Comparative politics

This book traces Heidegger''s influence on a variety of political movements to fundamental ambiguities in his understanding of everydayness and nihilism.

Empirically analyzes Islam and human rights in constitutions of Muslim-majority states and theorizes why some adopted Islam in their constitutions.

This book presents a unique, comprehensive yet accessible look at security in Africa.

Assesses the stability of the Chinese economy and the nature of its economic governance.

Bhikhu Parekh As creative and reflective agents, human beings seek meaning in their lives, and develop more or less coherent views of the world or cultures in terms of which to organize their personal and collective lives.

In Gendering the GOP, Catherine N.

In this book, "e;Asian Organized Crime and the Anglosphere,"e; the author uncovers the multifaceted phenomenon of Asian Organized Crime (AOC) and its profound impact on nation-states, with particular emphasis on English-speaking countries.

This book addresses the question of political legitimacy in the European Union from the much neglected angle of political responsibility.

This is the definitive study of the Irish general election of 2016 - the most dramatic election in a generation, which resulted in the worst electoral outcome for Ireland's established parties, the most fractionalized party system in the history of the state, and the emergence of new parties and groups.

Examines how Latin American countries and Spain tried to build modern and efficient state institutions for more than a century - without much success.

This edited volume provides original research and innovative analysis on corruption and anti-corruption in countries and regions of the Global South.

Prime ministers are presented as ever-more powerful figures; at the same time they seem to fail more regularly.

Public Security in Federal Polities is the first systematic and methodical study to bring together the fields of security studies and comparative federalism.

Parliamentary theory, practices, discourses, and institutions constitute a distinctively European contribution to modern politics.

Analyzes the dialectic between legal and constitutional innovations which enhance the power of capital, and the alternatives to create a more just world order.

Studies citizens'' deliberation on governance and development in Indian democracy, and the influence of state policy and literacy, analysing three hundred village assemblies.

This book brings together perspectives on resource exploitation to expose the continued environmental and socio-political concerns in post-colonial Africa.

Originally published in 1987 this book argues that South African politics reflect the changing ways in which the region has been incorporated into the world economy.

Young Arabs are too often reduced to the figures of the potential terrorist, the migrant or the exotic icon of the revolution.

Collects Michael Wallerstein''s most important and influential contributions to research on issues of inequality, redistribution, and wage-determination.

Looking at discretion broadly as the exercise of controlled freedom, this edited volume introduces insights from a range of social sciences perspectives.

Presents the collective practices of political translation, which help multilingual and culturally diverse groups work together more democratically than homogeneous groups.

Malaysia and South Africa implement the most extensive affirmative action programmes worldwide.

Military effectiveness can only be fully understood by accounting for its political and military tradeoffs.

Broadband, or high-speed internet, has been called the most important infrastructure challenge of the century.

Offers the first comprehensive analysis of the wave of revolutionary terrorism in affluent countries.

This book argues that alien rule can become legitimate to the degree that it provides governance that is both effective and fair.

In undemocratic settings, where modes of political participation and interest mediation are severely limited, protest may become a major form of political action.

Das Lehrbuch betrachtet den deutschen Bundesstaat aus der Perspektive der Länder.

Human capital theory, or the notion that there is a direct relationship between educational investment and individual and national prosperity, has dominated public policy on education and labor for the past fifty years.

Political interest is the strongest predictor of ''good citizenship'', yet little is known about it.

Should religious people who conscientiously object to facilitating same-sex weddings, and who therefore decline to provide cakes, photography, or other services, be exempted from antidiscrimination laws?

A practical guide for scientists, politicians and citizens to the relationship between science and politics.

Originally published in 1982 and based on the 1969 Oxford History of South Africa, this book discusses some of the trends in the historiography of South Africa before the beginning of large-scale mining operations in Kimberley in 1870.

This edited collection explores how party politics impacts the implementation of gender quotas in political representation across Europe.

The book shares the results of project research granted by the Castilla-La Mancha government, which has been composed by philosophers of law and criminal law researchers, whose main conclusions are represented by the manifestations and trends of the current crisis of the constitutional State.

This book explores how different governments have leveraged their capacity to advance a revival of nuclear power.

Can we sidestep tedious climate policy negotiations and forge a coalition of the willing instead?

A case study that profiles the best practices for sustainable development, indigenous human rights, and conflict resolution, providing original insights into Latin American environmental and development politics.

Europeans and Americans tend to hold the opinion that democracy is a uniquely Western inheritance, but in The Common Cause, Leela Gandhi recovers stories of an alternate version, describing a transnational history of democracy in the first half of the twentieth century through the lens of ethics in the broad sense of disciplined self-fashioning.

This book explores the everyday practices of border control and implementation of mobility policy in the European Schengen area by analyzing consular visas services on the edges of the territory.

This book offers a comprehensive analysis of economic crimes and market irregularities, including matters of trickery, illicit trade, parallel economy, economies of violence and criminalisation of the poor in neoliberal Africa.