Comparative politics

This book analyzes the dynamics of party building and explores the attitudes, skills and experiences of radical right activists in eleven countries.

The fundamental cause of many of the global challenges we are currently facing is our disconnection from ourselves, our fellow humans, other beings, and our planet.

The peaceful end of apartheid in South Africa was a monumental event in late twentieth century history.

This book examines notions of procedural fairness applicable to truth commissions.

An empirically rich and conceptually informed study of the politics of transitional justice in post-communist Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.

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

Analyzes Muslim countries'' contemporary problems, particularly violence, authoritarianism, and underdevelopment, comparing their historical levels of development with Western Europe.

This book, available in paperback for the first time, offers a new and innovative way of looking at Irish foreign policy, linking its development with changes in Irish national identity.

This book provides an important overview of key criminology and criminal justice concerns in Japan.

China and India have huge potential to exert global influence due to their geography, population size and material resources.

Providing an empirically grounded perspective on policy disagreements, Éric Montpetit highlights significant distortions in the media coverage of policy-making.

It has long been assumed that the historical legacy of Soviet Communism would have an important effect on post-communist states.

With a focus on Indonesia, this book studies representation to explain why public satisfaction with democracy may increase despite democratic backsliding.

This book investigates whether democracy reduces state repression.

In a political environment characterized by intense urban-rural polarization and growing hostility between cities and state legislatures, When Cities Lobby explores how local officials use lobbyists to compete for power in state politics.

Hungary was once a frontrunner of democratization.

It has been shown time and again that even though all citizens may be accorded equal standing in the constitution of a liberal democracy, such a legal provision hardly guarantees state protections against discrimination and political exclusion.

Originally published in 1969 and as a second edition in 1976, this book gives a general account of the major Yoruba kingdoms and provides a synthesis of Yoruba and Igbomina history, culture and archaeology.

Analyzes how increases in international trade, finance, and production have altered voter decisions, political party positions, and the issues that parties focus on in postindustrial democracies.

This book examines how election news reporting has changed over the last half century in Ireland by means of a unique dataset involving 25m words from newspapers as well as radio and television coverage.

"e;Euchner's carefully researched and cogently argued study of morality politics in Europe adds an outstanding piece of research to the ever growing literature on religion and politics.

This best-selling textbook continues to lead the way in providing an approachable and wide-ranging introduction to politics.

This book argues that the relationship between political parties, civil service and party insider groups in Bulgaria is oligarchic.

This book offers a general introduction to and analysis of the history, theory and public policy of Australian local government systems.

What is the role of legislatures in the budget process?

​Julia Bar untersucht die Korrelation zwischen der kooperationsverhindernden Politikformulierung der Anrainerstaaten hinsichtlich der Wassernutzung der internationalen Flusssysteme Amu Darja/Syr Darja und Tigris/Euphrat einerseits und dem existierenden regionalen Konfliktkonglomerat andererseits.

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.

A rigorously argued and lively interpretation of the transformation of the Soviet system, the disintegration of the Soviet state, the end of the Cold War, and the role of Mikhail Gorbachev.

In this comparative, historical survey of three East Asian countries, Jong-sung You explores how inequality hinders democratic control of corruption.

This book explores the transformation of the Japanese state in response to the challenges of governance by focusing on two case studies: ICT regulation and antimonopoly regulation after the 1980s, which experienced a disjuncture and significant transformation within the period with approaches embracing competition.

This book examines similarities and differences in 31 European governments' responses to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Asks why some dissident movements adopt nonviolent strategies of resistance, while others choose to take up arms.

Politics and Government in South Africa introduces readers to all aspects of government and politics in South Africa, from local, to provincial, national, and on to international considerations.

This comprehensive but accessible text provides students with a systematic introduction to the comparative political study of the leading nations of South Asia: India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Nepal.

This book investigates the digital transformation of aid as a form of humanitarian extractivism.

Scotland's future in the Union is in question.

The book offers a nuanced and innovative analyses of the emergence of an inclusive secular democratic state paradigm which incorporates the sacred within the framework of secular democracy in the Muslim World.

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?

This book addresses the breakdown of failed democratic systems in Latin America and the Caribbean.

This book presents a unique analysis of the learning derived from East-West contacts in social work and reflects on the discipline's inalienable trans-national dimensions, of high actuality in the face of the re-emergence of nationalisms.

This edited collection uses democratic forums to study what people want from the welfare state in five European countries.

Provides a new framework for understanding how and why politicians distribute patronage to win elections using Southeast Asian case studies.

Exploring the interlinkages of political parties, religiosity, and women's leadership and nominations to public office, this book argues that as party religiosity increases, women's chances of assuming leadership positions fall.

This book argues that the unresolved stateness in the republics of the former Yugoslavia played a key role in determining the course and dynamics of their turbulent democratic transition.

This book assesses the quality of democracy through the study of organized interests in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) since the collapse of communism in 1989 up to 2017.