Comparative politics

Documents the diversity and dissensus of scholarship on the political resource curse.

First published in 1990, Politics in Modern Africa explores the impact of traditional loyalties ('tribalism') on political and economic problems in nine African states-Uganda, Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, Senegal, Guinea, Zaire, Angola, and Zimbabwe.

At a time when political mobilisation is a symptom of social dissatisfaction, young people's participation in political decision-making, practice and ideological change, make foregrounding and investigating their political practices a necessity.

How have regionalization processes across Europe impacted on policy convergence?

This book explores the question of why and under which conditions right-wing populist parties receive electoral support.

An interdisciplinary and international study addressing conflict of interest in different spheres and at different levels of governance.

Decentralization is referred to as a process of sharing of powers by the Central ruling groups with other groups, each having authority within a specific area or the State.

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.

This book is the first comprehensive analysis of the instrumental value of democracy in a comparative perspective.

This landmark study provides an integrated analysis of China''s unexpected economic boom of the past three decades.

This book explores the dynamics of health system decentralization and recentralization, investigating why and how the territorial organization of health systems changes or remains stable over time.

The Trouble with the Congo suggests a new explanation for international peacebuilding failures in civil wars.

This book examines how fashion intersects with political expression in the United States and across the globe.

This timely book presents fresh, forward-looking analyses of key regions across the globe, organized around power transition theory.

Adolph illustrates the policy differences between central banks run by former bankers relative to those run by bureaucrats.

Africa is well known for the production of national liberation movements (NLMs), stemming from a history of exploitation, colonisation and slavery.

Around the world, populism has weaponized anxieties over globalization and other forms of cultural, social, and economic change.

The book examines the way Russian presidents Yeltsin, Medvedev, and Putin have used their constitutional decree powers since the end of the Soviet regime.

In its first seven years, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) tripled trade and quintupled foreign investment among the U.

This book compares network governance practices and public service delivery in England and China.

This book compares the immigration policies of EU states and Asian countries-Germany, Poland, Estonia, Taiwan, China, South Korea, Japan, Vietnam,- and Thailand-analyses the policy strengths and weaknesses of various political actors in the regions and explores what can be learned from the experiences of different states.

This book offers new insight into why oil politics has a central role in global peace and conflict.

Originally published in 1967, reissued now with a new introduction, Africa in Search of Democracy in the author's words was 'a humble contribution to Africa's search for political wisdom whereby to avoid destruction'.

This book demonstrates how practices of direct and representative democracy interact under different institutional settings.

Why do people in some societies tend to follow rules and obey the laws more than those in other societies?

Biopolitics at 50 Years: Founding and Evolution explores the study of biology and politics through the prism of fifty years of experience presenting current research that illustrates the nature and evolution of biopolitics.

Democracy is not easy.

How are global crises responded and dealt with?

Institutionalization has become a paramount concept to compare party systems in regions spanned by the third wave of democratization.

This book examines the changes in the career experiences and profiles of 350 European prime ministers in 26 European democracies from 1945 to 2020.

American democracy is at an impasse.

Africa is known as a continent of conflict.

This book uses extractive industry projects in Africa to explore how political authority and the nation-state are reconfigured at the intersection of national political contestations and global, transnational capital.

Energietransitionsprozesse werden weltweit nicht zuletzt durch die Überzeugungen der Akteure geprägt.

The world's problems--climate change, epidemics, and the actions of multinational corporations--are increasingly global in scale and beyond the ability of any single state to manage.

Shows that the most widespread and malignant dictatorships today emerge by attracting genuine popular support in societies plagued by crises.

This book examines the origins and consequences of civil war in Central America.

This is an analysis of the constitutional revolutions in the Ottoman Empire and Iran in the early twentieth century.

This book considers the importance of African values, not only in catalysing development, but in sustaining it.

Dieses Buch präsentiert Beiträge aus dem deutsch-polnischen Vergleichsprojekt: „‚Wissen ist Macht’: Grenzen der Politikberatung und des Lobbyismus im politischen Entscheidungsprozess“.

In a world of violence in which religion seems to play an increasing role, the understanding of the Religions of the Book, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, is highly important.