Offering a comprehensive introduction to the comparison of governments and political systems, this new edition helps students to understand not just the institutions and political cultures of their own countries but also those of a wide range of democracies and authoritarian regimes from around the world. This new edition offers:-A revised structure to aid navigation and understanding-New learning features, 'Using Theory' and 'Exploring Problems', designed to help students think comparatively...

Globalization and technological advances have had a dramatic impact on the relationship between media and politics. How can we understand the connection between the two in the present day? Alexa Robertson argues that we cannot understand the power of the one without taking the other into account. This exciting and accessible book provides fresh insight into our contemporary media landscape, adopting a truly comparative global approach.

In Media and Politics in a Globalizing World, Robertson e...

A diverse collection of regional experts explore contemporary trends, alternative visions, and new directions for sociological research, raising issues that reflect the complexity of challenges facing future projects on a shared planet.

Now available in paperback: With a particular focus on the utility of scholarly theory and the extent to which government practices inform the development of this theory, this second edition provides a complete review and guide to past and present knowledge in the field

Taking a global, comparative look at voting and elections, this Fourth Edition has new chapters on authoritarian elections and regime change, electoral integrity, and voting behaviour

With chapters from an internationally renowned set of scholars, this is the first Handbook to examine this vibrant and developing field.

Wim Kok stierf op 20 oktober 2018. Hij werd met eer overladen. Deze arbeiderszoon had het tot minister-president van alle Nederlanders gebracht, tot een nationaal en internationaal gelauwerd staatsman. Hij bracht de FNV tot stand. Hij was de man van het Akkoord van Wassenaar in 1982 en van het vormen van de ‘paarse’ coalities. Ons land beleefde met Kok een periode van grote welvaart. En toch eindigde zijn regering in mineur: aftreden om Srebrenica, de dood van Pim Fortuyn, een monsternede...

The most provocative philosopher of our times returns with a rousing and counterintuitive analysis of our global predicament

We hear all the time that it's five minutes to global doomsday, so now is our last chance to avert disaster. But what if the only way to prevent a catastrophe is to assume that it has already happened - that we're already five minutes past zero hour?

Why do we seem unable to avert our course to self-destruction? Too Late to Awaken sees Slavoj Žižek deliver his most fo...

This is an interdisciplinary examination of populism as a factor in global change, drawing on international politics, sociology, and global studies.