Comparative politics

This collection of 15 essays illuminates the evolution of political Islam from the era of the Prophet Muhammad to the presidency of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Iran.

The rise of a populist conservative nationalism in the United States has triggered unease at home and abroad.

Investigating local responses to EU peacebuilding, this book develops a relational and spatial concept of agency, helping to understand the processes in which peacebuilding actors engage and interact with one another.

Discusses how culture both facilitates and inhibits our ability to address, live with, and make sense of climate change.

Party Reform is a new comparative study of the politics of party organization.

Why efforts to moderate harmful content on social media fail to stop extremistsContent moderation on social media has become one of the most daunting challenges of our time.

How does Christianity continue to experience growth in an increasingly authoritarian political system that enforces strict regulations on religion?

What happens when a newspaper editor gives his primary editorial slot on Sundays to a pastor?

For over four decades, events in Palestine-Israel have provoked raging conflicts within British universities around issues of free speech, 'extremism', antisemitism and Islamophobia.

The 2011 Arab Spring protests seemed to mark a turning point in Middle East politics, away from authoritarianism and toward democracy.

This book sheds light on modern populism and discusses the link between populism and identity politics against the backdrop of populist leaders asserting the identity of their own group, while maintaining the separation from others.

This book highlights how new and established democracies differ from one another in the effects of their electoral rules.

County-level fieldwork and unique data demonstrate how leadership and career incentives explain regional variation in China''s economic development.

This book examines the quest to promote the health and vigour of individuals and populations of liberal democracies.

Turkey has leapt to international prominence as an economic and political powerhouse under its elected Muslim government, and is looked on by many as a model for other Muslim countries in the wake of the Arab Spring.

Evangelical and Catholic groups are transforming Brazilian politics.

This book compares anti-immigrant attitudes across 8 countries on 5 continents.

A comprehensive theory of the causes of nuclear proliferation, alongside an in-depth analysis of sixteen historical cases of nuclear development.

The mythical ''demographic timebomb'' can be defused through policies that reduce inequalities between and within generations.

The early twentieth century witnessed the emergence of Scottish and Quebec nationalisms that were closely intertwined with liberal philosophies.

This book analyses the attitudes of Muslim citizens toward international and regional actors.

Successful public order management is critical to upholding democracy and maintaining the rule of law.

In the post-Cold War era, why has democratization been slow to arrive in the Arab world?

Julia Simoleit untersucht die Frage, ob europäische Ziele und Programme neben der Außendarstellung auch die täglichen Praktiken und Prozesse innerhalb der Universitäten beeinflussen.

This book, the 32nd volume in the Canada Among Nations series, looks to the wide array of foreign policy challenges, choices and priorities that Canada confronts in relations with the US where the line between international and domestic affairs is increasingly blurred.

Reassessing the developing world through the lens of Europe's pastToday's developing nations emerged from the rubble of the Second World War.

This landmark study provides an integrated analysis of China''s unexpected economic boom of the past three decades.

This book examines the interpretation and application of the right to freedom of religion and belief of new minorities formed by recent migration by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) and the United Nations Human Rights Committee (HRC).

For millions of Catholic believers, pilgrimage has offered possible answers to the mysteries of sickness, life, and death.

This book explores how contemporary approaches to the meaning of time and history follow patterns that are simultaneously political and theological.

This volume explores contemporary Christian political theology, discussing its traditional sources, its emergence as a discipline, and its key issues.

The third edition of Media, Politics and Democracy examines the fraught debate over media influence, who wields it and what effect social and traditional media has on what we think, how we behave, and how we vote.

Das Lehrbuch liefert einen umfassenden Überblick über methodische und konzeptionelle Grundlagen der vergleichenden Föderalismusforschung und führt in die Grundstrukturen der föderalen Staaten Europas und der USA ein.

Why did democratization suffer reversal during the interwar years, while fascism and authoritarianism spread across many European countries?

Winner of the 2022 ECPA Christian Book Award for Faith & CultureHow do we effectively confront racial injustice?

This book provides a thought provoking and comprehensive account of teenagers' perceptions and experiences of the physical and symbolic divisions that exist in 'post conflict' Belfast.

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

As recent headlines reveal, conflicts and debates around the world increasingly involve secularism.

This book is about a variety of national arrangements and practices, whose common characteristics are to constitute 'presidential republics' and which as such have become the main form of government in the contemporary world.

This book argues that, collectively, unions can help shape how the rules governing the global economy are made.

The book focuses on the relationship between the poor and the state in India.

The American invasion of Iraq was largely governed by faith-based policy.

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In The Universe Is On Our Side, Bruce Ledewitz argues that there has been a breakdown in American public life that no election can fix - Americans struggle to even converse about politics and the usual explanations for our condition have failed to make things better.

Eastern Europe was once clearly defined by the centralized political and economic organization of the societies in the region.

Originally published in 1978, this book was distinctive in translating the work of French labour specialists and includes chapters on Nigeria, South Africa, Senegal, Kenya, Tanganyika, Madagascar and Botswana.