Comparative politics

This book explains why women''s rights are improving more rapidly in post-conflict countries in Africa than elsewhere on the continent.

A passionate examination of why international anti-corruption fails to deliver results and how we should understand and build good governance.

This book is a critical look at how courts, legal scholars, and the academic culture mischaracterize and misunderstand religious beliefs.

This book analyzes civil wars over the past twenty years and examines what motivates some rebel groups to abide by international law.

This is the first book to examine and compare how rebels govern civilians during civil wars around the globe.

The first full-length, interdisciplinary study of the Greek performing arts - theatre, rhetoric and ritual - between antiquity and the Renaissance.

This book offers a broadly comparative, historical, and quantitative analysis of electorates and party systems in Western and Central Eastern Europe since the nineteenth century.

This book explores the importance of local courts in enacting positive social and economic reform in Brazil and Mexico.

This volume explores how Chinese institutions have adapted to the new challenges of ''state capitalism''.

This volume explores how Chinese institutions have adapted to the new challenges of ''state capitalism''.

This book offers a broadly comparative, historical, and quantitative analysis of electorates and party systems in Western and Central Eastern Europe since the nineteenth century.

This book explores the importance of local courts in enacting positive social and economic reform in Brazil and Mexico.

This book examines constitutional law and practice in five South Asian countries: India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, and Bangladesh.

This book examines constitutional law and practice in five South Asian countries: India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, and Bangladesh.

This interdisciplinary study juxtaposes the popular, legal, and indigenous accounts of a dispute over a Coca-Cola bottling facility in India.

This interdisciplinary study juxtaposes the popular, legal, and indigenous accounts of a dispute over a Coca-Cola bottling facility in India.

Introduces the European Union through the lens of comparative politics.

This accessible study explores the impact of political language and campaigning upon public opinion towards European integration.

Using network analysis and quantitative and qualitative data, this book explains why candidates use clientelistic strategies to mobilize poor voters.

The first scholarly analysis of the National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, more commonly known as the Party Congress.

This book provides a systematic overview of counter-terrorism laws in twenty-two jurisdictions representing the Americas, Asia, Africa, Europe, and Australia.

This book explores the media and cultural exchanges between Africa and China in the twenty-first century against the backdrop of the rise of Africa and China in global geopolitics.

This book focuses on Islamism as a political ideology by taking up the case study of Jamaat-e-Islami in contemporary India and Bangladesh.

This book provides a theory and evidence explaining the initial decision of governments to adopt a conditional cash transfer program.

This book provides a systematic overview of counter-terrorism laws in twenty-two jurisdictions representing the Americas, Asia, Africa, Europe, and Australia.

This book provides a theory and evidence explaining the initial decision of governments to adopt a conditional cash transfer program.

The first scholarly analysis of the National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, more commonly known as the Party Congress.

Using network analysis and quantitative and qualitative data, this book explains why candidates use clientelistic strategies to mobilize poor voters.

This accessible study explores the impact of political language and campaigning upon public opinion towards European integration.

Introduces the European Union through the lens of comparative politics.

This book situates comparative-historical analysis within contemporary debates in political science and explores the latest theoretical and conceptual advances.

This volume compares international and institutional accounts as alternative perspectives to explain why elections fail to meet international standards.

This book situates comparative-historical analysis within contemporary debates in political science and explores the latest theoretical and conceptual advances.

This volume compares international and institutional accounts as alternative perspectives to explain why elections fail to meet international standards.

Situating the global poverty divide as an outgrowth of European imperialism, this book investigates current global divisions on environmental policy.

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Situating the global poverty divide as an outgrowth of European imperialism, this book investigates current global divisions on environmental policy.

This book offers the first comprehensive analysis of nationalist violence in postwar Europe and of its complex causes.

In light of recent Supreme Court decisions, this book defends traditional religious protections under the First Amendment.

This book offers the first comprehensive analysis of nationalist violence in postwar Europe and of its complex causes.

In light of recent Supreme Court decisions, this book defends traditional religious protections under the First Amendment.

A comparative account of the roots of Communist revolution in Russia and China.

State Building in Latin America explores why some countries in the region developed effective governance while others did not.

Representation in Congress presents a theory of representation in the US Congress that is also applicable to many other legislatures.

This book provides four African country studies that illustrate challenges to economic transformation and the politics of implementing industrial policies.

This book shows that the design of electoral rules shapes how political leaders make health policies in response to social forces.

This book examines the origins of the rise of international rankings, assessing their impact on global governance, and exploring how governments react to being ranked.

This book assesses which work-family policies work best, and explains why they are unlikely to be adopted everywhere.

This book sheds new light on those who inherit Spinoza''s thought and its consequences materially rather than metaphysically.

Decentralization may help preserve peace in one country or in one region, but may have the opposite effect in others.