Comparative politics

Many believe the solution to ongoing crises in the news industry--including profound financial instability and public distrust--is for journalists to improve their relationship with their audiences.

In der politikwissenschaftlichen Forschung ist die machtstiftende Rolle, die öffentliche Diskurse im Durchsetzungsprozess politischer Agenden spielen, in den letzten Jahren zunehmend aufgewertet worden.

Kathrin Zippel explores the globalization and diffusion of the concept of sexual harassment from the US to Europe.

This 2005 book offers an assessment of the impact of women''s movements on public policy.

The global financial crisis of 2007-8 did not offer the political and economic opportunities to the left that many thought it would.

This book details how contentious politics that took place in three communal villages of Mexico alternately reproduced and reshaped inequality.

This book develops new perspectives on the cultural politics of climate change and its implications for responding to this challenge.

This book explores the relationship of natural and artificial intelligence in our rapidly evolving world.

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How can we know a country, such as the United States or China, is revisionist, that is, whether it intends to upset the international order?

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In February of 2011, Libyan citizens rebelled against Muammar Qaddafi and quickly unseated him.

Bringing together historians, political scientists, and literary analysts, this volume shows how biographical narratives can shed light on alternative, little known or under-researched aspects of state power in African politics.

The Handbook of Scottish Politics provides a detailed overview of politics in Scotland, looking at areas such as elections and electoral behaviour, public policy, political parties, and Scotland's relationship with the EU and the wider world.

This book brings together African and European experts from a variety of disciplines to examine the origins and current state of the East African Community (EAC).

In The Ethics of Influence, Cass R.

​Die technikvermittelte Kommunikation wird immer wichtiger.

This book investigates the ways in which people in the Lake Chad region that divides Nigeria, Niger, Chad, and Cameroon deal with the crises of violence, jihadism, drought, and climate change that continue to afflict the area.

Marking a constructivist turn in Africa-China scholarship, this book explores African constructions of China.

This book examines the role of knowledge in policy, showing how policymakers use research to establish authority in contentious areas of policy.

Representation in Congress presents a theory of representation in the US Congress that is also applicable to many other legislatures.

Across the globe, more powers are being devolved to local and regional levels of government.

Legislatures are political bodies essential to democracy and the rule of law.

Annette Ranko analyses the Muslim Brotherhood's challenging of the Mubarak regime and the ensuing struggle between the two from 1981 to 2011.

Originally published in 1968, this book is of unique value because it provides first-hand information on Nigerian government and administration in action during the 2nd half of the 20th Century.

As bearers of their own emancipation, the political agency of the subaltern classes is a vexed question, a time-honoured one at that.

First published in 1981, Libya: The Experience of Oil provides a comprehensive overview of Libya' s socio-economic development since the reform of 1961.

Transnational Histories of Southern Africa's Liberation Movements offers new perspectives on southern Africa's wars of national liberation, drawing on extensive oral historical and archival research.

The European Union currently finds itself in the midst of its most profound crises since its creation.

This book focuses on the indicators of fragility and the resilience of state-led interventions to address them in sub-Saharan Africa.

Provides guidelines for assessing the sustainability of urban systems including theory, methods and case studies.

This book analyses prime ministerial leadership in Britain and Japan since 1980.

Langan reclaims neo-colonialism as an analytical force for making sense of the failure of 'development' strategies in many African states in an era of free market globalisation.

This book provides a comparative, neo-institutionalist approach to the different factors impacting state adoption of-or refusal to adopt-same-sex marriage laws.

Manufacturing Possibilities examines adjustment dynamics in the steel, automobile and machinery industries in Germany, the U.

This book investigates how monuments have been used in Africa as tools of oppression and dominance, from the colonial period up to the present day.

A global approach to developing a theory of radicalism, drawing on a series of striking case studies by leading scholars.

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

This volume examines the trends and patterns of journalists' harassment in Africa and assesses the policy interventions and protection mechanisms that are put into place in the region.

This book presents a systematic collation of the regional and global dimensions of the leadership role of BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa).

This book presents the first full and systematic account of Iran's nuclear program from 1979 to 2015.