Comparative politics

This handbook fills a large gap in the current knowledge about the critical role of Africa in the changing global order.

This book is concerned with the ideology of Islamophobia as a cultural racism, and argues that in order to understand its prevalence we must focus not only on what Islamophobia is, but also why diversely situated individuals and groups choose to employ its narratives and tropes.

The economic downturn caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the unrest in the US following the unlawful death of George Floyd, and other sources of social unrest and insecurity, have brought to a head something that has been brewing in Western societies since the Great Recession of 2008: the disillusionment with liberal democracy as it evolved after World War II.

This book aims to advance the understanding of cultural property in armed conflict, and its significance for anti-terrorism and peace-building strategies.

This book provides an original argument that rejects the idea of national MPs having but one 'standard' mode of representation.

This book explores the relationship between the personality of political leaders, its interaction with top leadership positions and its impact on the respective parties' electoral performance and organization.

This book explores the cultural policies of sub-states with strong nationalist inclinations-in particular, Quebec, Scotland, and Catalonia-and their trend, in recent years, towards promoting and supporting the cultural industries as a means of not just preserving their respective cultural identities, but of growing them.

This edited volume analyses different forms of resistance against international institutions and charts their success or failure in changing the normative orders embodied in these institutions.

This book explores the rise and impact of violent non-state actors in contemporary Africa and the implications for the sovereignty and security of African states.

Using the conceptual framework of populism as discourse, Ritchie Savage provides a comparative analysis of U.

This interdisciplinary collection of essays focuses on the ways in which movements of people across natural, political, and cultural boundaries shape identities that are inexorably linked to the geographical space that individuals on the move cross, inhabit, and leave behind.

This book shows that democratization in sub-Saharan Africa can be successful, even if the government remains dominated by one major political party.

This book analyzes the threshold candidates of immigrant background need to overcome to run for legislative office.

This book focuses on the European Union as an important actor in international relations and international political economy.

This book provides a new theory for how democracy can materialize in the Middle East, and the broader Muslim world.

This edited volume investigates and evaluates the context, causes, and consequences of various essential issues in Taiwanese domestic politics and external relations before and after the regime change in 2016.

September 11 and the subsequent War on Terror continues to cast a long shadow over the world.

This edited volume covers the development of the thought of the political realist Hans J.

This Brief examines the objectives of cultural policy in Jordan, the institutional framework within which it operates, and its outcomes.

This edited volume revolves around two sets of questions.

This book explores the peacebuilding ideas and experiences of Maasai and Gusii women of faith in Kenya.

This book highlights the main factors determining the quality of public administration in conflict affected countries; and assesses to what extent the conflict determines and impacts on the performance of public administration in affected countries.

While the discussions among Brexiters mainly focus on the referendum of 2016 or David Cameron's "e;great miscalculation"e; and its repercussions, this book looks at the Brexit as a process that began decades earlier.

What makes people identify with Europe?

This book develops a comparative study on violence in Jamaica, El Salvador, and Belize based on a theoretical approach, extensive field research, and in-depth empirical research.

This volume examines the ways in which the socio-economic elites of the region have transformed and expanded the material bases of their power from the inception of neo-liberal policies in the 1970s through to the so-called progressive 'pink tide' governments of the past two decades.

Much like the rest of the country, American Catholics are politically divided, perhaps more so now than at any point in their history.

This book examines the factors determining the character, depth, scope and outcomes of changes made by political parties in the aftermath of electoral losses.

This edited volume explores Nigeria's domestic and international politics and its implications for the country's national development and international status.

Moving from a historical and cultural perspective, this book examines the geo-political and socio-economic changes involving the enlarged Mediterranean.

This book provides an up--to--date discussion of the effect of crises on European identities in the post--Soviet states.

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 studies party leaders from selection to post-presidency.

This edited collection explores how party politics impacts the implementation of gender quotas in political representation across Europe.

From sending imams abroad to financing mosques and Islamic associations, home states play a key role in governing Islam in Western Europe.

This book examines the changes in the career experiences and profiles of 350 European prime ministers in 26 European democracies from 1945 to 2020.

This textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the political systems of all ASEAN countries and Timor-Leste from a comparative perspective.

This book is a theoretically and historically informed exploration of 'secularism' in Muslim contexts.

This book explores the varying ways in which political parties in Europe make arguably their most important decisions: the selection of their leaders.

This book offers a comparative perspective on the semi-presidential regimes of Portugal and Timor-Leste, suggesting that they both reserve a "e;moderating power"e; for presidents in line with what was theorized by Benjamin Constant.

This book studies systemic vulnerabilities and their impact on states and individual survival.

This book chronologically analyzes thirteen key US Presidents, from Washington to Trump, to highlight how religion has informed or influence their politics and policies.

This book assesses the quality of democracy through the study of organized interests in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) since the collapse of communism in 1989 up to 2017.

This book analyzes social movements across a range of countries in the non-Western world: Bosnia, Brazil, Egypt, India, Iran, Palestine, Russia, Syria, Turkey and Ukraine in the period 2008 to 2016.

This edited collection presents the concept of lived citizenship as a fruitful avenue for exploring the role played by social work practices in the lives of people in vulnerable positions.

This book examines Korean cases of return migrations and diasporic engagement policy.

This book examines the practice of international election observation in a Caribbean context.

This book addresses the problem of World Regional Studies and its components: regional complexes, regional subsystems and global regions.

This book rethinks gubernatorial effects on national politics using the case of the Argentine Senate.

The book offers perspectives from change makers.