Comparative Politics

Departing from the established literature connecting the political-institutional patterns of democracy with the quality of democracy, this book ack...

The state is central to social scientific and historical inquiry today, reflecting its importance in domestic and international affairs. States kil...

In this compelling new study, Whitney Cox presents a fundamental re-imagining of the politics of pre-modern India through the reinterpretation of t...

In a broadly comparative, historical and quantitative analysis, this study reveals the unity of European electorates and party systems. Investigati...

Austerity became the predominant fiscal policy response to the Great Recession in Europe. After a brief period of 'emergency Keynesianism' from 200...

Across the developing world, governments still lack the fiscal capacity to fund critical public goods, alleviate poverty, and invest in economic de...

Advocates for economic development often call for greater transparency. But what does transparency really mean? What are its consequences? This bre...

Many countries in the Arab world have incorporated Islam into their state- and nation-building projects, naming it the 'religion of the state'. Reg...

The book analyses how policies to prevent diseases are related to policies aiming to cure illnesses. It does this by conducting a comparative histo...

Can open society survive? Is Europe disintegrating? How to overcome the economic crisis? Will Europeans feel secure again? Counter Revolution is ...

Within recent years a new body of literature has emerged within international relations on transnationalism and foreign policy. This literature has...

Political parties have long been recognized as essential institutions of democratic governance. Both the organization of parties, and their relatio...

Is Confucianism compatible with democracy? Ongoing debates among political theorists revolve around the question of whether the overarching goal of...

Why are some countries less corrupt and better governed than others? Challenging conventional explanations on the remarkable differences in quality...

At the end of the twentieth century, academics and policymakers welcomed a trend toward fiscal and political decentralization as part of a potentia...