Comparative Politics Books

New and Published Books

1. Civil Society and Participatory Governance

   Municipal Councils and Social Housing Programs in Brazil

   By Maureen M. Donaghy

   Series: Routledge Studies in Latin American Politics

   Democratic institutions should promote accountability of government officials to the needs of citizens. Civil society plays a role in exposing corruption as well as in communicating the needs of low-income residents to officials. Neither the institutions of representative democracy nor the presence...

   Published January 31st 2013 by Routledge
2. Religion and Democracy

   A Worldwide Comparison

   By Carsten Anckar

   Series: Routledge Studies in Religion and Politics

   This important new study empirically assesses the relationship between religion and democracy, looking at the global, regional and individual country picture. Using a wide range of quantitative data, Anckar tests the validity of Huntington’s claim that democracy and religion are tightly connected,...

   Published January 31st 2013 by Routledge
3. A Century of Protests

   Peasant Politics in Assam Since 1900

   By Arupjyoti Saikia

   Published January 30th 2013 by Routledge India
4. Arab Revolutions and World Transformations

   Edited by Anna Agathangelou, Nevzat Soguk

   Series: Rethinking Globalizations

   Stories about institutions and regimes that have failed us are echoing worldwide. This book critically engages the multiple uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) following the self-immolation of Tunisian street vendor Mohamed Bouazizi in December 2010. It brings together authors who...

   Published January 21st 2013 by Routledge
5. Coloured Revolutions and Authoritarian Reactions

   Edited by Evgeny Finkel, Yitzhak M. Brudny

   Between 2000 and 2005, colour revolutions swept away authoritarian and semi-authoritarian regimes in Serbia, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan and Ukraine. Yet, after these initial successes, attempts to replicate the strategies failed to produce regime change elsewhere in the region. The book argues that...

   Published January 7th 2013 by Routledge
6. Immigration and Public Opinion in Liberal Democracies

   Edited by Gary P. Freeman, Randall Hansen, David L. Leal

   Series: Routledge Research in Comparative Politics

   Although ambivalence characterizes the stance of scholars toward the desirability of close opinion-policy linkages in general, it is especially evident with regard to immigration. The controversy and disagreement about whether public opinion should drive immigration policy are among the factors...

   Published December 18th 2012 by Routledge
7. Japan's Interventionist State

   The Role of the MAFF

   By Aurelia George-Mulgan

   Series: Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies

   Japan's Interventionist State gives a detailed examination of Japan's Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries and its role in promoting, protecting and preserving the regime of agricultural support and protection. This account is integral to the author's extended and multidimensional...

   Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
8. The Race to Commercialize Biotechnology

   Molecules, Market and the State in Japan and the US

   By Steven Collins

   Series: Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies

   This comparative study looks at the early development of biotechnology in the US and Japan. Drawing on primary and secondary sources it traces the historical roots of recombinant DNA technology, discusses the tensions between regulation and promotional policies and identifies the major actors and...

   Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
9. Europeanization and the European Economic Area

   Iceland's Participation in the EU's Policy Process

   By Johanna Jonsdottir

   Series: Routledge/UACES Contemporary European Studies

   This book examines Europeanization in the European Economic Area (EEA), exploring whether non-member states can have an input into EU decision-making and whether the EU can successfully export its policies within the framework of the EEA. Iceland, Norway and Liechtenstein, while not EU member...

   Published December 12th 2012 by Routledge
10. Caribbean Sovereignty, Development and Democracy in an Age of Globalization

    Edited by Linden Lewis

    Series: Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics

    Many of the nations of the Caribbean that have become independent states have maintained as a central, organizing, nationalist principle the importance in the beliefs of the ideals of sovereignty, democracy, and development. Yet in recent years, political instability, the relative size of...

    Published December 12th 2012 by Routledge