Comparative Politics

This book argues that the market perception of such credibility-building institutions is significantly contingent on which party governs the country...

This volume offers an analysis of the activities of the international community in the Balkans since the 1995 Dayton Agreement...

This book 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 book 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...

_x005F_x000D_ This book seeks to explain the differences in labour market deregulation policies between Japan and Italy, despite the fact that the two countries share a number of similar political, social, and labour market (if not cultural) characteristics. Uniquely, it takes a political, rather th..

This book is a comprehensive study of China’s legal and political governance of the ethnic regions of China, especially Inner Mongolia, Tibet and Xinjiang, and analyses its implication for Hong Kong and Taiwan...

This new study examines the relationship between two key issues in the on-going debate on urban governance - leadership and community involvement...

 Manipulating Political Decentralisation provides a new conceptual tool to assess representative subnational governments' quality, aiding us in building theories on the consequences of political decentralisation on democratisation...

This title was first published in 2000. Recent years have seen tremendous economic and political changes in Sub-Saharan Africa. The contributors to this volume focus on the pressing problem of how actors in their everyday life, political and social action handle uncertainty. With the help of rich em..

This book systematically examines social dumping in the context of the European integration process. It defines social dumping as the practice, undertaken by self-interested market participants, of undermining or evading existing social regulations with the aim of gaining a competitive advantage. It..

Migrant organizations are of vital importance for incorporating their clientele into the societies of arrival, but the empirical and theoretical knowledge of the cross-border character of migrant organizations remains incomplete. This book focuses on the differing roles that transnational migrant or..

Landmines, cluster-bombs, chemical pollutants, and other remnants of war continue to cause death to humans and damage to the environment long after the guns have fallen silent. From the jungles of Vietnam to the arctic tundra of Russia, no region has escaped the legacy of warfare._x000D_ To understa..