Comparative politics

This book examines the responses of the United Nations and a range of countries to the terror attacks on September 11, 2001.

Highlights the role political leadership plays in the choice between war and peace.

This book demonstrates that although advanced societies have been moving toward secular orientation, the world has more people with traditional religious views.

This book examines the Mexican government''s assessment of the possibilities and consequences of implementing certain emigration policies from 1848 to 2010.

The first account of the civil wars in Europe during the era of the world wars, from 1905 to 1949.

This book examines the strategic use of emotion in the conflicts and interventions occurring in the Western Balkans over a twenty-year period.

This book provides a comparative-critical introduction to civil justice systems in the United States, Germany and Korea.

Wendy Pearlman demonstrates that the use of violent or nonviolent protest derives from a national movement''s organizational structure.

This book examines the responses of the United Nations and a range of countries to the terror attacks on September 11, 2001.

This book shows that liberalizing governments across Ibero-America often forge alliances with protected actors such as unions and domestic business.

Tracks China''s transformation from the establishment of the People''s Republic to its rise as a superpower in the twenty-first century.

Tracks China''s transformation from the establishment of the People''s Republic to its rise as a superpower in the twenty-first century.

This book shows that liberalizing governments across Ibero-America often forge alliances with protected actors such as unions and domestic business.

Civil wars with multiple combatants last longer and are harder to resolve.

This book examines Arctic defense policy and military security from the perspective of all eight Arctic states.

Examining a range of countries, periods and policy areas, this book provides an original explanation of market reforms in the industrialized world.

Examines the major pitfalls facing scientific advisers to governments, and shows how institutions have tried to overcome them.

Civil wars with multiple combatants last longer and are harder to resolve.

This book examines Arctic defense policy and military security from the perspective of all eight Arctic states.

Examining a range of countries, periods and policy areas, this book provides an original explanation of market reforms in the industrialized world.

Examines the major pitfalls facing scientific advisers to governments, and shows how institutions have tried to overcome them.

This book analyzes a remarkable run of electoral victories by the opposition in postcommunist Europe and Eurasia from 1998 to 2005.

This book analyzes a remarkable run of electoral victories by the opposition in postcommunist Europe and Eurasia from 1998 to 2005.

Examines the endurance and influence of mystical beliefs on political strategy in Iran from the Safavid dynasty to the present.

Leading scholars examine the subject of representation, representative democracy and their future.

A unique exploration of the relationship between gender and nationalist conflict using the lens of cinema.

A unique study of how popular support can grow when governors reject democracy and create an undemocratic regime.

This book explains why the most nondemocratic regions have the lowest incomes, the lowest inequality and the highest poverty.

This exploration of local and global conflicts over access to water provides a socio-legal perspective on transnational governance.

This book investigates how the predictability of legislators'' behavior and vote buying affect chief executives'' ability to rule by statute.

Argues that indigenous and non-indigenous individuals in southern Mexico have been united by socioeconomic and land tenure institution variables as well as by ethnic identity.

This timely book explores the causes and consequences of the growing conflict between Israel''s Jewish majority and its Palestinian-Arab minority.

This book argues that, collectively, unions can help shape how the rules governing the global economy are made.

This book asks how elected politicians choose between providing policy benefits in the present and investing in the future.

Examines the endurance and influence of mystical beliefs on political strategy in Iran from the Safavid dynasty to the present.

Leading scholars examine the subject of representation, representative democracy and their future.

A unique exploration of the relationship between gender and nationalist conflict using the lens of cinema.

Argues that indigenous and non-indigenous individuals in southern Mexico have been united by socioeconomic and land tenure institution variables as well as by ethnic identity.

This timely book explores the causes and consequences of the growing conflict between Israel''s Jewish majority and its Palestinian-Arab minority.

This book argues that, collectively, unions can help shape how the rules governing the global economy are made.

This book asks how elected politicians choose between providing policy benefits in the present and investing in the future.

A unique historical and comparative analysis of the place of religion in the emergence of modern secular society.

This book considers the remarkable political, economic and social transformations that have taken place in India since 1980.

This text analyzes the supposed link between Islamist terrorism and the lack of democracy in the Middle East.

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

Examines the origins of mass killing by analyzing and comparing multiple forms of political extremism.

This book analyzes the dynamics of party building and explores the attitudes, skills and experiences of radical right activists in eleven countries.

Examines the origins of mass killing by analyzing and comparing multiple forms of political extremism.

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

This text analyzes the supposed link between Islamist terrorism and the lack of democracy in the Middle East.