Comparative politics

Atheism Revisited is a collection of essays that explore the multifaceted nature of atheism.

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

This book examines the decisions by Tony Blair and John Howard to take their nations into the 2003 Iraq War, and the questions these decisions raise about democratic governance.

This project offers an in-depth look at the three 2017 elections held in Western Europe: France, Germany, and the UK.

Fifty years ago, academics and policymakers throughout the world agreed that it was impossible for certain sets of historically antagonistic groups to coexist peacefully on a long-term basis.

This book investigates the writings of German intellectual historian and philosopher Hans Blumenberg.

The Palgrave Handbook of Global Perspectives on Emotional Labor in Public Service challenges traditional public administration theory and its disavowal of the emotive component to public service delivery.

This book fleshes out activities and initiatives in the field of education from across areas of European Union competence in order to highlight the extent to which education and training have penetrated the European Community's policymaking since its creation.

This book evaluates the utility of the Eurasian Economic Union in economic, political, cultural and geostrategic dimensions.

The essays in this volume address the question: what does it mean to understand the contemporary moment in light of the 1930s?

Using yet untapped resources from moral and political philosophy, this book seeks to answer the question of whether an all good God who is presumed to be all powerful is logically compatible with the degree and amount of moral and natural evil that exists in our world.

This book examines the waves of protest that broke out in the 2010s as the collective actions of self-organized publics.

Drawing on comparative politics and social network analysis, this book examines how the domestic institutional and organizational settings, as well as the network governance patterns, determine variation in administrative responses to EU's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) in two European Union (EU) member states, Denmark and Greece.

Intergovernmental councils have emerged as the main structures through which the governments of a federation coordinate public policy making.

This book explores the origins of nationalism and the ideal of nation/state congruency since early-modern European thought, their transformation over time and endurance in contemporary political thought and IR theory.

This book sets out to explain the variation in nations' reactions to their defeats in war.

This book studies the relationship between British government and faith groups in its international development agenda within and beyond the context of Brexit.

Based on Catholic and Confucian social ethics, this book develops an ethic of solidarity and reciprocity with the migrants in Asia who are marginalized.

This book explores the impact of electoral rules on political party development in Central and East Europe.

The book explores the ways in which Latin American states are capitalizing or failing to capitalize on the initiatives of China in world affairs.

This book explores the digital transformations of democracy and democratic societies.

The book offers the first systematic account of Iran's foreign policy following the nuclear agreement (JCPOA) of July 14, 2015.

This book explores the question of why and under which conditions right-wing populist parties receive electoral support.

This book provides a practical guide to how groups of people, everywhere, from the local village council to the United Nations Security Council, can best make collective decisions.

Christianity flourishes in areas facing profound dislocations amidst regime change and warfare.

This book analyses the Spanish parliamentary elites in a comparative perspective within southern Europe.

This is a book about European integration and mainstream parties of the left, the main underlying question driving it being: Given that the communist left was fatally wounded by the collapse of the Berlin Wall; given that, since then, the terms 'left' and 'right' have not infrequently been attacked (especially by populists) as being no longer useful for making sense of politics; given that social democracy, understood as 'national Keynesianism' no longer appears to be viable (as reflected in its long-term electoral decline), what does it mean to be on the left in the early 21st century and what can be done to revive its fortunes?

This book presents the first full and systematic account of Iran's nuclear program from 1979 to 2015.

This book explores the ways in which democratizing Muslim countries treat their ethnic minorities' requests of inclusiveness and autonomy.

During the last three decades, there has been a growing interest in systems that combine elements of parliamentarism and presidentialism.

This book guides the reader through the many complications and contradictions that characterize popular contestation today, focusing on its socio-political, cultural, and aesthetic dimensions.

This book analyzes how Chinese think tanks have become essential actors in today's Chinese foreign policy and diplomatic practices.

This book is a journey into the heart of an Islamic worldview.

This innovative volume is focused on the impact of religion on the realization of democratic citizenship.

This book examines gender- and integration-specific needs of women migrants by using a unique analytic framework, covering both qualitative and quantitative methods and techniques.

This volume addresses our global crisis by turning to Augustine, a master at integrating disciplines, philosophies, and human experiences in times of upheaval.

This book is the most updated and comprehensive look at efforts to protect the Amazon, home to half of the world's remaining tropical forests.

This book explores one of the most pressing public policy questions for the 2020s: how should we regulate cannabis?

This book discusses the role of gender and participation within the context of budgeting and planning.

This book examines the populist communication of mainstream parties in Germany, Austria, Italy, and Spain.

This book is a timely resource for the debate around "e;revitalizing"e; Canada's public diplomacy, bringing together some of the top scholars of Canadian public diplomacy and practitioners past and present to build a one-stop shop for thinking on the past, present, and future of Canadian engagement with foreign publics.

This book explores the nexus between education and politics in Lebanon, Northern Ireland, and Macedonia, drawing from an extensive body of original evidence and literature on power-sharing and post-conflict education in these post-conflict societies, as well as the repercussions that emerged from the end of civil war.

This book examines the history and role of election posters as one of the most crucial forms of political communication, especially in electoral campaigns, in a number of countries around the globe.

Rereading Marx, Weber, Gramsci and, more recently, Foucault, Beatrice Hibou tackles one of the core questions of political and social theory: state domination.

This book explores the increasing political and social prominence of Islamist groups across the Middle East in recent years.

This book provides an in-depth analysis of the 'technocratic shift' in ministerial recruitment, measuring its extent and variations over time in fourteen European countries.

This book presents a snapshot of a major challenge, and shares subjective views on various areas of conflict in Africa and the diverse - theoretical and practical - efforts to achieve peace.

This book conceives federalism not as a static institutional architecture, but as a dynamic formation always in flux.

This book analyzes Revolutionary Committees during the Cultural Revolution period in the People's Republic of China.

This handbook provides an authoritative study of European decentralisation, taking into account, from a territorial perspective, the different political and administrative traditions in Europe (Continental, Anglo-Saxon and Ex-communist States) and the cleavages North-South and East-West.