Comparative politics

This book presents a psychological approach to foreign policy decision making.

Reveals how the legacy of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union affects modern politics, society and economic development in post-Communist Russia.

Sachsen war in den vergangenen Jahren die Region Deutschlands, in der sich die Probleme der Erhaltung des gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalts und der bis in die bürgerlichen Schichten hineinreichenden Desintegration in besonders heftiger Weise entfalteten.

This book provides a comprehensive examination of water resource management in the Omo-Turkana Basin, linking together biophysical, socioeconomic, policy, institutional and governance issues in a solutions-oriented manner.

Germany's and Italy's belated national unifications continue to loom large in contemporary debates.

This book analyzes the politics of land and the use of natural resources in Africa.

The 2011 Arab Spring protests seemed to mark a turning point in Middle East politics, away from authoritarianism and toward democracy.

Politische Entscheidungsträger handeln nicht unabhängig von formellen und informellen Strukturen, seien diese politischer, ökonomischer oder kultureller Natur.

The extent to which citizens control government.

This book develops a novel argument about how government revenues of all kinds affect political regimes and their leaders.

How do political regimes respond to the challenges emanating from youth mobilization?

Outcomes of legislative elections are typically reported in terms of party support: how many votes and seats were obtained by each party?

This book explores the impact of electoral rules on political party development in Central and East Europe.

This book aims to explore China's miracle under the context of complex world full of uncertainties.

This book explores how the governmental elites in Australia, Britain, Canada, New Zealand, and South Africa understand their Westminster system.

This book investigates the successes and failures in consolidating those democratic regimes that emerged in Europe and Latin America in the last quarter of the 20th century.

Dieser Sammelband bietet eine erste Bewertung der großangelegten Territorialreform in Frankreich, bei der die Zahl der französischen Regionen von 22 auf 13 reduziert wurde, um ihre Wettbewerbsfähigkeit zu stärken, Verwaltungsabläufe zu straffen und politischen Handlungsspielraum zu gewinnen.

This volume examines the rise (or revival) of political meritocracy and what it will mean for political developments in China and the rest of the world.

Why do world powers sometimes try to determine who wins an election in another country?

The book examines the rising influence of emerging powers in global politics, with a special focus on the BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China).

This book analyses the changes of welfare states, examining their sustainability enabled by innovative adaptations.

This book analyzes how international organizations and the European Union engage with civil society to pursue their policy goals.

Asks why some dissident movements adopt nonviolent strategies of resistance, while others choose to take up arms.

Devoted to exploring elections as the central act in a democracy, Duty and Choice: The Evolution of the Study of Voting and Voters is animated by a set of three overarching questions: Why do some citizens vote while others do not?

Reflecting on the deep and complex changes in Georgian politics over the last quarter of a century, this book highlights the domestic and international developments that have shaped Georgia as a state and society.

Broadband, or high-speed internet, has been called the most important infrastructure challenge of the century.

This volume re-centres African women scholars in the discourse on African women and peacebuilding, combining theoretical reflections with case studies in a range of African countries.

In recent years, the Zimbabwe crisis rendered the country and its citizens to be a typical case of 'failed states', the world over.

An original analysis of Russian politics, reflecting on the underlying features of Russia''s political system since 1991.

Employs a framework rooted in social ecology and historical institutionalism to explain recent changes to China''s judiciary.

For more than a century, no US adversary or coalition of adversaries - not Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, or the Soviet Union - has ever reached sixty percent of US GDP.

The Impact of 9-11 on Psychology and Education is the fifth volume of the six-volume series The Day that Changed Everything?

This is the first study to demonstrate a broad shift in how citizens around the world relate to democratic politics.

Demonstrates how we can, and why we should, apply the arts in development to promote meaningful economic and social progress.

This book is the first attempt to comprehensively introduce Japanese geopolitics.

This book provides comprehensive survey-based data regarding the powers of national legislatures worldwide.

Using surveys, experiments, and fieldwork from several countries, this book tests a new theory of participation in elections and protests.

Explores the deep roots of modern democracy, focusing on geography and long-term patterns of global diffusion.

The latest book in the long-running Britain at the Polls series provides an indispensable account of the fascinating 2017 British general election.

Examines how emotions caused by economic crises inflame racial, ethnic, and regional tensions, consequently promoting populism, extremism, and conspiracy theories.

Examines the Arab Spring, seen as a series counter-revolutions, rather than failed revolutions, in six Arab countries.

Transitional justice studies typically focuses on how nations remember, face and deal with histories of past violence.