Politics and Government

This is a comprehensive examination of the evolution of the politicization of the Panamanian military and the legacy of this transformation in mode...

With its deep economic crisis and dramatic political developments Greece has puzzled Europe and the world. What explains its long-standing problems...

Contrary to popular misconceptions and public branding as "dirty tricks," covert action and counterintelligence can have considerable value. Democr...

How can we best analyse contemporary welfare state change? And how can we explain and understand the politics of it? This book contributes to these...

Since the colonization of the Philippines by Spain in the sixteenth century, the island chain has been at the center of global trade flows, imperia...

Arthur Kenneth (A.K.) Chesterton was a soldier, journalist and activist whose involvement with fascist and extreme right-wing politics in Britain s...

Published in the year 1990, Understanding Party System Change in Western Europe is a valuable contribution to the field of Politics.

This book is the outcome of a series of articles which appeared in the "Svenska Dagbladet" in the summer of 1923 and were afterwards published as a...

Amid civil war, failing states, and terrorism, Arab liberals are growing in numbers and influence. Advocating a culture of equity, tolerance, good ...

Russia's state system has changed significantly since 1991, but the question of how the country should be governed has not been answered. Russia's ...

While some people profess a disdain for politics, in a democracy politics is the primary vehicle for citizens to influence the decisions and decisi...

Distance, in its traditional sense, connotates "estrangement" and "division". But in the context of modern political studies, it means a controllab...

This book offers a timely and critical exploration of leisure and forced migration from multiple disciplinary perspectives, spanning sociology, gen...

Should the US deploy ballistic-missile defences? The arguments for and against are becoming increasingly polarised. This paper offers what is curre...

The European Community has committed itself to promoting 'economic and social cohesion' across its regions. Its expenditure - via the 'structural f...

Focusing on the issue of the Oromo national struggle for liberation, statehood, and democracy, The Oromo Movement and Imperial Politics: Culture an...

In the light of perestroika this paper reviews Soviet specialist writing and leadership statements, and looks in particular at how Soviet authors u...

What do we need to know about political parties in order to understand them? In his classic study E. E. Schattschneider delineates six crucial poin...

Green Energy Economies offers insight into the major drivers that are shaping a new future powered by clean energy sources. Assembling cutting-edge...

This Handbook provides a succinct overview of sport in the Middle East, drawing in scholars from a wide variety of geographical and disciplinary ba...

Democratic development in Central and Eastern Europe is not a finished project, nor is its progress immune to internal and external threats. The cu...

Most contemporary public managers will work in some type of collaborative or networked arrangement at some time in their professional careers. More...

Less than a year after the United States entered the Second World War, Nicholas Spykman wrote a book that placed the war effort in the broader cont...

This book reframes theoretical, methodological and practical approaches to public administration by drawing on complexity theory concepts. It aims ...