Comparative politics

This book examines informal workers'' alternative social movements in India.

Die chinesische Präsenz in Afrika nimmt seit Jahren zu.

This edited volume maps the development of the use of political campaigning and marketing techniques in countries of the former Communist Bloc over the last thirty years.

A fresh appraisal of the nature and significance of the democratic left in the Global South.

Focussing on Sub-Saharan Africa, Dominika Koter analyses why ethnic politics emerge in some ethnically diverse societies, but not in others.

Can we conceptualise a kind of citizenship that need not be of a nation-state, but might be of a variety of political frameworks?

An examination of differences in how the world''s democracies address a variety of issues involving free expression.

This book analyzes relations between NATO and Russia since the Cold War to draw lessons about how former enemies can become partners.

Ted Schrecker and Clare Bambra argue that the obesity, insecurity, austerity and inequality that result from neoliberal (or 'market fundamentalist') policies are hazardous to our health, asserting that these neoliberal epidemics require a political cure.

The Darfur conflict exploded in early 2003 when two rebel groups, the Sudan Liberation Movement and the Justice and Equality Movement, struck national military installations in Darfur to send a hard-hitting message of resentment over the region's political and economic marginalization.

How can the seeds of accountability ever grow in authoritarian environments?

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

This collection of essays offers a critical reassessment of J.

Even in Latin America's most socially and economically stable countries, new parties emerge constantly, old parties collapse, and party systems across the region are notoriously fragile.

This book argues that citizenship is an inadequate solution to the problem of statelessness based on a critical investigation of the lived experiences of Kurdish and Palestinian diasporas in western Europe.

How did Western imperialism shape the developing world?

This book argues that the backsliding or stagnation of democracy should be interpreted in a wider perspective on irregular movements towards and away from contemporary liberal democracy.

In divided societies, representation in the police that empowers previously-marginalized groups reduces crime, builds trust, and improves citizen-state relations.

Combining quantitative and qualitative methods, this book presents a revisionist account of the post-Soviet wars and their settlement.

Das Buch bietet eine knappe Einführung in die Ziele und Zielkonflikte sowie die Akteure der Wirtschaftspolitik.

This book explores new forms of popular organisation that emerged from strikes in India and Brazil between 2011 and 2014.

Examines post-crisis investigations and addresses the longer term impact of crisis-induced politics.

The United States incarcerates far more people than any other country in the world, at rates nearly ten times higher than other liberal democracies.

In this comparative study of the contemporary politics of deportation in Germany and the United States, Antje Ellermann examines the capacity of the liberal democratic state to coercively regulate individuals within its borders.

This book focuses on and examines the impact of cultural capital, political economy, social movements, and political consciousness on the potential development of substantive democracy in Botswana and Ethiopia.

This book examines both the evolution of the Catholic vote in the US and the role of Catholic voters in the historic 2016 elections.

This book examines how fashion intersects with political expression in the United States and across the globe.

Formal and informal institutions structure our social interactions by giving rise to normative expectations and patterns of collective behaviour.

Ufuk Olgun untersucht die wichtigsten islamischen Religionsgemeinschaften in Deutschland auf ihre organisatorischen Strategien, sowie die Umsetzungskonzepte, die durch ihren Anspruch, die Muslime in Deutschland und den sogenannten ,,wahren Islam" zu vertreten, als politische Akteure auftreten.

This book considers the work of the preeminent scholar on decoloniality, Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni, as a means of examining the development of decoloniality discourse and considering the future direction of the African knowledge economy.

Mit dem Vertrag über gute Nachbarschaft und freundschaftliche Zusammenarbeit vom Juni 1991 haben Deutsche und Polen ein neues, hoffnungsvolles Kapitel ihrer historisch schwer belasteten Beziehungen aufgeschlagen.

Analyses the effectiveness of international organisations as problem solvers of key issues in global politics.

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.

A timely, insightful look at the profound effects of social geography on how we relate to, think about, and politically interact across groups in the fabric of our daily lives.

The 1950s can reasonably be called the foundation period of Europe.

This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the determinants of EU support between 2006 and 2015, and of electoral behavior during the European Parliament elections.

Explores how republican political thought can make a constructive and distinctive contribution to our understanding of democracy and the challenges it faces.

Pre-economic liberalization relations between business and the state condition how groups organize before large-scale economic change.

This groundbreaking work examines the complex dynamics of Russia's relations with the Caucasus, revealing the profound effects that Caucasian forces have had upon Russia's development.

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.

Focusing on distribution of risk within societies, this book presents a parsimonious theory of social policy emergence, divergence, and change.

Party System Closure maps trends in interparty relations in Europe from 1848 until 2019.

This book argues that although labour market needs have been an important element in the development of immigration policy, they have been filtered through a political process, the politics of immigration.

Offers a comparative study of the origins, performance, and reform of contemporary mechanisms of direct democracy.

This volume brings together many of the leading international figures in development studies, such as Jose Antonio Ocampo, Paul Krugman, Dani Rodrik, Joseph Stiglitz, Daniel Cohen, Olivier Blanchard, Deepak Nayyar and John Williamson to reconsider and propose alternative development policies to the Washington Consensus.