Comparative politics

This book is the first in a planned trilogy by Pippa Norris on challenges of electoral integrity.

This book suggests a new explanation for why international peace interventions often fail to reach their full potential.

This book demonstrates the close relationship between religion and democracy in India.

This book examines efforts from the early twentieth century to the present, to increase international cooperation in addressing issues of international migration.

Religious Diversity examines whether believing in a religion''s truth increases intolerance and how the existence (and growth) of multiple religions affects political societies.

This book is a comparative study of imperial organization and longevity in the Ottoman Empire.

This book makes the case for recasting current theories of democracy, democratization and de-democratization.

Democracy has not worked in Russia; Democracy Derailed in Russia explains why.

This book addresses whether Islamist groups are a threat to democratization.

This book details how contentious politics that took place in three communal villages of Mexico alternately reproduced and reshaped inequality.

Through detailed analyses of legislative success in Argentina and Uruguay, this book explores the determinants of law enactment in fragmented congresses.

This book focuses on the history, key industry and policy actors, and political economic outcomes in oil-producing African states.

This book presents Shiite leaderships as pragmatic entities with the potential to form fruitful relationships with the non-Shiite world.

This book investigates why seemingly similar African countries developed very different forms of democratic party systems.

This book explains why many governments in Africa are including African languages alongside European languages as media of instruction in elementary schools.

Leading political theorists Jason Brennan and Lisa Hill debate the drawbacks and benefits of voter turnout.

The book examines the way Russian presidents Yeltsin, Medvedev, and Putin have used their constitutional decree powers since the end of the Soviet regime.

Civil Society under Authoritarianism takes a fresh look at civil society in China, analyzing the nuanced and dynamic relationship between civil society and government officials.

This book traces the historical emergence of modern consumer lending in America and France.

Leading political theorists Jason Brennan and Lisa Hill debate the drawbacks and benefits of voter turnout.

This book explains why many governments in Africa are including African languages alongside European languages as media of instruction in elementary schools.

This book investigates why seemingly similar African countries developed very different forms of democratic party systems.

This book presents Shiite leaderships as pragmatic entities with the potential to form fruitful relationships with the non-Shiite world.

This book focuses on the history, key industry and policy actors, and political economic outcomes in oil-producing African states.

This book details how contentious politics that took place in three communal villages of Mexico alternately reproduced and reshaped inequality.

Through detailed analyses of legislative success in Argentina and Uruguay, this book explores the determinants of law enactment in fragmented congresses.

The book examines the way Russian presidents Yeltsin, Medvedev, and Putin have used their constitutional decree powers since the end of the Soviet regime.

Civil Society under Authoritarianism takes a fresh look at civil society in China, analyzing the nuanced and dynamic relationship between civil society and government officials.

This book traces the historical emergence of modern consumer lending in America and France.

On the fiftieth anniversary of Quotations from Chairman Mao, this pioneering volume examines the book as a global historical phenomenon.

This book examines human rights in the Israeli domestic arena by analyzing the politics and strategies of defending human rights.

Analyzes the dialectic between legal and constitutional innovations which enhance the power of capital, and the alternatives to create a more just world order.

This book argues that for infrastructure privatization programs, differences in firm organizational structure explain the viability of privatization contracts in weak institutional environments.

This book examines three waves of contention in Europe and Latin America across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

This volume interrogates the implications of the persistence of nationalisms and newer, ethnic-religious identities for the emergence of a robust European identity.

This book explores the dynamics of electoral system choice and raises questions about the democratic credentials of the early processes of democratization.

Asks why regime change in Russia has not been accompanied by a coherent new political symbolism.

This book argues power balances, rather than shared identities, explain why warring Afghan groups aligned with and double-crossed each other.

Akturk discusses how the definition of being German, Soviet, Russian and Turkish changed at the turn of the twenty-first century.

Gibson explains how subnational authoritarianism is part of democratic politics and strategic interactions between local authoritarians and national democratic leaders.

This book examines the political consequences of growing religiosity in countries where politics are repressive and religious freedoms are in flux.

This book argues that interests are actively forged through processes of politics.

This book investigates elections and protest in developing countries, and what those protests mean for democracy.

This book explores the dynamics of electoral system choice and raises questions about the democratic credentials of the early processes of democratization.

Asks why regime change in Russia has not been accompanied by a coherent new political symbolism.

This book argues power balances, rather than shared identities, explain why warring Afghan groups aligned with and double-crossed each other.

Akturk discusses how the definition of being German, Soviet, Russian and Turkish changed at the turn of the twenty-first century.

Gibson explains how subnational authoritarianism is part of democratic politics and strategic interactions between local authoritarians and national democratic leaders.

The second edition of this Companion brings the story of liberation theology up to date and indicate its continuing importance.

This Companion focuses on the way Orthodox theological tradition is understood and lived today.