Comparative politics

Der Band setzt sich mit der "Harmonischen Gesellschaft" auseinander, dem neuen ideologischen Konzept der Parteiführung der Kommunistischen Partei Chinas, um den Wandel Chinas zu forcieren und die eigene Herrschaft zu festigen.

Written by a team of leading authorities in the field, this collection provides a critique of the law as it applies to social work practice, and identifies key contemporary issues for social work.

This fourth volume of Michael Mann''s analytical history of social power covers the period from 1945 to the present.

A new perspective on how the nation-state emerged and subsequently proliferated across the globe, accompanied by a wave of wars.

This book marks a critical contribution in assessing and extending the evidence base on the causes and consequences of women's homelessness.

Historically, men have been more likely to be appointed to governing cabinets, but gendered patterns of appointment vary cross-nationally, and women's inclusion in cabinets has grown significantly over time.

This debate style textbook allows students to explore diverse, well-founded views on controversial African issues, pushing them to go beyond superficial interpretations and complicate and ground their understanding of the continent.

This book carries out a comparative analysis of the power struggles over the post-neoliberal social security reforms in Venezuela and Ecuador.

This volume engages with issues of moral responsibility and multiethnic co-existence in the context of contemporary Africa.

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

Comparing Political Regimes provides a comprehensive assessment of the world's political systems by outlining and contrasting the aspects of four different regime types: liberal democracies, electoral democracies, semi-liberal autocracies, and closed autocracies.

Based on a Romanian case study, this book sheds light on the supply and demand of news and information in the current digital era, dominated by unprecedented dramatic changes.

This book takes on the challenge of conceptually thinking Paraguayan cultural history within the broader field of Latin American studies.

This book analyzes the social legitimacy deficit of the European Parliament (EP) in the United Kingdom and Greece.

This volume presents the critical perspectives of feminists, critical race theorists, and queer and postcolonial theorists who question the adoption of European norms in the postcolonial world and whether such norms are enabling for disenfranchised communities or if they simply reinforce relations of domination and exploitation.

It is often said that effective government requires a concentration of power.

This book shows how European integration is debated in the mass media, and how this affects democratic inclusiveness.

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.

Explains how economic development leads to democracy by exploring how authoritarian governments manipulate the agricultural sector.

This book analyses prime ministerial leadership in Britain and Japan since 1980.

This book examines the intersection between national and international counter-terrorism policies and civil society in numerous national and regional contexts.

One of the more positive international trends as of late has been the transformation of several countries from authoritarian-based dictatorships and single party systems into multi-party democracies characterized by peaceful political transitions.

This second edition of a successful book provides updated clinical and research knowledge, including information on the licensing of new antiepileptic drugs.

The United States is the world's leading foreign aid donor.

This fully updated fifth edition of An Introduction to African Politics is an ideal textbook for those new to the study of this fascinating continent.

Europe and Asia are two major centres for the development of multi-polar and multi-lateral relations.

How do political regimes respond to the challenges emanating from youth mobilization?

The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Regionalism - the first of its kind - offers a systematic and wide-ranging survey of the scholarship on regionalism, regionalization, and regional governance.

In what ways can we think through the complexities of identity?

This volume investigates new migration patterns in the Americas addressing continuities and changes in existing population movements in the region.

The second edition of this introductory textbook on foreign policy analysis focuses on the key explanatory factors that underlie the foreign policies of states and other actors to show how theory can illuminate practice.

This book investigates the ways in which people in the Lake Chad region that divides Nigeria, Niger, Chad, and Cameroon deal with the crises of violence, jihadism, drought, and climate change that continue to afflict the area.

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.

Courts and Terrorism examines the response of judiciaries in nine separate nations to terror tactics and the common themes experienced.

This book examines similarities and differences in 31 European governments' responses to the COVID-19 pandemic.

This book is concerned with a large question in one small, but highly problematic case: how can a prime minister establish control and coordination across his or her government?

This book explores the ways in which different generations think about how the welfare state is organised at present, and how it will be organised in future.

Academics extol high-minded ideals, such as serving the common good and promoting social justice.

A new theory of market power politics that explains when and why states will delay cooperation or even fight wars in pursuit of this elusive goal.

This volume casts a fresh look on how the political spaces of the Western Balkan states (Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo, Macedonia and Albania) are shaped, governed and transformed during the EU accession process.

'Destined Statecraft enriches our understanding of global affairs by presenting a perspective where small powers are no longer in the periphery, but take up the main narrative.

Das Buch behandelt Akteure, Prozesse und Strukturen des politischen Systems Griechenlands.

Global Taxation investigates the global transition to modern taxation from the 18th century to today.

This book provides a new interpretation of the Northern Irish Troubles.