Comparative politics

This book explores pacted transitions to democracy, in which former autocrats are granted amnesty in exchange for allowing free elections.

A new generation of political science scholars who are comfortable employing intersectional analysis are emerging and their work hones in directly on the complexity of politics, governance and policy making in an increasingly small, technologically connected, ideologically nuanced, global Public Square.

Constructivist Theories of Ethnic Politics rebuilds theories of the relationship between ethnicity, politics and economics on a "e;constructivist"e; foundation, according to which ethnic identities can change over time, often in response to the very phenomena they are used to explain.

Combines data from Kenya and India to show how party instability can impact elites'' decisions to organize party violence.

This book provides an appreciation of the work of renowned scholar Richard Rose.

How is the ''unwritten Constitution'' amended?

This book critically examines the significance of National Human Rights Institutions.

As Asian countries emerge as global economic powers, many undergo fundamental political transformations.

This study explores the dynamic relationship between science, numbers and politics.

Diese Studie untersucht die dynamische Beziehung zwischen Wissenschaft, Zahlen und Politik.

This book is based on a unique data set and assesses in comparative terms the public management reforms in the five Nordic countries: Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden.

This book is a critical reading of contemporary interventionism, exploring how interventions shape the course of conflicts and reconciliation processes in Somalia.

Der Band setzt sich mit den Krisen und Transformationsherausforderungen unserer Zeit, deren Management und der demokratischen Gestaltung mutiger Zukunftsvisionen auseinander.

This book presents new data to give an overview of shadow economies from OECD countries and propose solutions to prevent illicit work.

Can open society survive?

In Constructing Policy Change, Linda A.

Examines the major pitfalls facing scientific advisers to governments, and shows how institutions have tried to overcome them.

Africa has undergone significant political, economic, and social change since the first edition of this book was published in early 1988.

This book explores how politicians and individuals use state and non-state legal systems to achieve political goals in Chechnya.

This edited volume analyzes mistakes in different areas of international relations including the realms of security, foreign policy, finance, health, development, environmental policy and migration.

This book shows how one high-profile hybrid regime manages political competition in the workplace and in the streets in Russia.

Regional integration was identified many years ago as being critical to Africa's quest to overcome its colonially induced underdevelopment.

KatharinaCrepaz investigates how two-dimensional ('top-down' and 'bottom-up')Europeanization processes affect minority communities by using acomparative approach, encompassing cases from both old"e;(pre-2004) and new"e; EU member-states.

An exhaustively researched account of late-Mao power strategy and its consequences on elite dynamics in subsequent decades, including the rise of Xi.

Western democracy is being questioned around the world.

This book develops a comparative study on violence in Jamaica, El Salvador, and Belize based on a theoretical approach, extensive field research, and in-depth empirical research.

This book examines the process of presidentialisation of political parties in the Western Balkans.

The Robust Federation offers the first holistic and comprehensive approach to the study of federalism.

This is the first comparative study of the distinctive literatures and cultures that have developed in Wales, Scotland, England and Northern Ireland since political devolution in the late 1990s, especially surrounding Brexit.

This book provides a tour through a novel theoretical approach to understanding the political economy of authoritarianism and the international market for capital investment.

This book is a critical resource for understanding the relationship between gender, social policy and women's activism in Latin America, with specific reference to Chile.

This book shows that constitutional courts exercise direct and indirect power on political branches through decision-making.

This timely study analyzes social, economic, political, provider, and patient factors shaping collective patient involvement in European health care from the postwar period to the present day.

Contrary to other world regions, political regimes in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) remain largely authoritarian.

The decades-long resilience of Middle Eastern regimes meant that few anticipated the 2011 Arab Spring.

This book proposes a radical recasting of the relationship between just war thinking and realism.

The question if states should intervene in massive humanitarian emergencies without a legal right to do so, is still object of an important debate in the theory and practice of international relations.

Toha explains why ethnic groups engage in violence during political transition, and why and how this violence eventually declines.

This book explores the role of political factors in the occurrence of currency crises, using an eclectic approach that blends case studies, a rigorous theoretical discussion, and econometric analysis.