Comparative politics

This book re-examines the claim of the Conservative Party to be the 'national party' and in its politics to express the enduring 'national interest'.

Every year, there are several hundred attacks on India's Christians.

Long gone are the times when class-based political parties with extensive membership dominated politics.

Muslim Americans are grossly marginalized in US democracy and mainstream politics.

This book provides a comprehensive account and analysis of the Rwenzururu movement in Western Uganda.

Rights are part of our everyday moral and political vocabulary.

Due to growing negative perceptions about relations between historically entrenched, dominant populations and various minority groups, issues relating to the need to better manage cultural and religious diversity have been intensifying in many countries.

There is a long-standing fear of that which is not understood.

So far religion has been seen as cause for dramatic developments in the history of cities, it has contributed to the monumentalisation of centres and or has given importance to ex-centric places.

Political Change and Constitutionalism in Africa examines the complexities of government and obstacles facing constitutional democracy in transitional African societies.

This book explores why Islam becomes politicized in some countries and not in others, comparing diverse cases including Turkey, Algeria, and Senegal.

Empirically analyzes Islam and human rights in constitutions of Muslim-majority states and theorizes why some adopted Islam in their constitutions.

The American cultural landscape has shifted considerably since the 1990s.

Die Autorin analysiert ein Schlüsselthema linker Politik und Rhetorik in Deutschland und Frankreich: Solidarität.

Presents an interview-based study of how political and professional agendas affect government statistical agencies in five liberal democracies.

Drawing on field-based data and experiences from the practice of democratic decentralization and local governance over the last three decades in Ghana, this book examines whether and how democratic decentralization and local governance reforms in developing countries have produced the anticipated development outcomes.

An open, frank and revealing dialogue with a rabbi from the man who became Pope Francis.

According to this book, the United States is currently in a moment of crisis, fomented by anxieties around race and gender politics.

This book investigates the ways in which the war on terror has transformed the postcolonial state in Africa.

Nichtregierungsorganisationen (NGOs) werden von staatlichen AkteurInnen verstärkt als kompetente PartnerInnen in der Konfliktbewältigung anerkannt.

Alongside Saint Thomas Aquinas, the thought of Saint Augustine stands as one of the central fountainheads of not only theology but Western social and political theory.

This book offers an analytic history of Britannia (first England and Wales and then Great Britain) over eight hundred years of political turmoil, intermingled with economic stagnation, followed by the engine of the industrial revolution.

Digital networking platforms like Facebook and Twitter have revolutionized everyday human interaction by facilitating the search for, and access to, information, entertainment, and social connection.

Christianity Today Book Award WinnerWhat do Hobby Lobby, InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, Wheaton College, World Vision, the Little Sisters of the Poor, and the University of Notre Dame have in common?

A newly updated edition of a concise and evidence-based approach to strategic crisis leadership.

America is at a crisis point, and its future depends on you.

This book analyzes the development of Islam and Muslim communities in the West, including influences from abroad, relations with the state and society, and internal community dynamics.

This book, first published in 1971, is a close analysis of some of the typical peasant uprisings of the seventeenth century.

What is the place-if any-for violence in the Christian life?

Governing the Embedded State integrates governance theory with organization theory and examines how states address social complexity and international embeddedness.

Christianity, not religion in general, has been important for American democracy.

The authors suggest that some of the problems of the public sector are self-inflicted and that current policies may only deliver partial success 'at a price we cannot afford'.

Newell examines noted Americans at seven critical turning points in American history to look at what it takes to be a statesman.

The politics of Englishness provides a digest of the debates about England and Englishness and a unique perspective on those debates.

The book analyzes different critical attitudes towards European integration from a multidisciplinary perspective.

Tracing the rise of evangelicalism and the decline of mainline Protestantism in American religious and cultural lifeHow did American Christianity become synonymous with conservative white evangelicalism?

This book chronicles and explains the role of suburbs in North American cities since the mid-twentieth century.

Leading experts examine the threats posed by populism to human rights and the international systems and explore how to confront them.

In a remarkably short period of time, the realization of religious freedom has achieved broad consensus as an indispensable condition for peace.

There is an increasingly intense interest in political theology amongst contemporary scholars and students.

In recent years, North American and European nations have sought to legally remake religion in other countries through an unprecedented array of international initiatives.

This book offers new insight into why oil politics has a central role in global peace and conflict.

Can Iranians and Americans find common ground to overcome their troubled history?

Africa and the Global System of Capital Accumulation offers a groundbreaking analysis of the strategic role Africa plays in the global capitalist economy.