Comparative politics

This book is an examination of minority government performance in conjunction with the territorial distribution of state power and the territorial interests of political parties.

This volumes engages with the 'Global(izing) International Relations' debate, which is marked by the emerging tensions between the steadily increasing diversity and persisting dividing lines in today's International Relations (IR) scholarship.

This succinct but comprehensive textbook leads students through the various aspects of their politics and IR degree.

Based on a constructivist approach, this book offers a comparative analysis into the causes of nationalist populist politics in each of the five Nordic independent nation states.

This book explores the governance of networks.

This book examines the effectiveness and consistency of EU democracy promotion in its Eastern neighbourhood between 1991 and 2014.

This book is a comparative analysis of the post-communist East European radical right, both in party and non-party formation, using the West European radical right as a baseline.

This book is based on a unique data set and assesses in comparative terms the public management reforms in the five Nordic countries: Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden.

This book advances an Islamic political philosophy based on the concept of Ihsan, which means to do beautiful things.

This book marks a critical contribution in assessing and extending the evidence base on the causes and consequences of women's homelessness.

A broad-ranging introduction to the provision, funding and governance of health care across a variety of systems.

Comprising case studies of Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan, this edited volume explores the key characteristics of democratic governance in Northeast Asia.

This volume brings to the fore the spatial dimension of specific places and sites, and assesses how they condition - and are conditioned by - conflict and peace processes.

This book offers a comprehensive treatment of the timely question of the politicization of European integration.

Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine, the rise of populism and uncertainties about the future direction of US politics and foreign policy have created a troubling new international environment for Europe.

Civil Society, Post-Colonialism and Transnational Solidarity originates from Louvet's observation of the strong commitment of a layer of Irish civil society- from the man on the street to political parties, associations and trade unions- to the defence of  one  antagonist  or  the  other  in  the  Israeli-Palestinian  conflict, beginning with the  Six  Day  War  in  1967 and increasingly so after the Lebanon Wars at the start of the 1980s and the Second Intifada (2000-2005).

This book explores how the real conditions and subjective conceptions of ageing and well-being are transformed when people move from one country to another.

Although many scholars and practitioners recognize that development and conflict are intertwined, there is much less understanding of the mechanisms behind these linkages.

Global financial markets have transformed over the past three decades - with potentially dangerous results.

This book offers a series of original arguments on the relationships that Western interest groups have with the Chinese state.

This book challenges and revises existing ways of thinking about leaving care policy, practice and research at regional, national and international levels.

Written by a team of leading authorities in the field, this collection provides a critique of the law as it applies to social work practice, and identifies key contemporary issues for social work.

This book investigates the theme of global transitions with a cross-regional comparative study of two areas experiencing change over the past three decades: Southeast Asia and the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).

This book examines the impact and implications of the declaration of human right to water and sanitation access for human security in Central Asia.

This book traces the development of the discourse used by the pro-life movement since the 1970s, and its relationship to public policy efforts at the state and federal level.

This book develops a discourse theory of crisis and change in global politics.

This book explores comparative political theory through the study of a range of places and periods with contributions from a diverse group of scholars.

This book project traces the thought of several Roman Catholic Modernists (and one especially virulent anti-Modernist) as they confronted the intellectual challenges posed by the Great war from war from 1895 to 1907.

Development economists and practitioners agree that close collaboration between business and government improves industrial policy, yet little research exists on how best to organize that.

This book analyzes national anti-poverty measures at a local level via a set of unique and up-to-date empirical studies of minimum income support schemes and activation measures in five European cities.

This book compares British, French, and American legislative debates on woman suffrage and women's rights.

This book compares the trajectories and effects of local public sector reform in Europe and fills a research gap that has existed so far in comparative public administration and local government studies.

This book offers a novel, refreshing and politically engaged way to think about public policy.

This book contextualizes the rise of the Golden Dawn within the Eurozone crisis.

This book provides an introduction to the vision of an economic system based completely on the Holy Qur'an-a system defined as a collection of institutions, representing rules of behavior, prescribed by Allah for humans, and the traditions of the Messenger.

This book challengesthe prevailing view that local authorities are irrelevant in immigrationpolicy-making.

This book presents an interdisciplinary exploration of the governance of public procurement reform in Africa.

A systematic and up-to-date introduction to politics and society in the Middle East.

American Exceptionalism Revisited provides a broad overview of the various features that signify American politics.

This book is the second of two studies which systematically explore territoriality of the vote in Europe.

This book investigates recent public debates about the European Union (EU) in national parliaments, which have become the primary arena for public debate about the EU.

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This book analyzes how recent welfare state transformations across advanced democracies have shaped social and economic disparities.

This volume explores the governance of the transforming Arctic from an international perspective.

Macro-regional strategies seek to improve the interplay of the EU with existing regimes and institutions, and foster coherence of transnational policies.

This book documents what happens when people encounter public officials.

This book brings together twelve scholars six Americans and six Chinese to explore the ways America and China think about international order.

This volume summarizes the origins and development of the organization ecology approach to the study of interest representation and lobbying, and outlines an agenda for future research.

In this book,  Ferdi De Ville and Mattias Vermeiren examine the linkages between the economic crisis in the euro area and the rise of Brazil, India and China (BICs) in the global monetary and trading system.

This book compares the policies of Australia and Italy towards boat people who have arrived in the two countries since the early 1990s.