Comparative politics

In this penetrating volume, Jeffery Webber charts the political dynamics and conflicts underpinning the contradictory evolution of left-wing governments and social movements in Latin America in the last two decades.

A wide ranging survey of the political principles which underlay, or were used to justify, political proposals and decisions in Renaissance Italy.

An original theory and meticulous analysis of how advocates of political secularization emerged historically and why they succeeded in some contexts but not others.

This book explores various forms of highly skilled mobility in the European Union, assessing the potential for this movement to contribute to individual and societal development.

This book aims to enhance understanding of the academia, policymakers, and general readers about the development challenges and constraints on long-term economic growth of Pakistan.

This volume is the first collection in the field of wellbeing studies that places politics centre stage.

This book investigates the important role of local actors in Sierra Leone in helping to foster peace and provide for the needs of vulnerable populations following the end of the civil war.

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A History of Rwanda: From the Monarchy to Post-genocidal Justice provides a complete history of Rwanda, from the precolonial abanyiginya kingdom, through the German and Belgian colonial periods and subsequent independence, and then the devastating 1994 genocide and reconstruction, right up to the modern day.

As the plugged-in presidential campaign has arguably reached maturity, Presidential Campaigning in the Internet Age challenges popular claims about the democratizing effect of Digital Communication Technologies (DCTs).

First Published in 1965, the Civil Service in New African States describes the problems and principles relating to the growth and development of the civil services in the newly independent states of Africa.

Compassion traces the ways in which various societies across the globe have responded to the vulnerable among them from early human history to the present.

Einheit und Vielfalt.

In der sozialwissenschaftlichen Debatte wird oft ein pessimistisches Bild der Bedingungen und Perspektiven europäischen gewerkschaftlichen Handelns gezeichnet.

Successful reform of the security sector has been regarded as pivotal for a successful transition from authoritarianism to democracy by Western donors.

This book analyzes key popular culture artifacts linked with United States' far-right extremism to illustrate how extremists use various narrative strategies to legitimate their interests and goals and to justify violent actions.

Amidst 'Brexit', a divided and out of power Labour Party, and the wider international rise of populism, contemporary British social democracy appears in a state of crisis.

This study of police governance draws on over ninety interviews conducted with Argentine police officers.

This book examines the relationship between inequalities and identities in the context of an unprecedented state advocacy of human rights with a distinct emphasis on (ethnic) group rights in post-civil war Ethiopia.

In today's evolving democratic landscape, "e;The Perils of Populism: The End of the American Century"e; offers an extensive investigation into the phenomenon of populism and its potential threats to U.

Using the socio-political discourse of Kwame Nkrumah, a pioneering Pan-Africanist and Ghana's independence leader, Nartey investigates the notion of political myth-making in a context underexplored in the literature.

How can an "e;ethics of listening"e; guide the media to contribute to the deepening of democracy in Africa?

Two decades since the enactment of South Africa's present constitution, the durability and endurance of 'past' inequalities and injustices illustrate that the 'new South Africa' - lauded as a miracle nation with the best constitution in the world - can no longer be regarded as an unqualified success.

The issues that are the most and the least divisive in RussiaThe collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 created a new Russia, with new territorial boundaries and new political and economic systems.

This book explores the importance of local courts in enacting positive social and economic reform in Brazil and Mexico.

This book provides an overview of governance and development in the Mesoamerican Region (MAR), the design and scope of the Plan Puebla Panama (PPP), its relationship to pre-existing regional organisms and its transformation into Proyecto Mesoamerica.

Texas and California are the leaders of Red and Blue America.

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

Im vorliegenden Buch werden Integrationsleitbild(er) und -politik(en) von CDU/CSU, SPD, FDP, Die Linke und Bündnis 90/Die Grünen erstmals ausführlich untersucht.

To what extent do federal systems promote multiple identities and attachments?

Party Reform is a new comparative study of the politics of party organization.

The first volume in a series of comparative studies within the ESRC's Whitehall Programme focuses on core executives in five parliamentary democracies comparing the Westminster model as in Australia, Canada and Britain with the continental democracies of Germany and the Netherlands showing how political leadership is shackled by a vast array of constraints, from globalisation to internal fragmentation and rationalisation, making a heroic model of decisive political leadership hard to sustain.

This book analyzes major contemporary political and security problems in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE).

Originally published in 1986, Politics and Government in African States 1960-1985 deals with the politics of sub-Saharan African states since independence.

Water resources and related issues are of great significance in 21st century politics.

This book brings a radically new voice to the debate in the field of Chinese politics and labor movement.

This text explores the nature and possibility of revolution and civil strife in the context of international politics.

This book studies governance capacity and governance legitimacy for societal security and crisis management.

On the fiftieth anniversary of Quotations from Chairman Mao, this pioneering volume examines the book as a global historical phenomenon.

An updated, comprehensive analysis of the European and US approaches to the exhaustion doctrine in the online and offline world.

Der Band befasst sich mit den armenisch-aserbaidschanischen Konflikten,beginnend mit den armenischen Zuwanderungen im 19.

This book examines why Western European states have recently introduced citizenship tests, integration courses, contracts, and oath ceremonies.

This book explains the dramatically different foreign policies adopted by China under Mao Zedong and by India under Jawaharlal Nehru.

This is the first book that examines healthy human relationships in post-apartheid South Africa.

The election of Barack Obama in 2008 was startling, as was the victory of Donald Trump eight years later.