Comparative Politics

Transportation and the State explores the role of the emerging national state in the 19th century as an organiser of territory and a governor of infrastructure. It offers a comparative historical analysis of eight industrialising nation-states and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781955055550Author December GreenFormat PaperbackPage Count 543Imprint Lynne Rienner PublishersPublisher Lynne Rienner PublishersWeight(grams) 800g

This book is devoted to the analysis of ideological turnover and its social political consequences in 36 industrialized countries. The book pursues three major objectives. Firstly, it accurately proposes novel approaches to measure the impact of party...

Originally published in 1967. The ramifications of the German problem and its intricate nature make its comprehensive presentation within the limits of a manageable volume a matter of painful selection and difficult apportionment.Book InformationISBN...

These selected speeches of Roh Tae Woo, the President of the Republic of Korea, cover the years 1990, 1991, and 1992. The President addresses the issues of reunification of South and North Korea, democracy and prosperity in the Republic, Korea's place in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474466837Author Mohamed Nawab Mohamed OsmanFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780197612873Author Sidney A RothsteinFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Oxford University Press, USAPublisher Oxford University Press, USA

What is the nation? What is the idea of India? Whose India is it, anyway? This inaugural volume in the series titled Rethinking India aims to kickstart a national dialogue on the key questions of our times. It brings together India's foremost...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438462066Author Patricia J. WoodsFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

This book is about the relationships between peoples. There are chapters on youth and academic exchanges, educational co-operation, the national cultural programmes of France and Germany, business and trade union contacts, twin-towning and the work of...

This book examines the quest to promote the health and vigour of individuals and populations of liberal democracies. It provides a detailed account of the emergence and working of Danish and English health promotion policies and programs in the areas of...

Recounting recent encounters between Latin American and Arab countries this unique volume explores how, despite both geographical and cultural distances, Latin American revolutionaries constructed an image of the Arab World as one sharing their own...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474454940Author Francois Vergniolle de ChantalFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780197685556Author Jonathan G LeslieFormat HardbackPage Count 312Imprint Oxford University Press, USAPublisher Oxford University Press, USAWeight(grams) 535g

Why do some states provide infrastructure and social services to their citizens, and others do not? In Development in Multiple Dimensions, Alexander Lee examines the origins of success and failure in the public services of developing countries. Comparing...

International Discourses of Authoritarian Populism provides 15 cutting-edge chapters probing into the diversity of present-day populist discourse from across the world.Not adhering to any particular school, the volume explores populism from a variety of...

This study of the future of U.S. politics begins with an in-depth examination of the political, social, and economic dynamics of the present. Dr. Shefrin demonstrates that economic growth has been a key element in maintaining political stability by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583679371Author Greg AlboFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Monthly Review PressPublisher Monthly Review PressWeight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm) 231mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474455909Author Johann P ArnasonFormat PaperbackImprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press

This book, originally published in 1971, provides clear analysis of German affairs at the end of the 1960s. Without neglecting the historical dimension of recent developments, it examines some of the problems the German people faced in the post-war years...

The Green Movement in Germany is widely regarded as one of the most powerful expressions of popular opposition to government policies. A broad analysis of this powerful group is made in this book, showing that the origins of the movement relate to the...

First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9780815340300Author Sheena ChoiFormat HardbackPage Count 158Imprint CRC Press IncPublisher Taylor & Francis IncWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438462875Author Lee MorgenbesserFormat HardbackPage Count 292Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York Press

The culmination of research undertaken in the rural panchayats of Gujarat and Tamil Nadu, A Foot in the Door brings the voices of Dalit women to the forefront of the ongoing conversation about their political oppression. The authors examine the...

Reformulating a problem of both constitutionalism and liberalism discussed in the works of Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde, Hannah Arendt, and Alexis de Tocqueville, the book examines one generally overlooked manifestation of constitutionalism: the role of...

Woo investigates examples of the Chinese government using methods normally associated with deliberative democracy to involve their citizenry in decision-making at a sub-national level. Despite the tightening of civil society under Xi there are still some...

Exploring how the boundary between the extremist far right and centre-right parties and politics became blurred, Normalisation of the Global Far Right: Pandemic Disruption deconstructs one of the most pressing issues of today: the rise of the far right...

The book traces the development of Germany from the Kaiser's Reich in the 1870s to the reunited democratic state led by Helmut Kohl in the 1990s. The author begins by countering the popular view of Germany before 1914 as irredeemably reactionary, and...

This title was first published in 2000: An exploration of the ways in which social welfare in two countries, half a world apart, may have similarities. Through identification of the differences and similarities of social welfare in Britain and Malaysia,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438462073Author Patricia J. WoodsFormat HardbackPage Count 268Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York Press

How do authoritarian regimes deal with pressure from the international community? China's leaders have been subject to decades of international attention, condemnation, resolutions, boycotts, and sanctions over their treatment of human rights. We assume...

This authoritative study, written by experts in their fields and originally published in 1989, provides a comprehensive introduction to aspects of West German society, politics and economics. Individual chapters investigate West German politics,...

This book is about the relationships between peoples. There are chapters on youth and academic exchanges, educational co-operation, the national cultural programmes of France and Germany, business and trade union contacts, twin-towning and the work of...

This book presents an analysis of the social composition of parties inside and outside parliaments to link overall trends of political culture and practice to West German society, its occupational structure, its status levels, and its generation.Book...

This book, originally published in 1991, assesses how attitudes, political orientations and social values changed during the five decades after the Second World War. The case studies in the book focus on key `sites' in political culture: in France, on...

This book explores the response of Ireland's political-administrative system to the implementation of environmental directives in the cases of waste management, water reform and biodiversity. Ireland represents the implementation challenges of a small EU...

This title was first published in 2002. As Iran enters into the third decade since the 1979 revolution, the prospect of socio-political unrest remains ever present. Iran's political structure, its version of Islamic governance and the role of pluralism...

A sweeping history of Islamism in Central Asia from the Russian Revolution to the present through Soviet-era archival documents, oral histories, and a trove of interviews and focus groups. Few observers anticipated a surge of Islamism in Central Asia,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780197650851Author Byron E ShaferFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Oxford University Press, USAPublisher Oxford University Press, USA

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780197633304Author J Tyler DickovickFormat PaperbackPage Count 760Imprint Oxford University Press, USAPublisher Oxford University Press, USA