Political structure and processes

Electoral systems matter.

Religious traditions in the United States are characterized by ongoing tension between assimilation to the broader culture, as typified by mainline Protestant churches, and defiant rejection of cultural incursions, as witnessed by more sectarian movements such as Mormonism and Hassidism.

This book takes a hermeneutic approach toward reading the writings of Jamal al-Banna and Tariq al-Bishri across several decades in order to explore contemporary Islamic political thought under authoritarianism.

The 2002 midterm elections were noteworthy U.

John Dunlop assumed the office of secretary of labor with a stern warning about the creeping menace of over-regulation.

Ronan McCrea offers the first comprehensive account of the role of religion within the public order of the European Union.

The American public was nearly deprived of the opportunity to read this book.

We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

Analyses how, from the late 70s, Virago used reprints to realise commercial success, moving women''s writing from margin to centre.

The Art and Craft of Policy Analysis is a classic work of the Public Policy discipline.

The book offers an interdisciplinary qualitative study of the history of policing in Brazil and its colonial underpinnings, providing theoretical accounts of the relationship between biopolitics, space, and race, and post-colonial/decolonial work on the state, violence, and the production of disposable political subjects.

This new book shows how citizenship, and its meaning and form, has become a vital site of contestation.

Settlers feature in many protracted territorial disputes and ethnic conflicts around the world.

This volume presents a comparative study to evaluate the success of the implementation of e-government in the UK, US, France, Germany, Finland, Australia and Japan.

Agencies plan to spend more than USD 96 billion on IT in fiscal year 2018; however, they continue to face longstanding challenges in doing so.

The legitimacy of the American electoral system depends on sustaining reasonable levels of fairness, accountability, responsiveness, and common sense.

Uses premodern theology and postmodern theory to show the endurance of religious and political commitments through the practice of hope.

This book analyses constitutional change in federal and decentralizing countries from a comparative perspective.

Through a comprehensive analysis of legislative and organisational changes and interviews with all the key players, The Honest Politician's Guide to Prisons and Probation provides an authoritative account of the crisis which has gradually engulfed the prison and probation services since 1991.

Indian democracy has been facing Hi e threat (torn sectarian pomes tot last three decades.

Is religion a factor in initiating interstate armed conflict, and do different religions have different effects?

Was würden Sie arbeiten, wenn für Ihr Einkommen gesorgt wäre?

Half a century after his assassination, John F.

This book investigates the discursive and performative strategies employed by Australian Indigenous rappers to make sense of the world and establish a position of authority over their identity and place in society.

Turkey, officially a secular state, voted in an Islamist party in 2002, 2007 and 2011.

Writing a life of Bennett, who reportedly destroyed his correspondence every seven years, presents challenges for the biographer.

The Jamaat Question in Bangladesh addresses the complex intersection of global politics and local dynamics in Bangladesh, particularly in relation to Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami (Jamaat).

In recent years democratic theory has taken a deliberative turn.

This book analyses the changes to the regulation of everyday life that have taken place as a result of datafication, the ever-growing analytical, predictive, and structuring role of algorithms, and the prominence of the platform economy.

This book explores the limits of NGO influence and the conditions that constrain NGOs when they participate in international negotiationsThrough an empirically rich study of the UN World Summits on the Information Society (WSIS) this book conceptualizes structural power mechanisms that shape global ICT governance and analyses the impact of NGOs on communication rights, intellectual property rights, financing, and Internet governance.

This book challenges the convention that government bureaucrats seek secrecy and demonstrates how participatory bureaucracy manages the tension between bureaucratic administration and democratic accountability.

Democratic Responses to Terrorism tackles how to protect democratic societies against terrorist violence while, at the same time, making sure that the steps democracies take to protect themselves do no fundamental harm to the rule of law and the rights of citizens.

Many East Asian states have undergone profound economic transformations over the last two decades.

Based on the celebrated five-volume set published in 2005, this updated one-volume edition offers readers a concise yet complete understanding of the interplay between the major religions and human rights.

This book will expand students' knowledge and understanding of the evolution of juvenile justice in the last 50 years.

This book explores the institutionalization process with regard to the Parliament in Bangladesh, and seeks to identify the main constrains that hinder the Parliament from serving as the uppermost representative body for all segments of society.

This book advances a novel justification for the idea of "e;public reason"e;: citizens within diverse societies can realize the ideal of shared political autonomy, despite their adherence to different religious and philosophical views, by deciding fundamental political questions with "e;public reasons.

Building on Knoepfel's previous book, Public policy analysis, this book offers a conceptually coherent view of ten public policy resources: force, law, personal, money, property rights, information, organisation, consensus, time and political support.

A renowned scientist and environmental advocate looks back on a life that has straddled the worlds of science and politics "e;Compelling.

An analysis of Imam-Hatip schools in Turkey and how they contribute to the Islamization of the country at both the high and grassroots levels of politics.

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Social movements and popular struggle are a central part of today's world, but often neglected or misunderstood by media commentary as well as experts in other fields.

An accessible and wide-ranging study of the history of the book within local, national and global contexts.

This comprehensive volume provides crucial insights from contemporary academics and practitioners into how positive interventions might be made into post-secular political spaces that have emerged in the wake of the economic, political, and social upheavals of the 2008 global financial crisis.