Comparative Politics

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 ...

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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...

We live in a golden age of fictional television, while our politics has never been so controversial. This book explores that relationship, asking w...

There is a sustained interest amongst students of British politics, as well as an informed public, about the future state of the United Kingdom. Th...

Few would disagree that Western democracies are experiencing a crisis of representation. In the United States, gerrymandering and concentrated poli...

Chinas rise from the poverty, isolation and stagnation of the 1970s to the worlds second largest economy is a transformative event perhaps unequall...

Is the Atlantic World in a state of crisis? At a time when many political observers perceive indeed a crisis in transatlantic relations, critical e...

Some of todays most prominent experts on the American presidency offer their perspectives, commentary, and analyses in this volume of studies, comm...

Despite the relative calm apparent in Iran today, there is unmistakable evidence of political, social, and cultural ferment stirring beneath the su...

The world is blowing up. Every day a new blaze seems to ignite: the implosion of Iraq and Syria; the East-West standoff in Ukraine and schoolgirls ...