Political structure and processes

This collection considers how religious identity interplays with other forms and contexts of identity, specifically those related to sexual identity.

This book uses original research and interviews to consider the views of contemporary members of the Orange Order in Canada, including their sense of political and societal purpose, awareness of the decline of influence, views on their present circumstances, and hopes for the future of Orangeism in Canada.

This collection brings us up-to-date on the contemporary situations in the new democracies of East Asia, and debates on the prospect of introducing liberal democracy to this part of the world.

This book examines in depth the impact of the EU on aspects of the quality of democracy in eight selected post-communist countries.

This text on representive bureaucracy covers topics such as: bureaucracy as a representative institution; bureaucratic power and the dilemma of administrative responsibility; and representative bureaucracy and the potential for reconciling bureaucracy and democracy.

Considers the history of citizenship in Yemen and Tunisia to explain why democratic participation was undermined after the 2011 revolutionary wave.

This timely, comprehensive and interdisciplinary volume advances an original argument about the complex roots and multiple politics of globality.

This book assesses the underpinning role 'references to identity' played and continue to play as the powerful mobilising force in domestic politics across the East European region stretching from Estonia to Bulgaria.

This book examines the understudied role of the interfaith movement in institutionalizing religious pluralism in the public life of contemporary societies through the case study of Interfaith Scotland.

Die schweizerische Demokratie ist geprägt von stetem Wandel.

Dieses Buch gibt Antworten darauf, wie in Zeiten von Facebook und Fake News der verfassungsrechtliche Schutz des freien öffentlichen Diskurses gelingen kann.

China's rapid economic development has not translated automatically into political development, with many of its institutions still in need of major reform.

This book comprehensively explores the foundational principles of power, influence, and organizational politics, presenting actionable approaches for both employees and management to skillfully navigate these intricacies without succumbing to undue incivility, stress, or burnout.

The current financial and sovereign debt crisis of the European Union and the United States can be regarded as the most recent of a wave of financial and sovereign debt crises that have affected different regions of the world over the past quarter century.

Tory loyalty, in addition to demanding unquestioning adherence to the imperial connection, was exclusive.

This book shows how emergency powers can be justifiable in liberal democracies without suspending liberal norms.

This accessible introduction tells the American story of religious liberty from its colonial beginnings to the latest Supreme Court cases.

Political Communication in Britain offers unique insights from various members of the party, media, and polling organizations that contested, reported, and analysed the 2019 British General Election, as well as leading academic experts who have researched the campaign.

Asian financial systems, which serve the most economically dynamic region of the world, survived the global economic crisis of the last several years.

This book addresses how the Conservative Party has re-focused its interest in social policy.

Presidential Rhetoric and Indian Policy explores and analyses the dynamics of presidential rhetoric on Native peoples and issues from Nixon to the present.

The presidency of George W.

Parliamentarism has been a presiding characteristic of the Turkish political tradition since the 1876 Ottoman constitution.

This book presents a selection of the latest arbitration cases, materials, and commentaries from China.

This book takes stock and assesses the prospects of transnational law, in tribute to Professor Detlev Vagts of the Harvard Law School.

Taking account of its evolution in recent decades, this book provides an up-to-date account of the role of the Civil Service in the UK.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The seven-time #1 New York Times bestselling author, Fox News star, and radio host Mark R.

This book explores engagement between the trade and investment law regimes and the extent to which this is being driven by Preferential Trade and Investment Agreements (PTIAs).

In our current era of deep distrust in our politics and political institutions, there is also a pervasive sense that social problems are so overwhelmingly complex that it is virtually impossible to solve them.

This book addresses whether the "e;gendering"e; of constitutions promotes women's equality.

The 2000 Presidential election ended in a collision of history, law, and the courts.

Uses public opinion on LGBT equality to show an evolutionary shift toward deliberative democracy in which everyone has a voice.

Drawing on Scripture, church history, and his own story, Shane Claiborne explores how a passion for social justice issues surrounding life and death--such as war, gun ownership, the death penalty, racial injustice, abortion, poverty, and the environment--intersects with our faith as we advocate for life in its totality.

In twenty-five years of imperial adventure, America has laid waste to its principles of democracy.

The United States had never lost a war that 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.

Learn from one of our leading conservative voices how we can return to the biblical values our nation was founded upon, especially the vital importance of the family, in order to secure a prosperous future for generations to come.

In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Supreme Court nominations were driven by presidents, senators, and some legal community elites.

NATIONAL BESTSELLERThe tools you need to maximize success in any negotiation, at any level With Negotiate Without Fear: Strategies and Tools to Maximize Your Outcomes, master negotiator, Kellogg professor, and accomplished CEO Victoria Medvec delivers an authoritative and practical resource for eliminating the fear that impedes success in negotiation.

Today, international commercial disputes regularly involve multiple parties, contracts, and issues.

Governments face new challenges in an era marked by globalization, shifting economic and national security policies, pervasive electronic media, and policy reform.

George Bell remains one of only a handful of twentieth-century English bishops to possess a continuing international reputation for his involvement in political affairs.

This book provides important insight on a range of issues focused on three themes; what new climate change information is being developed, how that knowledge is communicated and how it can be usefully applied across international, regional and local scales.

The Polar North is known to be home to large gas and oil reserves and its positionholds signifi cant trading and military advantages, yet the maritime boundaries of the region remain ill-defined.

Security concerns increasingly influence foreign aid: how Western countries give aid, to whom and why.