In The Political Power of Bad Ideas, Mark Schrad uses one of the greatest oddities of modern history--the broad diffusion throughout the Western world of alcohol-control legislation in the early twentieth century--to make a powerful argument about how bad policy ideas achieve international success.
This book investigates the determinants of policy design choices in an area of public policy embracing multiple sectors of public responsibilities: Research and Innovation (R&I).
This volume explores the issues and debates surrounding the ongoing processes of democratization in sub-Saharan Africa, illuminating the central dynamics characterizing Africa's democratic experiments, and considering the connections between democratization and economic, social, and cultural developments on the continent.
This book focuses on the different types of combatants in conflicts in Africa, exploring the fine lines between what might be classified as a militia in one conflict, a rebel in another, or a terrorist in a third.
This textbook presents political sociology as a connective social science that studies political phenomena by creating fruitful connections with other perspectives.
Der Band zeigt die Grundlagen eines sozialen Europas, konkrete Handlungsoptionen zu deren Ausgestaltung und Wege zu einer sozial orientierten Europäischen Union auf.
This book provides a theoretically grounded and empirically fine-grained analysis of uneven state development in Afghanistan beginning in the early 20th Century.
The second edition of this popular textbook combines coverage of public policies in different countries with the conceptual and methodological frameworks for analysing them.
This study looks at the underlying foundations of global order, putting aside mainstream institutionalist approaches in showing how China and the US are engaged in an intense process of contestation and renegotiation of an institutionalized order that has long been taken for granted.
Überraschend schnell nach der Wahl François Hollandes zum französischen Präsidenten schien die Hoffnung auf„Wandel“, die seine Wähler mit seinem Amtsantritt verbunden hatten, verflogen.
This volume considers whether it is possible to establish carefully tailored hate speech policies that recognize the histories and values of different countries.
Uganda's 2016 elections, which returned thirty-year incumbent President Yoweri Museveni and his National Resistance Movement (NRM) in yet another landslide, took place in an atmosphere of patronage, coercion and fraud.
Margit Tavits demonstrates that the successful establishment of a political party in a new democracy crucially depends on the strength of its organization.
With a thorough analysis of the ideational visions of Rabindranath Tagore, Aurobindo Ghose, Sarala Devi Chaudhurani and Nazrul Islam, the book sets out a new ideational design to capture the complex texture of nationalization in India and other Afro-Asian countries.
This volume investigates nuclear energy policies in Western Europe over the entire post-war period, but with special attention to the two most recent decades.
Hanson utilizes a comparative-historical analysis of three cases of ''post-imperial democracy'' to examine the importance of ideology in creating an enduring party organization in uncertain democracies.
This handbook provides a meaningful overview of topical themes within family sociology as an academic field as well as empirical realities in various societal contexts across Europe.
By exploring the trajectories of Islamist parties in six diverse countries (Turkey, Morocco, Tunisia, Pakistan, Indonesia, and Malaysia), this book provides a comparative analysis of the strategies employed by Islamist groups to confront established political structures through electoral processes and their subsequent governance practices if and when they assume power.
How should constitutional design respond to the opportunities and challenges raised by ethnic, linguistic, religious, and cultural differences, and do so in ways that promote democracy, social justice, peace and stability?
This book takes a powerful new approach to a question central to comparative politics and economics: Why do some leaders of fragile democracies attain political success--culminating in reelection victories--when pursuing drastic, painful economic reforms while others see their political careers implode?
Since the third edition of this authoritative volume, most of Western Europe and North America have entered an era of austerity which has pervasive effects on programmes of public management reform.
This Handbook brings together a collection of leading international authors to reflect on the influence of central contributions, or classics, that have shaped the development of the field of public policy and administration.
