Comparative Politics

For both the United States and United Kingdom counterinsurgency was a serious component of security policy during the Cold War and, along with coun...

The developments of the past seven years are reflected throughout in this thoroughly revised edition of Politics in Southern Africa. Bauer and Tayl...

This book has a miraculous quality.... As a memoir this is hard to put down; if you are seeking a better American future you should pick it up.Timo...

A contrarian yet highly engaging account of the spread of illiberal and anti-democratic sentiment throughout our culture that places responsibility...

As the sun rises on China and sets on America, the world holds its breath. China, the USA and Capitalism's Last Crusade looks at the rise of China ...

In the last decades, America has gone to war as supposed defenders of democracy. The War on Terror was waged to protect the west from the dangers o...

African liberation is often seen in terms of heroism, but seldom in terms of thought. Even Sartre, in his preface to Frantz Fanons seminal The Wret...

Narendra Modi has been a hundred years in the making, and this book provides the backstory. It begins with the creation of Hindu nationalism, moves...

Why do people identify with political parties? How stable are those identifications? Stable party systems, with a limited number of parties and mos...

The EU's pluralistic, nonhierarchical system of multilevel governance lacks clear structures of both government and opposition. According to the EU...

At the same time that the Civil Rights Movement brought increasing opportunities for blacks, the United States liberalized its immigration policy. ...

This book provides the first cross-regional study of an increasingly important form of politics: coalitional presidentialism. Drawing on original r...

Eight years after the Arab Spring there is still much debate over the link between Internet technology and protest against authoritarian regimes. W...

When voter turnout is high, Democrats have an advantage--or so the truism goes. But, it is true? In The Turnout Myth, Daron Shaw and John Petrocik ...

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online ...

Using twelve pivotal cases, this book brings comparative politics to life by highlighting the key differences in political systems around the world...

India remains a country mired in poverty, with two-thirds of its 1.2 billion people living on little more than a few dollars day. Just as telling, ...

Comparative European Party Systems, Second Edition, provides a comprehensive analysis across 48 party systems of party competition, electoral syste...

The global phenomenon of political consumerism is known through such diverse manifestations as corporate boycotts, increased preferences for organi...

Most social science studies of local organizations tend to focus on civil society associations, voluntary associations independent from state contr...