Political structure and processes

The rise of populism, Donald Trump's election and the result of the EU referendum in the UK have been widely interpreted as a rejection of the post-war liberal order - the manifestation of a desire to undermine the political system that people feel has let them down.

Presents an account of the rise of Erdogan''s AKP, showing how the politicisation of religion has roots in the period of early nation-building in Turkey.

In this book, an international group of public policy scholars revisit the stage of formulating policy solutions by investigating the basic political dimensions inherent to this critical phase of the policy process.

In this highly relevant work, Dr.

A chance encounter diverted Abdolreza Ansari from completing his PHD in the US, and set him on a professional journey which mirrored the prolific rise and the precipitous fall of the regime of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran.

This volume presents an analytical and empirical overview of the array of issues that the Mexican media faces in the post-authoritarian age, which jointly explains how a partially accomplished democracy, its authoritarian inertias, and its unintended consequences hinder the democratic performance of the media.

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

Forty years after his death, Mao remains a totemic, if divisive, figure in contemporary China.

Intergovernmental agreements are an important instrument in federal systems, establishing new social programs, regulating agricultural practices, and even changing constitutions.

Placed within the context of the past decade's war on terror and emergent Latino migrant movement, Reform without Justice addresses the issue of state violence against migrants in the United States.

Since 1945, Austria has presented an incredible success story and has survived the crisis better than most other countries.

The 2020 presidential selection process is already underway.

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

Explores how Turkey first became a democracy and Western ally in the 1950s and why this is changing today.

The United States Constitution is the foundation of the longest and most successful democratic experiment in modern human history.

This book tackles the question of how to characterise and account for recentralisation in Colombia between central and lower levels of government across a 26-year period.

Collier presents a timely and fresh reexamination of one of the most important bilateral relationships of the last century.

Across the Muslim world, religion plays an increasingly prominent role in both the private and public lives of over a billion people.

American Presidents and the United Nations: Internationalism in the Balance offers a fresh look at the U.

Postsecular Feminisms explores the contested relationship between feminism and secularism through a series of case studies, featuring perspectives from the global North and South.

A definitive biography of the great French essayist and thinkerOne of the most important writers and thinkers of the Renaissance, Michel de Montaigne (1533-92) helped invent a literary genre that seemed more modern than anything that had come before.

This book is a comprehensive compilation of all reports, testimony, correspondence and other publications issued by the GAO (Government Accountability Office) during the month of September, grouped according to topics.

The American people are frustrated with their government-dismayed by a series of high-profile failures (Iraq, Katrina, the financial meltdown) that seems to just keep getting longer.

Landesverfassungsgerichte sind im Aufwind.

This exciting new handbook provides a global overview of the process of democratization, offering chapter by chapter discussion at both the country and regional levels and examining the interaction between the domestic and external factors that affect the progression of countries from authoritarian to democratic rule.

Democracies evolve.

This book investigates whether politics in Britain in the twenty-first century is driven more by issues of culture and identity than by "e;left versus right"e; issues of wealth distribution.

What did Thomas Jefferson look like?

In several Western countries, expert commissions composed of academics, public figures, politicians and community organisers have been established by governments or civil society to reflect on the changes and challenges of an increasingly plural society.

An authoritative collection of the most important writings of an influential political thinkerSheldon Wolin was one of the most influential and original political thinkers of the past fifty years.

There is currently a great deal of interest in the Southern suffrage movement, but until now historians have had no comprehensive history of the woman suffrage movement in the South, the region where suffragists had the hardest fight and the least success.

How the United States helped restore a Europe battered by World War II and created the foundation for the postwar international orderSeventy years ago, in the wake of World War II, the United States did something almost unprecedented in world history: It launched and paid for an economic aid plan to restore a continent reeling from war.

This book first presents an overview of the history of a national character survey by the Institute of Statistical Mathematics that has been conducted for more than 65 years.

This book examines a unified reinterpretation of Christianity by Hobbes, Locke, and Jefferson, and compares that to de Tocqueville''s analysis of changes.

This book provides the first comprehensive legal and political account of micronations and micronationalism.

The narrative of Spiro Agnew's rise and fall has never been fully told.

This book critiques the conventional definition of a political party and assesses parties'' role in contemporary democracies.

When Mike Burton became the principal of All Saints College in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa, little did he know about the journey on which he was embarking.

Britain's relationship with the European Union (EU) is frequently viewed as simple by the media and politicians.

This book explains the origins of Chinese land politics and explores how property rights and urban growth strategies differ among Chinese cities.

Although Religious Education (RE) is a legal requirement in UK schools, it is an oft-neglected and misunderstood subject.

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.

Using Christianity in Africa, this book demonstrates that cultural influences, specifically religious sermons, can impact political participation.