Comparative Politics

The topic of white privilege has always triggered widespread debate, and the current media attention to police brutality and race relations in the ...

Many Western countries have seen an increase in the volume and importance of external consultants in the public policy process. This book is the fi...

After a year of trading colorful barbs with the American president and significant achievements in North Korea's decades-long nuclear and missile d...

Early Americans were suspicious of centralized authority and executive power. Casting away the yoke of England and its king, the founding fathers s...

Historically, men have been more likely to be appointed to governing cabinets, but gendered patterns of appointment vary cross-nationally, and wome...

Over the last few decades, politics in India has moved steadily in a pro-business direction. This shift has important implications for both governm...

Why are some multiethnic countries more prone to civil violence than others? This book examines the occurrence and forms of conflict in multiethnic...

According to virtually all international corruption rankings, Sweden is one of the top performing countries with very few exposed incidents of corr...

The ascension of Vladimir Putin--a former lieutenant colonel of the KGB--to thepresidency of Russia in 1999 should have been a signal that the coun...

How voting behavior in Latin America is influenced by social networks and everyday communication among peersIn Latin Americas new democracies, poli...

At the start of the twentieth century, political parties had the potential to focus grass-roots interest in the development of modern, democratic n...

After decades of imperfect secularism, presided over by an often corrupt Congress establishment, Nehrus diverse republic has yielded to Hindu natio...

Today's global economy was largely established by political events and decisions in the 1980s and 90s, when scores of nations opened up their econo...

Every day we hear that the rise of populism threatens democracy around the world, but is this really true? Did populism cause the current crisis, o...