Comparative politics

Numerous analysts have lately expressed concern about tendencies including democratic backsliding and populism occurring in many countries worldwide.

This book provides a systematic assessment of the behaviour of some relatively successful presidents in African presidential republics, examining the part played by presidents in the development of their countries.

This book describes the foundations of stateless societies, why and how states emerge, and the basis of political obligation.

Weltmacht China, Mitläufer Europa: Der rasante Aufstieg Asiens und die Ohnmacht des Westens 2049: Die Volksrepublik China gehört zu den führenden Weltmächten und strebt die Top-Position an.

​Zahlreiche internationale Konflikte rufen Irritationen und Streit über eine angemessene Reaktion auf die weltpolitischen Herausforderungen hervor.

This book explores how the religious nationalist ideology of American Religious Exceptionalism (ARE) contributes to the American public''s self-promoting, exclusionary, and sometimes illiberal attitudes.

In Barred by Congress: How a Mormon, a Socialist, and an African American Elected by the People Were Excluded from Office Robert M.

Das Grundrecht auf Glaubensfreiheit gilt auch hinter Gittern.

Uses the tools of political, legal, moral and historical analysis to describe a ''just return'' process for repatriating refugees.

Angels, Spirits, principalities, powers, gods, Satanthese, along with all other spiritual realities, are the unmentionables of our culture.

This book offers a critical analysis of the European colonial heritage in the Arab countries and highlights the way this legacy is still with us today, informing the current state of relations between Europe and the formerly colonized states.

This book presents a snapshot of a major challenge, and shares subjective views on various areas of conflict in Africa and the diverse - theoretical and practical - efforts to achieve peace.

This book is based on a study of the strategies and tactics applied by municipal bureaucrats and local politicians in the pursuit of political goals in two small Norwegian municipalities.

Ruling the World?

Among the more frequent and most devastating of conflicts, civil wars-from Yugoslavia to Congo-frequently reignite and even spill over into the international sphere.

The book shows how state-enforced religious laws impact human rights, and what people do to advance their rights from within.

Narratives or storytelling are a feature of the everyday life of all who work in government.

At the heart of the biblical myth of chosenness is the idea that God has blessed a people to be a blessing to others.

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

For years, scholars hypothesized about what Islamists might do if they ever came to power.

In diesem Jahrbuch hat Thomas Röper, der Autor der Seite "Anti-Spiegel", einige der dreistesten Beispiele für Desinformation zusammengetragen, die es 2019 in den deutschen Medien gegeben hat.

Transformation of Education Policy deals with internalization processes in education policy and their impact on national policy making.

The "e;highly addictive"e; international bestseller, "e;an amazing true-life thriller, one of the most suspenseful books written in recent years"e; (Jeffrey Gettleman, Pulitzer Prize-winning author).

Scholars have long examined the relationship between nation-states and their "e;internal others,"e; such as immigrants and ethnoracial minorities.

This book examines the development of the language of social movements, revolutions and terrorism from the seventeenth century to the present.

This book analyzes the threshold candidates of immigrant background need to overcome to run for legislative office.

This book examines three waves of contention in Europe and Latin America across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Responsiveness to societal demands entails policy accumulation, which undermines the ability of democracies to communicate, implement and evaluate public policy.

This book explores how the recent development of Muslim countries as a group has fallen far short of non-Muslim countries, which, some have concluded, may be a result of Islamic teachings.

This book reviews existing evidence and new ideas on how best to promote pharmaceutical innovation.

"e;As a Journal Editor for over twenty-five years, I have read a lot about the European Union.

Freemasonry was a major cultural and social phenomenon and a key element of the Enlightenment.

This book explores how precolonial political traditions and practices shape modern-day politics in The Gambia and Guinea-Bissau.

What drives the politics of majority nationalism during crises, stalemates and peace mediations?

This edited volume examines the crucial, yet overlooked, role narratives play in the rapidly changing relationship between Europe and China.

After celebrating their country's three decades of fantastic economic success, many Chinese are now asking, "e;What comes next?

This book explores the unfolding of world history in a remote corner of Central Asia: the region of Badakhshan.

Across the world, grassroots movements for change are growing in number, skill, and impact on society.

The 2011 general election in the Republic of Ireland, which took place against a backdrop of economic collapse, was one of the most dramatic ever witnessed.

This book uses extractive industry projects in Africa to explore how political authority and the nation-state are reconfigured at the intersection of national political contestations and global, transnational capital.

This edited volume provides new empirical evidence of far-reaching changes to welfare states globally, which have changed the boundaries of the 'public' and 'private' domain within the mixed economies of welfare.

This book examines the role of gender in political conflicts worldwide, specifically the intersection between gender and terrorism.

The twenty-first century has seen violence thunder back onto the stage of history.

The essays in Theology and the Political-written by some of the world's foremost theologians, philosophers, and literary critics-analyze the ethics and consequences of human action.

This book provides an introduction to the vision of an economic system based completely on the Holy Qur'an-a system defined as a collection of institutions, representing rules of behavior, prescribed by Allah for humans, and the traditions of the Messenger.