Comparative politics

This book offers a novel, refreshing and politically engaged way to think about public policy.

This book contextualizes the rise of the Golden Dawn within the Eurozone crisis.

This book challengesthe prevailing view that local authorities are irrelevant in immigrationpolicy-making.

This book presents an interdisciplinary exploration of the governance of public procurement reform in Africa.

American Exceptionalism Revisited provides a broad overview of the various features that signify American politics.

This book is the second of two studies which systematically explore territoriality of the vote in Europe.

This book investigates recent public debates about the European Union (EU) in national parliaments, which have become the primary arena for public debate about the EU.

Brazil has risen.

This book analyzes how recent welfare state transformations across advanced democracies have shaped social and economic disparities.

This volume explores the governance of the transforming Arctic from an international perspective.

Macro-regional strategies seek to improve the interplay of the EU with existing regimes and institutions, and foster coherence of transnational policies.

This book documents what happens when people encounter public officials.

This book brings together twelve scholars six Americans and six Chinese to explore the ways America and China think about international order.

This volume summarizes the origins and development of the organization ecology approach to the study of interest representation and lobbying, and outlines an agenda for future research.

In this book,  Ferdi De Ville and Mattias Vermeiren examine the linkages between the economic crisis in the euro area and the rise of Brazil, India and China (BICs) in the global monetary and trading system.

This book compares the policies of Australia and Italy towards boat people who have arrived in the two countries since the early 1990s.

Thisbook proposes the introduction of a development-related perspective toscholarly critique of the human body s commodification.

This book considers a range of contemporary approaches to public policy studies.

This book examines the everyday-life patterns of young adults under circumstances of vulnerability and precariousness.

In this study, which highlights a renewed emphasis in international affairs on regional studies, the co-authors provide an assessment of the revolutionary changes in the politics and security of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).

This book presents an in-depth exploration of the impact of the Arab Uprisings on the relationship between constructions of (in)security, narratives of threat and patterns of socio-political change within the Middle East and North Africa region.

Winner of the European Association of Agricultural Economists Book AwardFood and agriculture have been subject to heavy-handed government interventions throughout much of history and across the globe, both in developing and in developed countries.

This revised and expanded edition of a benchmark collection compares how civil services around the world have adapted to cope with managing public services in the 21st century.

This book considers the radical effects the emergence of social media and digital politics have had on the way that advocacy organisations mobilise and organise citizens into political participation.

This volume offers a comparative analysis of Japanese and Russian politics in the 2010s, examining both domestic dimensions and foreign policy.

This volume argues that a renewed commitment to sound macroeconomic policies and structural reforms is needed for countries in South East Europe, or 'the Balkans' achieve to sustainable prosperity, along with enhanced support from the international community.

This volume examines Japanese and Korean politics from both Japanese and Korean angles, exploring why the two countries do not cooperate bilaterally or consult one another, despite their geographical closeness and a number of common features that are central to both countries' domestic politics and foreign policies.

In recent years British politics has seemed increasingly unpredictable.

Across the globe, more powers are being devolved to local and regional levels of government.

Though geographically far apart, Turkey and Australia are much closer than many would think.

This book studies the reactions of India, Brazil, and South Africa the three main non-proliferation actors of the Global South to Iran's nuclear program.

This edited volume addresses the foreign policy approaches demonstrated by the European Union (EU), Russia and Turkey towards their shared neighbourhood.

This edited volume conceives of International Relations (IR) not as a unilateral project, but more as an intellectual platform.

The third edition of Media, Politics and Democracy examines the fraught debate over media influence, who wields it and what effect social and traditional media has on what we think, how we behave, and how we vote.

The third edition of Media, Politics and Democracy examines the fraught debate over media influence, who wields it and what effect social and traditional media has on what we think, how we behave, and how we vote.

This book presents a novel 'governance model' of democracy promotion.

The Politics of Feminist Knowledge Transfer draws together analytical work on gender training and gender expertise.

This book explores the rich, diverse opportunities and challenges afforded by research that analyses the stories told by, for and about women.

This book offers a well-investigated and accessible picture of the current situation around the politics of LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender) rights and activism in Central Europe and the Western Balkans in the context of the enlargement of the European Union (EU).

This volume presents a contemporary analysis of the impact of China's rise on the Mekong Region at a critical point in Southeast Asian history.

This book contributes to our understanding of the trajectories and prerogatives of female political leaders in the varying context of democratization, political institutions and cultural norms.

The book provides the first comprehensive comparative analysis of the development of EU enlargement conditionality across four different enlargement waves - the first (2004) and the second (2007) phase of the Eastern enlargement, the EU enlargement to Croatia (2013), and the ongoing enlargement round involving Turkey and the Western Balkans.

This book explains why the level of party presidentialization varies from one country to another.

This book is about a variety of national arrangements and practices, whose common characteristics are to constitute 'presidential republics' and which as such have become the main form of government in the contemporary world.

Eleonora Poli analyses how ideas and material interests have come to determine the evolution of antitrust policies in the USA, EU, Japan and BRICS.

This book provides a critical account of the concept of international protection.

This book explores the everyday practices of border control and implementation of mobility policy in the European Schengen area by analyzing consular visas services on the edges of the territory.

This analysis seeks to analyse the main trends in Gulf security in light of the changes in the regional and international arena, while examining the relationship between external and internal threats, which are intertwined in the Gulf security agenda.

Building upon Mitchell's earlier work, The Structure of International Conflict, this volume surveys the field of conflict analysis and resolution in the twenty-first century, exploring the methods which people have sought to mitigate destructive processes including the creative and innovative new ways of resolving insoluble disputes.

This book examines the governance arrangements in Northern Ireland through a multi-level lens, particularly in the period since the new institutions established through the 1998 Agreement became more firmly embedded.