Comparative Politics

For a long time, India and China have been seen as the rising economic giants on the Asiatic mainland. Studies of the conflicts which have plagued ...

The 2020 Presidential Election in the United States marked, for many, a return to compassionate politics. Joe Biden had run on a platform of empath...

In the United States, politics has become increasingly nationalized in recent years as voter decision-making is now driven by partisan or national ...

Political debates in many Mediterranean countries today are increasingly framed in dichotomous terms, highlighting divisions between religious and ...

This comprehensive volume studies the vices and virtues of regionalisation in comparative perspective, including countries such as Belgium, Germany...

Urban centres are at the heart of the dynamics of war and peace, of stability and violence: as safe havens for those seeking protection, as concent...

This Handbook presents the first comprehensive study of policy analytical practices in comparative perspective. It explores emerging developments a...

Drawing on the work of Arend Lijphart, this book focuses on consensus democracies. These democracies entail a complex set of democratic institution...

In the 21st century, think tanks have become more than a buzzword in European public discourse. They now play important roles in the policy-making ...

Ugandas 2016 elections, which returned thirty-year incumbent President Yoweri Museveni and his National Resistance Movement (NRM) in yet another la...

Africa is well known for the production of national liberation movements (NLMs), stemming from a history of exploitation, colonisation and slavery....

The Storming of the Capitol was, for many, the culminating media performance of the four-year presidency of Donald Trump. His presidency and its fi...

The Storming of the Capitol was, for many, the culminating media performance of the four-year presidency of Donald Trump. His presidency and its fi...

This comprehensive book analyses the development of the legislatures in the Iberian countries over the past 40 years, since democracy was introduce...

Ethiopia is the darling of development economists: since 2005, the countrys economic growth rate has consistently been over the 10% mark. Ethiopia ...

Irina Khmelko, Frederick Stapenhurst, and Michael L. Mezey have assembled an authoritative guide to the declining institutional capacities of legis...

Over the last 30 years referendums have played an increasingly important role in determining government policy. Recent high profile referendums in ...

Institutionalization has become a paramount concept to compare party systems in regions spanned by the third wave of democratization. Based on raw ...

Published in 1997, This book offers an up-to-date guide to the Green parties of Western Europe as the optimism of the 1980s confronts the Green fat...

Die Studie Wie sich Jugendliche Demokratie vorstellen beleuchtet die Demokratievorstellungen und Politikeinstellungen von jungen Menschen. Im Mitte...

Based on a unique comparative study of Burundi, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Lebanon, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Nepal, Myanmar, the Philippines, and Fiji this book ...

Examining the changing nature of health care federalism within a competitive global context, Comparative Health Care Federalism provides a rich and...

African legislatures remain understudied, yet democratisation, development and peacebuilding all depend on these key political institutions. This b...