Comparative politics

This book examines labor market policy and institutional reforms and their impact on outcomes in the Chinese labor market, utilizing both institutional and empirical study perspectives.

A data-driven explanation of when successful religious parties reduce the civil liberties of their citizens in Muslim-majority countries and when they don't.

A public intellectual known for his deeply humane approach to social and urban issues, Hugh Stretton's thinking has influenced Australian public debates for many decades.

This book analyses the politics of othering in the USA and Canada from the nineteenth century to the present day.

Despite efforts to build the state, profound political order in rural Afghanistan is maintained by self-governing, customary organizations.

A comparison of the political development of census questions about race, demonstrating how ideas and politics shape racial boundaries.

This book examines the complex interrelationships between water availability, governance and violent and non-violent conflicts, drawing on in-depth case studies of Lake Naivasha in Kenya and Lake Wamala in Uganda.

Examines constitutional change in Latin America from 1900 to 2008 and provides the first systematic explanation of the origins of constitutional designs.

Sustainable Management Development in Africa examines how African management and business scholarship can serve African and multinational management and organizations operating in Africa.

A sweeping account of Southern political economy in the New Deal era.

This book uses a multi-method approach to analyze the informal signaling processes that brought about the Europeanization of workplace pensions.

Describes what patronage employees do in exchange for their jobs and provides a novel explanation of why they do it.

This book examines policy responses to food waste and loss, an issue of significant, global concern, with one-third of food produced for human consumption lost or wasted.

A unique survey of the evidence and academic debates surrounding the break-up of Yugoslavia.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of policy transfer in authoritarian regimes.

Despite the fact that countries transitioned to democracy, many citizens residing in peripheral regions continue to live under undemocratic rule.

Examines the most influential arguments about the consequences of political decentralization.

This book undertakes the first comparative constitutional analysis of the Kyrgyz Republic and Republics of Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan in their cultural, historical, political, economic and social context.

Democracy is not easy.

Written by the eminent sinologist Michael Loewe, and edited for publication by T.

This book explores incentives capable of enhancing the effectiveness of urban planning systems in Sub-Saharan Africa using economic theory as a framework.

Explains how peacekeeping can work effectively by employing power through verbal persuasion, financial inducement, and coercion short of offensive force.

Sustainable Management Development in Africa examines how African management and business scholarship can serve African and multinational management and organizations operating in Africa.

This book presents the welfare regime of China as a liminal space where religious and state authorities struggle for legitimacy as new social forces emerge.

A worldwide surge in poaching and wildlife trafficking is threatening to decimate endangered species.

This book examines how African states can build the institutional capacity to better prevent, manage and cope with the new security challenges posed by violent religious extremism.

This book focuses on territorial policies as instruments for local development in Europe's periphery.

Examining the significance of the Movement for Black Lives, Reckoning uncovers a broadly applicable argument for the democratic necessity of social movements.

Does European integration contribute to, or even accelerate, the erosion of intra-party democracy?

For decades, Africa was falling apart.

This book draws on interviews and primary sources to argue that the protection of judicial independence is a political achievement.

This edited volume revolves around two sets of questions.

This book, first published in 2005, offers a comprehensive political economy approach to the study of the welfare state and inequality.

Offers a new framework for understanding how religion and nationalism interact across diverse countries and religious traditions.

A multidisciplinary empirical study of how juvenile justice standards were operationalised by the state and UNICEF in post-genocide Rwanda.

Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2014Scores of books have been written by Western experts, mainly American, looking at the root causes of the conflict between Iran and the US.

In this book Fred Dallmayr lays the groundwork for a new understanding of democracy.

Offering a comprehensive introduction to the comparison of governments and political systems, this new edition helps students to understand not just the institutions and political cultures of their own countries but also those of a wide range of democracies and authoritarian regimes from around the world.

Sozialistische und kommunistische Theorien entwickelten sich in Europa seit Babeuf in der Französischen Revolution.

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.

Constitutions are no longer exclusively national projects, but increasingly result from broader transnational processes that form a transnational legal order.

This book is the first to establish the nature and causes of violence as key features in the political economy of Australia as an advanced capitalist society.