Comparative politics

A global debate has emerged within Islam about how to coexist with democracy.

What configuration of institutions and policies is most conducive to human flourishing?

This first comparative-historical analysis of the regulations that restrict the managerial capacity to dismiss employees and use temporary forms of employment addresses four puzzles that have long troubled the comparative political economy literature.

An original account of why individuals choose one party over another, and why elections are won or lost in Britain.

Faith-based organizations play a major role in providing a host of health, educational, and social services to the public.

Political parties have long been recognized as essential institutions of democratic governance.

This book provides an innovative theoretical and empirical exploration of the political participation and democratic capability of people living in authoritarian states.

This book explores the political dimension of Pope Francis' theology from a variety of perspectives and makes a unique contribution to the ongoing historiography of his pontificate.

This book provides a novel explanation of widespread social policy expansion in Latin America beginning in the 1990s.

Rooted in an international political economy theoretical framework, this book provides unique insights into the global forces and local responses that are shaping education systems in Central America and the Latin Caribbean (CALC).

Die vielfach konträren Menschenrechtspositionen Chinas und der USA erklären maßgeblich die unterschiedliche Berichterstattung in den Tageszeitungen beider Länder.

Polarized debates about 'Islam' and 'the West' are now so ubiquitous that it is easy to forget how damaging they can be.

This book is authored by some of the renowned scholars in Africa who take on the task to understand how Kenya is governed in this century from a public policy perspective.

This book shows that liberalizing governments across Ibero-America often forge alliances with protected actors such as unions and domestic business.

Tibetan Buddhism and the Dalai Lama enjoy global popularity and relevance, yet the longstanding practice of oracles within the tradition is still little known and understood.

Xi Chen explores the dramatic rise in, and routinization of, social protests in China since the early 1990s.

This book discusses various dynamic facets of the life of Rashid al-Ghannushi, a distinguished Islamic thinker and activist not only in Tunisia and North Africa, but in the entire Muslim world.

How poor migrants shape city politics during urbanizationAs the Global South rapidly urbanizes, millions of people have migrated from the countryside to urban slums, which now house one billion people worldwide.

How reforms limiting electoral misconduct completed the process of democratizationBetween 1850 and 1918, many first-wave democracies in Europe adopted electoral reforms that reduced the incidence of electoral malfeasance.

Presents a theory and analysis of the relationship between parties and voters throughout the legislative period under coalition governance.

This book discusses regional and continental integration in Africa by examining the management of migration across the continent.

Why do some parties live fast and die young, but others endure?

By using the example of Germany and Poland this multi-level policy dependency analysis by Marco Wedel researches constraints and dependencies of the European Integration of the promotion of renewable energy source electricity (RES-E).

This book assesses the quality of democracy through the study of organized interests in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) since the collapse of communism in 1989 up to 2017.

Die vergleichende Demokratieforschung konzentriert sich auf Regime und Regimewandel in Osteuropa, Lateinamerika, Asien und Afrika, auf Demokratisierungsprozesse und unvollständige Demokratien.

Marcus Moberg offers a new model of religion and religious life in the post-war era, through focusing on the role of markets and media as vectors of contemporary social and cultural change and therefore institutional religious change.

This book opens a new research field in Balkan contextual theology.

This book assesses parliamentary speeches given by Arab representatives in the Israeli Knesset over the last 70 years, in order to throw light on the representation of political minorities.

Bad Queen Bess?

Since the end of the Cold War there have been a number of cases where the democratization process has been turbulent, or even violent.

Holy War, Just War explores the 'dark side' in Christianity, Islam, and Judaism by examining how the concept of ultimate value contributes to religious violence.

This book reveals the mechanisms underlying the convergence of car fuel economy regulations in Europe, Japan and the US by drawing upon a constructivist theory of International Relations and law that focuses on business competition and environmental regulations.

This book argues that the last four decades have seen profound and important changes in the nature and social location of religion, and that those changes are best understood when cast against the associated rise of consumerism and neoliberalism.

Scholars of distributive politics often emphasize partisanship and clientelism.

Faith-based organisations (FBOs) have long been recognised as having an advantage in delivering programs and interventions amongst communities of the same faith.

Religion and Democratization is a comparative study of democratization in Muslim and Catholic societies.

This book offers an in-depth exploration of the European Union's cooperation with non-EU countries on readmission and return, as central components of EU migration policy.

Are we the world's good neighbor or a global bully?

"e;With misinformation and disinformation everywhere, a book that provides facts without an agenda is a welcome resource for public, academic, and consumer health collections.

This book offers a novel approach to mapping the people and organisations working in EU affairs, allocating much of the volume to a discussion of non-EU institutional representation in Brussels.

With many OECD countries experiencing a decline in their populations, this book offers a theoretical model of coping with demographic change and examines different strategies that societies have used to come to terms with demographic change.

The Horn of Africa has long been one of the most dynamic and politically turbulent sub-regions on the African continent.

A study of the classical aggregation problems that arise in social choice theory, voting theory, and group decision-making under uncertainty.