Comparative politics

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

Discourse on fundamentalism has gained much attention in recent years, particularly in a post-9/11 context where extremist or terrorist threats are more prominent, perilous, and pervasive.

This book discusses history of mental construction of the border between India and Bangladesh.

This book discusses various dynamic facets of the life of Rashid al-Ghannushi, a distinguished Islamic thinker and activist not only in Tunisia and North Africa, but in the entire Muslim world.

Analyses the current state of minority language policy in Western Europe and provides comprehensive, evidence-based policy recommendations.

Immigration integral to globalization, creating connections and mobilizing investments in human and financial capital across countries.

This book provides tractable computational analyses of the crucial but complex processes of government formation and survival.

This book analyzes the rise of evangelical Christians in Latin American electoral politics, comparing six Latin American countries.

This book provides tractable computational analyses of the crucial but complex processes of government formation and survival.

This book focuses on the formal and informal reconciliation processes during conflict and post-conflict periods in various locations in the Asia-Pacific, and includes cases studies based on primary research conducted in countries such as Cambodia, Timor-Leste, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, India, South Thailand, Bougainville and the Solomon Islands.

This book provides a key analysis of the development of the Catholic Church in Taiwan, and considers the challenges it faces in contemporary times.

This book provides a ground breaking interdisciplinary study of the Catholic Church in Taiwan, focusing on the post 1949 Civil War in China through to the present day, and discusses the role played by the Catholic Church in contemporary Taiwanese society.

With North Atlantic post-World War II transatlantic dynamics as the subject, this volume inquires if its theoretical tenets hold in other epochs and Atlantic arenas.

'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.

This book presents numerous discussions of specific aspects of democratic politics, showing how 'democracy' can be projected as a model of deliberate imperfection - a model that tolerates various loose ends in the system - and how democracy recognizes a multiplicity of possible courses open to the system at any point in time.

This book explores the elective affinity of religion and post-secularism with neoliberalism.

This book draws on the extensive literature on populism, democracy, and emerging markets as well as interviews with senior government officials, experts, and journalists in the Philippines and beyond, This book is the first to analyze the significance and implications of the rise of Filipino president Rodrigo Duterte within a rapidly-changing Asia Pacific region.

This book questions the common understanding of party political behaviour, explaining some of the sharp differences in political behaviour through a focused case study-drawing systematically on primary and archival research-of the Australian Labor Party's political and policy directions during select periods in which it was out of office at the federal level: from 1967-72, 1975-83, and 1996-2001.

This book focuses on International migration among the Chinese long before European colonists set foot on the Asian continent.

This book explores the institutionalization process with regard to the Parliament in Bangladesh, and seeks to identify the main constrains that hinder the Parliament from serving as the uppermost representative body for all segments of society.

This pivot chronicles the life of Charles McCarthy, a San Francisco native and Jesuit missionary to China, and tells the unique and compelling story of a young man who experienced confinement under the Japanese occupation, followed shortly by imprisonment by the Chinese Communists in the 1950's.

This book systematically reviews the development of social policy since the establishment of the People's Republic of China.

This book offers a general introduction to and analysis of the history, theory and public policy of Australian local government systems.

This book, part of a series, seeks to re-conceptualize Asian geographies; rather than a static East Asia core, this volume analyzes Asia's southern fringe, as symbolized in the trading group ASEAN and its role in Asia's evolving international relations.

This guidebook for students offers a survey of comparative politics intended for use in Hong Kong.

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

This volume, edited by a political scientist and a practicing medical doctor, is organized into two parts: interpersonal and institutional trust.

In this book, Jin Kai provides an alternative perspective on the power interactions between a rising China and a "e;relatively"e; declining U.

This book focuses on the tensions between and conflict resolution processes concerning minority ethnic groups in Myanmar's rural areas and the State.

This book presents research focusing on the Vietnam Nationalist Party (Viet Nam Quoc dan dang) from 1927 to 1954.

This book is about the 100 years of World Wars and Regional Collaboration in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, investigating and considering how to foster Good Governance and New World Order.

Este libro recoge artículos publicados desde los años noventa que dan cuenta de dos de las grandes pasiones de su autor: el fútbol y la ciencia política, en un ejercicio desafiante para indagar en la realidad política y futbolera de Colombia, de la selección de fútbol de Colombia y aquellos factores que forjan de diversas maneras la identidad nacional.

Desde el nacimiento de los Estados1 sudamericanos como países independientes, Brasil se ha diferenciado de sus pares regionales.

**A Sunday Times Bestseller****An Economist Best Book of the Year**The celebrated historian and journalist uncovers the networks trying to destroy the democratic worldAll of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man at the top.

El fenómeno de las crisis cambiarias constituye un hecho de primera magnitud en la vida económica actual y en el funcionamiento de la economía internacional.

"En este libro propone una relectura de la obras de autores clásicos desde las áreas de investigación del colectivo de profesores del grupo de investigación Democracia, Estado e integración social (DEIS), del Departamento de Ciencia Jurídica y Política en el marco del proyecto de investigación "La acción pública: una mirada desde la experiencia de los problemas públicos" (020100645), nanciado por la Ponticia Universidad Javeriana Cali (2019-2020).

Finnish Theosophist Pekka Ervast shows us in a consistent way how a person seeking truth can get a personal experience of Gods existence and how God loves him or her and all people with constant and unalterable love.

Sosialismi oli 1900-luvun johtava aate, mutta miten on 2000-luvun laita?

El relato K sumió a la Argentina en una decadencia moral, intelectual, económica y social.

This timely and innovative book analyses the lives of new female migrants in the EU with a focus on the labour market, domestic work, care work and prostitution in particular.

This volume, edited by a political scientist and a practicing medical doctor, is organized into two parts: interpersonal and institutional trust.

Journalism is complicated business: journalists are paid by management but work for the citizens; they tend to be self-taught (there is little evidence of mentoring and much disdain for journalism schools); and they need to be objective even when they're not impartial.

The story of human migration is as old as the story of Homo sapiens.

Comparative Politics and Political Analysis as a paper is being taught at the graduate and post graduate level in Political Science syllabus in almost all the Indian Universities.

For a long time, volunteering lacked standardized data sets allowing methodologically robust comparative analyses and global policy making.

Religion in Liberal Democracy as a Form of Life advances a theory to deal with the challenges connected to the liberal democratic ideal that all people are free to codetermine the future of their society and equally entitled to their religion and beliefs, given the historical bias towards Christianity in politics and culture within many European societies.

The Kriya technique is one of the most important inner techniques on the spiritual Path, as it is one of few techniques that leads the practitioner firmly towards enlightenment.