Comparative politics

In many recent democracies, candidates compete for office using illegal strategies to influence voters.

This book examines the relatively unknown history of movements for democratic rights in French colonies.

This edited collection presents the concept of lived citizenship as a fruitful avenue for exploring the role played by social work practices in the lives of people in vulnerable positions.

The Oxford Handbook of Nigerian Politics offers a comprehensive analysis of Nigeria's very rich history and ever changing politics to its readers.

This publication offers the most wide-ranging examination to date of an intriguing country, one that is often misunderstood.

How should political community be seen in the context of European integration?

There is much heated rhetoric about the widening gulf between Europe and America.

To deal with the climate crisis we need a new paradigm of technological and social development aimed at the restoration of ecological systems--the bio-digital energy paradigm--and China is the world power best positioned to lead this change.

This edited collection analyses social inequality in the European Union, within and between countries.

This engaging, knowledgeable book traces the American path France has followed since resolving its searing Algerian conflict in 1962.

This book explores the intriguing idea that there is much more democracy in human history than is generally acknowledged.

Protracted conflicts with and over de facto independent entities such as the Abkhazia and South Ossetia/Tskhinvali region in Georgia endanger the region's sustainable and peaceful development.

Demonstrates how specific dimensions of democracy - participation, citizenship rights, and an inclusionary state - enhance human development and well-being.

This book provides a fresh perspective on the debate over the role of the state in East Asia's development history.

What configuration of institutions and policies is most conducive to human flourishing?

The special issue revisits Levitsky and Way's seminal study on Competitive Authoritarianism (2010).

Hydraulic fracturing - fracking - is an unconventional extraction technique used in the oil and gas industry that has fundamentally transformed global energy politics.

Regulation is a key concern of industries, consumers, citizens, and governments alike.

A new agenda for studying advocacy organizations which treats them as ''firms'' operating in policy markets.

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The Handbook of Political Representation in Liberal Democracies offers a state-of-the-art assessment of the functioning of political representation in liberal democracies.

Comprehensively laying out the concept of crimilegality, this book presents a novel perspective on the relationship between what is conventionally termed organised crime and political order in the contemporary developing world.

Among the tremendous changes affecting Europe in recent decades, those concerning political frontiers have been some of the most significant.

This book investigates right-wing populism in Brazil.

Drawing upon insights from the natural and social sciences, this book puts forth a provocative new argument that the violent Islamist threat in Indonesia today derives its stubborn resilience from being in essence a complex, adaptive and self-organizing system - or what some specialists might even call a super-organism.

The concept of hyper-active Governance shows how politicians govern complex networks, in light of the politicisation of expertise.

This book analyzes the economic reforms and political adjustments that took place in Cuba during the era of Raul Castro's leadership and its immediate aftermath, the first year of his successor, Miguel Diaz-Canel.

This book develops an analysis of ministerial recruitment in the process of government formation, the process of dismissal, and survival of cabinet ministers in Chile and Uruguay.

Courts and Terrorism examines the response of judiciaries in nine separate nations to terror tactics and the common themes experienced.

Tangled Titans offers a current and comprehensive assessment of the most important relationship in international affairs-that between the United States and China.

From comparative perspective, this book explores the dynamics of child soldiering on the Myanmar-China border (i.

Ein europäisches Reformmosaik Als Michel Albert in seinem 1991 erschienenen Buch Capitalisme contre capitalisme eine Typologie mit zwei Formen der Marktwirtschaft einführte, fiel den euro- ischen Sozialdemokraten die Wahl leicht.

This book examines the impact and implications of the declaration of human right to water and sanitation access for human security in Central Asia.

Participatory Budgeting continues to spread across the globe as government officials and citizens adopt this innovative democratic program in the hopes of strengthening accountability, civil society, and well-being.

Do international human rights treaties constrain governments from repressing their populations and violating rights?

This title investigates Vladimir Putin's war for control of Russia's vast oil reserves, in particular Mikhail Khodorkovsky's oil firm, Yukos.

This book critically analyses the important role of radio in public life in post-apartheid South Africa.

This book reflects on the complex and contested idea of South Africa, drawing on a wide range of disciplinary perspectives.

The past 15 years have seen declining public support for European integration, and widespread suggestions that a legitimacy crisis faces the European Union (EU).

This book examines the origins of the rise of international rankings, assessing their impact on global governance, and exploring how governments react to being ranked.

Activists, pundits, politicians, and the press frequently proclaim today's digitally mediated racial justice activism the new civil rights movement.

This book explores street art's contributions to democracy in Latin America through a comparative study of five cities: Bogota (Colombia), Sao Paulo (Brazil), Valparaiso (Chile), Oaxaca (Mexico) and Havana (Cuba).

In this intriguing book, professors Fasano, Natale and Newell offer a comprehensive and compelling discussion of the European left's evolution.

What does open government mean in practice?

Parlamente als kraft- und machtlose Institutionen?