Comparative politics

Lay politics lies at the heart of democracy.

Examining schools, libraries, prisons, asylums, and vaccines, this study is the first comprehensive look at the origins of public services.

Die grenzüberschreitende Mobilität und die Diaspora sind keine neuen Phänomene in der Geschichte der Menschheit.

This study provides empirical evidence on the considerable but often unnoticed impact of EU accession on the mobility and integration of migrants from Bulgaria in Germany.

This fully revised third edition provides a wide-ranging introduction to political, economic and social life across the whole continent.

This book explores the transformation of the Japanese state in response to the challenges of governance by focusing on two case studies: ICT regulation and antimonopoly regulation after the 1980s, which experienced a disjuncture and significant transformation within the period with approaches embracing competition.

This book reflects on the rapid rise of social media across the African continent and the legal and extra-legal efforts governments have invented to try to contain it.

An ethnographic study of how people in one of Latin America''s most notorious social movements became long-term activists.

Drawing on cognitive-psychological findings and fieldwork, this book explains how government reforms are enacted and why they succeed or fail.

First comprehensive analysis of electoral politics in Sub-Saharan Africa since the democratic transitions of the early 1990s.

How have African rulers responded to the introduction of democratic electoral competition?

This comprehensive book brings together reflections, lessons and insights relating to the post Covid-19 era in Zimbabwe.

This analysis of budgetary systems and policies across the world examines how politics, culture, and economics influence public finance.

This book demonstrates both successes and failures in attempts to get closer to the ideal of good urban governance in cities in North-America, Europe, and Asia.

This book analyzes the relationship between art and politics in two contrasting modern dictatorships.

Explains cross-national differences in the political and partisan representation of low-income voters, focusing attention on the electoral geography of income.

The role and position of the civil service as core actors in the public sector has been seriously questioned in recent years.

This analysis of currents trends in financial regulation offers a roadmap for those countries considering adopting the Twin Peaks model.

This book takes radical aim at the conventional conduct of international relations analysis.

Die dänische Konsensdemokratie, die fortschrittliche Wirtschafts- und Arbeitsmarktpolitik und der umfassende dänische Wohlfahrtsstaat werden von vielen als Vorbild gesehen.

The European Union and Global Financial Regulation examines the influence of the European Union (EU) in regulating global finance, addressing several inter-related questions.

This book explores Nigeria's progress towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, presenting key country-specific lessons, as well as providing innovative solutions and practices which are transferrable to other emerging economies.

This book argues that for a nation to become fully democratic, it must strengthen the interactions between its soldiers, politicians, and civilians.

Are Supreme Court justices swayed by the political environment that surrounds them?

Why are some multiethnic countries more prone to civil violence than others?

Human Rights and the Judicialisation of African Politics shows readers how central questions in African politics have entered courtrooms over the last three decades, and provides the first transnational explanation for this development.

Seven years since his death (2013), Nelson Mandela still occupies an extraordinary place in the global imagination.

Eleonora Poli analyses how ideas and material interests have come to determine the evolution of antitrust policies in the USA, EU, Japan and BRICS.

This book provides a framework for understanding disagreements about the morality of markets.

This book examines the everyday lives of ordinary Zimbabweans in the context of national crises in post-2000 Zimbabwe.

Party Patronage and Party Government in European Democracies brings together insights from the worlds of party politics and public administration in order to analyze the role of political parties in public appointments across contemporary Europe.

Calls by political leaders, social activists, and international policy and aid actors for accountability reforms to improve governance have never been more widespread.

Exploring geopolitics of the Indo-Pacific Region, a major hub of global, economic, commercial, military, diplomatic, and cultural activities in the 21st century, this textbook provides students with an introduction to the existing debates, frameworks, and issues surrounding the Indo-Pacific.

The European Union (EU) has emerged as a central actor in financial governance.

This book develops an argument for the power of collective identity as an impetus for state prioritization of social welfare.

How is religion changing in the twenty-first century?

While it is true that poverty, political instability, and economic under-performance continue to be major problems in Latin America, the region has made substantial progress in raising standards of living and overcoming military authoritarianism.

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At a time of widespread disillusion, citizens keep telling us how "e;frustrated"e; they feel with their democracies.

Diese Studie zeichnet die Entwicklung von Moralpolitiken in Deutschland seit den 1960er Jahren bis heute nach und analysiert moralpolitische Regulierungsmuster.

This book examines why countries copy the military systems of one another.