Comparative politics

Rituals can provoke or escalate conflict, but they can also mediate it and although conflict is a normal aspect of human life, mass media technologies are changing the dynamics of conflict and shaping strategies for deploying rituals.

Why do people in some societies tend to follow rules and obey the laws more than those in other societies?

Biopolitics at 50 Years: Founding and Evolution explores the study of biology and politics through the prism of fifty years of experience presenting current research that illustrates the nature and evolution of biopolitics.

The Civil Rights Movement.

Media reporting on Islam and Muslims commonly relate stories about terrorism, violence, or the lack of integration with western values and society.

Democracy is not easy.

How are global crises responded and dealt with?

Institutionalization has become a paramount concept to compare party systems in regions spanned by the third wave of democratization.

Inspired by overtly negative coverage by the Western mainstream press of Muslims in particular, and minorities in general, this book asks: Why are negative narratives and depictions of Muslims and other minorities so hard to change?

This book examines the changes in the career experiences and profiles of 350 European prime ministers in 26 European democracies from 1945 to 2020.

American democracy is at an impasse.

This book explores developments in the three major societies of the South Caucasus - Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia - focusing especially on religion, historical traditions, national consciousness, and political culture, and on how these factors interact.

For more than twenty years, Bishop Tom Butler has related religious belief to the events of public life, both national and global, in regular contributions to BBC Radio 4's Thought for the Day.

This is the first academic study of Christian literature in Hindi and its role in the politics of language and religion in contemporary India.

Africa is known as a continent of conflict.

This book uses extractive industry projects in Africa to explore how political authority and the nation-state are reconfigured at the intersection of national political contestations and global, transnational capital.

Energietransitionsprozesse werden weltweit nicht zuletzt durch die Überzeugungen der Akteure geprägt.

The world's problems--climate change, epidemics, and the actions of multinational corporations--are increasingly global in scale and beyond the ability of any single state to manage.

Shows that the most widespread and malignant dictatorships today emerge by attracting genuine popular support in societies plagued by crises.

This book examines the origins and consequences of civil war in Central America.

This book offers a philosophical and macro-historical analysis of secularism, supported by an investigation of various contemporary cases.

This is an analysis of the constitutional revolutions in the Ottoman Empire and Iran in the early twentieth century.

This book considers the importance of African values, not only in catalysing development, but in sustaining it.

Dieses Buch präsentiert Beiträge aus dem deutsch-polnischen Vergleichsprojekt: „‚Wissen ist Macht’: Grenzen der Politikberatung und des Lobbyismus im politischen Entscheidungsprozess“.

This volume aims to rethink the intersections of gender and religion, as well as the secular and religious, in implementing and challenging gender equality at individual, institutional, and societal levels in the regions around the Baltic Sea.

Religion and Security: The New Nexus in International Relations focuses on a groundbreaking theme.

In a world of violence in which religion seems to play an increasing role, the understanding of the Religions of the Book, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, is highly important.

The book shows how national days are best understood in the context of debates about national identity.

This is a comparative international study of the patterns of planning in local governments.

The long-standing debate about whether the State of Israel can be both Jewish and democratic raises important questions about the rights of Palestinian Arabs.

First published in 1987 and in English in 1989, Gabon provides an essential introduction to the geography, history, sociology, economics and politics of Gabon in considerable detail.

Zwischen dem Erscheinen der ersten Auflage dieses Bandes vor zwei Jahren und der nun vorliegenden zweiten, überarbeiteten Auflage ist die euro­ päische Integration weiter vorangeschritten.

Originally published in 1987 this book argues that South African politics reflect the changing ways in which the region has been incorporated into the world economy.

In this book, Alec Stone Sweet and Jud Mathews focus on the law and politics of rights protection in democracies, and in human rights regimes in Europe, the Americas, and Africa.

As the global marketplace grows and becomes more complex, increasing stress is placed upon employees.

Occupy Religion introduces readers to the growing role of religion in the Occupy Movement and asks provocative questions about how people of faith can work for social justice.

This collection addresses the ways that Nordic countries have approached the issue of bringing ethnic minorities into the societal mainstream.

First published in 1999, this volume follows the interactions between the United Democratic Front (UDF) and the African National Congress (ANC) and Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), which had adopted more revolutionary strategies after their banning in 1960, over the period 1983-87.

The Formation of Modern Lebanon (1985) examines the critical period around the 1920 establishment of Greater Lebanon and its impact on the political development of the country.

This book investigates whether African cultures can appropriate some useful aspects of Western cultures, or whether doing so risks falling into the metaphysical empire and diluting African identity.

Post-conflict Liberia has been subjected to extensive international state-building, at some point hosting the largest and one of the longest UN peacekeeping missions in the world, and inflow of aid that exceeds in multiples the GDP.

This book discusses the shifting regional geopolitical engagements and development of rearranged connections emerging among ASEAN and non-ASEAN actors.

For thirty years, Alain-G.