Comparative politics

Who governs Britain?

This book highlights the pioneering roles of African women as leaders and role models in Kenya, providing examples taken from across education, health, business, and a range of other sectors.

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.

A major new statement of deliberative theory that shows how states, even transnational systems, can be deliberatively democratic.

This book provides a multifaceted analysis of the so-called US 'rebalance' (or 'pivot') toward Asia by focusing on the diplomatic, military, and economic dimensions of the American policy shift in the Asia Pacific region.

Through an indigenous and new materialist thinking approach, this book discusses various examples in Africa where colonial public art, statues, signs and buildings were removed or changed after countries' independence.

This insightful three-volume set examines faith through the social and cultural perspective of anthropology, sociology, and religious studies, shedding light on the role of religion in the human experience.

This book draws on extensive fieldwork among Muslims in Nepal to examine the local and global factors that shape contemporary Muslim identity and the emerging Islamic revival movement based in the Kathmandu valley.

In the beginning of American history, the Word was in Spanish, Latin, and native languages like Nahuatal.

This book explores the role of faith and politics in shaping the international relations of South Asia.

This book examines the political uses of official apologies in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States.

Human rights and their principles of interpretation are the leading legal paradigms of our time.

Analyzes the effects of globalization on the restructuring of politics in Western Europe over the past three decades.

This book explores the motives of local political elites and armed groups in carrying out violence against civilians during civil war.

How do interstate actors negotiate their interests?

This book finds and explores a gender gap in political support in the Occupied Palestinian Territories whereby more women than men support Hamas, and more men than women support Fatah.

When the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) assumed power in India in 1998 as the largest party of the National Democratic Alliance, it soon became evident that it prioritized educational reforms.

Was the Bush administration was successful in legitimating its preferences with habeas corpus, torture, and extraordinary rendition?

This fully revised new edition includes expanded coverage of Parliament's relationship with the courts, devolved assemblies and the European Union.

The Politics of Economic Activity confronts head-on deeply rooted understandings of how politics affects economics.

The UAE ambassador to Russia shares a bold and intimate exploration of what it means to be Muslim in the 21st century.

This first comprehensive history of the Russian Bible demonstrates how scriptural translation exposed serious divisions in modern Russian religious culture.

How Nicolas Maduro reinvented authoritarianism for the twenty-first centurVenezuela, which once enjoyed periods of democratically elected governments in the latter half of the twentieth century, has descended into autocratic rule, coupled with economic collapse.

Argues that the global order is constructed from sovereign hybridity, where power flows without regard to public and private boundaries.

Politicians default on international debts to please key political supporters, depending on their capacity for voting or revolt.

For the last five decades, Rodney Stark has been one of sociology's most prolific and important scholars of religion.

Originally published in 1976, this book provides an account of the aims and structure of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) and its growth from its foundation in Addis Ababa in 1963 up to the mid-1970s.

The Kharijites were the first sectarian movement in Islamic history, a rebellious splinter group that separated itself from mainstream Muslim society and set about creating, through violence, an ideal community of the saved.

In the international political economy of the last two millennia, there tends to be one state leading the world as the foremost producer of energy and new technology.

This book provides a critical account of the concept of international protection.

Explains one of the most important phenomena in Western Europe: the rise of far-right parties.

This book presents critical engagements with the work of Hent de Vries, widely regarded as one of the most important living philosophers of religion.

This volume examines the growing presence of populism, partisanship, and polarization and analyzes what this means for scandalization processes.

Managing Public Services: Competition and Decentralization is intended for public sector managers to help them assess their situation and assist them to think creatively about different approaches for the future.

A myth exists that Jews can embrace the cultural components of Judaism without appreciating the legal aspects of the Jewish tradition.

How should we think about immigration and what policies should democratic societies pursue?

The 2008 US presidential election was a 'global event.

The EU''s crises have triggered a division between ''sovereignist'' and ''Europeanist'' forces.

Corporate Security Responsibility?

The United States contributes more foreign aid than any other state in the world, and it is often recognized as a leader in engaging religious organizations in aid delivery.

Peter Beyer, a distinguished sociologist of religion, presents a way of understanding religion in a contemporary global society - by analyzing it as a dimension of the historical process of globalization.