Comparative politics

In this book, well-renowned international scholars discuss topics related to various aspects of the history of the Battle of Salamis, inspired by the democratic origins of the Greek naval victory at Salamis.

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.

Why the world's most resilient dictatorships are products of violent revolutionRevolution and Dictatorship explores why dictatorships born of social revolution-such as those in China, Cuba, Iran, the Soviet Union, and Vietnam-are extraordinarily durable, even in the face of economic crisis, large-scale policy failure, mass discontent, and intense external pressure.

This book explores how politics, religion and cinema encounter and re-invent each other in contemporary Turkish cinema.

This book explores the opportunities and obstacles to a presidential system in Turkey as proposed by the Justice and Development Party (AK Party).

The Routledge Handbook of Autocratization comprehensively and systematically explores the current understanding, and unchartered research paths, of autocratization.

This edited volume examines the importance and significance of the Christian population in the Middle East and North Africa from the rise of Islam to present day.

This book argues that Islam has been securitized in US foreign policy, especially during the W.

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Focusing on social work and social service delivery, this book examines the social policies and programmes designed to address different societal issues and concerns across India and China.

This handbook provides a comprehensive analysis of the dynamics and prospects of democratization in East Asia.

This book provides a comprehensive explanation of human well-being outcomes by analyzing the role of domestic and international political factors.

The Routledge Handbook of East European Politics is an authoritative overview that will help a wide readership develop an understanding of the region in all its political, economic, and social complexity.

This book examines the determinants and consequences of policy responsiveness and change, and how policy issues get onto the media and legislative agenda in a transitional democracy.

Federalism has experienced a remarkable renaissance in recent decades - as an alternative way to accommodate ethnic differences; as a tool to combat remote, undemocratic and ineffective central governments; and lastly, as a means to promote economic performance in the developing world through decentralisation.

This book explores how the Baltic States have adapted to, and been embedded in, a wider European environment and how they have become modern European states.

"e;This book makes a vital contribution to the current literature on human well-being.

The rise of populism in the West has led to attacks on the legitimacy of scientific expertise in political decision making.

This book provides an in-depth account of the politics of the Eurozone crisis in Italy, Spain, Greece, Portugal, Cyprus and Malta, mapping the positions expressed by the governments of Southern EU countries during the Eurozone crisis negotiations, including Greece's bailout deal, the so-called "e;Six Pack"e; and the "e;Fiscal Compact"e; and exploring the process of domestic preference formation.

The book analyzes different critical attitudes towards European integration from a multidisciplinary perspective.

This book is a reference work with an encyclopedic range, offering contemporary and systematic comparisons between the United States and 17 other economically advanced, stable liberal democracies, as well as some more global comparisons.

This book offers a broad perspective of revolutionary territorial politics by putting secession in the context of other forms of revolutionary territorial politics.

This book investigates how institutional differences, such as the roles of political parties and the regulation of electoral systems, affect the development of Internet election campaigns in the U.

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.

The textbook looks at the German federal state from the perspective of the Lander.

This book analyses the evolving engagement of the United States and Cuba, along with the impact of this relationship on Cuba-CARICOM relations and the Caribbean.

This edited volume is a collection of twenty-three autobiographical narratives by successful teachers of global politics and international relations.

This book explores the agency of Jinn, the so-called "e;demons of Islam"e;.

This book identifies the different forms that protest voting can take in times when populism flourishes.

This book compares the constitutional politics in Canada and the United Kingdom - two complex, multilevel, plurinational states.

This book introduces political science of religion - a coherent approach to the study of the political role of religion grounded in political science.

Inspired by the democratic origins of the Greek naval victory at Salamis, the book discusses the current pressing issues of democracy worldwide.

This book decisively advances the academic debate on politicisation beyond the state of the art.

This book seeks to understand white conservative Christians' support for Donald Trump, using their own words.

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

Rüdiger Voigt gibt in diesem Essential einen Überblick über die Geschichte europäischen Staatsdenkens anhand ausgewählter Staatsdenker.

This book addresses the field of populisms from a contemporary perspective.

This edited collection explores citizenship in a transnational perspective, with a focus on Australia, Canada, and New Zealand.

This book examines why authoritarian governments are willing to address environmental problems that have an international impact, such as CO2  emissions, but are reluctant to address problems that have only a domestic impact.

This book contains fresh insights into ecumenism and, notwithstanding claims of an "e;ecumenical winter,"e; affirms the view that we are actually moving into a "e;new ecumenical spring.

This book explores the changes underwent by the Orthodox Churches of Eastern and Southeastern Europe as they came into contact with modernity.

This book argues that the relationship between political parties, civil service and party insider groups in Bulgaria is oligarchic.

This book traces the connections between diverging postwar European integration policies and intra-Christian divisions to argue that supranational integration originates from Roman Catholic internationalism, and that resistance to integration, conversely, is based in Protestantism.

Britain faces huge challenges: inequality, public services under constant pressure, climate change - and in the long term, the impacts of automation and artificial intelligence.

This book traces the practices of migration control and its contestation in the European migration regime in times of intense politicization.

This book describes and compares the circumstances and lived experiences of religious minorities in Tunisia, Morocco, and Israel in the 1970s, countries where the identity and mission of the state are strongly and explicitly tied to the religion of the majority.

This book analyses French cultural policies in the face of what the French government perceives as a challenge to its Republican secular raison d'etre.