Comparative politics

This book explores relations between states in the Africa-European Union in view of the African Continental Free Trade Area, both at a regional level and as a series of informal processes of socioeconomic and political interactions between state and non-state actors.

This book explores the reasons behind the many failed attempts to build stable democracies in Latin America.

From 1978-1996 Holocaust denial emerged as a major concern for the liberal democracies of Europe and North America.

This book introduces a new perspective on risk seeking behaviour, developing a framework based on various cognitive theories, and applying it to the specific case-study of Turkey's foreign policy toward Syria.

Among the violent acts perpetrated by radical Islamist groups in Europe, the Charlie Hebdo massacre in Paris has been one of those that has arguably challenged established categories of public debate the most.

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

In this incisive look at early modern views of party politics, Harvey C.

An ethnographic study of Indian democracy that shows how agrarian life creates values of citizenship and active engagement that are essential for the cultivation of democracy.

This book is about the effect of diversity on the development of democracy.

An overview of the forms of agency in urban climate politics, discussing their strengths, limitations, and the power dynamics between them.

Focusing on the distinct identities and diverse lived experiences of women in a wide range of countries and cultures, this book provides a comprehensive overview of women in local, regional, and national politics around the world.

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.

This book investigates how culture reflects change in Zimbabwe, focusing predominantly on Mnangagwa's 2017 coup, but also uncovering deeper roots for how renewal and transition are conceived in the country.

Modern capitalism, incorporating creative destruction, creates economic losers and winners.

There are few movements more firmly associated with civil disobedience than the Civil Rights Movement.

Demonstrating how political culture facilitates or distorts political preferences and political outcomes, this book explores how the historical development of social conditions and the current social structures shape understandings and constrain individual and collective actions within the Nigerian political system.

This book explores the dynamics of electoral system choice and raises questions about the democratic credentials of the early processes of democratization.

This book documents how global advocacy on behalf of refugees has failed, and proposes a new strategy using social entrepreneurship.

We live a world in which the number of prisons is growing and experiences of incarceration are increasingly widespread.

Among the violent acts perpetrated by radical Islamist groups in Europe, the Charlie Hebdo massacre in Paris has been one of those that has arguably challenged established categories of public debate the most.

Karsten Schmitz untersucht systematisch die Mehrheitsbildung im Europäischen Parlament in der sechsten Legislaturperiode im Mitentscheidungsverfahren, dem heutigen ordentlichen Gesetzgebungsverfahren.

This book discusses the current tendencies in women's representation and their role in politics in Latin American countries from three different perspectives.

On October 1, 2019, the People's Republic of China (PRC) will celebrate the 70th anniversary of its founding.

Erst mit der Französischen Revolution hat sich gegen radikal-liberale Tendenzen des Denkens eine Ideologie des Konservatismus herausgebildet.

This volume provides a comprehensive survey of the contemporary study of Islamic law and a critical analysis of its deficiencies.

How should constitutional design respond to the opportunities and challenges raised by ethnic, linguistic, religious, and cultural differences, and do so in ways that promote democracy, social justice, peace and stability?

This book is the first systematic comparative analysis explaining why similar postcommunist states vary in their receptivity to refugees.

A broad-ranging introduction to the provision, funding and governance of health care across a variety of systems.

Noch einmal?

This book examines the effects of ethnicity on polity politics in ten African countries.

This book examines how the Chinese Communist Party''s management of local officials perpetuates a decentralized authoritarian regime.

In light of the growing support for populist political actors, this book examines political party behavior and political positions towards the integration process in the European Union.

This book analyzes the social legitimacy deficit of the European Parliament (EP) in the United Kingdom and Greece.

The Good Friday Agreement is widely celebrated as a political success story, one that has brought peace to a region that was once synonymous around the globe with political violence.

Though many of the longest and most devastating internal armed conflicts have been fought within the boundaries of democratic states, these countries employ some of the highest numbers of human rights prosecutions.

Places social movements in the broader arena of contentious politics in relation to states, political parties and other actors.

This book shows the remarkable diversification in Turkey's international political economy landscape in the 2000s: its domestic political-economy framework, instrumental alternatives and geographic outreach.

This book unpacks the political economy of government subsidised housing programmes in South Africa.

This book provides new evidence on teachers unions and their political activities across nations, and offers a foundation for a comparative politics of education.

Following a dialogic and interdisciplinary approach, this book highlights changes in the concept and action of disobedience, presenting a theoretical framework and applied case studies.

A guide to social enterprise law and policy that shows how companies are evolving to create capitalism with a conscience.

Who governs Britain?

This book outlines evidence-based and data-driven strategies for combating grand corruption in Africa.

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A seminal text in European studies, which addresses issues of research design and causal analysis.

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.