Comparative politics

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.

Towards the end of the 20th century, the decades of abuse and neglect perpetrated in Ireland's comprehensive carceral network began finally to be exposed.

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.

Today, pluralism is increasingly the norm and can be seen as a permanent characteristic of modernity.

Politics in a Religious World examines why US diplomacy often misunderstands, if not ignores, the role of religion in international conflicts.

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.

In A Faith Not Worth Fighting For, editors Justin Bronson Barringer and Tripp York have assembled a number of essays by pastors, activists, and scholars in order to address the common questions and objections leveled against the Christian practice of nonviolence.

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.

This book examines American popular culture to demonstrate that celebrities have superseded religious figures as moral authorities.

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

This book analyses how religion is entangled in people's lives in Sub-Saharan Africa and southern Asia.

Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberty explores the religious freedom implications of defining marriage to include same-sex couples.

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.

This book examines the lives of the Malay and Cham Muslims in Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam and examines how they co-exist and live in societies that are dominated by an alternative consensus and are illiberal and non-democratic in nature.

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.

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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.

In its first edition, Religion and the Domestication of Dissent focused on the representations of Islam that circulated in the wake of the 9/11 attacks-representations that scholars, pundits, and politicians alike used either to essentialize and demonize it or, instead, to isolate specific aspects as apolitical and thus tolerable faith.

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.

This book reveals aspects of the rise and fall of the European and Iranian Left, their conceptualization of Marxism and ideological formations.

The South has always been one of the most distinctive regions of the United States, with its own set of traditions and a turbulent history.

This book presents in detail the negotiations on the budget of the European Union, which take place every seven years, and discusses the central elements of this European budgetary system.

Offers historical, philosophical, legal, and political insights into the First Amendment, religious liberty, and church-state relations.