Comparative politics

This book provides a comprehensive discussion of the public policy and management issues that are encountered in the regulation of infrastructure and utilities.

This book probes key issues pertaining to Africa's relations with global actors.

In What if there were no whites in South Africa?

This book focuses on the making and implication of AUKUS for Australians in their relations with their own state and governance, the Asia-Pacific region and the rest of the world.

'A groundbreaking analysis of what used to be an impenetrable mystery: how and why do cultures differ?

The new fifth edition of this leading textbook provides a clear and comprehensive account of governance and politics in the Netherlands.

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.

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

September 11 and the subsequent War on Terror continues to cast a long shadow over the world.

While social scientists, beginning with Weber, envisioned a secularized world, religion today is forthrightly becoming a defining feature of life all around the globe.

This book tells the story of the Lebanese Shi'a and their development from a marginalized, discriminated minority to a highly politicized community that has given birth to Hezbollah, one of the most powerful paramilitary forces in the contemporary Middle East.

Few people today would challenge the legitimacy of democracy as the form of government most congenial to modern-day citizenship, as it requires its members to treat each other as equals and to cooperate in the shared pursuit of conditions that maximize both the individual's potential and the achievement of a public welfare.

What is driving political extremism in Pakistan?

Uses the tools of political, legal, moral and historical analysis to describe a ''just return'' process for repatriating refugees.

Gerechtigkeit und Frieden sind zentrale biblische Topoi.

Leadership in Democracy develops and applies an innovative leadership theory of democracy and political evolution, based upon Schumpeter's famous theories of democracy and economic entrepreneurship.

This book presents in-depth analyses of the wave of political protest and unrest that spread throughout Latin America between 2010 and 2015 in order to answer a question that has been challenging social scientists all over the region: why some countries have faced a divorce between their social movements and political parties while others have not?

Christianity is one of the most rapidly growing religions in Asia.

Dieser Band enthält die Vorträge, die im Frühjahrs- und Herbstsemester 2018 am Schweizerischen Institut für Auslandforschung gehalten wurden.

A systematic analysis of extraterritorial obligations and state responsibility for private actors under international refugee law.

This book examines the manner in which the Haram al-Sharif/Temple Mount has been appropriated by both Palestinians and Israelis as a nationalist symbol legitimizing respective claims to the land.

This timely volume discusses the much debated and controversial subject of the presence of religion in the public sphere.

Diving into an original and unusually positive case study from India, Patching Development shows how development programs can be designed to work.

John Chryssavgis explores the sacred dimension of the natural environment, and the significance of creation in the rich theological history and spiritual classics of the Orthodox Church, through the lens of its unique ascetical, liturgical and mystical experience.

This study focuses on the corporate governance initiatives, laws and regulations aimed at enhancing the effectiveness of boards of public entities in Zimbabwe.

In this sweeping history, Tibebe Eshete presents a new view of Ethiopian Christianity.

For decades, scholars and public intellectuals have been predicting the demise of religion in the face of secularization.

In recent years, an internal debate has arisen in Saudi Arabia on the legitimacy of Saudi religion and the foundations of Islam.

A unique and major contribution to the scholarly and policy debate on American foreign and economic policy toward the Islamic Republic of Iran.

This book dispels the widely-held view that paganism survived in Russia alongside Orthodox Christianity, demonstrating that 'double belief', dvoeverie, is in fact an academic myth.

The rise of the modern Christian Right, starting with the 1976 Presidential election and culminating in the overwhelming white evangelical support for Donald Trump in the 2016 election, has been one of the most consequential political developments of the last half-century of American history.

This book examines how Rwandan elites within the government, private sector and civil society perceive the nation's political and economic relationship with the international community.

The seventeenth century English philosopher, John Locke, is widely recognized as one of the seminal sources of the modern liberal tradition.

Shows that in a predatory regime localized property rights protection is possible due to elite cleavage within the regime.

1 Research Idea: History and Regional Diversity Post-socialist societies in Europe can be assigned to three "e;historical regions"e; (Sziicz 1990) corresponding to their path of historical development.

Why do some nations fail while others succeed?

Ethno-nationalism presents a multitude of challenges to the structure of the international political system and to the internal governance of states.

The Governor's Dilemma develops a general theory of indirect governance based on the tradeoff between governor control and intermediary competence; the empirical chapters apply that theory to a diverse range of cases encompassing both international relations and comparative politics.

This book argues that political leaders are likely to permit religious freedoms if they enhance power or economic well-being.

This book explains why neoliberal economic ideas have not just survived, but thrived since the 1980s - taking Europe from boom to bust.

In this volume, Jason Radcliff offers an introduction, critical appreciation, and constructive extension of the Orthodox-Reformed Theological Dialogue spearheaded by Thomas F.

Why do businesses contribute to political parties?

Muslim Democracy explores the relationship between politics and religion in forty-seven Muslim-majority countries, focusing especially on those with democratic experience, such as Indonesia and Turkey, and drawing comparisons with their regional, non-Islamic counterparts.

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This book seeks to renew and refocus the debate on the use of governance networks in public policy making.