Comparative Politics

This book is the outcome of in-depth academic research on the civil service carried out by acknowledged international and national experts in the f...

This book seeks to answer how we can reposition the geopolitical situation of the Central and Eastern European (CEE) region in the 21st century. CE...

The authoritarian upgrading process in Egypt has enabled the regime to have a more effective dominance in local politics and to enhance its politic...

This publication responds to the need for providing fresh insights into the new international order, the Russian Federation’s aggressive war agains...

Bringing together a range of South Asian perspectives on rising China in a comparative framework, an attempt has been made, for the first time, to ...

In Rising Powers and Foreign Policy Revisionism, Cameron Thies and Mark Nieman examine the identity and behavior of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, Indi...

Canada and the United States are consistently ranked among the most democratic countries in the world, yet voices expressing concern about the qual...

This book describes the lived experience of Kashmiris who came of age between 2007 and 2017. It shows that Kashmiris generally had high hopes for p...

The aim of the book is to present the issues of central importance to the Islamic World. This diverse area faces a lot of difficulties and challeng...

This book depicts a new research perspective of political leadership, in which the multi-level and dynamic leadership relation is explained as rela...

A post-communist condition has arisen from the fall of the Berlin Wall and later the Soviet Empire: this book looks at how this condition has manif...

Who shapes the European Union’s policy towards Latin America? How has this EU policy modified individual member states’ relations with the region? ...

Although ambivalence characterizes the stance of scholars toward the desirability of close opinion-policy linkages in general, it is especially evi...

Unlike the majority of contemporary scholarly works that examine Sino-Japanese relations between 1925 and 1945, this study de-emphasizes the story ...

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This is the true story of Adolphine, a refugee from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) who was twenty-two when she had to flee her home in ...

This book is a very valuable and timely collection of original essays with brand new and refreshing ideas on alternative solutions for the Cyprus i...

As a result of ongoing political transformation, post-communist countries are opening up to a global world and its influence. This poses new challe...

Written by the eminent sinologist Michael Loewe, and edited for publication by T. Corey Brennan and Michael Nylan, this book gives an overview of t...

Any democratic regime needs an active and performative party system. Political parties act as intermediaries between institutions and society, arti...

Rooted in an international political economy theoretical framework, this book provides unique insights into the global forces and local responses t...

The announcement of a Health and Human Services (HHS) rule requiring insurance providers to cover the costs of contraception as part of the Afforda...

Written by the eminent sinologist Michael Loewe, and edited for publication by T. Corey Brennan and Michael Nylan, this book gives an overview of t...

Moderate Liberalism and the Scottish Enlightenment responds to a perennial problem in political theory: how to balance commercial considerations wi...

The book addresses the question of the extent to which theological discourse has been and is relevant to the origins of the meanings, symbols, and ...

This book takes stock of Belgium’s exceptional and – for some foreign observers –schizophrenic position in the political world and explains its idi...

Bringing together leading and emerging scholars on European politics, this collection explores howdilemmas associated with key democratic concepts ...

The UK is more decentralised, contested and diverse than ever before. This new, introductory textbook demonstrates how political scientists are tac...

Today, alienation manifests itself primarily as precarisation and deprofessionalisation. When the subject's work security or professional autonomy ...

The UK is more decentralised, contested and diverse than ever before. This new, introductory textbook demonstrates how political scientists are tac...

The Films of Mira Nair: Diaspora Vérité presents the first, full-length scholarly study of her cinema. Mira Nair has broken new ground as both a fe...

This book explores the West-Central African role in, and experience during, the expansion of international society. Building upon theoretical contr...

This book begins a series of publications devoted to political reflection on the integration of Central and Eastern Europe with the participation, ...

During the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, dictatorships in Latin America hastened the outward movement of intellectuals, academic...

This publication discusses economic relations connecting Poland with other countries of Central and Eastern Europe. In order to clarify this matter...

Volume Three of the Classics of Comparative Policy Analysis, contains chapters concerned with "Regional Comparisons and Policy Analysis" – one of t...

In The Rise and Fall of Repression in Chile, Pablo Policzer tackles the difficult task of analyzing how authoritarian regimes utilize coercion. Eve...

The volume examines the causes and consequences of regional turbulence in the Middle East following the 2003 Iraq war and the 2011 Arab uprisings. ...

Is the U.S. as a country still capable of finding common ground and effective policy responses in the 21st century, or are the dividing lines withi...

When polling data showed that an overwhelming 81% of white evangelicals had voted for Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election, commentators ...

This groundbreaking work presents a transformative perspective on political theory. This text is not just an introduction to political theory, it′s...

Although ambivalence characterizes the stance of scholars toward the desirability of close opinion-policy linkages in general, it is especially evi...