Comparative politics

Ted Schrecker and Clare Bambra argue that the obesity, insecurity, austerity and inequality that result from neoliberal (or 'market fundamentalist') policies are hazardous to our health, asserting that these neoliberal epidemics require a political cure.

Based on cutting-edge research, this edited volume examines how citizens and political elites perceive the legitimacy of regional integration in Europe and the Americas.

This lively and accessible new edition provides a uniquely broad-ranging introduction to the governance and politics of Pacific Asia.

At a time of change in the international system, this book examines how non-traditional leading nations from the Global South have fared to date and what the chances are of their rise to continue.

Hamed El-Said investigates Counter-de-Rad programmes in Muslim majority and Muslim minority states.

The collapse of socialist regimes across Southeastern Europe changed the rules of the political game and led to the transformation of these societies.

An analysis of the new physical presence of Chinese companies operating in Latin America and the Caribbean, the associated challenges that they face, and how they are impacting the region and its relationship with the PRC.

Through a range of international case studies from the USA, UK, France, Germany and Italy, this text assesses the conditions necessary for effective leadership and emphasizes the part played by uncertainty and division amongst followers.

The challenges faced by the public sector are many and varied.

The concentrations camps that existed in the colonised world at the turn of the 20th Century are a vivid reminder of the atrocities committed by imperial powers on indigenous populations.

This book examines the development of Welsh devolution in the context of great economic and political uncertainty.

This book invites readers to think about future directions in social development.

The success or failure of China's development will impact not only its own citizens but also those of the world.

This book analyzes Germany's path-breaking Energiewende, the country's transition from an energy system based on fossil and nuclear fuels to a sustainable energy system based on renewables.

This book provides a multifaceted analysis of the so-called US 'rebalance' (or 'pivot') toward Asia by focusing on the diplomatic, military, and economic dimensions of the American policy shift in the Asia Pacific region.

One of the solutions proposed by the European Union to remedy the effects of the 2008 economic crisis is to increase female labour participation.

This book places the study of public support for the arts and culture within the prism of public policy making.

This book explores how different governments have leveraged their capacity to advance a revival of nuclear power.

In this collection of refreshing and provocative essays, the contributors to Theorizing Foreign Policy in a Globalized World reflect on the game-changing political impact of globalization, outlining the situation as it currently stands and suggesting strategies for analyzing foreign policy and global governance.

A systematic and comprehensive introduction to contemporary party politics in democratic states and evaluation of whether, and to what extent, parties are - as is often claimed - in crisis or decline.

Through a paired comparison of two moments of mass mobilization, in Ukraine and Argentina, focusing on the role of different actors involved, this text maps out a multi-layered sequence of events leading up to mass mobilization.

This study argues that the practices of European integration reproduce, rather than transcend, the practices of modern statecraft.

In this handbook, a diverse range of leading scholars consider the social, cultural, economic, political, and developmental underpinnings of peace.

Contemporary democracies vary greatly in how much income inequality they tolerate.

Democracy promotion is an established principle in US and EU foreign policies today, but how did it become so?

This book accounts for whether and how the path of the European Union (EU) has developed towards potential disintegration.

The third edition of Contemporary Russia is fully revised to provide a comprehensive introduction to the society, politics and culture of one of the most important countries in global affairs today.

This extensively revised new edition offers a broad-ranging, systematic and sophisticated introduction contemplating the institutions and processes of government in the US set in a clear historical context.

This book investigates the development of contemporary Iranian civil society and the role of public intellectuals, looking in particular at how different reformist public intellectuals used civil society to craft their vision of Iran's socio-political future.

Based on document analysis, and on the evaluations, perceptions and judgments of people involved in framing, making, and applying foreign policy in both countries as foreign affairs officials, law makers, or think tanks' associates, this book presents the differing worldviews and concepts for establishing an international order.

This book rigorously documents and explains the genocide perpetrated by the Guatemalan state against indigenous Maya populations within the context of its counterinsurgency campaign against leftist guerrillas between 1981 and 1983.

This collection presents a varied picture of the state of democracy in Asia, revealing unique findings from a project entitled the 'Asia Democracy Initiative' which explored the role of ordinary people in democratization through the rise of expressive social values in Indonesia, South Korea, the Philippines and Thailand.

This book explores how technological change is influencing the dynamics of relations between mainland China and Taiwan.

This book examines the politics of policing in Greater China, including mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macao.

This edited collection examines the politics of semi-presidential countries in the Caucasus and Central Asia.

This study looks at the underlying foundations of global order, putting aside mainstream institutionalist approaches in showing how China and the US are engaged in an intense process of contestation and renegotiation of an institutionalized order that has long been taken for granted.

This volume explores the conditions under which regional organizations engage in governance transfer in and to areas of limited statehood.

This book investigates for the first time the parallels between two island appendages of much larger governments - Okinawa, Japan's southernmost island prefecture, in ferment over historic US bases; Jeju embroiled over a new South Korean naval base.

The second edition of this popular and authoritative text provides a truly global assessment of democratization in theory and practice in the contemporary world.

This is a history of political parties in ten nations (with the sections on France and Germany limited to specific period), and a critique of the existing literature that emphasizes the importance of electoral rules as determinative of political party systems.

In the first book of its kind, Leo Huberts provides a critical synthesis of cutting-edge research on public sector integrity exploring issues such as the definition and importance of public sector integrity, the various methodological approaches to the field as well as considering the causes of for the violation of values associated with integrity.

This book traces the development of the political institutions, electoral systems, parties, civil society, economic and social policies and foreign affairs of the three Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania over the last quarter century.

This volume investigates the policies and politics of extreme austerity, setting the crisis in Greece in its global context.

Written by a prominent figure in the field, this book provides an accessible introduction to comparative methodology.

Was the Bush administration was successful in legitimating its preferences with habeas corpus, torture, and extraordinary rendition?

Why do policy actors create branded policy ideas like Big Society and does launching them on Twitter extend or curtail their life?

As the RtoP moves from norm to operationalization, greater analysis of action to halt crimes against humanity, war crimes, genocide and ethnic cleansing is needed.

This core text book takes social policy back to its basics.

A comprehensive discussion of how countries embrace branding as a crucial element in their pursuit of soft power and why certain nation-branding efforts succeed while others fail through the example of the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai.

Cultural diversity, because it is perceived to have significant security, developmental, and social implications, is fast becoming one of the major political issues of the day.