Politics and government

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.

A theoretical critique of the patent and innovation policy funnelled by intellectual property instruments towards developing countries.

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.

Examines the changing meanings Americans invested in their country''s intensifying relationship with Israel from the 1950s to the 1980s.

Explains why the EU interacts and intervenes beyond its borders, using case studies to present a theory of practice-driven action.

Develops a social psychological approach to revolutions through analyzes of cases from around the world and during different historical periods.

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

Explores which laws and actors govern the negotiation, interpretation and implementation of peace agreements to settle intra-state conflicts.

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.

The first analysis of how victims of crime and human rights abuses access justice in Latin America through private prosecution.

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

Establishes links between lack of societal peace, structural causes of human suffering, recurrent patterns of political violence and forced migration in the Global South.

The book examines the impact of poverty and other global crises in generating forms of structural coercion that cause agential and societal underdevelopment.

Peoples'' Tribunals and International Law is the first book to analyse how civil society tribunals implement and develop international law.

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

An original account exploring the use of targets and performance measurement as a response to the crisis of political trust.

Analyzes the labor experience of Israeli Palestinian women, arguing that state policies and widespread discrimination hinder their labor force participation and success.

This is a novel, transnational exploration of the major Chinese intellectual debates on radicalism in history, culture, and politics after 1989.

Argues that the Eurasian steppe political tradition has been globally influential, particularly in the socio-political formation of modern Russia and Turkey.

Develops an approach to contemporary religious, moral, and political conflicts in which conflict may be constructively reframed and creatively engaged toward productive democratic practice.

This book traces how early Americans imagined what a ''nation'' meant during the first fifty years of the country''s existence.

The first exploration of how Mussolini employed population settlement inside the nation and across the empire to strengthen Italian sovereignty.

Through a comparative study of Morocco and Tunisia, Feuer proposes a compelling theory accounting for complexities in religion-state relations across the Arab world.

Chronicles the critical role the sciences have played in American foreign relations since World War II.

Using extensive research, this book argues that successful African leaders consolidate their rule by developing strategic rural coalitions.

This book is about microfinance in rural China and how the villagers cultivated their social relationships by moving money.

How a distinctive approach to social policy led democracy to flourish in the Federal Republic of Germany despite its past.

Develops a new account of historical injustice and redress, demonstrating why a consideration of history is crucial for gender equality.

A major illustrated collection offering a fresh interdisciplinary reading of Chinese women''s periodicals and history in the long twentieth century.

Research volume on urban energy transition that will have wide interdisciplinary appeal to researchers in energy, urban and environmental studies.

Offers evidence that opportunity structures created by state weakness can allow NGOs to exert unparalleled influence over local human rights law and practice.

Laura Montanaro asks what entitles self-appointed representatives, such as non-governmental organizations and celebrity activists, to speak and act for others.

Women and Microfinance in the Global South is a grounded exploration of the intersections of neoliberal ideology and feminism.

Explains why successful international peacebuilding depends on the unorthodox actions of country-based staff, whose deviations from approved procedures make global governance organizations accountable to local realities.

A unique account of everyday life under the Third Reich and one man''s opposition to the Nazi regime.

This multidisciplinary book examines the potential of economic and social rights to contest adverse impacts of neoliberalism on human wellbeing.

Captures significant transformations in the theory and practice of economic and social rights in constitutional and human rights law.

Analyzes the role of self-determination and territorial integrity in some of the most difficult decolonization cases.

Identifies and explains the constitutional problems triggered by the government''s speech, and proposes a new framework for thinking about them.

Identifies how and why ''dialogue'' can describe and evaluate institutional interactions over constitutional questions concerning democracy and rights.

Considers the ICTY to demonstrate illiberal practices of international criminal tribunals, and proposes a return to process to protect the rule of law.

This book compares secularity in societies not shaped by Western Christianity, particularly in Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa.

Contests over Berlin''s streets in the interwar period reveal the fragility of consumer capitalism, urban order, and liberal democracy.

How do immigration and refugee laws work ''in action'' in Russia?

Sen argues that the decline of caste-based politics in twentieth-century Bengal was as much the result of coercion as consent.

This book presents a searching critique of excessive reliance on courts as ''democracy-builders'' in states emerging from authoritarian rule.

Looks at the situation of Kurds in Turkey through the lens of multiculturalism, giving us a fresh and new comparative perspective.

Argues that face-to-face interaction undercuts the security dilemma at the interpersonal level by providing a mechanism for understanding intentions.