Routledge Research in Comparative Politics
The Political Uses of Cultural Diversity: The Diversity Dividend
1st Edition
By Katherine Smits
September 10, 2026
This book examines how states deploy cultural recognition and inclusion policies to build modernized national identities in diverse societies but reveals they also pay other useful dividends for governments. It focuses on three pluralist postcolonial settler states in the cases of Australia, Canada...
Narratives in Political Discourse: Towards A Critical and Multimodal Approach
1st Edition
By Alma-Pierre Bonnet
August 07, 2026
This book expands knowledge of the rhetorical levers at play in the use of narratives in political discourse, whether through “traditional” speeches or digital communication. By providing a clear methodology that applies to both communication styles, through a systematic, critical and multimodal ...
British and American Electoral Politics in the Age of Neoliberalism: Parallel Trajectories
1st Edition
By Gerald Sussman
January 30, 2026
This book employs a political economic approach in exploring the underlying neoliberal foundations of politics and electioneering in both the United States and the United Kingdom that have widened the divide among voters and, over time, led to a deep distrust of state institutions, including ...
Pandemic-Era Civil Disorder in Post-Communist EU Member States
1st Edition
By Joanna Rak
January 29, 2026
As public order policing become more prominently widespread so is the need to better explain why some instances of collective action transform into civil disorder. In this book, Joanna Rak advances a middle-range theory to better explain the sources of civil disorder in one of the ...
Democracy and Its Fragility: Mapping the Unstable Equilibrium
1st Edition
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By Monika Sawicka, Artur Gruszczak, Aleksandra Zdeb
October 19, 2025
This book explores democratic fragility, an underdeveloped concept in the analyses of contemporary political regimes. Diagnoses of fragility commonly occur when states are brought to the brink of the abyss. Democracy and Its Fragility: Mapping the Unstable Equilibrium builds on the premise that ...
Collegial Democracy versus Personal Democracy: ‘We' the People or ‘I' the People?
1st Edition
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By Chen Friedberg, Gideon Rahat
July 30, 2025
This book examines two patterns of democracy – collegial and personal – through a comprehensive comparison of political institutions. It develops a conceptual, theoretical, and methodological basis for differentiating collegial and personal democracies. Central institutions in democracy are ...
Coalition Politics in Central Eastern Europe: Governing in Times of Crisis
1st Edition
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By Torbjörn Bergman, Gabriella Ilonszki, Johan Hellström
May 06, 2025
This insightful book brings the study of coalitions and coalition governance in Central and Eastern European democracies up to date, with an analytical focus framed by difficult economic and social periods, such as the end of the economic crisis and the Coronavirus pandemic. The volume posits ...
Differentiated Integration Beyond Brexit: Revisiting Cleavage Perspective in Times of Multiple Crises
1st Edition
By Alexander Radunz, Rafał Riedel
April 14, 2025
This book examines differentiated integration in Europe, providing incisive analyses of domestic politics determinants – political conflict, party responses, citizens’ preferences and other supply and demand side elements. The four countries compared – Germany, Poland, Switzerland and the United ...
Fomenting Friendship: The Politics and Policy of Interpersonal Warmth
1st Edition
By Andrea Chandler
April 14, 2025
In studies of comparative politics and public policy specifically, interpersonal friendship has been generally regarded as a matter that belongs to the private domain, rather than a site for government intervention. And yet, friendship is inherently political. While friendships can and do evolve ...
Constitutionalization of Politics in Comparative Perspective
1st Edition
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By Paweł Laidler, Dariusz Stolicki, Łukasz Jakubiak, Jacek Sokołowski
November 25, 2024
Scholars from political science and law examine the latest research on the constitutionalization of politics in comparative perspective. The scope includes both inter- country and intra- country perspectives, institutional and systemic analyses, common and civil law systems, focusing on historical ...
Climate Agendas and Instability: Green Recovery Programs and Policy Change in the EU and US
1st Edition
By Frank Wendler
October 25, 2024
This book examines the expansion of climate governance frameworks in the EU and US and their re-framing as part of green industrial programs. Addressing research on how vectors of stability and punctuation interact to advance or block policy progress, the book breaks new ground by presenting a ...
Climate Policy Changes in Germany and Japan: A Path to Paradigmatic Policy Change
1st Edition
By Rie Watanabe
October 14, 2024
Climate Policy Changes in Germany and Japan compares two decades of climate policy development in Germany and Japan. It examines whether there is any difference between the types and levels of policy change in the two countries, and, if so, what factors account for the difference. Using a ...