Comparative Politics

Congressional debates are increasingly defined by gridlock and stalemate, with partisan showdowns that lead to government shutdowns. Compromise in ...

In The Gun Gap, Mark R. Joslyn advances gun owners as a new classification for understanding political behavior and attitudes. He demonstrates a gu...

Under the ambitious leadership of President Xi Jinping, China is zealously transforming its wealth and economic power into potent tools of global p...

A new assessment on the role, influence, and limitations of the Democratic and Republican National Committees in American political development. ...

A novel explanation for why politicians insult, accuse, and threaten their opponents, even though voters say they don't like it. Why do politician...

Immigration has been at the heart of US politics for centuries. In Moral and Immoral Whiteness in Immigration Politics, Yalidy Matos examines the i...

From Asia to Africa to the Middle East, #MeToo has inspired local movements and hashtag trends like #AnaKaman and transnational collective hashtags...

This book is the first study of political and legal thinking about the partitions of India and Palestine in 1947. The chapters in the volume, autho...

In the fourteenth century, the Black Death killed as much as two thirds of Europe's population; in the fifteenth, the introduction of moveable-type...

The more power that rests with the people, the less there is for powerful minority global actors to wield. This remains true whether or not the peo...

There are few subjects these days that cause parents more stress than the education of their children. In his new book, Peter Hitchens describes t...

In many elections - especially those using single-member constituency systems - the allocation of seats is incommensurate with each party''s share ...

The world's democracies cheered as the social movements of the Arab Spring ended the reigns of longstanding dictators and ushered in the possibilit...

An exploration of how key provinces in China shape urban and regional development The rise of major metropolises across China since the 1990s has b...

This edited book is about child poverty in Wales, specifically in a local school-community that identified its causes and effects, the challenges i...

Why do international actors, including powerful states, often fail to develop clear foreign policies and instead adopt indecisive, muddling-through...

A vivid portrait of the man behind the writings, placing Orwell and his work at the centre of the current political landscape. One of the most end...

From fear and anxiety, to celebration, China's rise has provoked a variety of responses across the world. In light of this phenomenon, how are our ...

An insightful examination of how intersecting individual motivations and social structures mobilize spontaneous mass protests. Between 15 and 26 mi...