Political structure and processes

The concepts and values that underpin traditional constitutionalism are increasingly being challenged by political realities that place substantial power beyond the state.

Looking at the growing use of federalism and decentralization as tools of conflict resolution, this book provides evidence from several case studies on the opportunities and challenges that territorial solutions offer when addressing internal conflicts within a variety of countries.

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Value pluralism is the idea, most prominently endorsed by Isaiah Berlin, that fundamental human values are universal, plural, conflicting, and incommensurable with one another.

From his election in November 1860 to his death in April 1865, Abraham Lincoln faced constant danger from those hostile to him and to the Union cause.

"e;Open Democracy envisions what true government by mass leadership could look like.

England in the Age of Palmerston had two players of colossal influence on the world stage: Lord Palmerston himself - the dominant figure in foreign affairs in the mid-nineteenth century - and The Times - the first global newspaper, read avidly by statesmen around the world.

The book discussed how contemporary political campaigns are increasingly sensitive to candidate-centered appeals, analyzing the strengths and weaknesses of their own candidate to determine how their personalities, backgrounds, and likability and background fit into a campaign narrative, theme, and issue agenda.

This book examines the ways in which the study and practice of international relations are misunderstood, both by scholars and politicians.

During the 2015 federal election, the Liberal Party pledged that, if elected, they would end the "e;first past the post"e; electoral system, where whichever candidate receives the most votes wins a riding even if they have not received a majority of all votes cast.

Committed radical that he is, Daniel Berrigan, launches his personal rockets against the social evils that disturb and preoccupy him.

As a hybrid regime, Hong Kong has been governed by a state-business alliance since the colonial era.

This book examines the visual-sexual turn in social media discourses in the field of online activism with a particular focus on the extraordinary protest years of 2018-2020.

This book examines the religious attitudes of African American Catholics and their relationships to the church.

In the last decade, observers of Western governments have become increasingly concerned about an apparent crisis of democracy.

This major new study examines the nature of Chinese power and its impact on the international order.

The question of why some countries have democratic regimes and others do not is a significant issue in comparative politics.

Collected in this volume are selections from addresses by His Excellency, General Georges P.

The Elections of 2020 is a timely, comprehensive, scholarly, and engagingly written account of the 2020 elections.

Theology and the Globalized Present focuses on the world's future in God and God's creativeness.

Towards A New Christian Political Realism presents a new theoretical approach to understanding the role of religion in international relations, considering the strengths of Christian realism, classical realism, and neorealism, as well as the literature about the relevance of religion for IR.

Why do some countries democratize after civil war?

On May 25th, 1946, after 22 years as a congressional secretary, Jane Pratt was elected as North Carolina's first congresswoman.

Over the last decade the once marginal extreme right of the Turkish ideological spectrum has grown in size as well as in influence and has effectively reshaped party competition in Turkey.

As his father nears death in his retirement home in Mexico, John H.

Soviet foreign policy in the Stalin era is commonly assumed to have been a direct product of either Marxist ideology or the leader's whims.

Truth qualities of journalism are under intense scrutiny in today's world.

Recent federal court activity has dramatically changed the regulatory environment of campaign finance in the United States.

Oman is the inheritor of a unique political tradition, the imama (imamate), and has a special place in the Arab Islamic world.

This book examines the impact of current and emerging digital technologies on global environmental governance, and in particular on environmental civil society organizations.

Climate Crisis Economics: A Race of Tipping Points draws on economics, political economy, scientific literature, and data to gauge the extent to which our various communities - political, economic, and business - are making the essential leap to a new narrative and policy approach that will accelerate us towards the necessary transition to a decarbonised economy and sustainable future.

The public visibility of Islam is becoming increasingly controversial throughout European countries.

Ernst-Wolfgang Bockenforde (1930-2019) was one of Europe's foremost legal scholars and political thinkers.

Green activism played a critical role in the downfall of Soviet-style communism in Eastern Europe at the end of the 1980s.

What did the founders of America think about religion?

Un necesario espacio para conversar con mujeres líderes de las más diversas áreas, pero que además fueran de la V Región.

One of the perennial questions in political theology is how the concept of truth is defined and how such is grounded theologically.

Veteran political journalist Scott Farris tells the stories of legendary presidential also-rans, from Henry Clay to Stephen Douglas, from William Jennings Bryan to Thomas Dewey, and from Adlai Stevenson to Al Gore.

A political ethnography of the inner workings of Putin''s sistema, contributing to our understanding Russia''s prospects for future modernisation.

Explore the production of bestsellers at the Frankfurt Book Fair, through an investigation involving three consecutive years of fieldwork.

From Athens to New York, recent mass movements around the world have challenged austerity and authoritarianism with expressions of real democracy.

In this follow-up to The Kingdom and the Glory and The Highest Poverty, Agamben investigates the roots of our moral concept of duty in the theory and practice of Christian liturgy.

Fernando examines important aspects of the drafting of 1957 Federation of Malaya constitution related to the system of governance, division of legislative and executive powers, the conceptualisation of citizenship and the roles of the judiciary and election commission.

Self-described populist leaders around the world are dismantling their nation's constitutions.

What images come to mind when you think about hospitality?