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Under what conditions do citizens most effectively connect to the democratic process?

Exemptions from legal requirements, especially religious exemptions, have been a major topic of political debate in recent years.

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 focuses on securitization and authoritarianism in Turkey with research on the country's Islamist populist ruling party's (AKP) oppression of different socio-political, ethnic and religious groups.

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.

In Crime and Punishment in Islamic Law: A Fresh Interpretation, Mohammad Kamali considers problems associated with and proposals for reform of the hudud punishments prescribed by Islamic criminal law, and other topics related to crime and punishment in Shariah.

Although there has been a lot written about how counter-terrorism laws impact on human rights and civil liberties, most of this work has focussed on the most obvious or egregious kinds of human rights abrogation, such as extended detention, torture, and extraordinary rendition.

Party Brands in Crisis offers a new way of thinking about how the behavior of political parties affects voters'' attachments.

Sayyid Qutb is widely considered the guiding intellectual of radical Islam, with a direct line connecting him to Osama bin Laden.

This book illuminates one of the keys to making postwar democracies work.

This book analyzes the contemporary politics of the Hajj in countries of Africa, the Near East, and Southeast Asia.

This book examines why the religion-science skirmishes known as the Evolution Wars have persisted into the 21st century.

Can Iranians and Americans find common ground to overcome their troubled history?

Human rights are thought to guarantee pluralism by protecting individual liberty from imposed religious conceptions of virtue.

In The Religious Left and Church-State Relations, noted constitutional law scholar Steven Shiffrin argues that the religious left, not the secular left, is best equipped to lead the battle against the religious right on questions of church and state in America today.

Explores family policies related to households of children with disabilities, providing an in-depth, evidence-based review of legal, programmatic issues.

Eduardo Silva offers the first comprehensive comparative study of anti-free market movements in Latin America and a resulting shift in governmental intervention in the economy and society.

This book systematically explores the relationship between party funding and corruption, and addresses fundamental concerns in the continued consideration of how democracy should function.

In this study, which highlights a renewed emphasis in international affairs on regional studies, the co-authors provide an assessment of the revolutionary changes in the politics and security of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).

The turbulent year of 2011 has brought the appearance of mass popular unrest and the collapse of long lived autocratic regimes in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya and possibly Syria.

This book examines the practice of international election observation in a Caribbean context.

This book puts forward a new epistemological framework for a theory of religion and gender's role in the public sphere.

The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) is attracting significant attention from governments and scholars.

What is globalization anyway?

This book represents the work of the European Research Network: Inclusive Society and the Role of Social Work, which comprises researchers from Barcelona, Spain; Koblenz, Germany; Maastricht, The Netherlands; and Zagreb, Croatia.

J Krishnamurti (1896-1986) was one of the most important spiritual leaders of his time.

This book is a guide to claims about the proper role of government and markets in a global economy.

This book investigates the historical economic and legal regimes that legitimated the resource extraction and exploitation of Africa between the 15th and 19th centuries and led to the continent's trajectory of underdevelopment in the world system.

This book systematically explores the relationship between party funding and corruption, and addresses fundamental concerns in the continued consideration of how democracy should function.

Die Erkenntnisse und Überlegungen, die in diesem Buch dargestellt werden, sind das Ergebnis von zwanzig Jahren klinischer Arbeit und individueller Forschung.

In Drifting Through Samsara, Masoumeh Rahmani provides a fieldwork-based study of Goenka's Vipassana meditation movement in New Zealand.

Voices of Freedom: The Middle East and North Africa showcases essays from activists, journalists, novelists, and scholars whose areas of expertise include free speech, peace and reconciliation, alterity-otherness, and Middle Eastern and North African religions and literatures.

The liberal-democratic world order is confronting the rise of authoritarian state-led corporate interventions.

The increasing significance and visibility of relationships between religion and public arenas and institutions following the fall of communism in Europe provide the core focus of this fascinating book.

Over five decades of research has made clear that social networks can have an important impact on our political behavior.

Although Irans Islamic Revolution had an electrifying effect on Shiite movements in Lebanon, Iraq, the Gulf and Saudi Arabia, there exists a tendency to explain away much of Shiite politics in the Middle East as inextricably linked to Iranian foreign policy.

Conspiracy theories are not just outlandish ideas.

Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine, the rise of populism and uncertainties about the future direction of US politics and foreign policy have created a troubling new international environment for Europe.

An insightful examination of how intersecting individual motivations and social structures mobilize spontaneous mass protests.

Exploring the relationship between religion and the state Focusing on the intersection of religion, law, and politics in contemporary liberal democracies, Blackford considers the concept of the secular state, revising and updating enlightenment views for the present day.

Conflict between the Israelis and the Palestinians has been ongoing since the creation of the state of Israel, a conflict revolving around land-ownership, water politics, human rights, and religious rights.

This volume compares international and institutional accounts as alternative perspectives to explain why elections fail to meet international standards.

Most of the early twentieth-century Pentecostal denominations were peace churches that encouraged a stance of conscientious objection.