Comparative politics

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.

This book argues that the primary political obstacle holding women back in the twenty-first century is a bait and switch promising but simultaneously undercutting gender equality.

This edited volume analyzes mistakes in different areas of international relations including the realms of security, foreign policy, finance, health, development, environmental policy and migration.

The focus of this book is on the experiences of government-sponsored refugees in the early stages of integrating into Canadian society.

Over the past thirty years the comparative study of policy agendas under the aegis of the Comparative Agendas Project (CAP) has become one of the fastest growing sub-field in policy research.

This book addresses two main questions: under what conditions does reciprocity fail to produce cooperation?

This book examines why press freedom has not become part of the established international human rights debate, despite its centrality to democratic theory.

This book argues that Islam's role in state nationalism is the best predictor of the Islamization of government using two most different cases: Turkey, which was an aggressively secular country until recently, and Pakistan, a country that is synonymous with Islamization.

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

This book provides a fresh perspective on the debate over the role of the state in East Asia's development history.

In light of the public and scholarly debates on the challenges and problems of established democracies, such as a lack of participation, declining confidence in political elites, and the deteriorating capabilities of democratic institutions, this volume discusses the question whether democracy as such is in crisis.

This book explores the complexity of the Syrian question and its effects on the foreign policies of Russia, Iran, and Turkey.

This book analyses the policies of recognition that were developed and implemented to improve the autonomy and socio-economic well-being of Maori in New Zealand and of indigenous and Afro-descendent people in Colombia.

This book sheds new light on the emergence and fluctuation of Iran's connections with non-state entities in the Middle East.

This book discusses the interaction between and the impact of overlapping actions by regional organizations while dealing with critical events.

This book offers a critical account of studies of local immigration policy and a relational approach to explain its emergence, variation, and effects in a context of interdependence and globalization.

This book is the first to systematically examine the connection between religion and transitional justice in post-communism.

This first study of faith-based development NGOs' (FBOs) political roles focuses on how U.

This book explores theories of conflict and peacebuilding and applies them to case studies from the Asia Pacific region, seeking to shift attention to the inherency of conflict, the constant danger of re-emergence, and the need to establish mechanisms to resolve it.

This book argues that homophobia plays a fundamental role in disputes for hegemony between antagonists during political transitions.

This book provides insights on regulatory effectiveness in the field of food safety, by focusing on the variety of institutional factors affecting regulatory outcomes.

This book aims to establish a dialogue around the various "e;urban sanctuary"e; policies and other formal or informal practices of hospitality toward migrants that have emerged or been strengthened in cities in the Americas in the last decade.

This book presents a cross-cultural investigation into the interplay between social capital and subjective well-being.

This book studies the rollercoaster first year in office of the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA), which for many Europeans constituted the hope for a different Europe, beyond austerity and national egocentrism.

This book sheds light on how Member States and EU neighbours relate to Russia.

This book analyses the discourses of economic liberalization reform in six Western European countries - Germany, France, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Austria.

This book examines the increasing territorialisation of party competition and the relaxation of unitarian rule through devolution, presenting a long-term analysis of electoral developments in the United Kingdom since the end of the Second World War.

This book offers the first comparative study of far-right messaging and organizing efforts at the workplace level as well as responses by established trade unions, encompassing six European countries (Belgium, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Poland).

This book bridges the gap between academic researchers and policymaking experts working on the Western Balkans and those dealing with the Baltic States.

This book explores the causes of corruption in the Middle East and North Africa through a systematic cross-national comparative analysis of fifteen countries in the region.

This interdisciplinary volume represents the first comprehensive English-language analysis of the development of Protestant Christianity in Xiamen from the nineteenth century to the present.

This book offers a comparative perspective on the new wave of revolutions in the MENA region.

This book investigates the causes and consequences of crisis in four countries of the Eurozone periphery - Greece, Spain, Portugal and Ireland.

This book investigates the impact of internet use on anti-government protesting under authoritarian rule.

This book explores the variations in the transformation of the Asian developmental state in South Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan.

This book comparatively assesses the China and India's soft power strategy in Iran.

This book introduces a new perspective on risk seeking behaviour, developing a framework based on various cognitive theories, and applying it to the specific case-study of Turkey's foreign policy toward Syria.

This volume offers an overview of the critical challenges faced by aspiring African entrepreneurs and their coping strategies to sustain and develop their businesses.

This innovative edited collection provides a comprehensive analysis of modern secularism across Asia which contests and expands prevailing accounts that have predominantly focused on the West.

This book challenges the common perception that global politics is making progress on indigenous issues and argues that the current global care for indigeneity is, in effect, violent in nature.

This book offers vivid insights into policies of religious education in schools since the series of wars in former Yugoslavia in the 1990's.

Political uncertainty and instability characterise many regions around the world and, increasingly, can be observed in more established democracies.