Comparative Politics

This is a global anthology of great texts in the history of political dissent. Volume 1 spans the ancient and early-modern world, beginning with th...

Despite growing interest in democracy promotion, the nature and extent of external factors impact on democratic transitions to date remains underst...

As the last volume in the series sponsored by the SSRC Committee on Comparative Politics, this book reflects--as does the preceding volume--the Com...

This book analyzes the ways in which the Chinese government and military responded to the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake in Sichuan province. It adopts a...

Settlers feature in many protracted territorial disputes and ethnic conflicts around the world. Explaining the dynamics of the politics of settlers...

Canada and the United States explains, across fifteen diverse areas, why and how Canada and the United States are still so different. The book disc...

Originally published in 1950, Harold A. Inniss Empire and Communications is considered to be one of the classic works in media studies, yet its ori...

As the Ottoman Empire crumbled, the Middle East and Balkans became the site of contestation and cooperation between the traditional forces of relig...

One of the greatest challenges in the twenty-first century is to address large, deep, and historic deficits in human development. Democracy at Work...

Markus Kornprobst examines the common assumption that states usually respond to crises individually, rather than together. He develops an innovativ...

Scholars typically emphasize the importance of organized networks and long-term relationships for sustaining electoral clientelism. Yet electoral c...

Comparative studies can reveal much about how law is formed out of social reality and political power by exploring these interactions in different ...

When and how do states intervene in elections in other countries? Foreign interveners may aim to further the process of clean elections, or they ma...

Military coups are a constant threat in Africa and many former military leaders are now in control of 'civilian states', yet the military remains u...

Throughout the world, voters lack access to information about politicians, government performance, and public services. Efforts to remedy these inf...

World War II played an important role in the trajectory of race and American political development, but the War's effects were much more complex th...

Businesspeople run for and win elected office around the world, with roughly one-third of members of parliament and numerous heads of states coming...

Markus Kornprobst examines the common assumption that states usually respond to crises individually, rather than together. He develops an innovativ...

Businesspeople run for and win elected office around the world, with roughly one-third of members of parliament and numerous heads of states coming...

This path-breaking addition to the Comparative Politics of Education series studies the influence of public opinion on the contemporary politics of...

In State-Sponsored Activism, Rich explores AIDS policy in Brazil as a lens to offer new insight into state-society relations in democratic and post...

This path-breaking addition to the Comparative Politics of Education series studies the influence of public opinion on the contemporary politics of...