Comparative politics

This book focuses on the patient experience as a leadership strategy.

Originally published in 1937 and written by de Kiewiet who in his lifetime was recognized as one of the premier historians of British imperial policy and African history, this book covers the years 1871-1885 in South Africa's history, discussing racial, social and economic issues.

While there have been many biographies of Dwight D.

The promise of America has always been creative potential: enterprise, industry, optimism, idealism, and hope.

What do Beppe Grillo, Silvio Berlusconi, Emmanuel Macron (and also Donald Trump) have in common?

Rereading Marx, Weber, Gramsci and, more recently, Foucault, Beatrice Hibou tackles one of the core questions of political and social theory: state domination.

The Conservative Private Members (1922) Committee is an important but elusive force in British politics.

In a profound revelation of what truly undergirds modern political rhetoric, Morgan Marietta shows that the language of America's leaders often relies on deep, even sacred, ideals.

An interdisciplinary and international study addressing conflict of interest in different spheres and at different levels of governance.

The global, regional, and local energy landscape has changed dramatically in the twenty-first century.

Offers a new way of understanding classical Islamic theories holding that divine revelation is necessary for the knowledge of norms.

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Die Europäische Union bestimmt die Politik in Deutschland auf vielfältige Weise.

Hindu Nationalism in South India engages with a range of factors that shapes the trajectory of Hindu nationalism in Kerala, the southern state of India.

Reform, Identity and Narratives of Belonging focuses on the Heraka, a religious reform movement, and its impact on the Zeme, a Naga tribe, in the North Cachar Hills of Assam, India.

In 2005, Iraq drafted its first constitution and held the country's first democratic election in more than fifty years.

Increasingly, as the production, distribution and audience of films cross national boundaries, film scholars have begun to think in terms of 'transnational' rather than national cinema.

In Jonah Blank's important, myth-shattering book, the West gets its first look at the Daudi Bohras, a unique Muslim denomination who have found the core of their religious beliefs largely compatible with modern ideology.

This book analyses the discourses of economic liberalization reform in six Western European countries - Germany, France, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Austria.

Simon Reich presents an interpretation of the relationship between material (hard) and social (soft) power, with implications for the alternative ways these link and the impact of these linkages on the future of American policy.

This book examines how student debt informs the political action and participation of university students.

First Amendment Freedoms: A Reference Handbook offers a comprehensive examination of the discourse on First Amendment freedom issues in an objective and unbiased manner and provides valuable data and documents to guide readers to further research on the subject.

A major new history of how the Enlightenment transformed people's everyday livesThe Secular Enlightenment is a panoramic account of the radical ways that life began to change for ordinary people in the age of Locke, Voltaire, and Rousseau.

Why religion must be separated from politics if democracy is to thrive around the worldFor eight years the president of the United States was a born-again Christian, backed by well-organized evangelicals who often seemed intent on erasing the church-state divide.

The global, regional, and local energy landscape has changed dramatically in the twenty-first century.

The First Amendment guarantee that "e;Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion"e; rejected the millennium-old Western policy of supporting one form of Christianity in each nation and subjugating all other faiths.

Across the world, governments design and implement policies with the explicit goal of promoting social justice.

This book investigates how the UN International Criminal Court pressures states to hand over their own leaders for trial.

This book explores how and why the EU and its member states define immigration policies.

Seit Anbeginn der Menschheit faszinieren und ängstigen uns Dämonen.

There is a saying in Arabic, me and my brother against my cousin, and me and my cousin against the outsider.

Explores how digital media use affects political behavior and how this relationship is shaped by political environments across countries.

Civil society groups can strengthen an autocratic state''s coercive capacity, helping to suppress dissent and implement far-reaching policies.

Rights-based Litigation, Urban Governance and Social Justice in South Africa considers the overlap between legal and everyday struggles for social and spatial justice in the particular context of Johannesburg, South Africa.

This book is unique in illuminating and comparing the charismatic role of two political leaders, Jawaharlal Nehru and David Ben-Gurion, along with assessments of many other 20th century political leaders.

The world's governing structures are higgledy-piggledy: disorderly, heads and tails in any or every direction.

As the European Union has evolved, it has also begun to address policy questions which are closer to the very heart of the state.

This book examines the dynamics of natural resource conflicts in Africa and explores the different governance approaches for securing sustainable peace.

Why churches in some democratic nations wield enormous political power while churches in other democracies don'tIn some religious countries, churches have drafted constitutions, restricted abortion, and controlled education.

In this timely book, edited from a manuscript left unfinished at his death, one of Canada’s leading constitutional scholars presents his prescription for constitutional change.

Protecting and promoting health is inherently a political endeavor that requires a sophisticated understanding of the distribution and use of power.

Das Handbuch gewährt einen umfassenden Überblick über Tocquevilles Leben, Werk und Wirkung auf dem aktuellen Stand der historischen, philosophischen und sozialwissenschaftlichen Forschung.

The book examines China''s access to the energy resources of the developing world and its impact on Chinese foreign relations.

This edited collection evaluates the relationship between Marxism and religion in two ways: Marxism's treatment of religion and the religious aspects of Marxism.