Comparative politics

Across the world, governments design and implement policies with the explicit goal of promoting social justice.

This edited collection addresses a growing concern in Europe and the United States about the future of the European Union, democratic institutions, and democracy itself.

Institutionalization has become a paramount concept to compare party systems in regions spanned by the third wave of democratization.

This book offers a critical and insightful study of various doctoral programs in law, focusing on the English-speaking world.

Exploring the geopolitics of the Indo-Pacific region, a major hub of global economic/commercial, military, diplomatic and cultural activities in the 21st century, this textbook provides students with an introduction to the existing debates, frameworks and issues surrounding the Indo-Pacific.

"e;Dennis shows, lucidly and vividly, how white South Carolinians and Natives struggled with each other through the Revolutionary era .

This book is designed as a timely analysis of the rise of post-modern conservatism in many Western countries across the globe.

A comprehensive treatment of contemporary surveillance technologies and regulatory strategies with an emphasis on policing and national security.

This book examines human rights in the Israeli domestic arena by analyzing the politics and strategies of defending human rights.

This book examines a large-scale land acquisition project for rice production in Ghana's Volta Region, which has been purported by some to be a social and ecological showcase of a company entering a "e;community-private partnership"e; with affected communities.

Scholars analyze why and how the United States pulled away from its democratic allies following the Cold War.

Many of Tony Blair's policy decisions in the Israeli-Palestinian arena were controversial and politically costly.

This book analyses the use and abuse of social welfare as a means of border control for asylum seekers and refugees in Australia.

This is a book about redistribution and inequality in political unions.

The financial crisis that erupted in 2007 has brought the issues of the size, risk, and regulation of banks to the attention of a wide audience.

This volume is the first to offer a comparative analysis of religion in militaries worldwide.

This book analyses the evolving engagement of the United States and Cuba, along with the impact of this relationship on Cuba-CARICOM relations and the Caribbean.

A comprehensive analysis of how globalization has altered political conflict, giving a fresh perspective on the contemporary rise of populism.

This book provides a comparative, interdisciplinary analysis of the invocation and interaction of religious and national assertions in sacralizing local and global politics.

This book examines Soviet Foreign Policy towards East Germany in the late 1980s.

This book models the trade-off that rulers of weak, ethnically-divided states face between coups and civil war.

Established in 2002, the Euro is now the currency of 17 countries used by over 335 million people daily.

The first comprehensive analysis of the human rights of refugees under international law.

Political methodology has changed dramatically over the past thirty years, and many new methods and techniques have been developed.

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

Provides a holistic and cross-disciplinary approach to understanding why a regional democratic transition did not occur after the Arab Spring protests.

What are the costs of the Chinese regime's fixation on quelling dissent in the name of political order, or "e;stability?

In Challenging Inequality in South Africa: Transitional Compasses leading scholars of South Africa explore creative possibilities to challenge structures of economic, social and political power that produce inequality.

This book examines the rise of the modern state through six historical case studies of state formation.

Studies the design of health systems in Asia and assesses their efforts to achieve and sustain universal health care.

This timely book presents fresh, forward-looking analyses of key regions across the globe, organized around power transition theory.

This edited volume provides a critical account of the theories and policies that have informed work in the field of early childhood and explores how they have operated in practice.

The first cross-regional study to show that populism can have both positive and negative effects on democracy.

Labor Rights and Multinational Production explores the relationship between workers'' rights and economic globalization in developing countries.

This volume describes and analyzes the proliferation of new mechanisms for participation in Latin American democracies and considers the relationship between direct participation and the consolidation of representative institutions based on more traditional electoral conceptions of democracy.

This book leaves no stone unturned in its comprehensive examination of the complex challenges surrounding academic freedom in Africa.

The UK is said to have been one of the most prolific reformers of its public administration.

Scholars across disciplines on both sides of the Atlantic have recently begun to open up, as never before, the scholarly study of race and racism in France.

This book argues that Islam's role in state nationalism is the best predictor of the Islamization of government using two most different cases: Turkey, which was an aggressively secular country until recently, and Pakistan, a country that is synonymous with Islamization.

It humanizes high-level debates over indicators and data in development aid, showing how they are used to make life-or-death decisions.

This book investigates the writings of German intellectual historian and philosopher Hans Blumenberg.

We know very little about political dynamics in states that have just experienced an internal war, despite the increasing need to deal with such states in the post-Cold War world.

The Evolution of the Trade Regime offers a comprehensive political-economic history of the development of the world's multilateral trade institutions, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and its successor, the World Trade Organization (WTO).

Africa has made notable progress in its nascent democracy but with uneven performance across countries.

Kenya's 2007 General Election results announcement precipitated the worst ethnic conflict in the country's history; 1,133 people were killed, while 600,000 were internally displaced.