Comparative politics

Shows how power-sharing practices reduce violence both preventively and after conflicts by giving potential violent challengers access to central and/or regional power.

The complex and ever-evolving relationship between the public sector and civil society at large is high on the policy and political agenda for the transformation of administrative and socio-economic systems in most developed countries.

On the campaign trail, Barack Obama spoke often about his constitutional principles.

How does the European Union affect devolution and nationalist conflict in member states?

Workfare: Ideology for a New Under-Class reveals the double standards of Neo-Liberal "e;newspeak.

This book investigates how African authors and artists have explored themes of the future and technology within their works.

By revealing the contextual conditions which promote or hinder democratic development, Comparative Politics shows how democracy may not be the best institutional arrangement given a country's unique set of historical, economic, social, cultural and international circumstances.

Ongoing struggles over core principles of democratic governanceThe regime questionoften boiled down to ';democracy or autocracy?

Kommunale Selbstverwaltung lässt sich allein weder institutionen-affin noch wettbewerbswirtschaftlich-freiheitlich oder kritisch-emanzipatorisch verwirklichen.

Many believe the solution to ongoing crises in the news industry--including profound financial instability and public distrust--is for journalists to improve their relationship with their audiences.

A novel explanation for state prison privatization: that they do so to limit legal and political accountability for inmate lawsuits.

Exploring how the boundary between the extremist far right and centre-right parties and politics became blurred, Normalization of the Global Far Right: Pandemic Disruption deconstructs one of the most pressing issues of today: the rise of the far right.

Originally published in 1995 and now available as an ebook.

This book examines how new, domestically owned firms contributed to Poland''s transition between 1990 and 1997.

This book documents how global advocacy on behalf of refugees has failed, and proposes a new strategy using social entrepreneurship.

In divided societies, representation in the police that empowers previously-marginalized groups reduces crime, builds trust, and improves citizen-state relations.

This book discusses history of mental construction of the border between India and Bangladesh.

This book analyses French cultural policies in the face of what the French government perceives as a challenge to its Republican secular raison d'etre.

This book is the first comprehensive analysis of the instrumental value of democracy in a comparative perspective.

This book is an ethnography of politics of waiting.

This book develops an argument for the power of collective identity as an impetus for state prioritization of social welfare.

The new fifth edition of this leading textbook provides a clear and comprehensive account of governance and politics in the Netherlands.

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

This book argues that interests are actively forged through processes of politics.

Die repräsentative Demokratie und ihre Institutionen sehen sich mit einem fortschreitenden Vertrauensverlust konfrontiert.

Government did not create our social problems and it can't solve them for us.

Constructing International Security identifies effective third-party strategies for balancing deterrence and restraint in security relationships.

Democracy has not worked in Russia; Democracy Derailed in Russia explains why.

For those living in the Soviet Union, Orwell's masterpieces, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four, were not dystopias, but accurate depictions of reality.

The cases of Singapore and Switzerland present a fascinating puzzle: how have two small states achieved similar levels of success through divergent pathways?

Democratic Representation in Europe: Diversity, Change and convergence explores representation as a core element of democracies in the modern era.

Rising labour unrest is changing Chinese governance from below; Elfstrom shows that this is occurring in unexpected and contradictory ways.

Der Sammelband kombiniert die Diskussion theoretischer Konzepte mit länderübergreifenden Analysen zu Migration und Integration.

This book traces the development of the discourse used by the pro-life movement since the 1970s, and its relationship to public policy efforts at the state and federal level.

In The Rise and Fall of Moral Conflicts in the United States and Canada, sociologist Mildred A.

A timely, insightful look at the profound effects of social geography on how we relate to, think about, and politically interact across groups in the fabric of our daily lives.

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This book examines how patterns of political representation, party system, and political culture have changed in Southern Europe following the "e;Great Recession"e; of 2008.

This book presents a comparative analysis of the organizing trajectories of indigenous women's movements in Peru, Mexico, and Bolivia.

This volume assembles renowned scholars to address, for the first time, the relationship between minorities and populism in South Asia and Europe from a critical perspective.

Although most advanced industrialized countries are facing population aging and other social changes, public long-term care programs for the aged are remarkably diverse across them.

This book examines the enduring significance of borders in Southern Africa, covering encounters between people, ideas and matter, and the new spatialities and transformations they generate in their historical, social, economic and cultural contexts.

All federal systems face an internal tension between divisive and integrative political forces, striking a balance between providing local autonomy and sub-national representation on one hand, and maintaining an integrated political community and sufficient integration to maintain stability on the other hand.

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

This edited volume brings together leading international researchers in an attempt to disentangle and understand the multiple conflicts of sovereignty within the European polity in the aftermath of the 2008 economic crisis.