Comparative politics

Brings together chapters from more than a dozen leading methods scholars to revolutionize qualitative research design.

Originally published in 1976 Race and Suicide in South Africa synthesises the two dimensions of suicide: the personal and the social phenomenon.

Activated by injustice, members of over-policed communities lead the current movement for civil rights in the United States.

In 21st century America, personhood is under daily assault, sometimes with dire consequences.

This book analyzes the implementation of peace processes in Northern Ireland and Guatemala, with emphasis on the role of mid-level civil society and religious organizations, or "e;the voluntary sector.

This edited volume covers the development of the thought of the political realist Hans J.

A new approach to the moral and intellectual debates provoked by Nazism in Germany, the Holocaust and World War II.

It humanizes high-level debates over indicators and data in development aid, showing how they are used to make life-or-death decisions.

This book interrogates the patterns and discursive structures that have generated the seeming urgency of Muslims' integration.

There is a complex relationship between religiosity and secularism in the American experience.

On Palm Sunday 1964, at the Second Presbyterian Church in Memphis, a group of black and white students began a "e;kneel-in"e; to protest the church's policy of segregation, a protest that would continue in one form or another for more than a year and eventually force the church to open its doors to black worshippers.

This book focuses on the historical configuration of the territorial borders and functional boundaries of the European nation state.

This book offers fresh insights to enhance and diversify our understanding of the modern history of the state and societies in today's Jordan, while also providing examples of why and how scholars can challenge the static and discursively government-minded approaches to minorities and minoritisation - especially the traditional emphasis on demographic balances.

Banks were allowed to enter securities markets and become universal banks during two periods in the past century - the 1920s and the late 1990s.

This book takes stock of developments in the Horn of Africa since 2018, a key time of political turbulence marked by revolution, military coups, and civil war as well as alliances, peace deals, reforms, and reconciliation processes.

This book offers a well-investigated and accessible picture of the current situation around the politics of LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender) rights and activism in Central Europe and the Western Balkans in the context of the enlargement of the European Union (EU).

​​Dietmar Klumpp untersucht die Transformation von Rechtssystemen in Brasilien anhand von Fallbeispielen aus den Favelas von Rio de Janeiro.

Considers political theologies formulated in Iran and Israel over the course of the twentieth century.

This book discusses in detail how Orthodox Christianity was involved in and influenced political transition in Ukraine, Serbia, and Georgia after the collapse of communism.

This book analyses the evolving geopolitics in the Indo-Pacific region and explains how Djibouti fits in the global strategies of four major powers-the US, China, Japan, and France.

Substantially revised and rewritten in the light of the 1997 General Election and Devolution referendum, the 2nd edition of this widely-used text provides an up-to-date assessment of Scottish politics under Blair and the likely impact of the new Scottish Parliament.

The political history of Italy has been an undeniably turbulent one.

Civil resistance, especially in the form of massive peaceful demonstrations, was at the heart of the Arab Spring-the chain of events in the Middle East and North Africa that erupted in December 2010.

A unique and comprehensive analysis of the special nature of political and public leadership in major crises.

Populism has become a favourite catchword for mass media and politicians faced with the challenge of protest parties or movements.

This original and ambitious book considers the terms of engagement between Christian theology and other religious traditions, beginning with criticism of Christian theology of religions as entangled with European colonial modernity.

What kind of decolonial possibilities exist in today's world?

This book addresses one main question: whether the United States has a cohesive foreign policy for Africa.

This book offers a synthesis of the main achievements and pending challenges during the thirty years of transitional justice in Chile after Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship.

West Africa''s precolonial kingdoms left behind social norms and identities that affect elite behavior and subnational development today.

Anspruche auf Burgerschaft steigen unter Bewohner:innen informeller Siedlungen Nairobis.

This book provides insights on regulatory effectiveness in the field of food safety, by focusing on the variety of institutional factors affecting regulatory outcomes.

Can we conceptualise a kind of citizenship that need not be of a nation-state, but might be of a variety of political frameworks?

Contemporary European societies are multi-ethnic and multi-cultural, certainly in terms of the diversity which has stemmed from the immigration of workers and refugees and their settlement.

The Right and the Welfare State studies the welfare state policies of conservative and liberal governments.

How envy, spite, and the pursuit of admiration influence politicsWhy do governments underspend on policies that would make their constituents better off?

This book investigates the often-fragmented nature of Ulster Nationalist / Republican / Roman Catholic politics, culture and identity.

This book explores how politics, religion and cinema encounter and re-invent each other in contemporary Turkish cinema.

This book is designed to provide specialists, spectators, and students with a brief and engaging exploration of media usage by radical groups and the laws regulating these grey areas of Jihadi propaganda activities.

This book highlights perspectives from religious traditions worldwide, in conversation with other communities who promote, critique, or question the idea of human rights.

This books explores the rise of civilizational populism throughout the world, and its consequences.

This comparative work examines the political role played by armed forces in South Korea, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Taiwan.

Cosmopolitanism, as an intellectual and political project, has failed.

Both Russia and Turkey were pioneering examples of feminism in the early 20th Century, when the Bolshevik and Republican states embraced an ideology of women's equality.

Der Sammelband widmet sich der Analyse zweier bisher eher vernachlässigter Faktoren, die sich allein oder in Kombination signifikant auf das Verhältnis zwischen Politik und Recht in politisch-administrativen Systemen auswirken können: Kleinstaatlichkeit und monarchische Regierungsform.