Comparative Politics

This book has both empirical and theoretical goals. The primary empirical goal is to examine the evolution of industrial relations in Western Europ...

Overlooked in today's bloody headlines is Mexico's fundamental transformation. In over three short decades it has gone from a poor to a middle clas...

Once seen as a fringe phenomenon, populism is back. While some politicians and media outlets present it as dangerous to the U.S., Europe, and Latin...

Examining the 1930s and the different reactions to the crisis, this volume offers a global comparative perspective that includes a comparison ac...

As the Ottoman Empire crumbled, the Middle East and Balkans became the site of contestation and cooperation between the traditional forces of relig...

Measurement and targets have been widely criticised as distorting policy and engendering gaming - yet they continue to be widely used in government...

Globalisation is not the enemy of nationalism; instead, as this book shows, the two forces have developed together through modern history. Maleevi ...

Salman Abu Sitta, who has single-handedly made available crucial mapping work on Palestine, was just ten years old when he left his home near Beers...

This stimulating and accessible introduction to comparative politics offers a fresh perspective on the fundamentals of political science. Its centr...

Most social science studies of local organizations tend to focus on civil society associations, voluntary associations independent from state contr...

Do Russia and the European Union have any substantial influence over the political trajectories of post-Soviet states? Shedding new light on the in...

Timely and unique, this innovative volume provides a critical examination of the role of civil society and its relation to the state throughout lef...

The new fifth edition of this leading textbook provides a clear and comprehensive account of governance and politics in the Netherlands. The book h...

The African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) is a nonreciprocal trade preference program that provides duty-free treatment to U.S. imports of cert...

This study seeks to solve the following puzzle: In 1947, the Pakistan military was poorly trained and poorly armed. It also inherited highly vulner...

We live in an age of political polarization. As political beliefs on the left and the right have been pulled closer to the extremes, so have our so...

At the turn of the twenty-first century, globalization - both the process and the idea - bestrode the world. Widely acclaimed by political and econ...