Political structures: democracy

This book investigates the ways in which the humanitarian system is secular and understands religious beliefs and practices when responding to disasters.

In the past thirty years, women's representation and gender equality has developed unevenly in Latin America.

Native scholars explore the relationship between political parties and democracy in regions around the world.

The populist radical right is one of the most studied political phenomena in the social sciences, counting hundreds of books and thousands of articles.

Archbishop Rowan Williams is the most gifted Anglican priest of his generation.

This book provides a comparative analysis and a systemic categorization of the Populist Radical Left Parties (PRLPs) in Western Europe.

Religion in China survived the most radical suppression in human history--a total ban of any religion during and after the Cultural Revolution.

This book provides a comparative analysis of how judgments from the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR) affect political participation and electoral justice at the national level.

How the NRA became a political juggernaut by influencing the behaviors and beliefs of everyday AmericansThe National Rifle Association is one of the most powerful interest groups in America, and has consistently managed to defeat or weaken proposed gun regulations-even despite widespread public support for stricter laws and the prevalence of mass shootings and gun-related deaths.

This study examines the political sources of violence against religious minorities in India.

This book looks at contemporary political violence, in the form of jihadism, through the lens of a philosophical polemic between Hannah Arendt and Frantz Fanon: intellectual representatives of the global north and global south.

This book builds on work that examines the interactions between immigration and gender-based violence, to explore how both the justification and condemnation of violence in the name of religion further complicates our societal relationships.

The Promise of Democratic Equality in the United States explores the ways in which the American political system fails to fully respect political equality.

This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the theological challenge presented by the new post-Brexit epoch.

Since its first publication thirty years ago, Timothy Ware s book has become established throughout the English-speaking world as the standard introduction to the Orthodox Church.

This book offers a re-evaluation of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, the prominent Italian Renaissance philosopher and prince of Concord.

The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Race in American History brings together a number of established scholars, as well as younger scholars on the rise, to provide a scholarly overview for those interested in the role of religion and race in American history.

As religion and politics become ever more intertwined, relationships between religion and political parties are of increasing global political significance.

Can a state empower its citizens by classifying them?

This book offers an analysis of values in Hungary.

When art hits the headlines, it is usually because it has caused offence or is perceived by the media to have shock-value.

This book examines how the competition between religious and secular forces influenced state religion policy between 1990 and 2008.

Based on in-depth studies of the relationship between expertise and democracy in Europe, this book presents a new approach to how the un-elected can be made safe for democracy.

The study of international relations, has traditionally been dominated by Western ideas and practices, and marginalized the voice and experiences of the non-Western states and societies.

The communities, congregations, and faith-based coalitions that have been working for racial justice over the past fifty yearsHave progressive religious organizations been missing in action in recent struggles for racial justice?

Winner of the THESEUS promising award for Research on European Integration 2011.

This book addresses the complex relationship between the values of liberal democracy and the values associated with scientific research.

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From discussions on democracy, to attempts to widen the scope of citizenship beyond the confines of the nation-state, Western thinking of the political community has continued to assume a unifying principle of sameness, reflected in history, space, language, or reason, as the condition of possibility of the community.

Illiberal democracies are not quasi-authoritarian but plebiscitarian regimes.

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

The response of an autocratic nation's armed forces is crucial to the outcome of democratization movements throughout the world.

This book systematically explains why some countries are democracies while others are not.

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Focusing on the roles of Russian Orthodoxy and Islam in constituting, challenging and changing national and ethnic identities in Russia, this study takes Tsarist and Soviet legacies into account, paying special attention to the evolution of the relationship between religious teachings and political institutions through the late 19th and 20th centuries.

This book provides a comprehensive account of national parliaments' adaptation to European integration.

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

Reason and Democracy breaks new ground in providing a plausible philosophical basis for the communitarian view of a healthy democracy as the rational pursuit of common purposes by free and equal citizens.

Exciting developments in research among, with and by Indigenous scholars and communities are enriching a wide range of disciplines, methodologies and trans-disciplinary conversations.

How safe is Turkey's liberal democracy?

How do urbanization and development intersect with religious dynamics to shape contemporary African cityscapes?

One of the most important books on political regimes written in a generation.

Despite the decline in the number of military coups since the 1960s and 1970s, Militaries continue to be crucial political actors in many world regions.

Are the world's oldest democracies failing?

This book addresses the crisis of the juridical-political foundation within contemporary democracies.

Looks at how Nigeria''s political parties compete for power in a context of transition, terrorism, and religious and ethnic tension.

A fundamental rethinking is under way about the roles of government, citizens, and community organizations in public policy.

Sam Haselby offers a new and persuasive account of the role of religion in the formation of American nationality, showing how a contest within Protestantism reshaped American political culture and led to the creation of an enduring religious nationalism.