Comparative politics

This book examines the dynamics of neoliberal urban governance through a comparative analysis of Buenos Aires and Chicago, with a special focus on gentrification processes in both cities from 2011 to 2021.

Governing Religious Diversity in Cities provides original insights into the governance of religious diversity in urban contexts from a variety of theoretical perspectives, and drawing on a wide range of empirical examples in Europe and Canada.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the development and governance nexus in Africa's Great Lakes region.

This edited volume investigates the ethical and emotional challenges of conducting fieldwork in Africa.

Using a variant of structuration theory, what Paul C.

Explores the conditions that shape whether and how citizens in rural India make claims on the state for social welfare.

Robert Wuthnow has been praised as one of "e;the country's best social scientists"e; by columnist David Brooks, who hails his writing as "e;tremendously valuable.

In 2009, Ecuador became the first nation ever to enshrine rights for nature in its constitution.

This balanced and thoughtful book presents a thorough analysis of the dynamics of China's foreign relations.

Offers the first comprehensive discussion of the effects of secrecy and publicity on debates and votes in committees and assemblies.

Brokers, Voters, and Clientelism studies distributive politics: how parties and governments use material resources to win elections.

Increasingly, the modern neo-liberal world marginalises any notion of religion or spirituality, leaving little or no room for the sacred in the public sphere.

Income inequality has skyrocketed in Canada over the past few decades.

This book analyses Member States' and EU neighbours' national visions for the enlargement of the European Union (EU), highlighting 41 national histories, policies, and corresponding public perceptions of European integration.

The Architecture of the Bight of Biafra challenges linear assumptions about agency, progress, and domination in colonial and postcolonial cities, adding an important sub Saharan case study to existing scholarship on globalization and modernity.

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This book explains why conflicts in Africa are sometimes ethnic and sometimes religious, even when the opponents remained unchanged.

Examining the significance of the Movement for Black Lives, Reckoning uncovers a broadly applicable argument for the democratic necessity of social movements.

This first study of faith-based development NGOs' (FBOs) political roles focuses on how U.

This book provides a new, comprehensive framework for the examination of majority-minority relations.

The way in which elections are run is changing, as radical reforms or experiments have been introduced across the world.

This book builds upon our knowledge of the far-reaching economic, political and social effects of the Euro crisis on the European Union by providing a unique study of European identities.

The relationship between early Mormons and the United States was marked by anxiety and hostility, heightened over the course of the nineteenth century by the assassination of Mormon leaders, the Saints' exile from Missouri and Illinois, the military occupation of the Utah territory, and the national crusade against those who practiced plural marriage.

This handbook presents the roots of symbolic racism as partly in both anti-black antagonism and non-racial conservative attitudes and values, representing a new form of racism independent of older racial and political attitudes.

"e;This timely book provides insight into the changing role of the 'hospital' in the face of technological, organizational innovation and ever-tightening health budgets.

Simona Bevern addresses the questions what and why political parties communicate in the time between elections, focusing on the dynamic rise and fall of policy issues.

Uses a single-country case study to enrich research on the role of constitutional courts in new democracies.

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

Why churches in some democratic nations wield enormous political power while churches in other democracies don'tIn some religious countries, churches have drafted constitutions, restricted abortion, and controlled education.

A novel analysis of secessionist movements, explaining state response, the likelihood of conflict, and the proliferation of states since 1945.

This book explores inter religious dialogue as a means of contributing to peace building.

Conflict and instability are built into the very fabric of the Middle East and North African (MENA) state and states system; yet both states and states system have displayed remarkable resilience.

Examines the economic, social, cultural, as well as purely political threats to democracy in the light of current knowledge.

Originally published in 1935, this volume Is War Obsolete?

In 2008 a media firestorm erupted when snippets of Reverend Jeremiah Wright Jr.

Muhtars, the lowest level elected political position in Turkey, hold an ambiguously defined place within the administrative hierarchy.

Providing an intensive and up-to-date analysis of far-right, ethno-purist and nationalistic currents as well as the inclusive visions for social and ecological change, this book explores the complexities of contemporary Slavic and Germanic Paganisms.

Irreverence and the Sacred brings together some of the most cutting edge, interdisciplinary, and international scholars working today in order to debate key issues in the critical and comparative study of religion.

In American Protestant Theology, Luigi Giussani traces the history of the most meaningful theological expressions and the cultural significance of American Protestantism, from its origins in seventeenth-century Puritanism to the 1950s.

Now in its fifth edition, Europe Today presents unrivaled coverage of developments in major European countries and across the region.

This is a comprehensive survey of minorities in the Middle East with a special focus on the post Arab Spring era.

This volume explores South Korea's successful transition from an underdeveloped, authoritarian country to a modern industrialized democracy.