Comparative politics

This edited volume presents a detailed account of the dynamics of socioeconomic contention in Egypt and Tunisia since 2011.

Colonial rule shaped the map of Africa like no other event in history.

Political parties are essential for the functioning of parliamentary democracy but how have parties adapted to the challenges created by the growth of a new layer of political decision-making at the supranational level, i.

How societies can preserve democracy with a human-directed social contractThe recent rise of populist movements, especially in Western democracies, has prompted considerable thoughtful analysis.

This book examines the everyday lives of ordinary Zimbabweans in the context of national crises in post-2000 Zimbabwe.

Based on the example of the Polish delegation to the European Parliament, the book examines the factors influencing the cohesion and stability of EP national delegations.

By revealing the contextual conditions which promote or hinder democratic development, Comparative Politics shows how democracy may not be the best institutional arrangement given a country's unique set of historical, economic, social, cultural and international circumstances.

The must-read book to help you make sense of the world: perfect for fans of Prisoners of Geography, How the World Made the West and Empireland 'Well-informed and very valuable' - International AffairsDonald Trump has been re-elected.

This book explores the impact of transnational migration on the views, feelings, and practices of home among migrants.

The only textbook to provide a complete introduction to post-1989 Central and Southeast European politics, this dynamic volume provides a comprehensive account of the collapse of communism and the massive transformation that the region has witnessed.

This Oxford Handbook ambitiously seeks to lay the groundwork for the relatively new field of comparative foreign relations law.

Understanding the governance of nations is a key challenge in contemporaneous political economy.

Notwithstanding its contemporary critics, political representation remains at the core of democratic politics.

Originally published in 1981, this book took a position which was unpopular within the academic establishment at the time of its publication.

This volume re-centres African women scholars in the discourse on African women and peacebuilding, combining theoretical reflections with case studies in a range of African countries.

Comparative Politics is a series for researchers, teachers, and students of political science that deals with contemporary government and politics.

This edited collection uses democratic forums to study what people want from the welfare state in five European countries.

Originally published in 1987, South Africa in Crisis documents the perceptions and policies of all the major interest groups in South Africa during the 1980s when the long-running struggle for ultimate political power in South Africa entered a new phase.

This book explores the conditions under which electoral competition contributes to democratic development in the Russian Federation.

There is a consensus throughout much of the western world that the public sector is in urgent need of repair.

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Since the 1960s, the number of immigrants living in liberal democracies has been steadily rising.

Reflections on the 2019 South African General Elections is a critical reflection on the key lessons of Elections 2019 in South Africa, focusing on the future of the country's electoral democracy.

Xi Chen explores the dramatic rise in, and routinization of, social protests in China since the early 1990s.

This comparative law book aims at formulating a new analytical approach to constitutional comparisons, assuming as a starting point the different legal perspectives implied in the (Sunni) Islamic outlook on the juridical phenomena and the Western concept of law, with particular reference to constitutionalism.

The first book in English on the law and politics of federalism and decentralization in the MENA region.

This volume examines the changing role of Marian devotion in politics, public life, and popular culture in Western Europe and America during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

This book presents economic research on global paradigm shifts after the COVID-19 crisis.

Launches a new research agenda on one of the most common but overlooked features of the democratization experience worldwide: authoritarian successor parties.

This book brings together recent research on the sociopolitical history of Latin American statistics from the nineteenth to the first half of the twentieth century.

This book shows how political parties in Latin America can survive and even revive after electoral crises.

State building is an ongoing process that first defines legitimate citizenship and then generates citizens.

This is the story of how democracy became entrenched in the world''s largest Muslim-majority country.

Explores why indigenous movements have recently won elections for the first time in the history of Latin America.

This book provides a fresh perspective on the debate over the role of the state in East Asia's development history.

With Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) the European Union is embarked on a major historic political project of formidable technical complexity.

This book reexamines the politics of austerity during the euro crisis, challenging conventional narratives of austerity as either an inevitable economic remedy or an external imposition.

Some social movements bring in quick, radical political and social changes while others get incorporated into existing systems or subjected to harsh repression.

Organized in the mid-1970s as a means of communal protection against livestock rustling and general thievery in Peru's rugged northern mountains, the rondas campesinas (peasants who make the rounds) grew into an entire system of peasant justice and one of the most significant Andean social movements of the late twentieth century.

The EU''s crises have triggered a division between ''sovereignist'' and ''Europeanist'' forces.

This book examines the perception of Africa in the global system, tracing Africa's transition from a "e;problem"e; to be solved into an agent with a rising voice in the world.

This volume of pioneering essays brings together an impressive array of well-established and emerging historians from Europe and the United States whose common endeavor is to situate America's Civil War within the wider framework of global history.

Open inquiry and engagement with a diverse range of views are long-cherished and central tenets of higher education and are pivotal to innovation and knowledge creation.