A diverse collection of regional experts explore contemporary trends, alternative visions, and new directions for sociological research, raising issues that reflect the complexity of challenges facing future projects on a shared planet.

Taking a global, comparative look at voting and elections, this Fourth Edition has new chapters on authoritarian elections and regime change, electoral integrity, and voting behaviour

This is an interdisciplinary examination of populism as a factor in global change, drawing on international politics, sociology, and global studies.

From the author of The Shifts and the Shocks, and one of the most influential writers on economics, a reckoning with how and why the relationship between democracy and capitalism is coming undone

We are living in an age when economic failings have shaken faith in global capitalism. Political failings have undermined trust in liberal democracy and in the very notion of truth. The ties that ought to bind open markets to free and fair elections are being strained and rejected, even in democracy'...

A comprehensive introduction to contemporary public human resource management, this text incorporates analysis of the impact of the private sector-oriented reforms over the last few decades that have aimed to bring greater efficiency and productivity to the public sector.

In het politiek debat rond de aanpassing van de Belgische instellingen aan de evolutie van de samenleving, wordt het begrip ‘confederalisme’ op grote schaal geframed als een bedreiging, een nachtmerrie, die stilaan een soort institutioneel spook wordt. Voorbijgaand aan allerlei vooroordelen, analyseert de historicus Philippe Destatte de begrippen federalisme en confederalisme door te wijzen op hun constante aanwezigheid in het recente verleden van België. Beginnend bij het einde van de 1...

An expert and accessible exploration of the increasing number and influence of authoritarian regimes. It explains the realities of recent trends to ‘autocratization’, the tools these regimes use, what we can do to resist, and why we might even allow ourselves some optimism.

The Politics of Fear traces the trajectory of far-right politics from the margins of the political landscape to its very center. It explores the social and historical mechanisms at play, and expertly ties these to the "micro-politics" of far-right language and discourse.

A must-read for anyone who is keen to learn what we should know and do about this highly complex and ever-contested boundary line.