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The Handbook of Comparative Communication Research aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of comparative communication research. It fills an obvious gap... 
Communication, International | Research | Communication | Media Studies | Communication Studies | Communication - Research

"This book describes and compares how semi-autonomous agencies are created and governed by 30 governments. It leads practitioners and researchers through the... 
Comparative government | Public administration | Administrative agencies | Political Science and International Relations | International Relations | Public Policy | Globalization | Comparative Politics | Public Administration | Political Science | Executive advisory bodies

This work explores essential debates on globalization and world-systems analysis. It begins with a review of theoretical insights from world-systems analysis... 
Globalization | World History, Global and Transnational History | Social Sciences | Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology | Economic Systems

The past ten years have been marked by a series of high profile and heavily mediatised riots across the globe. From the overspill of racial tensions in Sydney... 
History | Riots | Criminology and Criminal Justice | Crime and Society | Transnational Crime

Antiquarianism and collecting have been associated intimately with European imperial and colonial enterprises, although both existed long before the early... 
Antiquarians | Archaeology | Historiography | Antiquities | Archaeology and history | Collection and preservation | History | Philosophy | Cross-cultural studies

"This volume addresses the challenges that political communication is facing today from a comparative perspective, using principles and methods of comparison... 
Communication in politics

"The theoretical foundations for this book, rooted in the ongoing realism-liberalism (neoliberal institutionalism) debate, as well as more recent... 
Banks and banking | Economic development | Development banks | Finance & Accounting

Culture and law

Building on the strengths of the second edition, this highly regarded textbook continues to provide the best introduction to the strategies of comparative... 
Comparative government | Politics & government | Encyclopaedias & Reference Works | Political Theory | Politics & International Relations

How do state parties react to the challenge of peripheral parties demanding political power to be devolved to their culturally distinct territories? Is... 
Elections | Electoral geography | Decentralization in government | Political parties | Politics & government | comparative politics | peripheral parties | spain | centre-periphery conflict | united kingdom | devolution | state parties | electoral party competition | belgium | italy | electoral strategies | State, The

Monetary policy | European Union countries Economic integration

Despite regionalism having developed into a global phenomenon, the European Union (EU) is still more often than not presented as the 'role-model of... 
Regionalism | Politics & government | International Political Economy | Political Geography | African & Third World Politics | Africa

The global system of alliances that the United States built after the Second World War underpinned the stability and prosperity of the postwar order. But... 
Balance of power | Alliances | United States Politics and government | Australian | United States Foreign relations | 21st century | United States | Asia | Foreign relations | Europe | History | Politics and government | Political Science | alliances | united states | diplomacy | nato

Throughout history, rich and poor countries alike have been lending, borrowing, crashing--and recovering--their way through an extraordinary range of financial... 
Business cycles | Fiscal policy | Financial crises | Economic History | Finance | BUSINESS & ECONOMICS

The two distinct approaches to environmental policy include direct regulation-sometimes called 'command and control' policies-and regulation by economic, or... 
Politics & government | Environmental policy | SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP | SOCIAL SCIENCES

"A critical, comparative examination of internal colonization exercised by the United States and Russia and experienced by two indigenous populations, the... 
Russia Territorial expansion | Collective memory | United States | Kazakhs | Territorial expansion | Comparative civilization | Imperialism | United States Territorial expansion | Dakota Indians | History | Russia | 19th Century | HISTORY