Comparative politics

The collapse of socialist regimes across Southeastern Europe changed the rules of the political game and led to the transformation of these societies.

When the Christian Right burst onto the scene in the late 1970s, many political observers were shocked.

Timely and unique, this innovative volume provides a critical examination of the role of civil society and its relation to the state throughout left-led Latin America.

This book brings a crucial perspective to the examination of religion and politics in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) by focusing on the roles that Christian communities play in this region.

Provides a critical but sympathetic overview of the literature on developmental states.

This book addresses how digitalization has influenced the institutions, practitioners and audiences of diplomacy.

How reforms limiting electoral misconduct completed the process of democratizationBetween 1850 and 1918, many first-wave democracies in Europe adopted electoral reforms that reduced the incidence of electoral malfeasance.

Constructing International Security identifies effective third-party strategies for balancing deterrence and restraint in security relationships.

A new theoretical analysis of the rise of Donald Trump, Marine le Pen, Nigel Farage, Geert Wilders, Silvio Berlusconi, and Viktor Orbán.

This book unpacks the history of British-Israelism in the UK.

For several decades, culture played a central role in challenging the liberal tradition.

Presents an account of the rise of Erdogan''s AKP, showing how the politicisation of religion has roots in the period of early nation-building in Turkey.

This book investigates for the first time the parallels between two island appendages of much larger governments - Okinawa, Japan's southernmost island prefecture, in ferment over historic US bases; Jeju embroiled over a new South Korean naval base.

[A] compelling case for the institutional analysis of political leadership.

This book explains why Islamist parties have dominated the politics of Egypt for the better part of fifty years.

Rather than an unintended by-product of poor state capacity, weak political and legal institutions are often weak by design.

Under what conditions do citizens most effectively connect to the democratic process?

China's rise to global power status in recent decades has been accompanied by deepening economic relationships with Africa, with the New Silk Road's extension to Sub-Saharan Africa as the latest step, leading to much academic debate about the influence of Chinese business in the continent.

Postsecular Feminisms explores the contested relationship between feminism and secularism through a series of case studies, featuring perspectives from the global North and South.

In several Western countries, expert commissions composed of academics, public figures, politicians and community organisers have been established by governments or civil society to reflect on the changes and challenges of an increasingly plural society.

This book examines a unified reinterpretation of Christianity by Hobbes, Locke, and Jefferson, and compares that to de Tocqueville''s analysis of changes.

Political, social, and economic transformation is a complex historical phenomenon.

This study of police governance draws on over ninety interviews conducted with Argentine police officers.

This book critiques the conventional definition of a political party and assesses parties'' role in contemporary democracies.

Explores four types of corruption and the implications for reform, emphasizing practical ways to check abuses of wealth and power.

The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) is attracting significant attention from governments and scholars.

Although Religious Education (RE) is a legal requirement in UK schools, it is an oft-neglected and misunderstood subject.

Exploring the relationship between religion and the state Focusing on the intersection of religion, law, and politics in contemporary liberal democracies, Blackford considers the concept of the secular state, revising and updating enlightenment views for the present day.

Using Christianity in Africa, this book demonstrates that cultural influences, specifically religious sermons, can impact political participation.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of Islamist organizations' conceptions of political order based on a comparative case study of the Shiite Lebanese Hezbollah and the Sunni Palestinian Hamas.

Why did Egyptian cults, especially those dedicated to the goddess Isis and god Sarapis, spread so successfully across the ancient Mediterranean after the death of Alexander the Great?

In no society on Earth was there such a ferocious attempt to eradicate all trace of religion as in modern China.

The only comprehensive critical anthology of theological and historical aspects related to Florovsky's thought by an international group of leading academics and church personalities.

This book explores how bauxite mining has affected local and national political dynamics in Guinea over the past 55 years, providing an overview of mining interactions with social, economic and political spheres.

Religion after Deliberative Democracy responds to gaps exposed by the case of religion in deliberative democratic theory.

Whether the issue is the rise of religiously inspired terrorism, the importance of faith based NGOs in global relief and development, or campaigning for evangelical voters in the U.

Brainwashed is the explosive exposé of the leftist agenda at work in today's colleges, revealed by firebrand Ben Shapiro—syndicated columnist, podcaster, radio show host, and one of today's most exciting conservative voices—who’s been on the front lines of the battle for America's young minds.

Toha explains why ethnic groups engage in violence during political transition, and why and how this violence eventually declines.

A Philosophy of Christian Materialism offers a new religious engagement with the public sphere via means of interdisciplinary analysis and empirical examples, developing what the authors call a Relational Christian Realism building upon interaction with contemporary Philosophy of Religion.

English Christendom has never been a static entity.

Provides a holistic and cross-disciplinary approach to understanding why a regional democratic transition did not occur after the Arab Spring protests.

This collection considers how religious identity interplays with other forms and contexts of identity, specifically those related to sexual identity.

As the European Union has evolved, it has also begun to address policy questions which are closer to the very heart of the state.

This book examines the understudied role of the interfaith movement in institutionalizing religious pluralism in the public life of contemporary societies through the case study of Interfaith Scotland.

This accessible introduction tells the American story of religious liberty from its colonial beginnings to the latest Supreme Court cases.

The book examines the failures and some of the successes of Africa in its efforts to transform into a society where human security or development in the broadest sense is achieved.

iPolitics describes the ways in which new media innovations change how politicians and citizens engage the political arena.