Comparative politics

Using historical process tracing, this book examines state interaction with religious elites, institutions, and attachments in Egypt, Greece, and Turkey.

Examines the effect of prescribed multilingualism as expressed by women writers in colonial contexts What does it mean to be an heir, as a woman writer, to colonial and postcolonial cultures in which European language has become so thoroughly ingrained?

For the past thirty years scholars have debated the role of political parties in fiscal, monetary, and social welfare policies.

In this compelling critique Rob Wilson explores the creation of the "e;Pacific Rim"e; in the American imagination and how the concept has been variously adapted and resisted in Hawai'i, the Pacific Islands, New Zealand, and Australia.

"e;Good governance and Coalition Politics"e; is a tale of two coalition governments of Jammu and Kashmir -(PDP-Congress(2002-2008) and NC-Congress ( 2008-2014)- prefaced by concept and contours of Good Governance in historical and philosophical contexts.

This book shows that escalating climate destruction today is not the product of public indifference, but of the blocked democratic freedoms of peoples across the world to resist unwanted degrees of capitalist interference with their ecological fate or capacity to change the course of ecological disaster.

State crackdowns on drug cartels often backfire, producing entrenched ''cartel-state conflict''; deterrence approaches have curbed violence but proven fragile.

Power-sharing serves as a popular conflict resolution device at war's end.

Der Band bietet eine Einführung in das politische System des Landes Brandenburg seit 1990.

This handbook provides an authoritative multidisciplinary overview of contemporary African international migration.

Explains how economic development leads to democracy by exploring how authoritarian governments manipulate the agricultural sector.

Adopted in 2007, the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples establishes self-determination--including free, prior, and informed consent--as a foundational right and principle.

National-level elections receive more attention from scholars and the media than elections at other levels, even though in many European countries the importance of both regional and European levels of government has grown in recent years.

The Euro crisis catapulted the EU into its most serious political crisis since its inception, leaving it torn between opposing demands for more sovereignty and solidarity.

This book develops a novel argument about how government revenues of all kinds affect political regimes and their leaders.

Even before the global economic crisis of 2007-2009, the logic of discipline was under assault.

This book is the first to systematically document and analyze the atrocities surrounding the Cultural Revolution in China.

Southeast Asia is a vast, populous and diverse region.

This book presents a theory to account for the different strategies pursued by rebel groups in civil war.

This book pursues a comparative and interdisciplinary approach to assess presidential impeachments in Latin America.

Examines the origins of mass killing by analyzing and comparing multiple forms of political extremism.

This book is the first in-depth comparative study of Scottish devolution and the first to analyse the impact of the European dimension.

Decolonisation after Democracy addresses the provocative idea that we need to rid higher education of lingering forms of colonial knowledge.

Dieses Buch ist aus einem Projekt am Institut für Friedensforschung und Sich- heitspolitik an der Universität Hamburg (IFSH) hervorgegangen, das von 2003 bis 2006 von der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) sowie der Wiss- schaftsförderung der Universität Hamburg finanziell unterstützt wurde.

The first examination of the impact of reforms intended to promote government transparency and increase public participation in China.

This book provides a range of essays on aspects of the British Conservative Party from the late 19th century to the present day.

This book introduces readers to the rich and fascinating history of West Africa, stretching all the way back to the stone age, and right up to the modern day.

This book addresses some of the most pressing questions of our time: Is democracy threatened by globalisation?

Establishes links between lack of societal peace, structural causes of human suffering, recurrent patterns of political violence and forced migration in the Global South.

Examines how emotions caused by economic crises inflame racial, ethnic, and regional tensions, consequently promoting populism, extremism, and conspiracy theories.

The post-cold war era has seen an unmistakable trend toward the proliferation of violent non-state groups-variously labeled terrorists, rebels, paramilitaries, gangs, and criminals-near borders in unstable regions especially.

​In fast allen liberalen Demokratien des Westens sind vor dem Hintergrund der Globalisierung zwei komplementäre Entwicklungen zu beobachten: zum einen eine zunehmende Skepsis der Bürgerinnen und Bürger gegenüber den repräsentativen Institutionen und Akteuren, zum anderen zunehmende Ansprüche nach direkter Beteiligung an Entscheidungsprozessen.

The New Kremlinology is the first in-depth examination of the development of regime personalization in Russia.

Considerably expanded to include the impact of the 2003 war in Iraq and its aftermath, this new edition of Waging Peace provides a unique insight into the critical debate on the future of peace in the Middle East.

Focusing on social work and social service delivery, this book examines the social policies and programmes designed to address different societal issues and concerns across India and China.

Wie verfahren demokratische Verfassungsstaaten mit politischen Extremisten, die offen oder verdeckt eine diktatorische Ordnung anstreben, sich dabei jedoch zunächst keiner physischen Gewalt bedienen?

Negotiating Corruption demands that we think again about corruption in Africa.

This book offers a critical account of studies of local immigration policy and a relational approach to explain its emergence, variation, and effects in a context of interdependence and globalization.

The second edition of this introductory textbook on foreign policy analysis focuses on the key explanatory factors that underlie the foreign policies of states and other actors to show how theory can illuminate practice.

The period since the 1980s has seen sustained pressure on Africa's political elite to anchor the continent's development strategies in neoliberalism in exchange for vitally needed development assistance.

This book provides an overview of governance and development in the Mesoamerican Region (MAR), the design and scope of the Plan Puebla Panama (PPP), its relationship to pre-existing regional organisms and its transformation into Proyecto Mesoamerica.

Global financial markets have transformed over the past three decades - with potentially dangerous results.

Building on recent theories of interactive governance and political leadership, Interactive Political Leadership develops a concept of interactive political leadership and a theoretical framework for studying the role of elected politicians in the age of governance.

The book explains why some national and state governments in the developing world introduce reforms to make local governance more democratic while others do not.