Oxford University Press, 2005. — 235 p. Based on data from new and established contemporary democracies across the globe, this leading team of experts examines how election losers and their supporters respond to their loss and how institutions shape losing. Losers' Consent shows how being able to accept losing is one of the central requirements of democracy, and provides a...
Oxford University Press, 2007. Why do authoritarian states democratize? What accounts for the contours, dynamics, and ideologies of the nation-state? Under what conditions do civil wars and revolutions erupt? Why is political representation channeled through political parties in contemporary democracies? Why do some parties run on policy programs, others on patronage? Can...
Cambridge University Press, 2003. — 422 p. Catherine Boone examines political regionalism in Africa and how it affects forms of government, and prospects for democracy and development. Boone's study is set within the context of larger theories of political development in agrarian societies. It features a series of compelling case studies that focus on regions within Senegal,...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 488 p. 'As the first comprehensive review of public opinion in sub-Saharan Africa, this book is essential reading for those interested in democracy and development - and will have a dramatic impact on the political economy of reform in Africa and elsewhere.' Foreign Affairs
11th edition. — Boston: Pearson, 2014. — 768 p. — ISBN10: 013380772X; ISBN13: 978-0133807721 This text begins by laying out a proven analytical framework that is accessible for students new to the field. The framework is then consistently implemented in twelve authoritative country cases, not only to introduce students to what politics and governments are like around the world...
Oxford University Press, 2006. — 274 p. Gender and Justice in Multicultural Liberal States explores the challenges that culturally plural liberal states face when they hold competing political commitments to cultural rights and sexual equality, and advances an argument for resolving such dilemmas through democratic dialogue and negotiation. Exploring recent examples of gendered...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 240 p. "Easter's superb study illuminates the heretofore underappreciated role of regional elite networks in the evolution of the Soviet state. This lucidly written book is a fine political history embedded in a sophisticated and useful theoretical framework. It is an important contribution to political science and Soviet history." Zoltan...
Cambridge University Press, 1996. — 256 p. "She presents considerable statistical and other data to flesh out her account of recent history...The story she tells, and the mix of data, will make a useful resource for upper-division undergraduate collections." Choice
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 294 p. Why do some governing parties limit their opportunistic behavior and constrain the extraction of private gains from the state? The analysis of post-communist state reconstruction provides surprising answers to this fundamental question of party politics. Across the post-communist democracies, governing parties have opportunistically...
Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2016. — 322 p. — ISBN: 9780804798457, ISBN: 9781503600102. Beyond the Euromaidan examines the prospects for advancing reform in Ukraine in the wake of the February 2014 Euromaidan revolution and Russian invasion. It examines six crucial areas where reform is needed: deep internal identity divisions, corruption, the constitution,...
Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 344 p. "...a remarkable and much-needed book that applies rigorous inquiry and hands-on experience to a long under-studied subject... It is a most welcome development that a scholar has devoted this kind of sophisticated attention to this corner of the world." Journal of Politics
8th Edition. — Cengage Learning, 2018. — 744 p. — ISBN: 978-1337560443. The polarizing election of Donald Trump. The dramatic Brexit vote. The impeachment of Brazil's president. Russia's drift toward authoritarianism. In Introduction to Comparative Politics, 8th Edition, you'll study a sampling of political regimes, levels of economic development and geographic regions in case...
Citizens living in presidential or parliamentary systems face different political choices as do voters casting votes in elections governed by rules of proportional representation or plurality. Political commentators seem to know how such rules influence political behavior. They firmly believe, for example, that candidates running in plurality systems are better known and held...
Second Edition. — Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 520 p. Comparative Politics: Rationality, Culture, and Structure is the completely revised second edition of the volume that guided thousands of scholars through the intellectual demands and gratifications of comparative political science. Retaining a focus on the field’s research schools, it now pays parallel attention to...
6th ed. — Wadsworth, Cengage Learning, 2011. — 627 p. Comparative Politics and the Regional Perspective Models, Regimes, and Regions The New Europe Political setting: the Western Political Heritage Institutions and policies: patterns, Problems and Prospects Russia and Slavic Europe Political setting: Slavic Europe to 1989 Institutions and policies: Russia: Democracy or...
Date: 2009-02-03 Format: PDF Pages: 656 The book combines a thematic framework with a country-by-country approach to provide a truly thoughtful and effective introduction to Comparative Politics. If you are reading this book, then chances are that you have enrolled in — or are thinking about enrolling in — an introductory course on comparative poli- tics or government. So what...
Cambridge University Press, 2002. — 528 p. This theoretically inspired study explores legislative politics in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico. Instead of beginning with an assumption that these legislatures are either rubber-stamps or obstructionist bodies, the chapters provide new data and a fresh analytical approach to describe and explain the role of these...
Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 312 p. “This is a splendid, shrewd book on the political economy of policy reform and policy making in Latin America. Focusing on the regulation of two key economic sectors, telecommunications and electricity, Murillo shows that, even at the height of the liberalization and privatization waves of the last decades, electoral competition and...
Frank Cass, 2002. — 273 p. Parliaments and Citizens in Western Europe is volume 3 and the final part of the Parliaments in Contemporary Western Europe series. Citizens elect the parliament, but what contract takes place between citizens and parliament in between elections? The authors assess the extent and nature of that contact. To what extent are members of parliament...
Routledge, 1998. — 233 p. Parliaments and Governments in Western Europe (volume 1 of Parliaments in Contemporary Western Europe series) draws together a team of nine country specialists to analyze parliamentary government in Western Europe. The contributors explore the parliaments of Britain, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Ireland, Portugal, and the EU. Concludes with a chapter that...
Kluwer, 1987. — 219 p. In many contexts of everyday life we find ourselves faced with the problem of reconciling the views of several persons. These problems are usually solved by resorting to some opinion aggregating procedure, like voting. Very often the problem is thought of as being solved after the decision to take a vote has been made and the ballots have been counted....
Fifth Edition. — New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2015. — 864 p. — ASIN: B0143C1824. — ISBN: 978-0-393-93754-1 Cases for Comparative Politics, Fifth Edition, is a set of thirteen country studies that describe politics in the United Kingdom, the United States, India, Brazil, Iran, France, Germany, Japan, Russia, China, Mexico, South Africa, and Nigeria. This casebook applies...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 180 p. During the post-World War II period, a pattern emerged in several European countries: the concentrated and centralized political regulation of the economy, based on the adoption of Keynesian policies, the development of the welfare state and moderately successful attempts at tripartite integration. This pattern entered a deep crisis in...
Oxford University Press, 2009. - 432 p. This widely-praised book identified peaceful struggle as a key phenomenon in international politics a year before the revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt confirmed its central argument. Civil resistance--non-violent action against such challenges as dictatorial rule, racial discrimination and foreign military occupation--is a significant but...
Cambridge University Press, 1992. — 272 p. "More than just a collection of essays, Structuring Politics is a showcase revealing how historically-grounded institutional analysis can push forward the frontiers of comparative politics. The authors use a diverse and rich subject matter to show, not simply that 'institutions matter,' but how they matter in shaping--and being shaped...
Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 288 p. “Taking the evolution of complex adaptive systems as its starting point, Steinmo invites us to rethink what we think we know about the issues of globalization and institutional change. In doing so the continued success of Sweden, the prolonged stagnation of Japan, and the hidden costs of the American model become all become explicable...
London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. — xix + 390 p. This book examines how Russia, the world’s most complicated country, is governed. As it resumes its place at the centre of global affairs, the book explores Russia’s overarching strategies, and how it organizes itself (or not) in policy areas ranging from foreign policy and national security to health care, education,...
N.Y.: Praeger Publishers, 1978. — 326 p. — ISBN: 0030409616. This volume is a product of the Program of Training and Research on Center-Periphery Tensions of the Center for International Studies of Cornell University. Financed by a three-year grant from the Ford Foundation, the program brought together scholars in political science, anthropology, history, economics, and...
66 p. De la démocratie en Amérique; published in two volumes, the first in 1835 and the second in 1840) is a classic French text by Alexis de Tocqueville. Its title translates as On Democracy in America, but English translations are usually entitled simply Democracy in America. In the book, Tocqueville examines the democratic revolution that he believed had been occurring over...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 368 p. 'Lily Tsai has written an elegant book to explain variations in the government provision of public goods in rural China through a model of informal accountability. … This inspiring piece of work will be required reading for students of Chinese politics and those interested in governance in developing polities.' The China Journal Cambridge
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