Comparative politics

This book examines the antecedents and consequences of citizens' confidence in different political institutions and authorities.

How have regionalization processes across Europe impacted on policy convergence?

This book offers a comparative exploration of the various disadvantages experienced by a category of atypical workers compared to standard employees, in the UK and Italy, and considers whether and how the differences can be attributed to contrasting institutional settings and political economies.

This book discusses the threats and challenges facing the Persian Gulf and the future security in the region, providing an overview of the major regional and extra-regional actors in Gulf security.

This edited volume builds and expands on the groundbreaking work of Robert Brenner and Ellen Meiksins Wood on the origins of capitalism.

This book examines public oath taking as an anti-corruption strategy that has been implemented with successful results in Nigeria and that has applications for other countries struggling with similar problems.

Noch nie ging es so vielen Menschen so gut.

This comparative study explores the impact of populist majoritarianism on Greek and Turkish democratic transition.

This book explores the complex history of Catalonia in relation to Spain from an economic and political perspective.

This book intends to analyze Reinhold Niebuhr's understanding of the state in his Christian Realism.

Federal models of government have shaped history and demonstrated how diverse people can live together and govern together in relative harmony.

This is the first book devoted entirely to exploring Zizek's peculiar kind of Paulinism.

This book explores the governance of the UK, and the process of constitutional change, between Scotland's independence referendum in September 2014 and the UK general election in May 2015.

This book looks at the fundamental components of national identity as understood by ordinary nation members, and the way in which it is mobilised by political elites.

Why the pursuit of state recognition by seemingly marginal religious groups in Egypt and elsewhere is a devotional practiceOver the past decade alone, religious communities around the world have demanded state recognition, exemption, accommodation, or protection.

This edited volume brings together alternative and innovative approaches in conflict resolution.

This book poses a radical challenge to the legend of Socrates bequeathed by Plato and echoed by scholars through the ages: that Socrates was an innocent sage convicted and sentenced to death by the democratic mob, for merely questioning the political and religious ideas of his time.

This book takes radical aim at the conventional conduct of international relations analysis.

This book examines how and why, in the context of International Relations, children's subjecthood has all too often been relegated to marginal terrains and children themselves automatically associated with the need for protection in vulnerable situations: as child soldiers, refugees, and conflated with women, all typically with the accent on the Global South.

This book examines the most significant factors accounting for the decline of union density during the neoliberal period, focusing on the case of Mexico.

This book analyses post-deportation outcomes and focuses on what happens to migrants and failed asylum seekers after deportation.

This book probes key issues pertaining to Africa's relations with global actors.

This book analyzes the relationship between art and politics in two contrasting modern dictatorships.

Caroline Preidel befasst sich mit der Sterbehilfepolitik in Deutschland – sie gibt damit eine Einführung in ein Feld der deutschen Moralpolitik.

This book shows how an encounter with everyday nationhood in the northern United Arab Emirates can make us revisit the classics of sociology as continuous analytical world-views.

This volume is the first collection in the field of wellbeing studies that places politics centre stage.

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

This book sheds light on how Hizbullah has transformed religious rituals and supernatural narratives in order to mobilize the Shi'a community.

This handbook provides a meaningful overview of topical themes within family sociology as an academic field as well as empirical realities in various societal contexts across Europe.

This book investigates how political parties from 12 European countries used Facebook to inform, interact with and mobilise voters at the 2019 European Parliament election.

This book explores the continuity of oligarchic rule in the Americas of the modern period, with a focus on the variable compatibility of oligarchic rule and democratic government.

During the 2000's, online literature in Arabic language was popular among a larger readership.

This book uses original research and interviews to consider the views of contemporary members of the Orange Order in Canada, including their sense of political and societal purpose, awareness of the decline of influence, views on their present circumstances, and hopes for the future of Orangeism in Canada.

Evidence suggests that economies with technology transfer initiatives provide a better supply of high-quality jobs and tend to be characterized by entrepreneurs with higher innovation contributions.

This volume focuses on the evolution of public policy and the role of agenda setting with regard to policymaking in countries of the Global South.

This edited volume addresses how single mothers and fathers are represented in novels, self-help literature, daily newspapers, film and television, as well as within their own narratives in interviews on social media.

This book explores the dynamics of health system decentralization and recentralization, investigating why and how the territorial organization of health systems changes or remains stable over time.

This book explores the social dynamics of the interaction between inspectors and their inspectees in the public sector.

This edited volume explores the Israeli-Turkish relations in the 2000s from a multi-dimensional perspective providing a comparative analysis on the subjects of politics, ideology, civil society, identity, energy, and economic relations.

Der Sammelband kombiniert die Diskussion theoretischer Konzepte mit länderübergreifenden Analysen zu Migration und Integration.

This book analyzes the 'intellectual political culture' of post-Tiananmen China in comparison to and in conflict with liberalism inside and outside the P.

Comprehensively laying out the concept of crimilegality, this book presents a novel perspective on the relationship between what is conventionally termed organised crime and political order in the contemporary developing world.

This edited volume provides a comprehensive overview of the diverse and multi-faceted research on governance in multilevel systems.

This book discusses youth unemployment in post-revolutionary Tunisia, paying particular attention to the so-called skill mismatch.

This book focuses on the role of norms in the description, explanation, prediction and combat of corruption.

This book provides a comparative, neo-institutionalist approach to the different factors impacting state adoption of-or refusal to adopt-same-sex marriage laws.

Studying the political economy of welfare state reform, this edited collection focuses on the role of public opinion and organized interests in respect to policy change.