Comparative politics

This book provides an overview of preventing and countering violent extremism (P/CVE) to assist readers in developing a more complete understanding of P/CVE and the issues of radicalisation, disengagement and rehabilitation.

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

This book presents a unique effort to apply political philosophy to realities of the world.

This volume combines approaches from three disciplines - economics, sociology, and demography - and empirically analyzes the key aspects of the labor market and social demography processes in post-Soviet transitional societies while focusing on the gender perspective.

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.

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 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.

The book examines  how the European Union, which in the past had tended to be seen by India as an undervalued partner, is now increasingly part of most conversations in fields like the economy, technology, standards, best practices, development, defence and security.

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

This book analyzes China's attitude to international law based on historical experiences and documents, and provides an explanation of China's approaches to international legal issues.

This book traces the expansion of Islamisation within a modern and plural state such as Malaysia.

This book describes the Islamisation process that has unfolded in Malaysia over the last fifty years and provides feedback from in-depth interviews with 100 individuals from Malaysia's "e;educated classes"e;, or the "e;elite"e;, regarding their reactions to the changes that have accompanied Islamisation and how they feel it has impacted them.

This book explores the change and continuity in the idea of the nation state.

This book presents a unique effort to apply political philosophy to realities of the world.

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 argues that Political Islam in the Iranian context evolved into three main schools of thought during the 1960s and 1970s: Jurisprudential Islam led by Ayatollah Khomeini, Leftist Islam led by Shariati, and Liberal Islam led by Bazargan.

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 volume explores the governing mechanism employed by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in the light of state capacity building.

This book investigates the changing meanings of power and politics in the Internet age and questions whether the political category of the citizen still has a meaningful role to play in the highly-mediated dynamics of an increasingly networked world.

This book traces the expansion of Islamisation within a modern and plural state such as Malaysia.

This book examines the role of Hindu-inspired faith movements (HIFMs) in contemporary India as actors in social transformation.

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

This book analyses the origins of security dilemmas in the South China Sea (SCS) and the significance of China's actions in asserting its claim from the perspective of defensive realist theory.

This book investigates the changing meanings of power and politics in the Internet age and questions whether the political category of the citizen still has a meaningful role to play in the highly-mediated dynamics of an increasingly networked world.

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

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

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

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.

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 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.

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.