Comparative politics

Since the 1990s, private military and security companies (PMSCs) have intervened in civil wars around the globe.

Latin America and the Transports of Opera studies a series of episodes in the historical and textual convergence of a hallowed art form and a part of the world often regarded as peripheral.

Populist parties in Europe attract many more votes than they did just a few decades ago and are now much more likely to govern.

The nation-state is a double sleight of hand, naturalizing both the nation and the state encompassing it.

This book analyzes the place and influence of religion in European politics.

Growth and Welfare in Advanced Capitalist Economies takes stock of the major economic challenges that advanced industrial democracies have faced since the early 1990s and the responses by governments to them.

Principles of Comparative Politics offers the most comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to comparative inquiry, research, and scholarship.

This book examines how interactions between organizations within the international climate change movement shape tactics and outcomes in climate change negotiations.

While the world was swept up in the complications and uncertainty of the COVID-19 pandemic, Malaysia's government changed leadership twice without going to ballot.

Anarchism may be the most misunderstood political ideology of the modern era, and one of the least studied social movements by English-speaking scholars.

This book examines the nature of transnational organized crime and gangs, and how these diverse organizations contribute to violence, especially in so-called fragile states across Central and Latin America.

Conflict and instability are built into the very fabric of the Middle East and North African (MENA) state and states system; yet both states and states system have displayed remarkable resilience.

The second edition of this popular textbook combines coverage of public policies in different countries with the conceptual and methodological frameworks for analysing them.

Immigration integral to globalization, creating connections and mobilizing investments in human and financial capital across countries.

This volume brings together international experts to provide fresh perspectives on geopolitical concerns in the South China Sea.

Since the turn of the century, Africa has been emerging economically, politically and socially and striving to assert itself on the global stage.

Draws on societies' unique histories, distinctive paths of institutional development and contrasting cultures to explain why they adopt different policies for common problems.

Nero was negligent, not tyrannical.

Référence unique dans la francophonie, « petit bijou clinique », Démarche clinique initie au raisonnement physiopathologique fondé sur des preuves, aux connaissances à jour des maladies fréquentes et aux aspects communicationnels et relationnels de l’entrevue médicale.

At the same time that the Civil Rights Movement brought increasing opportunities for blacks, the United States liberalized its immigration policy.

Providing a comprehensive view of the constitutional architecture of federations, contributors address change and development in federal states from the standpoint of constitutional revision and reform.

This book explores disrupted youth cohesion in France within the context of multiple ongoing global economic, migratory, social, political, and security-related crises.

Anarchism may be the most misunderstood political ideology of the modern era, and one of the least studied social movements by English-speaking scholars.

Authoritarianism and the Evolution of West European Electoral Politics provides a novel explanation of rising Euroscepticism and right-wing populism in Western Europe.

This book rethinks gubernatorial effects on national politics using the case of the Argentine Senate.

This volume analyses the crisis of democratic representation in liberal democracies and offers reforms for representative institutions.

Democracy is the ability to participate freely and equally in the political and economic affairs of the country.

Addresses the durability of communist autocracies in Eastern Europe and Asia, the longest-lasting type of non-democratic regime to emerge after World War I.

This book argues that Vladimir Putin''s strategy for rebuilding the Russian state was fundamentally flawed.

Essentials of US Politics and Government is the latest book in the Essentials of series for A-Level Politics, which maps on to the Edexcel specification.

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A two-volume set intended for readers interested in understanding the political and cultural underpinnings of socioeconomic inequality across the globe, Inequality around the World examines key drivers and shapers of inequality at the local, national, and international level.

This book presents a radically new approach of how societies can bring corruption under control.

A thought-provoking comparison of Fascism, Nazism, and the New Deal-and the common roots of their appeal: "e;Historical analysis at its most invigorating.

This book illustrates how religion and ideology were used by Robert Mugabe to ward off opposition within his own party, in Zimbabwe and from the West.

Als empirische Polizeiforschung kann jede im weitesten Sinne sozialwissenschaftliche Auseinandersetzung mit dem Thema Polizei gelten, die basierend auf der Methodologie und Methodik empirischer Sozialforschung theoretisch inspiriert und methodisch kontrolliert Daten erhebt, analysiert und/oder interpretiert.

Latin America has among the world''s highest homicide rates.

This book analyzes the relationship between art and politics in two contrasting modern dictatorships.

The Latin American political landscape has already changed substantially in the 21st century.

By the end of the 1970s, contaminated sites had emerged as one of the most complex and urgent environmental issues affecting industrialized countries.

The book draws comparison between MERCOSUR and the European Union to explain variation of regionalism and to expose its limits.

This book explores non-state actors that are or have been migratory, crossing borders as a matter of practice and identity.