Rethinking Political Decentralization

Daniel Treisman

Examines the most influential arguments about the consequences of political decentralization and challenges the conventional wisdom that decentralization improves government ...

Anthony M. Messina

Following its trajectory from the early post-WWII period through the present, this book traces the evolution of immigration as both ...

Marc Howard Ross

Ethnic conflict is often focused on culturally charged symbols and rituals that evoke strong emotions from all sides. Marc Howard ...

Ideas, Activism, Policy

Neil Carter

The environment is becoming an ever-more pressing issue in politics. The new edition of this highly acclaimed textbook provides a ...

The Evolution of Ethnic Politics

Donna Lee Van Cott

Explains the formation in the 1990s by indigenous peoples' movements of successful political parties in four Latin American countries. It ...

The Gray Zone of State Power

Javier Auyero

This book scrutinizes the series of food riots in Argentina in December 2001. It pays particular attention to the secret ...

Party Competition and State Exploitation in Post-Communist Democracies

Anna Grzymala-Busse

By examining how post-communist political parties rebuilt the state in Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, ...

Charles Tilly

Democracy identifies the general processes causing democratization and de-democratization at a national level across the world over the last few ...

Jose Antonio Cheibub

Why are presidential democracies more likely to break down than parliamentary ones? On the basis of a data set that ...

Nationalism, Conflict and Cooperation

Edited by Brad K. Blitz

The violence following the break-up of the former Yugoslavia has lasted for more than a decade and continues to mark ...

The Politics of Insurgent Violence

Jeremy M. Weinstein

This book presents a theory to account for the different strategies pursued by rebel groups in civil war, explaining why ...

Social Democracy and the Making of Europe's Twentieth Century

Sheri Berman

This path-breaking study argues that social democracy has become the most successful ideology of the modern era by figuring out ...

Francisco Vidal Luna, Herbert S. Klein

This general survey tracks Brazil's societal, economic, and political development since 1980. In this period, during which Brazil was transformed ...

Lessons from Medieval Trade

Avner Greif

It is widely believed that current disparities in economic, political, and social outcomes reflect distinct institutions. Institutions are invoked to ...

Mark Q. Sawyer

This book analyzes the triumphs and failures of the Castro regime in the area of race relations and challenges arguments ...

Ken Newton, Jan W. Van Deth

This authoritative new introductory text covers the key concepts, theories and issues involved in the study of comparative politics. Focusing ...

Interests, Identities, and Institutions in a Changing Global Order

Edited by Jeffrey Kopstein, Mark Lichbach

Now in its second edition, this textbook has become a favorite for the introductory undergraduate course in comparative politics. It ...