Political Structure & Processes

This book situates the origins of American political science in relation to the transatlantic history of liberalism. In a corrective to earlier acc...

This Handbook offers a comprehensive treatment of transformations of the state, from its origins in different parts of the world and different time...

Thomas Jefferson was an avid book-collector, a voracious reader, and a gifted writer, a man who prided himself on his knowledge of classical and mo...

Despite a recent decline in voter turnout, British general elections are still the centrepiece of Britain's liberal democracy and their results mak...

Cities bring together masses of people, allow them to communicate and hide, and to transform private grievances into political causes, often erupti...

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...