Comparative politics

Dieser Band enthält die Vorträge, die im Frühjahrs- und Herbstsemester 2018 am Schweizerischen Institut für Auslandforschung gehalten wurden.

A systematic analysis of extraterritorial obligations and state responsibility for private actors under international refugee law.

Diving into an original and unusually positive case study from India, Patching Development shows how development programs can be designed to work.

This study focuses on the corporate governance initiatives, laws and regulations aimed at enhancing the effectiveness of boards of public entities in Zimbabwe.

This book examines how Rwandan elites within the government, private sector and civil society perceive the nation's political and economic relationship with the international community.

Shows that in a predatory regime localized property rights protection is possible due to elite cleavage within the regime.

1 Research Idea: History and Regional Diversity Post-socialist societies in Europe can be assigned to three "e;historical regions"e; (Sziicz 1990) corresponding to their path of historical development.

Why do some nations fail while others succeed?

Ethno-nationalism presents a multitude of challenges to the structure of the international political system and to the internal governance of states.

The Governor's Dilemma develops a general theory of indirect governance based on the tradeoff between governor control and intermediary competence; the empirical chapters apply that theory to a diverse range of cases encompassing both international relations and comparative politics.

This book explains why neoliberal economic ideas have not just survived, but thrived since the 1980s - taking Europe from boom to bust.

This book is a guide to claims about the proper role of government and markets in a global economy.

Money is essential to the functioning of electoral politics, yet regulating its appropriate use raises complex and controversial challenges in countries around the world.

This book examines the important role which civil society organisations in South Africa play in challenging poor corporate governance in state-owned enterprises and demanding better government accountability, transparency and citizen participation.

Die vorliegende Studie untersucht die Beständigkeit alter Strukturen im Pflegesektor und nimmt dabei die Rolle der Wohlfahrtsverbände in den Blick.

Is socialism dead since the fall of the Soviet Union?

The Oxford Handbook of Historical Institutionalism offers an authoritative and accessible state-of-the-art analysis of the historical institutionalism research tradition in Political Science.

China's increasing involvement in Africa is a controversial and hotly debated issue.

Still vivid in many Americans' memories are the 444 days of 1979 when Islamic militants held U.

In this book, Alec Stone Sweet and Jud Mathews focus on the law and politics of rights protection in democracies, and in human rights regimes in Europe, the Americas, and Africa.

As local media institutions collapse and news deserts sprout up across the country, the US is facing a profound journalism crisis.

Originally published in 1961, this book was the first comprehensive work on South African geography that also presented a balanced account of all facets of the economic life.

This book studies the cultural, societal, and ideological factors absent from popular discourse on Vladimir Putin's Russia, contesting the misleading mainstream assumption that Putin is the all-powerful sovereign of Russia.

This book is the first volume of aseries that aims at taking stock of the status of local democracy at the beginning of a new century.

Democracy, Agency, and the State aims to contribute to a comparatively informed theory of democracy.

In Authoritarian Containment, Marie-Eve Reny examines why local public security bureaus tolerate unregistered Protestant churches in urban China--an officially atheist country where religious practice is controlled by the state--when the central government considers them illegal.

This book presents a comparative study on access to public information in the context of the main legal orders worldwide(inter alia China,France,Germany,Japan,Russia,Sweden,United States).

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This book explains why different countries have had dramatically different experiences with subnational fiscal discipline.

Departing from the idea that political controversies are embedded in the very framework of European integration, this volume focuses on the relationship between politicisation and European democracy.

This book develops a theoretical understanding of how truth commissions achieve legitimacy and contribute to peace and stability.

This book investigates the role of the internet and social media in political processes in non-western and non-democratic contexts.

This volume features a comparative account of ethics in regulations across four Western democracies.

Beyond the Gatekeeper State explores the dynamic changes occurring within and between African states, and the international system since the turn of the century.

The book describes key socio-political reforms that helped shape post-apartheid South Africa's mental health system.

"e;Weak Institutions and the Governance Dilemma is especially important and welcome since it offers a very incisive analysis of the role of NGOs in transitional democracies and the effect of institutional setting on NGO effectiveness in representing citizen interests.

This book analyzes how reality television fuelled heated polemics over cultural authenticity, gender relations, and political participation in the Middle East.

This book explores smart grid from a social perspective, for advanced students, academic researchers, and energy professionals.

Rethinking the Roots of Terrorism seeks to explain why terrorism occurs.

Brings together chapters from more than a dozen leading methods scholars to revolutionize qualitative research design.

Originally published in 1976 Race and Suicide in South Africa synthesises the two dimensions of suicide: the personal and the social phenomenon.

Activated by injustice, members of over-policed communities lead the current movement for civil rights in the United States.