Comparative Politics

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Frequent and fair elections, open to all, are fundamental elements of a democracy. The United States, through its local, state, and national contes...

Frequent and fair elections, open to all, are fundamental elements of a democracy. The United States, through its local, state, and national contes...

In Innovate to Dominate, Tai Ming Cheung offers insight into why, how, and whether China will overtake the United States to become the world's pree...

The personalization of politics, whereby politicians increasingly become the main focus of political processes, is a prominent phenomenon in modern...

Radicalism is an inclusive political tradition that lives on in the Movement for Black Lives (M4BL). Key radical principles include empowering peop...

In The Dead Hand's Grip, Adam R. Brown examines constitutional specificity--or length--as a new way to evaluate how different polities govern citiz...

Radicalism is an inclusive political tradition that lives on in the Movement for Black Lives (M4BL). Key radical principles include empowering peop...

How nonstate military strategies overturn traditional perspectives on warfareSince September 11th, 2001, armed nonstate actors have received increa...

Democracy is not necessarily progressive, and will only be if we make it so. What Mondon and Winter call 'reactionary democracy' is the use of the ...

How do authoritarian regimes deal with pressure from the international community? China's leaders have been subject to decades of international att...

From the former secretary of state and bestselling author -- a sweeping look at the global struggle for democracy and why America must continue to ...

What motivates citizens to support one party over the other? Do they carefully weigh all of the relevant issues and assess which party or candidate...

A new fifth edition of a well-established and popular introduction to all aspects of life in the US, fully updated to take into account the latest ...

In The Concrete Plateau, Andrew Grant examines the ways that urbanization has extended into the Tibetan Plateau. Many people still think of Tibetan...

A no-holds-barred biography of Viktor Orbán, the most successful--and arguably most dangerous--politician in Hungarian history. Through a masterly...