Political structure and processes

This book tackles the fundamental question of how a society with competing collective memories and visions can build a common nation while trying to reconcile the past and forge a common future.

For many observers, the predation of Boko Haram, unsparing and venal in its manifestation, is shocking, and it seems to lack a local historical frame of reference that would help make it understandable.

Governance Models in Public Service Media presents the solutions for European Public Service Media to face its new governance models in a new media landscape with new realities and challenges that affect legality, sustainability, financing, and start-up, without losing its public value and its commitment to society.

Governance Models in Public Service Media presents the solutions for European Public Service Media to face its new governance models in a new media landscape with new realities and challenges that affect legality, sustainability, financing, and start-up, without losing its public value and its commitment to society.

A bold and timely proposal for rethinking the role of the Supreme Court in the separation of powers.

Ethnography of Shias living along frontiers of Kashmir, negotiating belonging to India by calibrating transnational religious-cultural ideas with nationalist ideologies.

This book introduces a comprehensive model for evaluating the effects of artificial intelligence (AI) on human rights, democracy, and the rule of law and an innovative framework that merges Human Rights Impact Assessments (HRIAs) practices with AI-focused algorithmic impact assessment approaches.

The book demonstrates the underappreciated extent and political importance of both positive and negative mass partisan attitudes in Brazil.

This interdisciplinary volume re-evaluates the interconnectedness of the Merovingian world with its Mediterranean surroundings.

This volume reveals music''s role in Victorian liberalism and its relationship with literature, locating the Victorian salon within intellectual and cultural history.

Shah uncovers the complex interaction between constitutional law, religion and politics in three key plural societies in Asia.

This book illuminates the sources and consequences of cycles and instability in the mathematical theory of voting and social choice.

A fresh response to the problem of illegal immigration in the United States through the context of Christian theology.

Introduces citizens to solutions for reforming the American campaign finance system.

Analyzes the political roots of the systems of constitutional justice in Latin America, tracing their development over the last 40 years.

A fresh descriptive and normative perspective on law and religion supported by comparative case studies of Greater China.

This book tackles the fundamental question of how a society with competing collective memories and visions can build a common nation while trying to reconcile the past and forge a common future.

Weaving together first-person narratives of art practice, analytical accounts, and ethnographic research by artists and scholars in art history, theater, new media, music, and anthropology, this volume offers an overview of the wide range of conditions, processes, and motivations for artmaking among asylum seekers in view of Israel's continued legal obfuscation of the refugee status process.

Investigates the underrepresentation of women in politics, by examining how language use constructs and maintains gender inequalities in political institutions.

Discusses state and religion relations in Israel by applying a general theory regarding the role of religion in liberal countries.

Reframes gender variance and transition in positive, non-oppositional terms, informed by Christian constructive theologies of creation and personhood.

The first systematic global study of how Christians respond to persecution, presenting new research by leading scholars of global Christianity.

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

In the United States and Britain, capitalists organized in opposition to clientelism and demanded programmatic parties and institutional reforms.

Explores how the Virginia School developed an economics for natural equals in which consent is critical for policy.

Provides the first comparative look into executive decree authority.

At last a history that explains how indigenous dispossession and survival underlay and shaped the birth of Australian democracy.

The notion of ''representative democracy'' seems unquestionably familiar today, but how did the Victorians understand democracy, parliamentary representation, and diversity?

Explores the development of a ''European security culture'' from the Congress of Vienna to the First World War.

A cutting-edge description of subnational democracy combined with a ground breaking explanation for why some regions are much less democratic than others.

Based on long-term research in northern Chad, this book provides a unique account of mobility, wealth, and aspirations to political autonomy at the heart of the contemporary Sahara.

Since 1787, constituent assemblies have shaped politics.

Examines the entrenchment of Salafism in Lebanese society while also highlighting the movement''s transnational links to the Persian Gulf.

Proposes an original framework for comparative media research, and uses it to provide fascinating insights into television under communist rule.

Discusses the birth pangs of democracy in post-communist Romania, and its difficult transition from a state of non-law to a rule-of-law state.

The first modern history of the 1975 European referendum, ranging across 1970s Britain to assess why voters said ''Yes to Europe''.

Demonstrates the crucial role that the Constitution played in the coming of the Civil War.

Illuminates hot button issues in contemporary Latin America from an intellectually radical perspective: a sociological theory of democracy as civil sphere.

Explores ways to make democracy work better, with particular focus on the integral role of local institutions.

Studies all four branches of the Athenian armed forces to show how they helped make democratic Athens a superpower.

Develops a new theory of how politicians campaign and deploy electoral clientelism in weak party systems.

Explores the effect of justice measures on ''regime consolidation'' in a post-transition context.

Uses a comparative analysis of case law in leading common law nations to demonstrate how religious discrimination is culturally determined.

This book explores the democratic methods by which political communities make their basic law, and the dangers associated with constitution-making.

Explores how political institutions and economic geography interact to shape governments'' policy decisions, particularly with respect to subsidies.

A comprehensive and comparative analysis of who advises government and how systems of policy advice operate in four Westminster countries.

Argues that radical right voting in Europe is rooted in people''s feelings of attachment to and defensiveness of their local communities.

Marking the Sesquicentennial of Confederation in Canada, this book examines the growing global influence of Canada''s Constitution and Supreme Court on courts confronting issues involving human rights.

A comprehensive global study of the political ideology of Christian Democracy, from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day.

The first scientific analysis of Indonesian voting behavior from democratization in 1999 to the most recent general election in 2014.