Comparative politics

Is theology a dead corpse or living organism?

In einer Welt, die sich ständig wandelt, muss auch unser Bildungssystem flexibel und anpassungsfähig sein.

How and why does restorative practice (RP) work?

This book investigates public medical insurance reform in China and studies its effects from both institutional and empirical study perspectives.

This book is a result of a joint conference, which was held from 18th-22nd July 2017 under the theme Religion, Citizenship and Development , Southern African Perspectives.

Between 1992 and 1994 Malawi underwent a remarkable transition from dictatorship to democracy.

With the death of John McCracken in 2017, Malawi lost a pre-eminent historian.

This book is a result of a joint conference, which was held from 18th-22nd July 2017 under the theme Religion, Citizenship and Development , Southern African Perspectives.

This book revisits the discourse theories of Habermas and Foucault in a Chinese context.

¿Qué podemos hacer si la realidad económica, política y moral de nuestro país se derrumba sin remedio?

"Miguel Ángel Barrios ha dedicado sus esfuerzos y su vida a la construcción de la Patria Grande.

Esta obra reúne reflexiones de analistas y experiencias de participantes directos de los principales procesos políticos acaecidos durante 2015-2020.

Hay acontecimientos y figuras históricas cuyas vidas y logros han sido distorsionados y vilificados por las leyendas de ciertos sectores de la memoria colectiva hasta tal punto que la verdad histórica ha quedado oscurecida u olvidada, incluso cuando está respaldada por evidencia empírica.

En un recorrido parabólico de más de dos siglos como nación, que tras superar dolorosos conflictos reconoció un ascenso que se aceleraría en la segunda mitad del siglo XIX y se extendería varias décadas en el XX, Argentina perdió impulso y comenzó a retrasarse relativamente dentro de distintos contextos sociales, internacionales e institucionales.

Mientras trabajos precedentes se habían focalizado exclusivamente en la trayectoria del Movimiento de Sacerdotes para el Tercer Mundo (MSTM), en este libro Claudia Touris demuestra que la corriente tercermundista en la Argentina fue una red sociorreligiosa más amplia y diversa que se desplegó como una verdadera constelación de actores sociales integrada no solo por los sacerdotes, sino también por religiosas, laicos que pasaron por los ámbitos de sociabilidad católica renovada por el Concilio Vaticano II y otros, como el grupo de Cristianismo y Revolución, que lo conectaron con la vía insurreccional minoritaria en la corriente tercermundista.

¿Quiénes mueven la rueda principal de la economía del país?

Auge y ocaso de la era liberal: una pequeña historia del siglo XXI retrata la evolución del sistema político internacional desde el fin de la Guerra Fría hasta la llegada al poder de Donald Trump.

La avanzada evangélica en las arenas partidarias latinoamericanas es uno de los acontecimientos más estudiados en el campo de la sociología de la religión y un evento que suscita hondas polémicas en el espacio amplio de la sociedad civil.

The cases of Singapore and Switzerland present a fascinating puzzle: how have two small states achieved similar levels of success through divergent pathways?

Until recently, generational studies of Communist countries have concentrated primarily on elite changes.

Is There Such a Thing as Populism?

Burma, also known as Myanmar, strategically located between China and India, is one of the largest and most richly endowed states in Southeast Asia.

This book compares the immigration policies of EU states and Asian countries-Germany, Poland, Estonia, Taiwan, China, South Korea, Japan, Vietnam,- and Thailand-analyses the policy strengths and weaknesses of various political actors in the regions and explores what can be learned from the experiences of different states.

This book analyses the state of development of Muslims at the regional level.

Drawing upon insights from the natural and social sciences, this book puts forth a provocative new argument that the violent Islamist threat in Indonesia today derives its stubborn resilience from being in essence a complex, adaptive and self-organizing system - or what some specialists might even call a super-organism.

This book systematically analyzes why constitutions do not survive in Nepal, despite sixty years of constitutional history.

This book focuses on underexploited data drawn from various legal disputes over the Doraleh Container Terminal in order to paint a portrait of SSC when it comes to infrastructure financing and construction in Africa as provided both by the UAE and China.

This book examines a selection of themes that have become salient in contemporary debates on constitutional democracies.

This book compares how British and Spanish media have covered the French ban on hijab wearing in public schools.

This book provides an analysis of the various challenges and opportunities facing the Japanese broadcasting industry.

This book investigates right-wing populism in Brazil.

Relying on micro-evidence on the repercussions of civil conflicts, this edited book explores theories and policies of post-conflict peacebuilding.

This book puts forward a new perspective, the historical dynamics of Chinese politics, for better understanding China's politics, which is from the vertical history of China and the dimension of horizontal world politics, combining the historical analysis of how Chinese politics has come along the way and the comparative analysis of China's governance achievements in world politics.

This book explores the phenomenon of total power in East Asia, with particular attention to China, Korea, and Japan.

This book revisits the discourse theories of Habermas and Foucault in a Chinese context.

This book is the first book to comprehensively and deeply explain and construct the legal system of Chinese art auctions.

The book explores the definition and nature of guerrilla tactics in international commercial arbitration.

This book presents the welfare regime of societies of Chinese heritage as a liminal space where religious and state authorities compete with each other for legitimacy.

This book investigates public medical insurance reform in China and studies its effects from both institutional and empirical study perspectives.

This book presents the welfare regime of China as a liminal space where religious and state authorities struggle for legitimacy as new social forces emerge.

This book sheds light on religiously motivated extremism and violence in South Asia, a phenomenon which ostensibly poses critical and unique challenges to the peace, security and governance not only of the region, but also of the world at large.

This book explores state-religion relations under a populist authoritarian ruling party in Turkey.

This book is framed by four over-arching narratives of inquiry.

This book aims to explore China's miracle under the context of complex world full of uncertainties.

This research explores one of the baffling mysteries in contemporary non-Western democracies.

This book explores the transformation of India's relations with Central and Eastern Europe from being a subset of Indo-Soviet relations during the Cold War to the rediscovery and rebuilding of relations with the region almost from scratch in the post-Cold War era.

This book focuses on the ways in which unofficial modes of border crossings are practised by the Thai Ban, along the Mekong Thai-Lao border.