Political structure and processes

Drawing upon insights from international socialization theory and social psychology, this book examines China's efforts to multipolarize - and hence potentially de-liberalize - the international system from the local perspective of a non-democratic (yet democratizing) nation and then applies these insights to Beijing's current global agency in the context of the Belt and Road Initiative.

After decades of overwhelming political domination by the People's Action Party (PAP), Singapore has entered a phase of political transition.

Many critics attack federal judges as anti-democratic elitists, activists out of step with the mainstream of American thought.

President Ronald Reagan's famous address to the Houses of Parliament is now consideredin its spirit if not in its actual wordsto be the initial enunciation of his ';Evil Empire' stance.

The rise of populism in the West and the rise of China in the East have stirred a rethinking of how democratic systems workand how they fail.

Liking Ike reveals the prominent role that celebrities and advertising agencies played in Dwight Eisenhower's presidency.

This book critically examines the intersection of religion, public health and human security in Nigeria.

This book is devoted to an idea of a second round of codification of certain new rules for treaty interpretation.

In 13th century, the Szeklers were granted a territory (Terra Sirulorum) on the eastern border of the kingdom of Hungary.

Systems engineering offers a set of capabilities and competencies to design and manage complex systems as they evolve.

This agenda-setting collection critically reflects upon a decade of contributions to the social scientific 'mobilities turn' in order to propose new trajectories for the future of this interdisciplinary research field.

This book investigates linguistic strategies of threat construction and fear generation in contemporary public communication, including state political discourse as well as non-governmental, media and institutional discourses.

Human rights and conflict resolution have been traditionally perceived as two separate fields, sometimes in competition or in tension and occasionally with contradictory approaches towards achieving a lasting peace.

When the Christian Right burst onto the scene in the late 1970s, many political observers were shocked.

This book explores fundamental topics concerning the functioning of the judiciary.

The continuing churn of political advisers in Donald Trump's White House serve as a reminder of the salience and relevance of political advice.

This book explores the different forms of populism in European countries.

This book explores speeches by American presidents.

The United States had never lost a warthat is, until 1975, when it was forced to flee Saigon in humiliation after losing to what Lyndon Johnson called a "e;raggedy-ass little fourth-rate country.

This comprehensive study of local politics in Russia shows that the key reforms of local government, and the struggle to forge viable grassroots democracies have been inextricably linked to the wider struggle for power between the regions and the Kremlin, and to the specific nature of Russia's highly politicized and negotiated form of asymmetrical federalism.

This survey of European public opinion on national security issues interprets numerous public opinion polls retrieved from government ministries, commercial agencies and educational institutions.

A Presidential Tale of Friendship, Travel, and the Great OutdoorsNewly Updated!

This volume examines how states respond to public and private actions that cause harms across international borders.

This book examines the effects of preferential voting on intraparty electoral competition and voting behavior.

A Democracy That Works argues that rather than corporate donations, Republican gerrymandering and media manipulation, the conservative ascendancy reflects the reconstruction of the rules that govern work that has disempowered workers.

This book makes a significant contribution to ongoing discussions about the crisis of democracy by delving into the impacts of digital communication technologies on the 2022 Brazilian elections.

This book brings a crucial perspective to the examination of religion and politics in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) by focusing on the roles that Christian communities play in this region.

Drawing on a range of data from across disciplines, this book explores a series of fundamental questions surrounding the nature, working and effects of democracy, considering the reasons for the emergence and spread of democratic government, the conditions under which it endures or collapses - and the role of wealth in this process - and the peaceful nature of dealings between democracies.

Diversity and dissent have been shown to improve decision-making in small groups.

This book addresses how digitalization has influenced the institutions, practitioners and audiences of diplomacy.

How reforms limiting electoral misconduct completed the process of democratizationBetween 1850 and 1918, many first-wave democracies in Europe adopted electoral reforms that reduced the incidence of electoral malfeasance.

An engaging study of authorship, ethics, and book publishing in 18th- and 19th-century America, The Grand Chorus of Complaint considers the uneasy relationship between art and commerce with readings of correspondence, newspaper articles, and works by Thomas Paine, Herman Melville, and Fanny Fern.

A new theoretical analysis of the rise of Donald Trump, Marine le Pen, Nigel Farage, Geert Wilders, Silvio Berlusconi, and Viktor Orbán.

This book explores the phenomenon of distortion of information through media via the lens of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the ways in which relevant information distortion and virality have occurred in regard to the disease and its risks.

How do voters in Britain decide which party to vote for in elections?

Political campaigns today are won or lost in the so-called ground war--the strategic deployment of teams of staffers, volunteers, and paid part-timers who work the phones and canvass block by block, house by house, voter by voter.

This book unpacks the history of British-Israelism in the UK.

Major changes in citizenship and democracy have taken place in Scandinavia within the last two decades.

This book reflects on the questions raised by the European Election Study 2004 whose analytical focus was on the legitimacy of EU politics after Eastern enlargement.

For several decades, culture played a central role in challenging the liberal tradition.

It departs from the scholarship produced on Sri Lanka, and re-introduces the neo-Marxist approaches through the works of Antonio Gramsci.

Populism is on the rise in Europe and the Americas.

Sascha Kristin Futh untersucht anhand von drei zeitgeschichtlich bedeutenden Kampagnen zum ersten Mal vergleichend die strategische Kommunikation von Gewerkschaften.