomic contention in Egypt and Tunisia since 2011.

Looking at discretion broadly as the exercise of controlled freedom, this edited volume introduces insights from a range of social sciences perspectives.

This edited volume is a collection of twenty-three autobiographical narratives by successful teachers of global politics and international relations.

Self and City in the Thought of Saint Augustine explores the analogy between the self and political society in the thought of St.

This book examines the relationship between migration, diversification and inequality in Aotearoa/New Zealand.

This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the determinants of EU support between 2006 and 2015, and of electoral behavior during the European Parliament elections.

Southeast Asia is a vast, populous and diverse region.

"e;A very valuable and much needed book on a central element in the processes of social change: the construction and reconstruction of social norms as they move between global and local levels.

This book examines the concept and public service value of social equity in public administration research and practice outside of the Western context, considering the influence that historical, cultural, and social trends of Asian and Pacific societies may have on how social equity is conceptualized and realized in the Asia-Pacific region.

This book investigates the forgotten years of Kurdish nationalism in Iran, from the fall of the Kurdish republic to the advent of the Iranian revolution.

This book explains a perspective on the system of justice that emerges in Islam if rules are followed and how the Islamic system is differentiated from the conventional thinking on justice.

This book questions how policies for the metropolis become Europeanised.

Given the profound moral-ethical controversies regarding the use of new biotechnologies in medical research and treatment, such as embryonic research and cloning, this book sheds new light on the role of religious organizations and actors in influencing the bio-political debates and decision-making processes.

This edited collection addresses a growing concern in Europe and the United States about the future of the European Union, democratic institutions, and democracy itself.

This book is the first 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.

Fifty years ago, academics and policymakers throughout the world agreed that it was impossible for certain sets of historically antagonistic groups to coexist peacefully on a long-term basis.

This book examines religious activism-Christianity, Buddhism, and Taoism-in China, a powerful atheist state that provides one of the hardest challenges to existing methods of transnational activism.

The book analyzes concentrations of wealth and power in developed democracies.

This book sets out to explain the variation in nations' reactions to their defeats in war.

This volume examines the possibility - or need - of a revitalization of pacifism as a world-political practice.

This book compares the thought of Michael Oakeshott and Leo Strauss, bringing Oakeshott's desire for a renaissance of poetic individuality into dialogue with Strauss's recovery of the universality of philosophical enlightenment.

This book seeks to understand the politics of nationalism in the buffer zone between Russia and the West: Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Moldova, as well as Russia itself.

In England, it has been possible since 2013 to convert an office building into residential use without needing planning permission (as has been required since 1948).

This book explores the dynamics of health system decentralization and recentralization, investigating why and how the territorial organization of health systems changes or remains stable over time.

Western political theory has many great strengths but also a few weaknesses.

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

This study explores the dynamic relationship between science, numbers and politics.

This book develops a theoretical understanding of how truth commissions achieve legitimacy and contribute to peace and stability.

This edited collection explores the ways in which the 2008/2009 social and economic crisis in Southern Europe affected the interpretation of the transitional past in Spain, Greece and Portugal.

During the next few years, most European and World cities will be developing urban agendas.

This study entails a theoretical reading of the Iranian modern history and follows an interdisciplinary agenda at the intersection of philosophy, psychoanalysis, economics, and politics and intends to offer a novel framework for the analysis of socio-economic development in Iran in the modern era.

"e;Euchner's carefully researched and cogently argued study of morality politics in Europe adds an outstanding piece of research to the ever growing literature on religion and politics.

Is liberalism really compatible with nationalism?

This volume focuses on the evolution of public policy and the role of agenda setting with regard to policymaking in countries of the Global South.

This book explains the original meaning of the two religion clauses of the First Amendment: "e;Congress shall make no law [1] respecting an establishment of religion or [2] prohibiting the free exercise thereof.

This volume addresses an important aspect of Brexit that has been ever-present in public debates, but has so far not received corresponding attention by academic scholars, namely the role of parliaments and citizens in this process.

This book explores how the rule of power relates to the case of occupied Palestine, examining features of local dissent and international governance.

This edited volume explores the Israeli-Turkish relations in the 2000s from a multi-dimensional perspective providing a comparative analysis on the subjects of politics, ideology, civil society, identity, energy, and economic relations.