Comparative politics

This special issue of the German Political Science Quarterly addresses the transformation and the sustainability of European party democracies, both at the level of party organization as well as party systems and competition.

This study explores the dynamic relationship between science, numbers and politics.

This edited collection addresses a growing concern in Europe and the United States about the future of the European Union, democratic institutions, and democracy itself.

This book examines religious activism-Christianity, Buddhism, and Taoism-in China, a powerful atheist state that provides one of the hardest challenges to existing methods of transnational activism.

This study has two central research questions: Do democracy profiles affect policy performance?

The painful reality faced by refugees and migrants is one of the greatest moral challenges of our time, in turn, becoming a focus of significant scholarship.

This book offers a general introduction to and analysis of the history, theory and public policy of Australian local government systems.

This book examines ten reasons for global jihad today.

This collection addresses the perennial philosophical and theological issues of human finitude and the potentiality for evil.

This book provides an overview of the sudden ascendancy of Islamism in post-Mubarak Egypt and a detailed history of the power grab by the Muslim Brotherhood.

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This book studies governance capacity and governance legitimacy for societal security and crisis management.

This book presents in-depth analyses of the wave of political protest and unrest that spread throughout Latin America between 2010 and 2015 in order to answer a question that has been challenging social scientists all over the region: why some countries have faced a divorce between their social movements and political parties while others have not?

In light of the growing support for populist political actors, this book examines political party behavior and political positions towards the integration process in the European Union.

The link between gender and corruption has been studied since the late 1990s.

This book is based upon a comparative public administration research project, initiated by the Hertie School of Governance (Germany) and the Bertelsmann Foundation (Germany) and supported by a network of researchers from many EU countries.

This book explores the Chinese Catholic Church as a whole as well as focusing on particular aspects of its activities, including diplomacy, politics, leadership, pilgrimage, youths, and non-Chinese Catholics in China.

This book is a bold prescription for local government reform that moves well beyond the old arguments regarding consolidations (also referred to as amalgamations) and co-operation (sometimes referred to as shared services) to paint a picture of an efficient, effective tier of government that strikes a balance between the right of persons to pursue their existential ends and the need to promote the common good.

This book, the 32nd volume in the Canada Among Nations series, looks to the wide array of foreign policy challenges, choices and priorities that Canada confronts in relations with the US where the line between international and domestic affairs is increasingly blurred.

Notwithstanding its contemporary critics, political representation remains at the core of democratic politics.

This book compares the thought of Michael Oakeshott and Leo Strauss, bringing Oakeshott's desire for a renaissance of poetic individuality into dialogue with Strauss's recovery of the universality of philosophical enlightenment.

The book focuses on the legal framework for the use of the bridging clauses of Article 48(7) TEU as well as on parliamentary participation in the process of activating these clauses.

This book examines the relationship between migration, diversification and inequality in Aotearoa/New Zealand.

This book examines the process of presidentialisation of political parties in the Western Balkans.

This book is about how opinion polls are reported in the media.

This book examines the emergence of a culture of migration through outward migration as a country-specific phenomenon and analyzes it from different perspectives, covering various aspects such as the history of a country, its migration flows, migration push factors, social, economic, and political issues, as well as individual values.

This book develops a novel way of thinking about crises in world politics.

This book examines how patterns of political representation, party system, and political culture have changed in Southern Europe following the "e;Great Recession"e; of 2008.

This book analyzes the economic reforms and political adjustments that took place in Cuba during the era of Raul Castro's leadership and its immediate aftermath, the first year of his successor, Miguel Diaz-Canel.

This book examines regulatory capacity beyond the nation state.

This book addresses the central question of European solidarity in the face of a multitude of crises in Europe and focuses on its discursive manifestation in public debates.

This book provides an alternative approach to regionalism in neglected parts of the world.

This book presents the results of extensive international comparative research into the effects of the economic and financial crisis on democratic institutions and social cohesion policies.

This volume is a collection of essays on medieval Spain, written by leading scholars on three continents, that celebrates the career of Thomas F.

When do rising powers fail to establish legitimate regional leadership and instead face contestation by their regional challengers?

The book analyzes concentrations of wealth and power in developed democracies.

As Southeast Asia experiences unprecedented economic modernization, religious and moral practices are being challenged as never before.

This book is a critical resource for understanding the relationship between gender, social policy and women's activism in Latin America, with specific reference to Chile.

This book addresses the potential existence of shared foundational principles in the work of Immanuel Kant and a range of African political thought, as well as their suitability in facilitating just and fair cross-cultural dialogue.

This book investigates the relation between Durkheim's sociology, Critical Theory, and the philosophy of social sciences.

The book is the first systematic and comparative effort to capture political culture in the Baltic countries, including political orientation and support for democracy.

This book presents numerous discussions of specific aspects of democratic politics, showing how 'democracy' can be projected as a model of deliberate imperfection - a model that tolerates various loose ends in the system - and how democracy recognizes a multiplicity of possible courses open to the system at any point in time.

This book interrogates Africa's pursuit of the Democratic Developmental State model by drawing on the experiences of Mauritius, Ethiopia, and Rwanda.

This book analyses the politicization of immigration and the European Union in Italy, the UK, and the European Parliament (EP) from 2015 to 2020.

This book examines the changing dynamics of stabilisation efforts in the Middle East and North Africa.

This book is the second volume in a trilogy that traces the development of the academic subject of International Relations, or what was often referred to in the interwar years as International Studies.

This edited volume presents a detailed account of the dynamics of socioeconomic contention in Egypt and Tunisia since 2011.

This collection emphasizes a cross-disciplinary approach to the problem of scale, with essays ranging in subject matter from literature to film, architecture, the plastic arts, philosophy, and scientific and political writing.

This book offers a synthesis of the main achievements and pending challenges during the thirty years of transitional justice in Chile after Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship.