Political structure and processes

What is Vladimir Putin up to?

This book offers a unique analysis of how political representatives construct ideas about the nation in contemporary Indonesian politics.

This comprehensive and comparative book makes clear what party families are and, in doing so, helps categorise and make sense of parties in different countries.

Disability rights advocates in the United Kingdom and the United States recently embraced new media technologies in unexpected and innovative ways.

This book rethinks gubernatorial effects on national politics using the case of the Argentine Senate.

This book mines the early history of modern Lebanon, focusing on the country's Jewish community and examining inter-Lebanese relations.

Diese umfassende Einführung in den politischen Extremismus geht über eine reine Schilderung der unterschiedlichen Arten des Extremismus weit hinaus.

This title is part of UC Presss Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact.

Demand for practical knowledge and lessons about how the United States and other countries can more effectively promote democracy around the world has never been higher.

This book argues that the G20 is neither a global executive board for a new world order, nor is it just a crisis unit for failing economies.

The author argues in this text that the much-vaunted reform and liberalisation of Egypt's economy has been partial and selective, far from beneficial to all Egyptians.

This book examines issues of organisation in resistance movements, discussing topics including the integration of the world system, the intersection of networks with discourses of identity, and the possibility of social transformation.

« Faire du citoyen “quelque chose” dans l’ordre politique, faire du citoyen le cœur vivant de la démocratie en affirmant, contre le principe représentatif, qu’il a une compétence pour décider personnellement des lois et des règles du vivre-ensemble et en proposant, contre le présidentialisme de la Ve République, les institutions et les mécanismes par lesquels cette compétence citoyenne s’exercera.

Aimed at scholars and general readers alike, this book offers the first biography of Michael A.

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

Is it true that all we need is love?

Exploring how sweeping demographic changes have resulted in the ineffectiveness of recent monetary and fiscal policies, this book identifies corrective actions that will start to reverse the trends of low economic growth and widespread government deficits.

Addresses the durability of communist autocracies in Eastern Europe and Asia, the longest-lasting type of non-democratic regime to emerge after World War I.

The Anishinabek Nation's legal traditions are deeply embedded in many aspects of customary life.

Throughout American history, presidents have shown a startling power to act independently of Congress and the courts.

This book argues that Vladimir Putin''s strategy for rebuilding the Russian state was fundamentally flawed.

Is There Hope for Afghans?

Over the last three decades, electoral reform has moved centre stage in both new and established democracies.

The global economic and financial crisis had severe impact on southern European economies and stimulated growing numbers of mainly young migrants heading north, nurturing the fear of brain drain back home.

Fournier points out that the Meech Lake Constitutional Accord was flawed for both Quebec and English Canada.

THE #1 BESTSELLERFINALIST FOR THE WRITERS' TRUST BALSILLIE PRIZE FOR PUBLIC POLICYA compelling political memoir of leadership and speaking truth to power by one of the most inspiring women of her generationJody Wilson-Raybould was raised to be a leader.

McQuillan shows that the population of the once largely German-speaking region of Alsace was sharply divided into two major religious communities, one Catholic, the other Lutheran.

How do states respond to minority nations' demands?

Although academics have paid much attention to contentious politics in China and elsewhere, research on the outcomes of social protests, both direct and indirect, in non-democracies is still limited.

This book presents, for the first time in English, a comprehensive anthology of essays on Christian Wolff's psychology written by leading international scholars.

A chronicle of the year that changed Soviet Russia and molded the future path of one of America's pre-eminent diplomatic correspondents1956 was an extraordinary year in modern Russian history.

This book investigates how the internet is being used as a tool for comprehensively modernizing local government

The human drama, and long-term lessons, of the Fukushima nuclear disasterThe Fukushima nuclear disaster in March 2011 presented an enormous challenge even to Japan, one of the world's most advanced and organized countries.

This book illustrates how religion and ideology were used by Robert Mugabe to ward off opposition within his own party, in Zimbabwe and from the West.

Der Begriff des gerechten Friedens impliziert engen Zusammenhang von Frieden und Gerechtigkeit.

This book is the first conceptual and comparative empirical work on the relation between corporatism and dictatorships, bringing both fields under a joint conceptual umbrella.

A ground-breaking contribution to the economic and cultural history of the eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century publishing of illustrated belles lettres in Scotland, the book offers detailed accounts of numerous agents of prints (booksellers, printers, designers, engravers) and their involvement in the making and marketing of illustrated editions.

"e;This book gave me a new lens to see the world.

Enacted as a special interest bill in 1925, the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) positioned arbitration well among specialized merchant communities.

A powerful indictment of Pope Benedict and the Vatican, and a searing assessment of the future of the Catholic Church.

Statehood in the early 21st century remains as much a central problem as it was in 1979 when the first edition of The Creation of States in International Law was published.

Latin America has among the world''s highest homicide rates.

A book to challenge the status quo, spark a debate, and get people talking about the issues and questions we face as a country!

This book analyzes both local and national House and Senate campaigns in the 2022 midterm elections to reveal how distinctive campaign dynamics have a collective national impact.