Political structure and processes

The Internet first played a minor role in the 1992 U.

Since its inception, the European Union (EU) has revised its foundational treaties several times, resulting in national ratification processes involving different actors, with varying success.

This book analyses the salience of foreign and security policy issues to domestic actors, its role in the analysis of international politics and its consequences for foreign policy decision-making.

The United States today is afflicted with political alienation, militarized violence, institutionalized poverty, and social agony.

The United States today is afflicted with political alienation, militarized violence, institutionalized poverty, and social agony.

This innovative book investigates the process through which ethnic minorities penetrate into higher echelons of political power: specifically, how they succeed in getting elected to the U.

Contemporary members of Congress routinely use the media to advance their professional goals.

Terror attacks on western civilian targets have stimulated interest in the dilemmas faced by liberal societies when combating threats to national security.

Popular distrust and the entrenchment of government by professionals lie at the root of America's most pressing political problems.

In this timely book, leading researchers consider how media inform democracy in six countries - the United States, the United Kingdom, Belgium, the Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden.

Now available in paperback, this Handbook provides a comprehensive analysis of the major themes that have defined the politics of Southeast Asia.

From historian-in-residence at the Presidential Pet Museum, Andrew Hager, comes a fond, fascinating, and often surprising look at the dogs who were the best friends of the presidents, featuring unforgettable photographs.

This book examines the role and importance of the Presidency in the formulation and conduct of US grand strategy.

First published in 1999.

This work critically reviews the conventional uses of the concept of civil society in promoting democratization in Africa and suggests omissions and modifications are needed for more accurate analyses.

This book examines how efforts to exert accountability in crises affect public trust in governing institutions.

The Soviet Union is often characterised as nominally a federation, but really an empire, liable to break up when individual federal units, which were allegedly really subordinate colonial units, sought independence.

This book offers a wide range of critical perspectives on how secularism unfolds and has been made sense of across Europe and Asia.

First Published in 1970.

First Published in 1951.

Who's Who in Modern History is a unique reference book which examines those individuals who have shaped the political world since 1860.

In ›Die Erfindung der Freibeuter‹ tauchen Leserinnen und Leser in eine faszinierende Welt ein, in der die Grenzen zwischen Legende und Realität verschwimmen.

The Regional Handbooks of Economic Development series provides accessible overviews of countries within their larger domestic and international contexts, focusing on the relations among regions as they meet the challenges of the twenty first century.

The Regional Handbooks of Economic Development series provides accessible overviews of countries within their larger domestic and international contexts, focusing on the relations among regions as they meet the challenges of the twenty first century.

This unique text offers a comprehensive overview of who participates in politics and why, how social and political institutions shape that involvement, and, ultimately, what form citizen political participation takes.

Mobutu's political system, inaugurated in 1965 and lasting more than three decades, met all the characteristics of totalitarianism.

In the early twenty-first century, race still occupies a dominant role in American politics.

Democracy is an issue of major importance in theory and practice in politics throughout the world.

Amos Perlmutter has devoted his academic career to the study of comparative politics, international relations and modern authoritarianism.

Amos Perlmutter has devoted his academic career to the study of comparative politics, international relations and modern authoritarianism.

Unlike in other countries of Eastern Europe where the opposition to communism came in the form of single mass movements led by charismatic leaders such as Vaclav Havel and Lech Walesa, in Hungary the opposition was very fragmented, brought together and made effective only by the authoritative, significant but relatively unknown Arpad Goncz, who subsequently became Hungary's first post-communist president.

Over the past several decades, the number of women elected to higher office in the United States has grown substantially.

In recent years, the spotlight of international attention on Brazil has often been in the area of logistics infrastructure-for example, on its capacity to deal with the high demand expected during the World Cup and the Olympics.

The importance of Henry VII is the subject of heated debate.

Tudor Government looks at English government across all the Tudor reigns, including those of Henry VIII, Mary and Elizabeth, and explores such themes as: the role of parliament law and order the government of the church the personal role of the monarch.

Federalism and Political Performance compares the political performance of federal and non-federal states and evaluates the impact of different types of federation.

Presenting a study of regime transition, political transformation, and the challenges that faced the post-Communist republics of Central Asia on independence, this book focuses on the process of transition in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, and the obstacles that these newly-independent states are facing in the post-Communist period.

This timely book updates, and takes stock of, Lipset and Rokkan's classic work Party Systems and Voter Alignments: Cross-National Perspectives, an influential work since its publication in 1967.

It is commonplace that political power is becoming more centralized and remote: faceless people, sometimes in unknown places, determine our circumstances and our opportunities.

Challenging Authoritarianism in Southeast Asia is one of the first substantial comparative studies of contemporary Indonesia and Malaysia, homes to the world's largest Muslim population.

In recent decades, environmental issues have increasingly been incorporated into liberal democratic thought and political practice.

The European Union - a supranational system with its own institutional characteristics and autonomy - has a structure and functional logic which are more similar to those of the US than those of European nation states.

Swiss Foreign Policy provides in-depth insights into the procedures and constraints of Swiss foreign policy, answering questions such as: * Why is Switzerland not a member of the European Union?

The Government and Politics of France has been the leading textbook on French politics for over a generation, and continues to provide students with a comprehensive and incisive introduction to the intricacies of French politics and government.

This is a book with a difference: it produces a completely new perspective on lifelong learning and the learning society and locates them within humanity itself.

This book comprises nine papers approaching designed institutions and their interplay with spontaneous institutions from various angles.

An incisive examination of Britain today, which breaks from traditional studies, and takes a new approach to account for massive changes in the make-up of the nation.

This volume provides a comparative analysis of the use of the World Wide Web in countries around the world for political campaign purposes.

Presidential nominations in the United States can sometimes seem like a media circus, over-hyped and overly speculative.

While there is no shortage of studies addressing the state's regulation of the sexual, research into the ways in which the sexual governs the state and its attributes is still in its infancy.