Comparative politics

This book strives to answer two interrelated questions: Why have certain states in the Americas been more successful than others at creating stable democratic regimes?

Este libro analiza uno de los temas fascinantes de la historiografía de los últimos años, el de la dominación y confrontación imperial en el Caribe.

International peacebuilding has reached an impasse.

This volume examines the trends and patterns of journalists' harassment in Africa and assesses the policy interventions and protection mechanisms that are put into place in the region.

Around the world, populism has weaponized anxieties over globalization and other forms of cultural, social, and economic change.

Income inequality has skyrocketed in Canada over the past few decades.

A call to arms for researchers to embrace their comparative intuition and combine in-depth stories with general lessons from their research.

European governments have re-discovered labour migration, but are eager to be perceived as controlling unsolicited forms of migration, especially through asylum and family reunion.

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

Shows that the acquisition of political power and demand for rights by ascendant minority groups in Eastern Europe has precipitated a backlash of radical right mobilization.

A telling analysis of the pre-war media debate around the globe which set the stage for the 2003 Iraq war.

Increasing economic transparency benefits democracy: it helps elections work.

This book develops a theoretical understanding of how truth commissions achieve legitimacy and contribute to peace and stability.

Immigration integral to globalization, creating connections and mobilizing investments in human and financial capital across countries.

O''Halloran provides a comparative evaluation of contemporary law as it relates to religion in six developed nations.

Women in Solitary offers a new account based around the narratives of four women who experienced detention and torture in South Africa in the late 1960s when the regime tried to stage a trial to convict leading anti-apartheid activists.

When polling data showed that an overwhelming 81% of white evangelicals had voted for Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election, commentators across the political spectrum were left aghast.

This book analyses the emergence, strategies, and outcomes of the struggle to embed democratic governance and constitutional order in Kenya, showcasing both the power and the limits of citizen agency in the struggle to transform a postcolonial African state.

On the Boundaries focuses on the connections between international relations, comparative politics, and foreign policy.

Wiedemann reveals how the rise of financial markets as private alternatives to welfare states transforms social rights and responsibilities.

This book explores the variations in the transformation of the Asian developmental state in South Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan.

This book covers the contributions of various international organisations, governments and their peoples, and solidarity organisations to the liberation struggle in South Africa.

Das sinkende Vertrauen der Bürger in ihre politischen Repräsentanten und die Entfremdung von den etablierten Parteien haben in den letzten Jahren zu einer Intensivierung der wissenschaftlichen Debatte um mehr direkte Demokratie geführt.

Galtieri, Lukashenka, and Putin are some of the dictators whose untrammelled personal power has been seen as typical of the dog-eat-dog nature of leadership in authoritarian political systems.

This book provides unique insight into the relationship of institutions that govern land rights to local and national politics in African countries.

This book investigates the causes and consequences of crisis in four countries of the Eurozone periphery - Greece, Spain, Portugal and Ireland.

A wide-ranging rethinking of the many factors that comprise the making of American Grand Strategy.

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This book provides a new theory for how democracy can materialize in the Middle East, and the broader Muslim world.

A fresh and compelling interpretation of Russian politics, focusing on the political development of Russia under Putin and Medvedev.

Are election campaigns relevant to policymaking, as they should in a democracy?

This book analyzes how mainstream and new parties are building their digital platforms and transitioning from traditional (offline) organizations into the digital world.

In a relatively short time, the EU has become one of the most important actors on the world stage.

This book examines different dimensions of digital communication and populism in times of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Arguments for protection and against free trade have seen a revival in developed countries such as the United States and Great Britain as well as developing countries such as India.

Der Band bietet einen umfassenden Überblick über das politische System der Slowakei.

The African Union (AU) is a continental organization that comprises every African state except for Morocco, is indeed a pioneering undertaking.

This book focuses on International migration among the Chinese long before European colonists set foot on the Asian continent.

This is volume two of a comparative analysis of nuclear waste governance and public participation in decision-making regarding the storage and siting of high-level radioactive waste and spent fuel in different countries.

Explores the contribution of social capital to the process of democratization and the limits of that contribution.