Comparative Politics

By comparing the four microstates of San Marino (Europe), St. Kitts and Nevis (Caribbean), Seychelles (Africa), and Palau (Oceania), it provides fresh and stimulating insight, concluding that the political dynamics of microstates are not as democratic as commonly believed. Instead, it is found in al..

This book focuses on the politics of national identity in Italy...

This thought-provoking study measures and critically examines the effects that an average population growth rate of 2.8% could have on the development of the Arab Gulf States.  It questions the ability of Gulf governments to continue providing relatively high standards of education, health and ..

This thought-provoking study measures and critically examines the effects that an average population growth rate of 2.8% could have on the development of the Arab Gulf States.  It questions the ability of Gulf governments to continue providing relatively high standards of education, health and ..

The main area of sustained populist growth and success over the last fifteen years in established democracies has been Western Europe, where populism has proved far more dynamic, resilient, flexible and successful than commentators had predicted. Populists in Power examines how and why populist part..

This book seeks to explain the advent of this post-communist tripartition and elucidate and explain the political pathways of 24 post-communist countries in the period 1990-2005...

This book seeks to explain the advent of this post-communist tripartition and elucidate and explain the political pathways of 24 post-communist countries in the period 1990-2005...

This edited collection aims to enhance our understanding of the utility of power-sharing in deeply divided societies by subjecting power-sharing theory and practice to empirical and normative analysis and critique. This text will be of key interest to students, scholars and practitioners of power-sh..

The book subjects international support for political parties in new and emerging democracies to detailed critical and comparative analysis, drawing on original field research findings from several countries in Europe, Africa and elsewhere._x000D_ This book was published as a special issue of Democr..

The book subjects international support for political parties in new and emerging democracies to detailed critical and comparative analysis, drawing on original field research findings from several countries in Europe, Africa and elsewhere._x005F_x000D_ This book was published as a special issue of ..

The state-civil society relationship to migration policy is an area both largely unexplored and little understood in current scholarly literature. This book offers a timely analysis of the changing role played by civil society in the formulation and implementation of government policies in general a..

This title was first published in 2003. How was public policy and economic development in Nigeria affected under the period of military control between 1966 and 1999? What is the nature and scale of change that Nigeria will have to undergo in order to achieve its current development goals? By addres..