Comparative politics

Diese Studie zeichnet die Entwicklung von Moralpolitiken in Deutschland seit den 1960er Jahren bis heute nach und analysiert moralpolitische Regulierungsmuster.

This book examines why countries copy the military systems of one another.

It's hard and getting harder to figure out the proper relationship between our Catholic Faith and American political life.

Expert interviews are today a standard method of qualitative approach in the social sciences.

It sheds light on Indian narratives of secularity – Gandhian sarva dharma samabhava, Nehruvian secularism and Gandhi-Nehru tradition.

Good Book interrogates how white evangelical Christians in the US make the Bible the "e;Good Book.

In a period of planetary crisis, this book shows how large-scale change occurs in global environmental politics.

It has been maintained that the secular nature of modern human rights makes them incompatible with the religious orientation of African and non-Western societies.

In 2003, the United Nations adopted a common rights-based approach to development in their efforts to promote an international standard of human rights throughout the world.

Diese Einführung in die Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft integriert verschiedene Perspektiven: Ausgehend von zentralen Begriffen der Politikwissenschaft (z.

This book considers a range of contemporary approaches to public policy studies.

Theodore Roosevelt is well-known as a rancher, hunter, naturalist, soldier, historian, explorer, and statesman.

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

This volume seeks to understand the role and function of religious-based organizations in strengthening associational life through the provision of social services, thereby legitimizing a new role for faith in the formerly secular public sphere.

Throughout its history, Nigeria has been plagued by religious divisions.

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.

How does Christianity continue to experience growth in an increasingly authoritarian political system that enforces strict regulations on religion?

This book analyzes the externalization of the EU's immigration and asylum practices towards non-member transit countries and the consequences of this process.

This book shows that constitutional courts exercise direct and indirect power on political branches through decision-making.

Of the three major branches of Christianity, Orthodoxy is the least known and most misunderstood.

This book explores the IMF's role within the politics of austerity by providing a path-breaking comprehensive analysis of how the IMF approach to fiscal policy has evolved since 2008, and how the IMF worked to alter advanced economy policy responses to the global financial crisis (GFC) and the Eurozone crisis.

Nations, States, and Violence presents a revisionist view of the sources of nationalism, the relationship of the nation to culture, and the implications of nationalism and cultural heterogeneity for the future of the nation-state.

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Empirical Studies in Comparative Politics presents a collection of papers analyzing the political systems of ten nations.

Tying the Autocrat''s Hands provides a comprehensive, empirical evaluation of legal reforms in contemporary China.

As Asian countries emerge as global economic powers, many undergo fundamental political transformations.

The third edition of this popular, innovative and engaging textbook introduces students to the various methods of modern social science, explaining how these have emerged, their strengths and limitations for understanding the world in which we live, and how it is possible to combine methodological pluralism with intellectual rigour.

Should religious people who conscientiously object to facilitating same-sex weddings, and who therefore decline to provide cakes, photography, or other services, be exempted from antidiscrimination laws?

The Internet and related technologies havedramatically changed the way we live, work, socialize, and even topple nationalgovernments.

Church, nation and race compares the worldviews and factors that promoted or, indeed, opposed antisemitism amongst Catholics in Germany and England after the First World War.

This book reflects on the rapid rise of social media across the African continent and the legal and extra-legal efforts governments have invented to try to contain it.

This title undertakes an impartial, authoritative, and in-depth examination of the moral arguments and ideas behind the laws and policies that govern personal, corporate, and government behavior in the United States.

Analyzes migrants'' labor market and political integration outcomes.

This book analyzes why some dictators find it in their self-interest to curb corruption.

India's endemic gender-based violence has received increased international scrutiny and provoked waves of domestic protest and activism.

Offers a new perspective on the relationship between states and social movements in authoritarian and semi-authoritarian contexts.

Although there is no doubt that the constitution has been significantly reformed since the election of New Labour in 1997 the degree to which these reforms have altered the nature of democracy in the United Kingdom remains highly contested.

This comprehensive book brings together reflections, lessons and insights relating to the post Covid-19 era in Zimbabwe.

Although many scholars and practitioners recognize that development and conflict are intertwined, there is much less understanding of the mechanisms behind these linkages.

Exciting developments in research among, with and by Indigenous scholars and communities are enriching a wide range of disciplines, methodologies and trans-disciplinary conversations.

Available for the first time in English language translation, this is the long-awaited second volume of the three part set on Totalitarianism and Political Religions, edited by the eminent Professor Hans Maier.

This edited volume discusses critically discursive claims about the theological foundations connecting Islam to certain manifestations of violent extremism.

Since cosmopolitanism has often been conceived as a tenet of 'Western civilization' that emanates from its Enlightenment-based origins in a humanist age of modernity, Iranian Identity and Cosmopolitanism: Spheres of Belonging advances a highly innovative gesture by contemplating the implications and relevance of the idea in a so-called non-Western cultural territory.

This book examines the field of global international crime and justice, providing an introduction to the nature of international and transnational crimes.