Comparative politics

Law, Politics and Society is the sixth and latest addition to the European Union Studies Association series, State of the European Union.

Politics and Religion: The Basics provides a concise introduction to the complex interactions between politics and religion in both domestic and international contexts.

This volume provides a comprehensive survey of the contemporary study of Islamic law and a critical analysis of its deficiencies.

How can one describe the pluralisation of the religious realm, which is of such significance for processes of social change?

Examining the historical and political conditions that shaped death penalty practice from the end of World War II to today.

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Europe is imbued with a multitude of social, cultural, economic and political meanings.

When does the exercise of an interest constitute a human right?

The contributors to this book critically examine the performance of new modes of governance in areas of limited statehood, drawing on a range of in-depth case studies on issues of climate change, biodiversity, and health.

Providing the first book-length analysis of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), this volume asks how can it be ensured that the AfCFTA is effectively implemented to deliver inclusive trade in Africa.

She Preached the Word is a landmark study of women's ordination in contemporary American congregations.

This book documents what happens when people encounter public officials.

This book reconstructs the connection between religion and migration, drawing on post-colonial perspectives to shed light on what religion can contribute to migrant encounters.

A comparison of Turkey''s and Egypt''s diverging foreign policies during the Cold War in light of their leaderships'' nation making projects.

Published between 1906 and 1930, Molla Nasreddin was a satirical Azeri periodical edited by Jalil Mammadguluzadeh and named after the legendary Sufi wise man-cum-fool of the Middle Ages (who reputedly lived in the thirteenth century in the Ottoman Empire).

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The dilemma of democracy arises from two contrasting trends.

The book aims to explore the foresight of prominent Middle Eastern authors and artists who anticipated the Arab Spring, which resulted in demands for change in the repressive and corrupted regimes.

How do European states adjust to international markets?

In this book Uslaner suggests that the roots of corruption lie in economic and legal inequality and low levels of generalized trust.

Der Sammelband bietet einen breiten Überblick zu Energiewende-Konflikten und dem Umgang mit Populismus in Energiewende-Diskursen.

This book studies party leaders from selection to post-presidency.

This book aims to establish a dialogue around the various "e;urban sanctuary"e; policies and other formal or informal practices of hospitality toward migrants that have emerged or been strengthened in cities in the Americas in the last decade.

The relationship between populism and democracy is contested among scholars.

This book introduces the concept of rightful resistance and explains how it operates in rural China.

The book analyzes concentrations of wealth and power in developed democracies.

While the discussions among Brexiters mainly focus on the referendum of 2016 or David Cameron's "e;great miscalculation"e; and its repercussions, this book looks at the Brexit as a process that began decades earlier.

This book is an ethnography of politics of waiting.

In what ways can we think through the complexities of identity?

The breakdown of authoritarian regimes in Greece, Spain and Portugal in the mid-70s was the beginning of a new cycle of democratization at the world scale.

This book studies the process of fiscal centralization in the Latin American federations.

German philosopher Jurgen Habermas has written extensively on the European Union.

Shows how a broad group of civil society organizations came together to contest free trade negotiations in the Americas.

This book analyses the coverage of elections that occurred between September 2015 and February 2016 in six European countries (Greece, Portugal, Poland, Croatia, Spain and Ireland).

International Relations scholarship posits that legitimacy, authority and violence are attributes of states.

This expanded second edition of African Politics in Comparative Perspective reviews fifty years of research on politics in Africa.

At its core, politics is all about relations of rule.

The Byzantine cathedral of Hagia Sophia has been a source of wonder and fascination since its sixth-century construction.

The Challenges of Intra-Party Democracy provides a comprehensive examination of both the concept and the practice of intra-party democracy (IPD).

Evaluates the most important explanations for democratization and democratic decline, using new global data extending across modern history.

Should offence to religions be punishable by law, or does freedom of expression extend even to blasphemy?

A comprehensive look at how violence has been used to manipulate competitive electoral processes around the world since World War IIThroughout their history, political elections have been threatened by conflict, and the use of force has in the past several decades been an integral part of electoral processes in a significant number of contemporary states.

Over five decades of research has made clear that social networks can have an important impact on our political behavior.