Comparative Politics

African American candidates for state and federal office in the United States face unique challenges, given the nation's complicated racial dynamic...

This book analyzes and explains the ways in which major developing world cities respond to the challenge of urban violence. The study shows how the...

This is the first systematic exploration of the diversity of utopian thought and practice in the modern Middle East and North Africa. Beyond intell...

Politics and Government in South Africa introduces readers to all aspects of government and politics in South Africa, from local, to provincial, na...

This book provides a comprehensive understanding of how, and under which conditions, regulators in the social sectors are able to influence politic...

Is it possible to rearticulate the relationship between Europe and its others in non-colonizing ways? Europe and Its Boundaries reflects upon this ...

How do governments contribute to galvanizing public hostility against state institutions? And what are the consequences of undermining the state as...

While the wars in Iraq, Syria, Libya and Yemen, alongside the establishment of the so-called "Islamic Caliphate" have brought the debate about the ...

In the eighteenth century, the printing press enabled the rise of an independent press--the Fourth Estate--that helped check the power of governmen...

This accessible and authoritative introduction tells the American story of religious liberty from its colonial beginnings to the latest Supreme Cou...

The Oxford Handbook of Italian Politics provides a comprehensive look at the political life of one of Europe's most exciting and turbulent democrac...

This book represents the first comprehensive study of how technocracy currently challenges representative democracy and asks how technocratic polit...

South Sudan: Post-Independence Dilemmas is an interdisciplinary collection of essays which engages with the failure of the newest African State to ...

Canada trying to bring together Indigenous peoples, "two solitudes" of the French and the British, as well as a variety of poly-ethnic immigrants ...

Politics and Government in South Africa introduces readers to all aspects of government and politics in South Africa, from local, to provincial, na...

By bringing together eminent scholars, this book highlights the current scholarship in the field of migration, which tries to present a counter-nar...

US-China Rivalry offers a holistic analysis of the unfolding of US-China competition in the Indo-Pacific, using a novel theory called neo-offensive...

Identity is widely acknowledged to be a felt experience, yet questions of atmosphere, mood and public sentiments are rarely made central to underst...

Truth qualities of journalism are under intense scrutiny in today's world. Journalistic scandals have eroded public confidence in mainstream media ...

A pathbreaking introduction to the controversial, contested and deeply political topic of development. Written in an engaging and eminently readabl...

This book brings together political philosophers, democratic theorists, empirical political scientists and policy experts to examine how democratic...