Comparative politics

In this pioneering volume, leading scholars from a diversity of backgrounds in the humanities, social sciences, and different area studies argue for a more differentiated and self-reflected role of area-based science in global knowledge production.

This book provides systematic coverage of the key concepts in the study of environmental politics; the evolution of environmental thinking; the national and international actors involved in environmental policy; and a selection of specific environmental problems including their causes, the challenges and results of addressing them to date.

This book is the first to establish the nature and causes of violence as key features in the political economy of Australia as an advanced capitalist society.

The book provides an in-depth analysis of Eurosceptics' strategies in the European Parliament.

This edited volume compares the internal dimension, politics and society in Kurdistan-Iraq and Palestine.

This book draws on critical theory to introduce readers to ways of exploring questions about the EU from a political economy perspective, questions like: -Does the EU help or hinder Europe's 'social models' to face the challenges of globalization?

Profound social changes have made governance and political leadership more challenging than ever.

This book argues that Latin America must confront two main challenges: greater innovation to increase productivity, and greater inclusion to incorporate more of the population into the benefits of economic growth.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the role of parliamentary administrations in the control of European Union policy-making.

This book sheds new light on the political battle to define and construct obesity as a policy issue.

This book offers a much-needed analysis of how the European Union (EU) has affected welfare state reforms in the Member States most severely hit by the 2008 economic crisis.

This edited volume compares seven countries in North America and Europe on the highly topical issue of oil and gas development that uses hydraulic fracturing or "e;fracking.

This book offers theoretical and methodological guidelines for researching the complex regulation of local infrastructure, utilities and public services in the context of rapid urbanisation, technological change, and climate change.

This book explores the impact of transnational migration on the views, feelings, and practices of home among migrants.

This highly original book suggests that the practices of Taliban and the American far right, two very significant and poorly understood groups, share common features.

This book is based on a comparative study of regionalisms in Croatia's regions of Dalmatia and Istria as well as Serbia's Vojvodina.

This book analyzes the externalization of the EU's immigration and asylum practices towards non-member transit countries and the consequences of this process.

This book demonstrates through country case studies that, contrary to received wisdom, Latin American militaries can contribute productively, but under select conditions, to non-traditional missions of internal security, disaster relief, and social programs.

This book uses various concepts of 'age' to examine young people's voting behaviour in six European countries between 1981 and 2000.

This edited volume follows up from Global Perspectives on US Foreign Policy: From the Outside In in providing unique perspectives on US foreign policy from citizens of countries affected.

This book probes the hollow rhetoric of debt, deficits and austerity.

This book is an examination of minority government performance in conjunction with the territorial distribution of state power and the territorial interests of political parties.

This volumes engages with the 'Global(izing) International Relations' debate, which is marked by the emerging tensions between the steadily increasing diversity and persisting dividing lines in today's International Relations (IR) scholarship.

This succinct but comprehensive textbook leads students through the various aspects of their politics and IR degree.

Based on a constructivist approach, this book offers a comparative analysis into the causes of nationalist populist politics in each of the five Nordic independent nation states.

This book explores the governance of networks.

This book examines the effectiveness and consistency of EU democracy promotion in its Eastern neighbourhood between 1991 and 2014.

This book is a comparative analysis of the post-communist East European radical right, both in party and non-party formation, using the West European radical right as a baseline.

This book is based on a unique data set and assesses in comparative terms the public management reforms in the five Nordic countries: Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden.

This book marks a critical contribution in assessing and extending the evidence base on the causes and consequences of women's homelessness.

A broad-ranging introduction to the provision, funding and governance of health care across a variety of systems.

Comprising case studies of Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan, this edited volume explores the key characteristics of democratic governance in Northeast Asia.

This volume brings to the fore the spatial dimension of specific places and sites, and assesses how they condition - and are conditioned by - conflict and peace processes.

This book offers a comprehensive treatment of the timely question of the politicization of European integration.

Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine, the rise of populism and uncertainties about the future direction of US politics and foreign policy have created a troubling new international environment for Europe.

Civil Society, Post-Colonialism and Transnational Solidarity originates from Louvet's observation of the strong commitment of a layer of Irish civil society- from the man on the street to political parties, associations and trade unions- to the defence of  one  antagonist  or  the  other  in  the  Israeli-Palestinian  conflict, beginning with the  Six  Day  War  in  1967 and increasingly so after the Lebanon Wars at the start of the 1980s and the Second Intifada (2000-2005).

This book explores how the real conditions and subjective conceptions of ageing and well-being are transformed when people move from one country to another.

Although many scholars and practitioners recognize that development and conflict are intertwined, there is much less understanding of the mechanisms behind these linkages.

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

This book offers a series of original arguments on the relationships that Western interest groups have with the Chinese state.

This book challenges and revises existing ways of thinking about leaving care policy, practice and research at regional, national and international levels.

This book investigates the theme of global transitions with a cross-regional comparative study of two areas experiencing change over the past three decades: Southeast Asia and the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).

This book examines the impact and implications of the declaration of human right to water and sanitation access for human security in Central Asia.

This book traces the development of the discourse used by the pro-life movement since the 1970s, and its relationship to public policy efforts at the state and federal level.

This book develops a discourse theory of crisis and change in global politics.

This book explores comparative political theory through the study of a range of places and periods with contributions from a diverse group of scholars.

Development economists and practitioners agree that close collaboration between business and government improves industrial policy, yet little research exists on how best to organize that.

This book analyzes national anti-poverty measures at a local level via a set of unique and up-to-date empirical studies of minimum income support schemes and activation measures in five European cities.

This book compares British, French, and American legislative debates on woman suffrage and women's rights.

This book compares the trajectories and effects of local public sector reform in Europe and fills a research gap that has existed so far in comparative public administration and local government studies.