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As Europe becomes increasingly diverse, understanding the effects of differences within European democracy is crucial. This title provides an interdisciplinary approach to this important dimension of social interaction, drawing on political science, sociology, communications studies, legal studies, and art history.

Dictatorships throughout the twentieth century - including Mussolini's Italy, the Third Reich, the Soviet Union, Poland, and East Germany - held elections. This title investigates the remarkable, paradoxical phenomenon of dictatorial elections, revealing the many ways they transcended mere propaganda.

Offers a pair of detailed case studies - of the Egyptian groups al-Jamaa al-Islamiyya and al-Jihad and Lebanon's Hizbullah - to identify typical forms of support relationships, development patterns, and dynamics of both radicalization and restraint.

As urban areas have grown and sprawl has spread in recent decades, metropolitan governments have begun to look beyond city borders, establishing regional partnerships to help them deal with issues of transit, resource use, and more. This title examines this trend through a close comparative study of seven metropolitan areas in Israel and Germany.

American studies has changed drastically over the years, as a new wave of scholars - armed with groundbreaking ideas and more extensive methods of research - flocked to the relatively young field. This title resists the traditional academic split between scholarship and classroom practice.

Uses a close study of the district of Ituri in the Congo, a major battlefield and a laboratory for international intervention, to explore the micropolitics of warfare and statebuilding. This title shows the effect that humanitarian interventions have on state-society relations.

Wars, revolutions, and financial disasters do not have to happen. There are ways to transform governmental policies so as to avoid such catastrophes. This book brings management theory to government, suggesting a series of methods and instruments for successful governance.

Since the mid-1980s, Fritz W Scharpf has been investigating the evolution of the multilevel European polity and its impact on the effectiveness and legitimacy of democratic government in Europe. This title collects Scharpf's nearly two decades of research on government in Europe.

Presents findings on the role of emotions in various facets of society, from the laboratory to the office to the media. This title discusses topics that include: the tensions between feelings and feeling rules, the conscious and unconscious emotions of scientists, emotions and social disorder, and romantic love in US and Israeli codes of conduct.

Why do some groups succeed in violently seizing and holding power while others fail? Arguing that success rests on the ability of these groups to transform the power of violence into legitimate domination, this title explores the techniques and strategies they employ - and the long shadow of violence they must overcome along the way.

Presenting an account of the lives of Turkish men and women living in contemporary Germany, this title offers insights into how members of a marginalized immigrant community make room for themselves and reconstruct homes away from home. It places the life experiences of Turkish people into a broader theoretical perspective.

The World's Fairs staged in the United States in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries showcased world cultures in peaceful competition and cooperation. This title shows that at the same time the fairs played an important role in the growth of nationalism and American exceptionalism, subtly recasting world history.

Aims to rejuvenate scholarship by developing a comprehensive theory of social movements and political change. Reviewing the literature on the political outcomes of social movements, this book analyzes the examples of the American civil rights movement and anti-nuclear energy efforts in eighteen countries to forge an understanding of their impact.

When democracy was introduced to Nigeria in 1999, one-third of its federal states declared that they would be governed by sharia, or Islamic law. This work argues that such a break with secular constitutional traditions in a multireligious country can have disastrous consequences.

Since the Baltic nations joined the European Union, debates about reorganizing post-Soviet republics have grown increasingly heated. Based on ethnographies and archival work, this work offers insights into shifts in national identity, cultural geography, and symbolic boundaries.

Focusing on Warsaw after 1990, this volume explores the interplay between Warsaw' past urban identities and urban change. This book departs from narratives of postsocialist cities in Eastern Europe by contextualizing Warsaw' transformation in terms of both global change and shifting geographies of centrality and marginality in contemporary Poland.

Provides an introduction to empirical network research. This title offers students and practitioners new to social research understandable learning goals, examples, and exercises.

To solve real-world issues, the model of transdisciplinary research, which uses approaches from both the hard and social sciences, has come to the forefront. This book allows researchers to look at a problem from many angles, with the goal of making both societal and scientific advances.