Silja Hausermann & Hanspeter Kriesi 
Contention in Times of Crisis [PDF ebook] 
Recession and Political Protest in Thirty European Countries

This book presents the remarkable constitutional reforms undertaken by the Blair and Brown governments in the UK. The reforms are remarkable in that they had the potential to change the way Britons u …

The shocking failure of Israel and the West to suppress Iran despite thirty-years’ secret struggle While many now fear a looming war with Iran, few know that this war is already raging and has been d …

This book focuses on the two intra-regional initiatives created for the development and integration of energy markets: the Energy Community and Med Reg. The Energy Community and Med Reg, apart from t …

Highly readable and non-technical, this handbook is designed to help students and non-profit managers gain a working knowledge of the principles and practices of conducting qualitative case study res …

The European Union is now entering a crucial phase as the ratification process accelerates and key debates and referenda take place in existing and potentially new member states. The Union’s Constitu …

This comprehensive textbook outlines and illuminates the main theories of political parties and party systems. Applying these theoretical approaches to British party politics, Moshe Maor covers all t …

Most countries around the globe have one or two levels of regional or intermediate government, yet we have little systematic idea of how much authority they wield, or how this has changed over time. …

Concepts have always been foundational to the social science enterprise. This book is a guide to working with them. Against the positivist project of concept ‘reconstruction’—the formulation of a tec …

Current events happening around the world, especially the ’humanitarian interventions’ by NATO and the West within the context of the so-called Arab Spring, make the understanding of the role of sphe …

The expansion of the European Union in 2004 has had significant consequences for both existing and new members of the Union. New member states are assimilating into a new institutional and policy fra …