Comparative politics

In many ways, we seem to be living in wintry times at present in the Western world.

As the world focuses on the conflict in Iraq, the most important political players in that country today are not the Sunni insurgents.

Deification in Russian Religious Thought considers the reception of the Eastern Christian (Orthodox) doctrine of deification by Russian religious thinkers of the immediate pre-revolutionary period.

Theologisches Denken und geistliches Leben gehören zusammen.

Building on extensive fieldwork in China and Indonesia, Hurst offers a valuable comparison of legal systems in practice.

This book, available in paperback for the first time, offers a new and innovative way of looking at Irish foreign policy, linking its development with changes in Irish national identity.

Technik von gestern - Herausforderung für heute - Chance für morgen!

Social policy is a subject that helps develop our understanding of the meaning of human wellbeing, and of the systems by which wellbeing must be promoted.

This volume examines the design and impact of courts in African federal systems from a comparative perspective.

One third of humanity is governed by two capitals, New Delhi and Beijing.

Since the Second World War, constitutional justice has spread through much of the democratic world.

Must religious voices keep quiet in public places?

This book examines democratic innovations from around the world, drawing lessons for the future development of both democratic theory and practice.

Exploring the relations between the concepts of peace and violence with aesthetics, nature, the body, and environmental issues, The Poesis of Peace applies a multidisciplinary approach to case studies in both Western and non-Western contexts including Islam, Chinese philosophy, Buddhist and Hindu traditions.

This book investigates Turkey's departure from a 'flawed democracy' under Kemalist secularism, and its transitioning into Islamist authoritarian Erdoganism, through the lenses of informal law, legal pluralism, and legal hybridity.

For over four decades, events in Palestine-Israel have provoked raging conflicts within British universities around issues of free speech, 'extremism', antisemitism and Islamophobia.

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the development, making and implementation of European Union environmental politics and identifies the central areas and instruments of EU environmental policy.

Tunisian women have received significant attention for their active participation in preserving and extending women's rights since 2011.

How do governments make key decisions on vital economic questions of nationalimportance?

This book exposes the anxieties of loss of control and missed opportunities for freedom of expression resulting from changes in technologies and geopolitics.

The teaching of history has long been the subject of partisan warfare.

The fifth edition of this seminal textbook by best-selling author Andrew Heywood continues to lead the way in providing a comprehensive and authoritative introduction to politics.

In Trump, White Evangelical Christians, and American Politics, political scientists Anand Edward Sokhey and Paul A.

This book explores multiple challenges faced by democratization in Southern Africa.

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

This book brings together recent research on the sociopolitical history of Latin American statistics from the nineteenth to the first half of the twentieth century.

This comprehensive study of Russian electoral politics shows the vulnerability of Putin''s regime as it navigates the risks of voter manipulation.

Africa's modern history is replete with different forms of encounters and conflicts.

This book argues that local and global religious social forces are primarily responsible for the social developments in communities in the global south.

This book, available in paperback for the first time, offers a new and innovative way of looking at Irish foreign policy, linking its development with changes in Irish national identity.

In 2004 the Baltic states - Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania - finalized their return to the West by joining NATO and the EU after definitively throwing off their 'captive nations' status by regaining independence in 1991.

The bantustans - or 'homelands' - were created by South Africa's apartheid regime as ethnically-defined territories for Africans.

This book documents the widespread use of blatant and excessive manipulation of elections and explains what drives this practice.

This is the first book to investigate how constitutional monarchy could survive in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, during which many monarchies were overthrown by revolutions or coups d'etat in Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Europe.

This book tells the story of how Al Qaeda grew in the West.

Ausgehend von einer Analyse des Reformbedarfs und der Reformchancen in Deutschland und in ausgewählten Beitrittsländern (Polen, Ungarn und Tschechische Republik) untersucht die Arbeit die Konsequenzen der Ost-Erweiterung für die Realisierung der in Deutschland längst fälligen marktwirtschaftlichen Reformen sowie für die marktwirtschaftliche Entwicklung in den genannten Beitrittsländernt.

Clearing up the confusion about religion, re-visioning the core elements of spiritual traditions, and transcending the fault line of secular-versus-religious.

This book explores the elective affinity of religion and post-secularism with neoliberalism.

Dieses Lehrbuch eröffnet neben einer theoretisch-konzeptionellen Orientierung vergleichende Einblicke in die unterschiedlichen regionalen Ordnungsmodelle, Normen und Institutionen Europas, Asiens, Afrikas und den Amerikas.

A provocative account of Jewish encounters with the public baths of ancient RomePublic bathhouses embodied the Roman way of life, from food and fashion to sculpture and sports.

This book unpacks the history of British-Israelism in the UK.