Comparative politics

This book examines different dimensions of digital communication and populism in times of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Political parties have only recently become a subject of investigation in normative political theory.

This book explores the relationship between the "e;human constant"e; (Jen) of the four large-scale civilizational societies-China, the USA, Japan, and India-and their international behavior, response patterns, and interaction with the international system.

The immense power the Catholic Church once wielded in Ireland has considerably diminished over the last fifty years.

Through its strength in numbers and remarkable presence in politics, Pentecostalism has become a force to reckon with in twenty-first-century Zambian society.

This book situates public theology within the genre of political theology.

Peacekeeping training centres play a crucial role in preparing peacekeepers for their deployment.

Gibson explains how subnational authoritarianism is part of democratic politics and strategic interactions between local authoritarians and national democratic leaders.

This edited volume analyses different forms of resistance against international institutions and charts their success or failure in changing the normative orders embodied in these institutions.

Shows how different countries'' foreign aid programs are profoundly shaped by their visions of the purpose of aid.

This book investigates how African countries respond to socioeconomic shocks, drawing out lessons to help to inform future policy and development efforts.

Offers a unique analysis of abortion policy worldwide focusing on effects of civil society, national governments and intergovernmental organizations.

Die skandinavischen Länder werden seit langem als politische und gesellschaftliche Modelle wahrgenommen.

Life after war is intrinsically political for former combatants.

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.

Theology and Climate Change examines Progressive Dominion Theology (PDT) as a primary cultural driver of anthropogenic climate change.

This book offers vivid insights into policies of religious education in schools since the series of wars in former Yugoslavia in the 1990's.

The Covenanters, now mostly forgotten, were America's first Christian nationalists.

Based on the research of the EU-6th framework funded research consortium on 'New Modes of Governance in the European Union', this volume explores the roots, execution and applications of new forms of governance and evaluates their success.

Explores four types of corruption and the implications for reform, emphasizing practical ways to check abuses of wealth and power.

This book offers a broad perspective of revolutionary territorial politics by putting secession in the context of other forms of revolutionary territorial politics.

The Ombudsman is an officer appointed by the legislature to receive and investigate complaints from citizens against unjust administrative action.

Mother Teresa was one of the most written about and publicised women in modern times.

This book examines a selection of themes that have become salient in contemporary debates on constitutional democracies.

It is no longer sufficient to examine discrete nation-states in isolation from each other.

European leaders faced the Covid-19 pandemic by adopting very different leadership styles, characterized by diverging approaches to crisis communication, power management, and relationship-building with actors and stakeholders in the public sphere.

Engaging with a Legacy shows how Nehemia Levtzion shaped our understanding of Islam in Africa and influenced successive scholarly generations in their approach to Islamization, conversion and fundamentalism.

Scholars universally acknowledge the role that Christian belief played in the social movement engendered by Martin Luther King Jr.

This is the first book to investigate how constitutional monarchy could survive in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, during which many monarchies were overthrown by revolutions or coups d'etat in Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Europe.

How the actions and advocacy of diverse religious communities in the United States have supported democracy's development during the past centuryDoes religion benefit democracy?

The voices in this book belong to parliamentarians, city councillors, doctors and engineers, a few professors, lawyers and social workers, owners of small businesses, translators, and community activists.

Why are unions weaker in the US than they are in Canada, despite the countries'' many similarities?

Tamas Nyirkos provides a timely and essential reassessment of the concept of the "e;tyranny of the majority"e; for the study of democracy today.

This book includes a variety of chapters that consider the role and importance of anthropology in small wars and insurgencies.

Civil Society, Post-Colonialism and Transnational Solidarity originates from Louvet's observation of the strong commitment of a layer of Irish civil society- from the man on the street to political parties, associations and trade unions- to the defence of  one  antagonist  or  the  other  in  the  Israeli-Palestinian  conflict, beginning with the  Six  Day  War  in  1967 and increasingly so after the Lebanon Wars at the start of the 1980s and the Second Intifada (2000-2005).

This book presents comparative analyses of different modes of the governance of religious diversity and state-religion connections and relations in twenty-three countries in five world regions: Western Europe, Southern and South-Eastern Europe, Central and Eastern Europe, the MENA region, and South and Southeast Asia.

Christian Political Ethics brings together leading Christian scholars of diverse theological and ethical perspectives--Catholic, Lutheran, Calvinist, and Anabaptist--to address fundamental questions of state and civil society, international law and relations, the role of the nation, and issues of violence and its containment.

This book investigates drivers and trends in nuclear proliferation in the Global South.

This book explores the impact of electoral rules on political party development in Central and East Europe.

Tunisian women have received significant attention for their active participation in preserving and extending women's rights since 2011.

Centripetal democracy is the idea that legitimate democratic institutions set in motion forms of citizen practice and representative behaviour that serve as powerful drivers of political identity formation.

This book spotlights, analyzes and explains varying forms and patterns of state-society relations on the African continent, taking as point of departure the complexities created by the emergence, proliferation and complicated interactions of so-called 'big men' across Africa's fifty-four states.

How do societies negotiate the apparently competing agendas of environmental protection and social justice?

The 19th century was a pioneering age for vernacular texts in India.

Die Digitalisierung der Kriegsführung fordert klassische und etablierte Sicherheitsvorkehrungen in einem bislang nicht bekannten Maße heraus: Das reicht von der zunehmenden Verschmelzung militärischer und ziviler Räume über ihre hohe Wirkasymmetrie bis hin zum Problem der Attribution.

Punishing the Black Body examines the punitive and disciplinary technologies and ideologies embraced by ruling white elites in nineteenth-century Barbados and Jamaica.