Comparative politics

Party Politics in Germany is the only English-language study of its kind and examines the phenomenon of party politics in the Federal Republic through comparison across time and space.

This book analyses the participatory budgeting practice as it has evolved in evaluated countries, focusing on what is substantially at stake concerning the budget and issues involved, the actual participation, the way such processes are organised and administered, and the outcomes of such processes.

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

This book analyses the discourses of economic liberalization reform in six Western European countries - Germany, France, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Austria.

The result of a four-year long comparative research study centered at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, and financed by the European Commission's Sixth Framework Programme, Social Pacts in Europe presents the first full-length theoretical and comparative empirical study of new social pacts in Europe.

A crucial assessment of how global and regional politics converge in the swath of Eurasia that includes South Asia, Central Asia, and the Middle East.

In 2019, African heads of state and governments launched in fanfare the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA), a historic agreement for economic transformation across the continent.

This book provides an up--to--date discussion of the effect of crises on European identities in the post--Soviet states.

This book examines the many routes forty or so women have taken to become president or prime minister of their countries and the problems they have encountered once in office.

This book analyses the evolving geopolitics in the Indo-Pacific region and explains how Djibouti fits in the global strategies of four major powers-the US, China, Japan, and France.

How social networks shaped the imperial Chinese stateChina was the world's leading superpower for almost two millennia, falling behind only in the last two centuries and now rising to dominance again.

Americans valorize resistance to conformity.

First published in 1977, A History of Rhodesia is a history of the origins and course of modern European occupation of 'Southern Rhodesia', 'Rhodesia' as it has been termed since the old 'Northern Rhodesia' became independent under the name Zambia in 1963.

Dieses Buch beschäftigt sich aus vergleichender Perspektive mit einem besonders irritierenden Phänomen der jüngeren Integrationsgeschichte: Referenden in und über Europa.

How does the European Union affect devolution and nationalist conflict in member states?

What configuration of institutions and policies is most conducive to human flourishing?

This first comparative-historical analysis of the regulations that restrict the managerial capacity to dismiss employees and use temporary forms of employment addresses four puzzles that have long troubled the comparative political economy literature.

An original account of why individuals choose one party over another, and why elections are won or lost in Britain.

Political parties have long been recognized as essential institutions of democratic governance.

This book provides an innovative theoretical and empirical exploration of the political participation and democratic capability of people living in authoritarian states.

This book provides a novel explanation of widespread social policy expansion in Latin America beginning in the 1990s.

Rooted in an international political economy theoretical framework, this book provides unique insights into the global forces and local responses that are shaping education systems in Central America and the Latin Caribbean (CALC).

Die vielfach konträren Menschenrechtspositionen Chinas und der USA erklären maßgeblich die unterschiedliche Berichterstattung in den Tageszeitungen beider Länder.

This book is authored by some of the renowned scholars in Africa who take on the task to understand how Kenya is governed in this century from a public policy perspective.

This book shows that liberalizing governments across Ibero-America often forge alliances with protected actors such as unions and domestic business.

Xi Chen explores the dramatic rise in, and routinization of, social protests in China since the early 1990s.

How poor migrants shape city politics during urbanizationAs the Global South rapidly urbanizes, millions of people have migrated from the countryside to urban slums, which now house one billion people worldwide.

How reforms limiting electoral misconduct completed the process of democratizationBetween 1850 and 1918, many first-wave democracies in Europe adopted electoral reforms that reduced the incidence of electoral malfeasance.

Presents a theory and analysis of the relationship between parties and voters throughout the legislative period under coalition governance.

This book discusses regional and continental integration in Africa by examining the management of migration across the continent.

Why do some parties live fast and die young, but others endure?

By using the example of Germany and Poland this multi-level policy dependency analysis by Marco Wedel researches constraints and dependencies of the European Integration of the promotion of renewable energy source electricity (RES-E).

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.

Die vergleichende Demokratieforschung konzentriert sich auf Regime und Regimewandel in Osteuropa, Lateinamerika, Asien und Afrika, auf Demokratisierungsprozesse und unvollständige Demokratien.

This book assesses parliamentary speeches given by Arab representatives in the Israeli Knesset over the last 70 years, in order to throw light on the representation of political minorities.

This book reveals the mechanisms underlying the convergence of car fuel economy regulations in Europe, Japan and the US by drawing upon a constructivist theory of International Relations and law that focuses on business competition and environmental regulations.

Scholars of distributive politics often emphasize partisanship and clientelism.

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This book offers a novel approach to mapping the people and organisations working in EU affairs, allocating much of the volume to a discussion of non-EU institutional representation in Brussels.

With many OECD countries experiencing a decline in their populations, this book offers a theoretical model of coping with demographic change and examines different strategies that societies have used to come to terms with demographic change.

The Horn of Africa has long been one of the most dynamic and politically turbulent sub-regions on the African continent.

A study of the classical aggregation problems that arise in social choice theory, voting theory, and group decision-making under uncertainty.