Comparative politics

A new edition of the best'known book critiquing the U.

Images of modern refugees often invoke images of the infant Christ and the historical circumstances of the holy family's flight to Egypt in the face of persecution.

More than ever, politics seem to be driven by discord.

This book explores controversies surrounding free speech and open inquiry (FSOI) in various regions of the Anglophone world.

Confucianism is the guiding creed for a quarter of mankind, yet hardly anyone has explained it in plain terms - until now.

This book offers a systematic inquiry into how, why, and with what consequences media affects governments and the standing of prime ministers.

This book explores the foreign and security policies of Germany, France and the UK vis-a-vis China.

This book examines the progress of institutionalisation of evaluation in American countries from various perspectives.

Swim Against the Tide of a Sinking CultureIn No Reason to Hide, bestselling author Erwin W.

How social networks shaped the imperial Chinese stateChina was the world's leading superpower for almost two millennia, falling behind only in the last two centuries and now rising to dominance again.

In der sozialwissenschaftlichen Debatte wird oft ein pessimistisches Bild der Bedingungen und Perspektiven europäischen gewerkschaftlichen Handelns gezeichnet.

This book explores the role of Chineseness or lo chino in the production of Chilean national identity.

In this book, important works and approaches of policy-oriented emotion research are brought into a systematic context.

Is it true that all we need is love?

Do you want to love your neighbor as yourself but don't know where to start?

This book provides a sociological understanding of transformations within Eastern Orthodoxy and the settlement of Orthodox diasporas in Western Europe.

This book discusses the current reality and the future of ethnic Rohingyas in Myanmar.

This book analyzes the transformation of ethnic and religious political parties in Turkey with special focus on their role in the country's democratization and regime changes.

This book explores disrupted youth cohesion in France within the context of multiple ongoing global economic, migratory, social, political, and security-related crises.

Shallow capital markets are a key bottleneck for private sector development in Latin America.

Hungary was once a frontrunner of democratization.

A novel account of the relationship between sincerity, religious freedom, and the secular in the United States.

This book considers how basic income could be used as a mechanism for disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation in African agrarian societies.

This book offers a systematic and far-reaching account of party system institutionalization in Western Europe.

The global trend of increasing violence against the press has spurred research interest into the questions of where, why, and how communicators are repressed.

Contrary to other world regions, political regimes in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) remain largely authoritarian.

The human rights regime is one of modernity's great civilizing triumphs.

A vigorous and timely defense of the state as a force for good For decades now wealth and power have been shifting from states to markets.

This book focuses on local state-society relations, understood as institutionalised relations between local municipalities across Europe and individual, collective or corporate societal actors.

American politics seems to grow more contentious and complicated by the day, and whether American democracy works well is hotly debated.

Looking beyond Putin to understand how today's Russia actually worksMedia and public discussion tends to understand Russian politics as a direct reflection of Vladimir Putin's seeming omnipotence or Russia's unique history and culture.

This book presents a comprehensive analysis of the alterations and problems caused by new technologies in all fields of politics.

This book presents the welfare regime of China as a liminal space where religious and state authorities struggle for legitimacy as new social forces emerge.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the party finance regime at the level of the European Union.

Religious traditions in the United States are characterized by ongoing tension between assimilation to the broader culture, as typified by mainline Protestant churches, and defiant rejection of cultural incursions, as witnessed by more sectarian movements such as Mormonism and Hassidism.

This book analyzes key popular culture artifacts linked with United States' far-right extremism to illustrate how extremists use various narrative strategies to legitimate their interests and goals and to justify violent actions.

This book examines knowledge and policy transfer from the perspectives of Brazil and China.

This edited volume discusses and analyses the impact of neoliberal policies and ideologies on public and private care practices in Nordic, Central, and East European welfare states.

This book investigates Turkey's departure from a 'flawed democracy' under Kemalist secularism, and its transitioning into Islamist authoritarian Erdoganism, through the lenses of informal law, legal pluralism, and legal hybridity.

This book puts forward a new perspective, the historical dynamics of Chinese politics, for better understanding China's politics, which is from the vertical history of China and the dimension of horizontal world politics, combining the historical analysis of how Chinese politics has come along the way and the comparative analysis of China's governance achievements in world politics.

How Barbara Jordan used sacred and secular scriptures in her social activismUS Congresswoman Barbara Jordan is well-known as an interpreter and defender of the Constitution, particularly through her landmark speech during Richard Nixons 1974 impeachment hearings.

The book examines the dynamic processes of the various social, political, and cultural negotiations that representatives of Christian groups engage in within authoritarian societies in Greater China, where Christianity is deemed a foreign religious system brought to China by colonial rulers.

Salafism, comprised of fundamentalist Islamic movements whose adherents consider themselves the only saved sect of Islam, has been little studied, remains shrouded in misconceptions, and has provoked new interest as Salafists have recently staked a claim to power in some Arab states while spearheading battles against infidel Arab regimes during recent rebellions in the Arab world.

Das vorliegende Buch beschäftigt sich mit der Begriffsbestimmung und Definition von Interessenorganisationen.

This book identifies the main factors shaping the fortunes of democracy globally.

The book provides a fresh and innovative interpretation of the new government of Zimbabwe led by Emmerson Mnangagwa, which emerged in late 2017 after the downfall of Robert Mugabe.

The book is devoted to the subject of Venezuela's politics and the different dimensions of its longstanding crisis, with various researchers exchanging ideas on the current problems affecting the country.