Comparative politics

Drawing upon unique and unprecedented survey data, this book shows how and why Brexit has changed British politics.

This book of 100 essays written over the last three post-apartheid decades provides profiles of pan-African figures, mostly from Africa and its diaspora in the Americas, Europe, and the Caribbean.

The Nisga'a Treaty presents an inside story of the socio-political dynamics behind the massive polling and advertising campaign through which the Government of British Columbia "e;sold"e; the Nisga'a Treaty to British Columbians.

Political corruption is one of the globe's most pressing yet seemingly permanent problems.

This book contributes to both the internal debate in liberalism and the application of political liberalism to the process of democratization in East Asia.

Anja Franke-Schwenk analysiert die Herrschaftsstrategien der kasachstanischen Präsidentschaft im Zeitraum von 1991-2011 vor dem besonderen Hintergrund des Ressourcenreichtums.

This pioneering volume examines Europeanism in the new international society that emerged after the First World War through the League of Nations, with a focus on the countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), the Baltic countries, and the Balkans.

An in-depth legal analysis of the Constitutional Treaty which, if ratified by all Member States, would govern the EU.

The textbook is primarily aimed at students and younger researchers and offers a concise but systematic practical guide to planning and conducting qualitative expert interviews in political science.

Escape, Escapism, Escapology: American Novels of the Early Twenty-First Century identifies and explores what has emerged as perhaps the central theme of 21st-century American fiction: the desire to escape-from the commodified present, from directionless history, from moral death-at a time of inescapable globalization.

This book discusses theories of crisis management and the radical right, to shed light on how responses to crisis influence radical right parties in their presence, discourse, and evolution.

The Oxford Handbook of French Politics provides a comprehensive and comparative overview of the French political system through the lens of political science.

This book compares the constitutional politics in Canada and the United Kingdom - two complex, multilevel, plurinational states.

The first systematic analysis of socioeconomic violence in war and its implications for post-war justice processes.

This edited volume provides a comprehensive overview of the diverse and multi-faceted research on governance in multilevel systems.

Thisbook presents a comprehensive source document on intelligence and securityoversight and review.

Few countries have been so transformed in recent decades as China.

This book discusses the role of millennials in political leadership and governance in Africa going forward.

The COVID-19 pandemic struck as a global problem, a virus spreading without respect for territorial boundaries.

Why countries colonize the lands of indigenous people Over the past few centuries, vast areas of the world have been violently colonized by settlers.

Der Band bietet erstmals einen fundierten Überblick zu den wichtigsten politischen Strukturen, Prozessen und Akteuren im Freistaat Sachsen im Zeitraum 1990 und 2010.

Women, Politics, and Power provides a clear and detailed introduction to women's political participation and representation across all branches of government and a wide range of countries and regions.

This book uncovers how women's movements in the Global South are changing the face of transnational activism in their mobilisations against militarism and conflict-related gender violence.

In the last decades, violent non-state actors (VNSAs) such as rebel and terrorist organizations have proved their capacity to break international law.

While the ambitious objectives outlined in the EU's Green Deal aim at making Europe the first climate-neutral continent by 2050, national implementation greatly varies depending on local geographies, history, culture, economics, and politics.

Presents a theoretically and methodologically sophisticated remapping and analysis of political-institutional power diffusion in democracies.

Does democracy control business, or does business control democracy?

This book questions the reasons why presidential democracies more likely to break down than parliamentary ones.

Sitting at the extreme end of criminal justice and offending behaviour, public protection policy has been politicised and used to reshape wider debates.

During the last two decades serious attempts to alter basic constitutional structures have taken place in many industrial nations, even in those often thought to have highly stable political institutions.

Canada and the United States explains, across fifteen diverse areas, why and how Canada and the United States are still so different.

This timely work, contributed by noted authorities, explains the crucial events in the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that led to the UN resolution to partition Palestine into two states on November 29, 1947.

All societies face a key question: how to empower governments to perform essential governmental functions while constraining the arbitrary exercise of power.

Punishing the Black Body examines the punitive and disciplinary technologies and ideologies embraced by ruling white elites in nineteenth-century Barbados and Jamaica.

A unique comparative study examining why some communist regimes remain in power, whilst others have fallen.

This book shows that democratization in sub-Saharan Africa can be successful, even if the government remains dominated by one major political party.

Latin American Politics, Second Edition is a thematic introduction to the political systems of all 20 Latin American countries.

This is an analysis of the constitutional revolutions in the Ottoman Empire and Iran in the early twentieth century.

The book examines whether small jurisdictions (states) are confronted with specific issues providing social security and how to deal with these issues.

This volume combines approaches from three disciplines - economics, sociology, and demography - and empirically analyzes the key aspects of the labor market and social demography processes in post-Soviet transitional societies while focusing on the gender perspective.

This book argues that marketing is inherent in competitive democracy, explaining how we can make the consumer nature of competitive democracy better and more democratic.

Uses a policy regime approach to conduct a comparative analysis of the public policies of shale gas in Eastern Europe.