Comparative Politics

A History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe is a two-volume project, authored by an international team of researchers, and offerin...

The contemporary world has reached a pivotal moment of escalating injustices and apocalyptic risks, but also of unprecedented opportunities. Mounti...

The contemporary world has reached a pivotal moment of escalating injustices and apocalyptic risks, but also of unprecedented opportunities. Mounti...

The fundamental question of political theory, one that precedes all other questions about the nature of political life, is why there is a state at ...

The spectre of communism which Karl Marx confidently evoked in 1848 is now nothing more than a ghostly and ghastly nightmare, without form or subst...

The collective monograph contains the results of an empirical project conducted in Armenia and Georgia as well as in Moscow (as the favourite desti...

Adopting a constructivist approach, this book argues that China's prospects for achieving 'great power' status peacefully depend more on perception...

Does democracy promote the creation of market economies and robust state institutions? Do state-building and market-building go hand in hand? Or do...

Is it always true that decentralization reforms put more power in the hands of governors and mayors? In post-developmental Latin America, the surpr...

Political journalism is often under fire. Conventional wisdom and much scholarly research suggest that journalists are cynics and political pundits...

This book argues that national and international courts seek to enhance their reputations through the strategic exercise of judicial power. Courts ...

Beyond the Euromaidan examines the prospects for advancing reform in Ukraine in the wake of the February 2014 Euromaidan revolution and Russian inv...

In the summer of 1968, Mary Soderstrom and her husband loaded up their VW Beetle and immigrated to Canada from the United States. The contrast betw...

THE TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES and EVENING STANDARD BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2018Whiteshift tells the most important political story of the 21s...

Citizen Support for Democratic and Autocratic Regimes takes a political-culture perspective on the struggle between democracy and autocracy by exam...

The Oxford Handbook of Spanish Politics provides a comprehensive and comparative overview of the Spanish political system through the lens of polit...

We live in a time of crises - economic turmoil, workplace disempowerment, unresponsive government, environmental degradation, social disintegration...