Political Structure & Processes

The Strain of Representation assesses and explains the extent to which political parties across Europe as a whole have succeeded in representing di...

The Democratic Leader argues that leaders occupy a unique place in democracies. The foundational principle of democracy -- popular sovereignty -- i...

Contemporary debates on the role of religion in American public life ignore the overlap between religion and race in the formation of American demo...

Eminent Victorians on American Democracy surveys a wide range of British opinion on the United States in the nineteenth century and highlights the ...

Is the party over? Parties are the central institutions of representative democracy, but critics increasingly claim that parties are failing to per...

Gender, Politics, and Society in Ukraine is the first collection to examine how political, social, and economic transitions in post-Communist Ukrai...

This bold venture into democratic theory offers a new and reinvigorating thesis for how democracy delivers on its promise of public control over pu...

Rethinking Arab Democratization unpacks and historicizes the rise of Arab electoralism, narrating the story of stalled democratic transition in the...

Politics at the Centre is a comparative study of the rules, norms and behaviour surrounding political party leadership. The primary analysis includ...

Americans love to hate their government, and a long tradition of anti-government suspicion reaches back to debates among the founders of the nation...

New Parties in Old Party Systems addresses a pertinent yet neglected issue in comparative party research: why are some new parties that enter natio...

The Challenges of Intra-Party Democracy provides a comprehensive examination of both the concept and the practice of intra-party democracy (IPD). A...

The democratic legitimacy of the European Union has become an increasingly urgent issue. In searching for a way out, academics, EU institutions, an...

What is the ethical basis of democracy? And what reasons do we have to go along with democratic decisions even when we disagree with them? And when...

How do state parties react to the challenge of peripheral parties demanding political power to be devolved to their culturally distinct territories...

Women, Gender, and Politics brings together both classic and recent readings on central topics in the study of gender and politics, and places an e...

Few developments in the industrial era have had a greater impact on everyday social life than the explosion of the mass media and commercial entert...

Does the Coalition government represent a new politics in Britain, or is the new government just the same old Tories hiding behind an opportunist p...

Ever since the French Revolution, Madame de Pompadour's comment, "Apres moi, le deluge" (after me, the deluge), has looked like a callous if accura...

Fred I. Greenstein has long been one of our keenest observers of the modern presidency. In The Presidential Difference, he provides a fascinating a...

Can too much participation harm democracy? Democratic theory places great importance upon the conduct of elections, but it is not often recognized ...

Americans love to hate their government, and a long tradition of anti-government suspicion reaches back to debates among the founders of the nation...

Democracy, Agency, and the State aims to contribute to a comparatively informed theory of democracy. Professor O'Donnell begins by arguing that con...

At the beginning of the twenty-first century prime ministers loom larger in the consciousness of their nations than perhaps in any previous era. Bu...

Deliberative democracy now dominates the theory, reform, and study of democracy. Working at its cutting edges, Foundations and Frontiers of Deliber...

Dispersed Democratic Leadership examines both the scope and consequences of the dispersal of the leadership role in democratic societies, a topic t...

When a government in a democracy acts in our name, are we, as citizens, responsible for those acts? What if the government commits a moral crime? T...

The economy is so powerful in determining the results of U.S. presidential elections that political scientists can predict winners and losers with ...

All over the world democratic reforms have brought power to the people - but under conditions where the people have little opportunity to think abo...

The 'sequel' to his best-selling Classes and Cultures, Ross McKibbin's latest book is a powerful reinterpretation of British politics in the first ...

Turkey's involvement in the Gulf War in 1991 paved the way for the country's acceptance into the European Union. This book, newly available in pape...

Race is, and always has been, an explosive issue in the United States. In this timely new book, Tim Wise explores how Barack Obama's emergence as a...

Benjamin Disraeli is primarily remembered as a two-time Prime Minister, founder of modern British Conservatism, and popular novelist. However, in t...

Insurgent citizenships have arisen in cities around the world. This book examines the insurgence of democratic citizenship in the urban peripheries...

This book is a study of regime change in the context of international administration, where the United Nations and other multilateral organisations...

Lord Derby was the first British statesman to become prime minister three times. He remains the longest serving party leader in modern British poli...

The religious and political winds are changing. Tens of millions of religious Americans are reclaiming faith from those who would abuse it for narr...

The Scottish National Party is a study of the SNP immediately after it came to power in May 2007. It is based on a survey of the entire membership ...

Many developing countries have a history of highly centralized governments. Since the late 1980s, a large number of these governments have introduc...

Whether you are a politician caught carrying on with an intern or a minister photographed with a prostitute, discovery does not necessarily spell t...

Democracy-building efforts from the early 1990s on have funneled billions of dollars into nongovernmental organizations across the developing world...

Part of the Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru series, this volume includes lectures, writings, letters, speeches, and other literary works of Nehr...

Women, Gender, and Politics brings together both classic and recent readings on central topics in the study of gender and politics, and places an e...

South Africa experienced a momentous change of government from the Apartheid regime to its first democratic government in 1994. This book provides ...