Comparative politics

This book shows how one high-profile hybrid regime manages political competition in the workplace and in the streets in Russia.

By the mid nineteenth century, anti-Catholicism had become a central conflict in America.

Regional integration was identified many years ago as being critical to Africa's quest to overcome its colonially induced underdevelopment.

Struggles for global justice are being fought by civil society groups across the globe, addressing global inequalities, challenging neoliberal market driven globalization and demanding to remedy its negative implications.

In the first book of its kind, Leo Huberts provides a critical synthesis of cutting-edge research on public sector integrity exploring issues such as the definition and importance of public sector integrity, the various methodological approaches to the field as well as considering the causes of for the violation of values associated with integrity.

KatharinaCrepaz investigates how two-dimensional ('top-down' and 'bottom-up')Europeanization processes affect minority communities by using acomparative approach, encompassing cases from both old"e;(pre-2004) and new"e; EU member-states.

An exhaustively researched account of late-Mao power strategy and its consequences on elite dynamics in subsequent decades, including the rise of Xi.

Western democracy is being questioned around the world.

The search for a republican morality provides an exciting new study of an important event in the French Revolution and a defining moment in the career of its principal actor, Maximilien Robespierre, the Festival of the Supreme Being.

Politics, while always an integral part of the daily life in the South, took on a new level of importance after the Civil War.

Engaging with current philosophers and thinkers, this book questions the roots to our human condition.

This book develops a comparative study on violence in Jamaica, El Salvador, and Belize based on a theoretical approach, extensive field research, and in-depth empirical research.

This book examines the process of presidentialisation of political parties in the Western Balkans.

The Robust Federation offers the first holistic and comprehensive approach to the study of federalism.

This is the first comparative study of the distinctive literatures and cultures that have developed in Wales, Scotland, England and Northern Ireland since political devolution in the late 1990s, especially surrounding Brexit.

Originally published in 1983 after the convictions of the Wilmington Ten were overturned, Psalms from Prison was updated and re-released in 1994.

This book provides a tour through a novel theoretical approach to understanding the political economy of authoritarianism and the international market for capital investment.

This book is a critical resource for understanding the relationship between gender, social policy and women's activism in Latin America, with specific reference to Chile.

This book shows that constitutional courts exercise direct and indirect power on political branches through decision-making.

This timely study analyzes social, economic, political, provider, and patient factors shaping collective patient involvement in European health care from the postwar period to the present day.

What role should religion play in shaping and implementing U.

What global future would ensure hope, justice and peace to the human mankind?

Contrary to other world regions, political regimes in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) remain largely authoritarian.

The decades-long resilience of Middle Eastern regimes meant that few anticipated the 2011 Arab Spring.

Around the globe religion is under attack.

This book proposes a radical recasting of the relationship between just war thinking and realism.

The question if states should intervene in massive humanitarian emergencies without a legal right to do so, is still object of an important debate in the theory and practice of international relations.

Toha explains why ethnic groups engage in violence during political transition, and why and how this violence eventually declines.

This book explores the role of political factors in the occurrence of currency crises, using an eclectic approach that blends case studies, a rigorous theoretical discussion, and econometric analysis.

Engaging with current philosophers and thinkers, this book questions the roots to our human condition.

Using historical process tracing, this book examines state interaction with religious elites, institutions, and attachments in Egypt, Greece, and Turkey.

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Examines the effect of prescribed multilingualism as expressed by women writers in colonial contexts What does it mean to be an heir, as a woman writer, to colonial and postcolonial cultures in which European language has become so thoroughly ingrained?

For the past thirty years scholars have debated the role of political parties in fiscal, monetary, and social welfare policies.

The New Phase of Global Terrorism explores the nuances of the shift in the organization, strategy, and operation of terrorist groups into smaller and more robust terror groups in both the United States and international levels.

In this compelling critique Rob Wilson explores the creation of the "e;Pacific Rim"e; in the American imagination and how the concept has been variously adapted and resisted in Hawai'i, the Pacific Islands, New Zealand, and Australia.

"e;Good governance and Coalition Politics"e; is a tale of two coalition governments of Jammu and Kashmir -(PDP-Congress(2002-2008) and NC-Congress ( 2008-2014)- prefaced by concept and contours of Good Governance in historical and philosophical contexts.

This book shows that escalating climate destruction today is not the product of public indifference, but of the blocked democratic freedoms of peoples across the world to resist unwanted degrees of capitalist interference with their ecological fate or capacity to change the course of ecological disaster.