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...

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

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.

The Ultimate EU Handbook is a comprehensive 500-page guide to the EU institutions and other bodies, their history, what they do, and how they do it.

Designed by the team behind The Ultimate EU Test Book, the Handbook is packed with easy-to-follow quick summaries, reminders of key points, tables, figures, maps, and photos. It also includes many step-by-step examples of the EU in action, in areas ranging from trade and the digital economy to global engagement and climate change.

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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...

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

The compelling story of the inescapable return of Hong Kong to China, published for the 25th anniversary of the handover

British Hong Kong ended in the last minutes of 30 June 1997. Diplomacy Ends at Midnight traces the extraordinary twists and turns of Hong Kong's long drawn out, but unavoidable, reunion with China, when its 99-year leasehold on much of the colony's territory expired. 25 years ago, Britain did not want to return Hong Kong to its once and future owner, and most Hong Kongers d...