Comparative politics

When Mirta M.

The promise of America has always been creative potential: enterprise, industry, optimism, idealism, and hope.

From the earliest meetings of the Civil Rights Movement to offering the benediction for the first African American President of the United States, Rev.

In these times many people feel that their cherished religious values are held hostage by the forces of secularization and that, as a consequence, society is morally bankrupt.

More and more young adults have opted out of Christianity and the church.

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Das Handbuch präsentiert den „state of the art“ zu den Themen Armut und soziale Ausgrenzung.

A hard-hitting, ruthlessly honest political biography of Sen.

September 11, 2001 saw the deadliest attack ever launched on American soil, leaving us asking questions such as: Why did God permit such a thing to happen?

Brainwashed is the explosive expose of the leftist agenda at work in today's colleges, revealed by firebrand Ben Shapiro-syndicated columnist, podcaster, radio show host, and one of today's most exciting conservative voices-who's been on the front lines of the battle for America's young minds.

The Washington Times columnist shares a revealing insider's view of Washington, DC: "e;Whether you are a Democrat of a Republican, you will love this book.

A groundbreaking history of the wars of the Ottoman Expansion, a truly global conflagration that crisscrossed three continents and ultimately defined the borders and future of modern Europe.

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Christian Political Ethics brings together leading Christian scholars of diverse theological and ethical perspectives--Catholic, Lutheran, Calvinist, and Anabaptist--to address fundamental questions of state and civil society, international law and relations, the role of the nation, and issues of violence and its containment.

Events in Russia since the late 1980s have created a rare opportunity to watch the birth of democratic institutions close at hand.

Now with a new afterword from the author.

This book offers a comprehensive analysis of economic crimes and market irregularities, including matters of trickery, illicit trade, parallel economy, economies of violence and criminalisation of the poor in neoliberal Africa.

The United States remains a deeply religious country and religion plays an inextricably critical role in American politics.

Whether you are a politician caught carrying on with an intern or a minister photographed with a prostitute, discovery does not necessarily spell the end of your public career.

The delegates to the 1787 Constitutional Convention blocked the establishment of Christianity as a national religion.

Archbishop Rowan Williams is the most gifted Anglican priest of his generation.

Archbishop Rowan Williams is the most gifted Anglican priest of his generation.

Gender, Genocide, Gaza and the Book of Esther bridges the gap between gendered and geopolitical analyses by interrogating both the sexual and ethnic violence embedded in the Book of Esther.

Scholars have long argued over whether the 1648 Peace of Westphalia, which ended more than a century of religious conflict arising from the Protestant Reformations, inaugurated the modern sovereign-state system.

"e;Quality of governance: Values and violations arrives at a time when governance faces new and often dire challenges and as traditional democratic values strain against the rise of authoritarian forms of populism and anti-government sentiment.

This book offers a brief, broad, comparative study of ethnic politics that places ethnic conflict within the context of particular political systems.

In this book, Zirakzadeh examines different types of social movements, from the Greens in Germany to the Shining Path in Peru.

Del Sarto argues that internal disputes over national identity limit the ability of states to participate in regional forums.

One of the most important issues in comparative politics is the relationship between the state and society and the implications of different relationships for long-term social and economic development.

Providing an in-depth comparative study of democracy formation, Gellar traces Senegal's movement from a pre-colonial aristocratic order towards a modern democratic political order.

Understanding and responding to corruption is a worldwide challenge.

The rise and decline of great powers remains a fascinating topic of vigorous debate.

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

This study investigates the extent to which personal welfare state experiences affect general political orientations and attitudes.

Altinay examines how the myth that the military is central to Turkey's national identity was created, perpetuated, and acts to shape politics.

Using election returns, public opinion surveys, and legislative roll-call data from many mixed systems in every world region, the authors show that contamination systematically affects party strategy, voting behaviour, legislative cohesion and overall structure of partisan competition.

This book examines conflict resolution efforts in Latin America by the Organization of American States (OAS) over the past fifty years by exploring the relationship of the United States with other member states within the context of the OAS.

Contributing to the literature on democratic transitions and with a focus on institutional bargaining, in this fascinating book the Hungarian case is contrasted with those of Poland, South Africa and China to explore the contours of what bargaining strategies affect outcomes.

Addressing decision-making over interstate disputes and the democratic peace thesis, Choi and James build an interactive foreign policy decision-making model with a special emphasis on civil-military relations, conscription, diplomatic channels and media openness.

A telling analysis of the pre-war media debate around the globe which set the stage for the 2003 Iraq war.

This book examines the impact of globalization upon Canada, Mexico and the United States.

The conventional wisdom that political and economic actors in colonial countries are passive and reactive is undermined by Goldberg's close examination of the decisions and calculations of leading political and economic actors.

This is the first sustained comparative examination of the importance of media attention on the provision of economic assistance, suggesting that the news media is an important medium for policy makers to gauge potential domestic political pressures and thus the need to be responsive and even anticipatory in addressing problems real or perceived.

This volume provides a timely and revealing account of women's constitutional strategies and struggles.

This book provides a general overview of accountability, a key concept in modern democratic governance.

Updated throughout to cover the period of Chirac/Jospin cohabitation and the implications of Chirac's success in the dramatic 2002 presidential and parliamentary elections, the third edition of this popular and widely-used text provides a clear and comprehensive account of the contemporary French political system.

Ingrid van Biezen provides a comprehensive comparative analysis of party formation and organizational development in recently established democracies.

Populism has become a favourite catchword for mass media and politicians faced with the challenge of protest parties or movements.

As the referendum becomes a more regular component of decision making, it leaves few, if any, institutions, processes and values of democracy untouched.

Longlisted for the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year AwardA novel economic interpretation of how religions have become so powerful in the modern worldReligion in the twenty-first century is alive and well across the world, despite its apparent decline in North America and parts of Europe.