Comparative politics

The book examines all relevant models which have been employed in settling ethno-territorial conflicts since the time of the League of Nations.

How has it been possible for Irish political leaders to actively promote two of the largest challenges to Irish nation-statehood: the concession of sovereignty to the European Union and the retraction of the constitutional claim over Northern Ireland?

[A] compelling case for the institutional analysis of political leadership .

Dieses Buch umfasst die wesentlichen Grundlagen einer praxisorientierten Mobilitätsplanung.

In The Gun Gap, Mark R.

Kees van Kersbergen and Barbara Vis explain the political opportunities and constraints of welfare state reform in advanced democracies.

Why Dominant Parties Lose develops a theory of single-party dominance, its durability, and its breakdown into a fully competitive democracy.

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 argues that South Africa is haunted by the spectre of reparation.

This project offers an in-depth look at the three 2017 elections held in Western Europe: France, Germany, and the UK.

The first scientific analysis of Indonesian voting behavior from democratization in 1999 to the most recent general election in 2014.

The book explores the pressing problem of rural violence in contemporary Nigeria by assessing the changing patterns of conflict and response across the country.

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

Examines how Latin American countries and Spain tried to build modern and efficient state institutions for more than a century - without much success.

Political parties run by entrepreneurs as a means to their own end are a recent phenomenon found in many countries, and their electoral influence has never been greater.

This book contains a selection of articles from The  Europe, Middle East and North Africa Conference on Technology and Security to Support Learning 2016 (EMENA-TSSL'16), held between the 3th and 5th of October at Saidia, Oujda, Morocco.

Demokratie benötigt Streit.

An innovative and comprehensive exploration of revolutions from the French Revolution of 1789 to the most recent 2011 Arab uprisings.

Today's global economy was largely established by political events and decisions in the 1980s and 90s, when scores of nations opened up their economies to the forces of globalization.

This book explores one of the most pressing public policy questions for the 2020s: how should we regulate cannabis?

This volume presents the key informational, communication, and socio-political drivers of the Ukrainian state's national security.

This book uncovers how women's movements in the Global South are changing the face of transnational activism in their mobilisations against militarism and conflict-related gender violence.

Activists, pundits, politicians, and the press frequently proclaim today's digitally mediated racial justice activism the new civil rights movement.

A new account of modern Iraqi politics that overturns the conventional wisdom about its sectarian divisionsHow did Iraq become one of the most repressive dictatorships of the late twentieth century?

This book analyzes postwar Germany to show how social movements shape public memory and influence democratization through cooperation and conflict with government.

This book examines different dimensions of digital communication and populism in times of the COVID-19 pandemic.

This book explores the relationship between the "e;human constant"e; (Jen) of the four large-scale civilizational societies-China, the USA, Japan, and India-and their international behavior, response patterns, and interaction with the international system.

Peacekeeping training centres play a crucial role in preparing peacekeepers for their deployment.

Gibson explains how subnational authoritarianism is part of democratic politics and strategic interactions between local authoritarians and national democratic leaders.

This edited volume analyses different forms of resistance against international institutions and charts their success or failure in changing the normative orders embodied in these institutions.

Shows how different countries'' foreign aid programs are profoundly shaped by their visions of the purpose of aid.

This book investigates how African countries respond to socioeconomic shocks, drawing out lessons to help to inform future policy and development efforts.

Offers a unique analysis of abortion policy worldwide focusing on effects of civil society, national governments and intergovernmental organizations.

Die skandinavischen Länder werden seit langem als politische und gesellschaftliche Modelle wahrgenommen.

Life after war is intrinsically political for former combatants.

European Identity examines how Europe is represented linguistically in the news media of four EU countries, France, Italy, Poland, and the UK, through the use of an electronic corpus built from newspapers and television news transcripts.

Based on the research of the EU-6th framework funded research consortium on 'New Modes of Governance in the European Union', this volume explores the roots, execution and applications of new forms of governance and evaluates their success.

Explores four types of corruption and the implications for reform, emphasizing practical ways to check abuses of wealth and power.

This book offers a broad perspective of revolutionary territorial politics by putting secession in the context of other forms of revolutionary territorial politics.

The Ombudsman is an officer appointed by the legislature to receive and investigate complaints from citizens against unjust administrative action.

This book examines a selection of themes that have become salient in contemporary debates on constitutional democracies.

It is no longer sufficient to examine discrete nation-states in isolation from each other.

European leaders faced the Covid-19 pandemic by adopting very different leadership styles, characterized by diverging approaches to crisis communication, power management, and relationship-building with actors and stakeholders in the public sphere.

This is the first book to investigate how constitutional monarchy could survive in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, during which many monarchies were overthrown by revolutions or coups d'etat in Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Europe.

The voices in this book belong to parliamentarians, city councillors, doctors and engineers, a few professors, lawyers and social workers, owners of small businesses, translators, and community activists.