Does science work best in a democracy? Were 'Soviet' or 'Nazi' science fundamentally different from science in the USA? These questions have been passionately debated in the recent past. Particular developments in science took place under particular political regimes, but they m…
Does science work best in a democracy? Were 'Soviet' or 'Nazi' science fundamentally different from science in the USA? These questions have been passionately debated in the recent past. Particular developments in science took place under particular political regimes, but they m…
Provides a detailed comparative analysis of the multiple mechanisms by which French and English monarchs exercised their power in the final centuries of the Middle Ages.
Ce livre illustre les réflexions du savant sur les outils et catégories utilisés par l'historien des religions pour décrire et comparer des concepts aussi évanescents que les religions, les mythes ou les rituels, et sur le rôle joué par les émotions dans leur élaboration. À trav…
Présentation de l'éditeur : "The Oxford Handbook of Historical Institutionalism offers an authoritative and accessible state-of-the-art analysis of the historical institutionalism research tradition in Political Science. Devoted to the study of how temporal processes and events …
"The Oxford handbook of state and local government is an historic undertaking. It contains a wide range of essays that define the important questions in the field, evaluate where we are in answering them, and set the direction and terms of discourse for future work. The 'Handboo…
"From London to Libya, from Istanbul to Iceland, there is great interest among comparative constitutional scholars and practitioners about when a proposed constitution is likely to succeed. But what does it mean for a constitution to succeed? Are there universal criteria of succ…
Party primaries in comparative perspective
