Comparative politics

This book shows how an encounter with everyday nationhood in the northern United Arab Emirates can make us revisit the classics of sociology as continuous analytical world-views.

This volume is the first collection in the field of wellbeing studies that places politics centre stage.

This edited volume investigates the ethical and emotional challenges of conducting fieldwork in Africa.

This book sheds light on how Hizbullah has transformed religious rituals and supernatural narratives in order to mobilize the Shi'a community.

This book investigates how political parties from 12 European countries used Facebook to inform, interact with and mobilise voters at the 2019 European Parliament election.

This book explores the continuity of oligarchic rule in the Americas of the modern period, with a focus on the variable compatibility of oligarchic rule and democratic government.

During the 2000's, online literature in Arabic language was popular among a larger readership.

This book uses original research and interviews to consider the views of contemporary members of the Orange Order in Canada, including their sense of political and societal purpose, awareness of the decline of influence, views on their present circumstances, and hopes for the future of Orangeism in Canada.

Evidence suggests that economies with technology transfer initiatives provide a better supply of high-quality jobs and tend to be characterized by entrepreneurs with higher innovation contributions.

This volume focuses on the evolution of public policy and the role of agenda setting with regard to policymaking in countries of the Global South.

This edited volume addresses how single mothers and fathers are represented in novels, self-help literature, daily newspapers, film and television, as well as within their own narratives in interviews on social media.

This book explores the dynamics of health system decentralization and recentralization, investigating why and how the territorial organization of health systems changes or remains stable over time.

This book explores the social dynamics of the interaction between inspectors and their inspectees in the public sector.

This edited volume explores the Israeli-Turkish relations in the 2000s from a multi-dimensional perspective providing a comparative analysis on the subjects of politics, ideology, civil society, identity, energy, and economic relations.

Der Sammelband kombiniert die Diskussion theoretischer Konzepte mit länderübergreifenden Analysen zu Migration und Integration.

This book analyzes the 'intellectual political culture' of post-Tiananmen China in comparison to and in conflict with liberalism inside and outside the P.

Comprehensively laying out the concept of crimilegality, this book presents a novel perspective on the relationship between what is conventionally termed organised crime and political order in the contemporary developing world.

This edited volume provides a comprehensive overview of the diverse and multi-faceted research on governance in multilevel systems.

This book discusses youth unemployment in post-revolutionary Tunisia, paying particular attention to the so-called skill mismatch.

This book focuses on the role of norms in the description, explanation, prediction and combat of corruption.

This book provides a comparative, neo-institutionalist approach to the different factors impacting state adoption of-or refusal to adopt-same-sex marriage laws.

Studying the political economy of welfare state reform, this edited collection focuses on the role of public opinion and organized interests in respect to policy change.

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?

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.

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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.