Comparative politics

The Reformation was about ideas and power, but it was also about real human lives.

The Oxford Handbook of Italian Politics provides a comprehensive look at the political life of one of Europe's most exciting and turbulent democracies.

The Oxford Handbook of Italian Politics provides a comprehensive look at the political life of one of Europe's most exciting and turbulent democracies.

The Oxford Handbook of French Politics provides a comprehensive and comparative overview of the French political system through the lens of political science.

The Oxford Handbook of French Politics provides a comprehensive and comparative overview of the French political system through the lens of political science.

Almost all advanced democracies have launched significant privatization programs over the last three decades.

Karl Barth was well-known for his criticism of German nationalism as a corrupting influence on the German protestant churches in the Nazi era.

Globalization is a dominant feature and force in the contemporary world, impacting all areas of business, economics, and society.

How to accommodate diverse religious practices and laws within a secular framework is one of the most pressing and controversial problems facing contemporary European public order.

How to accommodate diverse religious practices and laws within a secular framework is one of the most pressing and controversial problems facing contemporary European public order.

At the beginning of the twenty-first century prime ministers loom larger in the consciousness of their nations than perhaps in any previous era.

The Oxford Handbook of Swedish Politics provides a state of the art analysis of political development in Sweden.

The Oxford Handbook of Swedish Politics provides a state of the art analysis of political development in Sweden.

Why do businesses contribute to political parties?

This Handbook brings together a collection of leading international authors to reflect on the influence of central contributions, or classics, that have shaped the development of the field of public policy and administration.

This Handbook brings together a collection of leading international authors to reflect on the influence of central contributions, or classics, that have shaped the development of the field of public policy and administration.

This Handbook offers a comprehensive treatment of transformations of the state, from its origins in different parts of the world and different time periods to its transformations since World War II in the advanced industrial countries, the post-Communist world, and the Global South.

This Handbook offers a comprehensive treatment of transformations of the state, from its origins in different parts of the world and different time periods to its transformations since World War II in the advanced industrial countries, the post-Communist world, and the Global South.

The quality of working life has been central to the sociological agenda for several decades, and has also been increasingly salient as a policy issue, and for companies.

All governments strive to develop and implement policies that contribute to innovation.

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.

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.

Voters on the Move or on the Run?

For more than a century party members have played a central role in many parliamentary democracies, helping political parties to mobilize voters, and visibly linking party leaders with their grassroots supporters.

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

This book addresses one of the enduring questions of democratic government: why do governments choose some public policies but not others?

Political Choice Matters investigates the extent to which class and religion influence party choice in contemporary democracies.

Autobiographical narrative is seldom viewed as a catalyst for the social and political upheavals of mid-seventeenth-century England and its colonies.

Personality Politics?

Several years after the Arab Spring began, democracy remains elusive in the Middle East.

The early twenty-first century is witnessing both an increasing internationalization of many markets, firms, and regulatory institutions, and a reinforcement of the key role of nation states in managing economic development, financial crises, and market upheavals in many OECD and developing economies.

The rise of innovative firms in emerging market economies is an increasingly topical issue.

The increasing economic and political importance of East Asia in the global political economy requires a deeper analysis of the nature of the capitalist systems in this region than has been provided by the existing literature on comparative capitalisms.

For years the European Union has been looked on as a potential model for cosmopolitan governance, and enjoyed considerable influence on the global stage.

For years the European Union has been looked on as a potential model for cosmopolitan governance, and enjoyed considerable influence on the global stage.

Life After Privatization offers a refreshing and original theoretical conceptualization of what happened to stateowned enterprises after they were privatized from the late 1970s onwards.

The balance of economic power in Europe is shifting eastwards.

The claim that the Bible was 'the Christian's only rule of faith and practice' has been fundamental to Protestant dissent.

What is the nature of affections such as joy, compassion, sorrow, and shame and what role do they play in politics?

This bold venture into democratic theory offers a new and reinvigorating thesis for how democracy delivers on its promise of public control over public policy.

Politics at the Centre is a comparative study of the rules, norms and behaviour surrounding political party leadership.

Research on the extreme right is rare, and the extreme right has even more rarely been analysed as a social movement.

Have bureaucrats taken over the decision making role of politicians?

European Identity examines how Europe is represented linguistically in the news media of four EU countries, France, Italy, Poland, and the UK, through the use of an electronic corpus built from newspapers and television news transcripts.

How do state parties react to the challenge of peripheral parties demanding political power to be devolved to their culturally distinct territories?

Are social movement organizations euro-sceptical, euro-pragmatic, or euro-opportunist?

Coalition governments are the norm in most of the world's parliamentary democracies.

'Christian nationalism' refers to the set of ideas in which belief in the development and superiority of one's national group is combined with, or underwritten by, Christian theology and practice.

Campaign organizers and the media appear to agree that voters' perceptions of party leaders have an important impact in elections: considerable effort is made to ensure that leaders look good, speak well, and that they are up in the polls.

Is the party over?