Comparative politics

This book presents a cutting-edge analysis of state-society transformation in Asia under globalisation.

The immigration of Muslims to Europe and the integration of later generations presents many challenges to European societies.

The past fifteen years have seen Indonesia move away from authoritarianism to a thriving yet imperfect democracy.

In this book, Febe Armanios explores Coptic religious life in Ottoman Egypt (1517-1798), focusing closely on manuscripts housed in Coptic archives.

Most Jewish communities continue to cite intermarriage as the most serious threat to Jewish continuity.

This book explores neoliberalism as an account of contemporary society and considers what this means for our understanding of religion.

This volume explores the form and function of constitutions in countries without the fully articulated institutions of limited government.

Negative campaigning is a central component of politics in the United States.

This book illuminates one of the keys to making postwar democracies work.

A novel theoretical framework to analyse the effectiveness of voluntary environmental programs, including ISO 14001.

A practical guide for scientists, politicians and citizens to the relationship between science and politics.

Investigating the political transition after the 2011 Tunisian revolution, this book explores whether civil society is fulfilling its democratic functions.

In 1949 the bamboo curtain clattered down over one-fifth of the people of the world.

The politicization of Christianity, Islam, and Hinduism originated with the dual global dissemination of the nation-state alongside the western concept of religion.

New understandings of the middle order and of the post-1688 English Parliament have shifted the focus from Westminster to the constituencies in the study of eighteenth-century politics.

This book provides a practical guide to how groups of people, everywhere, from the local village council to the United Nations Security Council, can best make collective decisions.

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?

This book investigates the devastating impacts of the Boko Haram terrorist campaign in Nigeria, reflecting on the group's historical context, organizational dynamics, and emerging trajectories.

Orthodox Christianity is one of the world's major religions, and the Russian Orthodox Church is by far its largest denomination.

What explains the variety of responses that states adopt toward different refugee groups?

One of leading figures of his day, Roger Sherman was a member of the five-man committee that drafted the Declaration of Independence and an influential delegate at the Constitutional Convention.

Sam Cherribi is a Moroccan Muslim who became a naturalized Dutch citizen and member of the Dutch Parliament.

Leading political theorists demonstrate the transformative potential of de-centering Western traditions in the field of political theory.

This Element foregrounds Native American conceptions of sovereignty in order to elucidate settler colonialism in American colonial history.

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.

Cutting-edge research from India finds bargaining power predicts whether electoral quotas can empower women to upend economic inequality.

In his highly praised book Faith and the Presidency, Gary Scott Smith cast a revealing light on the role religion has played in presidential politics throughout our nation's history, offering comprehensive, even-handed examinations of the role of religion in the lives, politics, and policies of eleven presidents.

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

Offers a new framework for understanding how religion and nationalism interact across diverse countries and religious traditions.

 This handbook explores contemporary Mormonism within a global context.

In May 2019, Narendra Modi won the world's largest election.

This book examines ten reasons for global jihad today.

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

Religion and religious nationalism have long played a central role in many ethnic and national conflicts, and the importance of religion to national identity means that territorial disputes can often focus on the contestation of holy places and sacred territory.

Even before the global economic crisis of 2007-2009, the logic of discipline was under assault.

Does religion cause much of the world's violence?

Nero was negligent, not tyrannical.

This study of intellectual property rights (IPR) in relation to state capacity draws on extensive fieldwork in China and five other countries.

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

Coalition government is the most frequent form of government in Western Europe, but we have relatively little systematic knowledge about how that form of government has developed in recent decades.

Concerned citizens across the globe fear that democratic institutions are failing them.

Why do some nations fail while others succeed?

The first book in English on the law and politics of federalism and decentralization in the MENA region.

On the fiftieth anniversary of Quotations from Chairman Mao, this pioneering volume examines the book as a global historical phenomenon.

Drawing on a global history of politicized writing, this book explores literature's utility as a mode of activism and aesthetic engagement with the political challenges of the current moment.

This book focuses on Islamic constitutionalism, and in particular on the relation between religion and the protection of individual liberties potentially clashing with shari?