Comparative politics

This volume is the first comprehensive analysis of women's ascendance to leadership positions in the European Union as well as their performance in such positions.

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In this book, Christina Zuber outlines a theory of ideational policy stabilization to explain stable policy choices despite changing incentives.

In this book, Christina Zuber outlines a theory of ideational policy stabilization to explain stable policy choices despite changing incentives.

Most international organisations today-from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to the World Health Organisation-present themselves as technical institutions separate from political concerns.

This book challenges the assumption that authoritarianism is necessarily a phenomenon located at the level of the state, and that states as a whole are therefore either democratic or authoritarian.

This volume provides a comprehensive analysis of the many different facets of the Swiss political system and of the major developments in modern Swiss politics.

How does China pursue science, technology, and innovation?

In patterns of violence across the world, some victims attract strong public support and propel historic levels of collective action, but the vast majority suffer in silence.

There is ample evidence that engaging developing countries on climate change mitigation would have significant, positive impacts on global climate efforts.

If you tune into televised newscasts or read any newspaper, it is impossible to ignore the increased polarization of political discussion.

If you tune into televised newscasts or read any newspaper, it is impossible to ignore the increased polarization of political discussion.

Why do some militaries support and others thwart transitions to democracy?

This book offers a systematic exploration of the role of religion and religiosity in electoral politics in Catholic, Protestant, and religiously mixed countries across Western Europe and in the United States.

This book offers a systematic exploration of the role of religion and religiosity in electoral politics in Catholic, Protestant, and religiously mixed countries across Western Europe and in the United States.

The executive branch in Western democracies has been granted a virtually impossible task: expected to 'imperially' direct the life of the nation through thick and thin, it is concurrently required to be subservient to legislation meted out by a sovereign parliament.

Why is American politics so intense and emotionally competitive today, and how did we get here?

Communities across the world engage in gender practices that are seen by many as in conflict with women's rights, such as Muslim women's face veils and polygyny.

There is ample evidence that engaging developing countries on climate change mitigation would have significant, positive impacts on global climate efforts.

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How do parties survive when newness is their only selling point?

Weaving together poetry, personal narrative, and never-before-seen documents from the Jefferson Lewis Edmonds' family archive, Arianne Edmonds provides a wide-ranging look at how the Black Press of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries defined Black citizenship after Reconstruction, fostered networks of resistance, and set in motion critical social justice narratives that are still relevant today.

A comprehensive and authoritative introduction to China's political history, contemporary political system, and key policy areas, such as the environment, population management, and public health.

A story of espionage, shadow diplomacy, foreign scheming, and domestic backstabbing in the formative years of the American republic.

The vast majority of the world's countries are experiencing a demographic revolution: dramatic, sustained, and likely irreversible population aging.

On October 28, 1917, just days after the Bolsheviks seized power, the great Council of the Russian Orthodox Church voted to restore the patriarchate, which had been abolished by Peter the Great two centuries earlier.

A rich history of cross-racial coalitions and alliances of the Sixties' freedom movement, acclaimed historian Alice Echols's Black Power, White Heat reshapes our understanding of the entire era.

An incisive analysis of one of the most disruptive forces in modern American politics, The Right-Wing Idea Factory is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the fundamental transformation of conservatism in the Trump era and beyond.

No American religion has had a more contentious and complex relationship with the law than Mormonism (the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints).

No American religion has had a more contentious and complex relationship with the law than Mormonism (the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints).

The epic, tragic story of the Puritan conquest of New England through the eyes of those who lived it Over several decades beginning in 1620, tens of thousands of devout English colonists known as Puritans came to America.

The contemporary public sphere is rife with problematic information, but on what terms are manipulators able to garner attention in the hybrid media system?

A powerful new explanation of China's rise that draws from the business world to show that China is not simply copying established great powers, but exploiting geopolitical opportunities around the world that those other powers had ignored.

The contemporary public sphere is rife with problematic information, but on what terms are manipulators able to garner attention in the hybrid media system?

What does the battle between conservative Christians and LGBTQ+ people look like from the vantage point of those who are both?

An authoritative account of the second president of the United States that shows how John Adams's leadership and legacy defined the office for those who followed and ensured the survival of the American republic.

An incisive analysis of one of the most disruptive forces in modern American politics, The Right-Wing Idea Factory is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the fundamental transformation of conservatism in the Trump era and beyond.

The Enlightenment and Darwinism posed threats to traditional Christianity.

Elite Networks presents a new explanatory factor behind the persistence of income inequality: extractive political power.

The Enlightenment and Darwinism posed threats to traditional Christianity.

In this groundbreaking reflection on America's relationship with war in the modern era, Gregory A.

Is traditional American religion doomed?

Elite Networks presents a new explanatory factor behind the persistence of income inequality: extractive political power.

A fast-paced, gripping history of meddling, manipulation, and skulduggery among great power rivalsIn 2016, the United States was stunned by evidence of Russian meddling in the US presidential elections.

Over the past 70 years, the United States has undergone major moral shifts surrounding gender, sexual orientation, and race.

A powerful and sophisticated analysis of how Western professionals have enabled kleptocratic elite networks and undermined the rule of law.

The Voice of America (VOA) is the oldest and largest US government-funded international media organization.

An authoritative, even-handed, and accessible history of the Supreme Court of the United States, the most powerful court in the world and the final arbiter of the world's oldest constitution.

In The Unfinished Quest, T.

Introduced by presidential historian Ted Widmer, this work offers both the original texts and insightful essays by leading historians on each of the presidential inaugural addresses--from George Washington to Joseph Biden.