Comparative politics

Negotiating Corruption demands that we think again about corruption in Africa.

This book offers a critical account of studies of local immigration policy and a relational approach to explain its emergence, variation, and effects in a context of interdependence and globalization.

The second edition of this introductory textbook on foreign policy analysis focuses on the key explanatory factors that underlie the foreign policies of states and other actors to show how theory can illuminate practice.

The period since the 1980s has seen sustained pressure on Africa's political elite to anchor the continent's development strategies in neoliberalism in exchange for vitally needed development assistance.

This book provides an overview of governance and development in the Mesoamerican Region (MAR), the design and scope of the Plan Puebla Panama (PPP), its relationship to pre-existing regional organisms and its transformation into Proyecto Mesoamerica.

This book explores cathedrals, past and present, as spaces for religious but also wider cultural practices.

Virtually every trouble spot on the planet has some sort of religious component.

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Global financial markets have transformed over the past three decades - with potentially dangerous results.

Paul Johnson and Sean Wilentz brilliantly recapture the forgotten story of Matthias the Prophet, imbuing their richly researched account with the dramatic force of a novel.

Building on recent theories of interactive governance and political leadership, Interactive Political Leadership develops a concept of interactive political leadership and a theoretical framework for studying the role of elected politicians in the age of governance.

The Architectonics of Hope provides a critical excavation and reconstruction of the Schmittian seductions that continue to bedevil contemporary political theology.

The book explains why some national and state governments in the developing world introduce reforms to make local governance more democratic while others do not.

The first full-length, interdisciplinary study of the Greek performing arts - theatre, rhetoric and ritual - between antiquity and the Renaissance.

A warning and a wake-up call to learn history so we are not doomed to repeat it.

This book analyzes the dynamics of party building and explores the attitudes, skills and experiences of radical right activists in eleven countries.

Das im Jahr 2020 veröffentlichte sozialethische Dokument des Ökumenischen Patriarchats "For the Life of the World" bietet seitens der Orthodoxie wichtige Impulse für eine Auseinandersetzung mit den Gegebenheiten der modernen Welt.

Emilio Gentile, an internationally renowned authority on fascism and totalitarianism, argues that politics over the past two centuries has often taken on the features of religion, claiming as its own the prerogative of defining the fundamental purpose and meaning of human life.

This book investigates ways 'the Other' can be both a cause of and an answer to religious and cultural fears.

In this bold, analytical, and readable book, Miles names names and dismantles the fallacy of progressive Christianity.

How do urbanization and development intersect with religious dynamics to shape contemporary African cityscapes?

The fundamental cause of many of the global challenges we are currently facing is our disconnection from ourselves, our fellow humans, other beings, and our planet.

The peaceful end of apartheid in South Africa was a monumental event in late twentieth century history.

This book examines notions of procedural fairness applicable to truth commissions.

An empirically rich and conceptually informed study of the politics of transitional justice in post-communist Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.

This book provides a general overview of accountability, a key concept in modern democratic governance.

Die Angst vor dem Islam geht um in Europa.

Analyzes Muslim countries'' contemporary problems, particularly violence, authoritarianism, and underdevelopment, comparing their historical levels of development with Western Europe.

What role, if any, should religion play in politics?

This book, available in paperback for the first time, offers a new and innovative way of looking at Irish foreign policy, linking its development with changes in Irish national identity.

This book provides an important overview of key criminology and criminal justice concerns in Japan.

China and India have huge potential to exert global influence due to their geography, population size and material resources.

Engaging with some of the central issues in the sociology of religion, this volume investigates the role and significance of churches and religion in contemporary Western and Eastern Europe.

Is religion best seen as only a cause of war, or is it a source of comfort for those caught up in conflict?

"e;American exceptionalism"e; was once a rather obscure and academic concept, but in the 2012 presidential election campaign the phrase attained unprecedented significance in political rhetoric.

This book, rooted in the disciplines of theology and peace studies, reflects with and on war-affected communities in Colombia about transitioning from violence to peace.

Providing an empirically grounded perspective on policy disagreements, Éric Montpetit highlights significant distortions in the media coverage of policy-making.

Das Anliegen der Ontosophie besteht darin, evolutionär und kulturell verzerrte Vorstellungen von dem, was Denken und Realität seien, herauszustellen und sie via Bewusstwerdung zu durchschauen.

It has long been assumed that the historical legacy of Soviet Communism would have an important effect on post-communist states.

With a focus on Indonesia, this book studies representation to explain why public satisfaction with democracy may increase despite democratic backsliding.

This book investigates whether democracy reduces state repression.

In a political environment characterized by intense urban-rural polarization and growing hostility between cities and state legislatures, When Cities Lobby explores how local officials use lobbyists to compete for power in state politics.

Hungary was once a frontrunner of democratization.

It has been shown time and again that even though all citizens may be accorded equal standing in the constitution of a liberal democracy, such a legal provision hardly guarantees state protections against discrimination and political exclusion.