Comparative politics

Why do reforms so often fail to deliver the results they promise?

In The Permanent Problem, Brink Lindsey reshapes our understanding of the vital but complex relationship between material prosperity and human flourishing.

Is traditional American religion doomed?

A powerful and sophisticated analysis of how Western professionals have enabled kleptocratic elite networks and undermined the rule of law.

What is distinctively American about American foreign policy?

One of the primary goals of the 1970s-era conservative legal movement was to undo New Deal policies that favored labor at the expense of capital.

In the middle of the twentieth century, liberal intellectuals and policymakers in the United States came to see poverty as a global problem.

An authoritative, even-handed, and accessible history of the Supreme Court of the United States, the most powerful court in the world and the final arbiter of the world's oldest constitution.

A powerful new explanation of China's rise that draws from the business world to show that China is not simply copying established great powers, but exploiting geopolitical opportunities around the world that those other powers had ignored.

This book explores the European stances of three of Northern Ireland's political parties, culminating in one of the most tumultuous episodes in recent UK, Irish, and European politics.

To regaint its capacity to effectively deter China and retain its unmatched global status, the United States must deepn its partnership with the nation's most innovative tech companies.

A rich history of cross-racial coalitions and alliances of the Sixties' freedom movement, acclaimed historian Alice Echols's Black Power, White Heat reshapes our understanding of the entire era.

The story of Russia's historic opening to the West (1992-2022), where it succeeded and why it has failed, the impact of war and sanctions, and the prospects for Russia's future.

Since before the ratification of the Constitution, students, scholars, and statesmen in American politics have grappled with an important question: how powerful is the President of the United States?

Tanzania 2025 Contested Elections: The Handcuffed Election – Volume 8Was Tanzania's 2025 General Election a democratic exercise, a managed political process, or something in between?

The Hand Behind Unmanned tells the fascinating story of the people, processes, and beliefs that led to the contemporary American unmanned arsenal.

In the late twentieth century, artists were on the front lines of the culture wars.

The Hand Behind Unmanned tells the fascinating story of the people, processes, and beliefs that led to the contemporary American unmanned arsenal.

In the late twentieth century, artists were on the front lines of the culture wars.

A richly detailed collection of transcripts of Henry Kissinger's secretly recorded phone conversations from his time in the Nixon administration that touch on every important issue of Kissinger's day and provide a sweeping view of his era.

A richly detailed collection of transcripts of Henry Kissinger's secretly recorded phone conversations from his time in the Nixon administration that touch on every important issue of Kissinger's day and provide a sweeping view of his era.

In our modern world of propaganda, social media enclaves, misinformation, and manipulation, the connection between 'the will of the people' and political action has broken down, political divisions are becoming increasingly intractable, and democracies are growing ever more ungovernable.

In the middle of the twentieth century, liberal intellectuals and policymakers in the United States came to see poverty as a global problem.

An entertaining history of the soundtrack of American evangelical ChristianityFew things frightened conservative white Protestant parents of the 1950s and the 1960s more than thought of their children falling prey to the "e;menace to Christendom"e; known as rock and roll.

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To regaint its capacity to effectively deter China and retain its unmatched global status, the United States must deepn its partnership with the nation's most innovative tech companies.

In this groundbreaking reflection on America's relationship with war in the modern era, Gregory A.

A powerful and revealing history of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), which have been essential for empowering Black citizens and for the ongoing fight for democracy in the US.

A call to tone down our political rhetoric and embrace a common-sense approach to change.

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.

Amidst heightened rhetoric and increasing polarization in the United States, American Pogroms chronicles the causes and consequences of two centuries of mob violence in American history, highlighting exactly what's at stake when we allow leaders to legitimate violence and the mob to rule.

During the mid-seventeenth century, Anglo-American Protestants described Native American ceremonies as savage devilry, Islamic teaching as violent chicanery, and Catholicism as repugnant superstition.

The epic, tragic story of the Puritan conquest of New England through the eyes of those who lived it Over several decades beginning in 1620, tens of thousands of devout English colonists known as Puritans came to America.

A unique reinterpretation of democracy that shows how history's most vocal champions of democracy from Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Thomas Jefferson to John Rawls have contributed to a pervasive, anti-democratic ideology, effectively redefining democracy to mean "e;rule by the elites.

Fear pervades dictatorial regimes.

A novel and powerful explanation of the social roots of American politics and the powerful forces in the background.

A novel and powerful explanation of the social roots of American politics and the powerful forces in the background.

A unique reinterpretation of democracy that shows how history's most vocal champions of democracy from Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Thomas Jefferson to John Rawls have contributed to a pervasive, anti-democratic ideology, effectively redefining democracy to mean "e;rule by the elites.

"e;Trenchant and groundbreaking work"e; -- Molly Ball,ANational Political Correspondent, TIME Magazine "e;The go-to source for understanding how demographic change is impacting American politics.

"e;Trenchant and groundbreaking work"e; -- Molly Ball,ANational Political Correspondent, TIME Magazine "e;The go-to source for understanding how demographic change is impacting American politics.

Frequent and fair elections, open to all, are fundamental elements of a democracy.

Frequent and fair elections, open to all, are fundamental elements of a democracy.