Comparative politics

This book is a guide to claims about the proper role of government and markets in a global economy.

Money is essential to the functioning of electoral politics, yet regulating its appropriate use raises complex and controversial challenges in countries around the world.

Over the last twenty years, there has been a growing understanding that conflicts in or over holy places differ from other territorial conflicts.

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This book examines the important role which civil society organisations in South Africa play in challenging poor corporate governance in state-owned enterprises and demanding better government accountability, transparency and citizen participation.

Die vorliegende Studie untersucht die Beständigkeit alter Strukturen im Pflegesektor und nimmt dabei die Rolle der Wohlfahrtsverbände in den Blick.

The investigation of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood during the presidencies of Anwar Sadat and the early years of Hosni Mubarak is based on the movement's main journals, al-Da'wa and Liwa' al-'Islam, presenting its history during two relevant periods: 1976-1981, 1987-1988.

Is socialism dead since the fall of the Soviet Union?

More than a hundred years of trouble followed the land grant of half a million acres along the St.

This book argues that relationships between religion and development in faith-based development work are constructed through repeated processes of negotiation.

The past fifteen years have seen Indonesia move away from authoritarianism to a thriving yet imperfect democracy.

The Oxford Handbook of Historical Institutionalism offers an authoritative and accessible state-of-the-art analysis of the historical institutionalism research tradition in Political Science.

Literature, images, and metaphor are often where most of a nation's history are embedded.

China's increasing involvement in Africa is a controversial and hotly debated issue.

Atheism Revisited is a collection of essays that explore the multifaceted nature of atheism.

Still vivid in many Americans' memories are the 444 days of 1979 when Islamic militants held U.

In this book, Alec Stone Sweet and Jud Mathews focus on the law and politics of rights protection in democracies, and in human rights regimes in Europe, the Americas, and Africa.

As local media institutions collapse and news deserts sprout up across the country, the US is facing a profound journalism crisis.

Originally published in 1961, this book was the first comprehensive work on South African geography that also presented a balanced account of all facets of the economic life.

This book studies the cultural, societal, and ideological factors absent from popular discourse on Vladimir Putin's Russia, contesting the misleading mainstream assumption that Putin is the all-powerful sovereign of Russia.

'Öffentliche Theologie': Der Begriff ist in unterschiedlichsten Kontexten zu einem theologischen Paradigma geworden.

Exploring the concepts of collaboration, resistance, and postwar retribution and focusing on the Chetnik movement, this book analyses the politics of memory.

This book explores the rhetoric and public communication of the Catholic Church in the United States in the wake of the sexual abuse scandals and offers a demonstration of how large organizations negotiate a loss of public trust while retaining political power.

This book is the first volume of aseries that aims at taking stock of the status of local democracy at the beginning of a new century.

Democracy, Agency, and the State aims to contribute to a comparatively informed theory of democracy.

In Authoritarian Containment, Marie-Eve Reny examines why local public security bureaus tolerate unregistered Protestant churches in urban China--an officially atheist country where religious practice is controlled by the state--when the central government considers them illegal.

This book presents a comparative study on access to public information in the context of the main legal orders worldwide(inter alia China,France,Germany,Japan,Russia,Sweden,United States).

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This book presents an innovative exploration of the rise of political forces that have coalesced around the anti-gender movement, shaping strategies that advocate novel intersections of religion, politicization of gender and sexuality, and radical and populist rejuvenation of conservative ideologies.

This book explains why different countries have had dramatically different experiences with subnational fiscal discipline.

In Governance in the Twenty-first Century Canadian and international experts recognize both the difficulty of making predictions and the need to consider the future in order to prepare the public sector for new challenges.

Departing from the idea that political controversies are embedded in the very framework of European integration, this volume focuses on the relationship between politicisation and European democracy.

This book develops a theoretical understanding of how truth commissions achieve legitimacy and contribute to peace and stability.

This book investigates the role of the internet and social media in political processes in non-western and non-democratic contexts.

Das Völkerrecht gilt als eine der zentralen Friedensstrategien.

This volume features a comparative account of ethics in regulations across four Western democracies.

Beyond the Gatekeeper State explores the dynamic changes occurring within and between African states, and the international system since the turn of the century.

The book describes key socio-political reforms that helped shape post-apartheid South Africa's mental health system.

"e;Weak Institutions and the Governance Dilemma is especially important and welcome since it offers a very incisive analysis of the role of NGOs in transitional democracies and the effect of institutional setting on NGO effectiveness in representing citizen interests.

This book analyzes how reality television fuelled heated polemics over cultural authenticity, gender relations, and political participation in the Middle East.

Russian Orthodoxy Resurgent is the first book to fully explore the expansive and ill-understood role that Russia's ancient Christian faith has played in the fall of Soviet Communism and in the rise of Russian nationalism today.

This book explores smart grid from a social perspective, for advanced students, academic researchers, and energy professionals.

The Acts of Early Church Councils Acts examines the acts of ancient church councils as the objects of textual practices, in their editorial shaping, and in their material conditions.

Rethinking the Roots of Terrorism seeks to explain why terrorism occurs.

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