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Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics Series

185 primary works • 185 total works
This series publishes comparative research that seeks to explain important cross-national domestic political phenomena. The series is based on a broad conception of comparative politics and will promote critical dialogue among different approaches.
Language Repertoires and State Construction in Africa
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The author of two previous books on African politi…

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    Structuring Politics: Historical Institutionalism in Comparative Analysis
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    3.53     · 17 Ratings · published 1992 · 11 editions
    This volume brings together original essays by sch…

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    Merchant Capital and the Roots of State Power in Senegal: 1930-1985
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    In most post-colonial regimes in sub-Saharan Afric…

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    The Comparative Political Economy of the Welfare State
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    4.00     · 1 Ratings · published 1994 · 6 editions
    Comparative research is exploding with new methodo…

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    The Transformation of European Social Democracy
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    3.33     · 6 Ratings · published 1994 · 4 editions
    This book explains the contrasting strategies of s…

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    State Power and Social Forces: Domination and Transformation in the Third World
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    3.69     · 13 Ratings · published 1994 · 8 editions
    This is a collection of scholarly essays on state,…

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    Social Revolutions in Modern World
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    3.55     · 40 Ratings · 4 Reviews · published 1992 · 15 editions
    In this collection of essays, Theda Skocpol, autho…

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    Dismantling the Welfare State?: Reagan, Thatcher and the Politics of Retrenchment
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    3.44     · 36 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 1994 · 10 editions
    This book offers a careful examination of the poli…

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    Uncertain Boundaries: The Social and Political Construction of European Economies
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    This book argues that European economies were not …

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    Democracy, Development, and the Countryside: Urban-Rural Struggles in India
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    4.20     · 10 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1995 · 4 editions
    What happens to the rural folk--to their power and…

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    The Puzzle of Strikes: Class and State Strategies in Postwar Italy
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    5.00     · 1 Ratings · published 1995 · 3 editions
    Focusing on the strategic interaction among worker…

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    Between States: Interim Governments in Democratic Transitions
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    Between States is a two-part study compiled in one…

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    Social Movements, Political Violence, and the State: A Comparative Analysis of Italy and Germany
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    This book presents empirical research on the natur…

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    Comparative Perspectives on Social Movements: Political Opportunities, Mobilizing Structures, and Cultural Framings
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    Social movements such as environmentalism, feminis…

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    Comparing Policy Networks: Labor Politics in the U.S., Germany, and Japan
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    The United States, Germany, and Japan, the world's…

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    Challenging the State: Crisis and Innovation in Latin America and Africa
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    4.00     · 4 Ratings · published 1996 · 6 editions
    The 1980s and 1990s posed great challenges to gove…

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    Traditional Politics and Regime Change in Brazil
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    5.00     · 1 Ratings · published 1996 · 7 editions
    This book is about politics in Brazil during the m…

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    Internationalization and Domestic Politics
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    Much recent economic analysis has been devoted to …

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    Heroic Defeats: The Politics of Job Loss
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    2.00     · 1 Ratings · published 1996 · 5 editions
    Heroic Defeats is a comparative investigation of h…

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    Contemporary Capitalism: The Embeddedness of Institutions
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    3.50     · 2 Ratings · published 1997 · 8 editions
    This book argues that there is no single best inst…

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    Presidentialism and Democracy in Latin America
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    5.00     · 6 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1997 · 5 editions
    This book addresses the current debate regarding t…

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    Democratic Experiments in Africa: Regime Transitions in Comparative Perspective
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    Between 1989 and 1994, almost all of the countries…

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    Making Race and Nation: A Comparison of South Africa, the United States, and Brazil
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    In this bold, original and persuasive book, Anthon…

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    Partisan Politics in the Global Economy
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    3.67     · 3 Ratings · published 1998 · 10 editions
    This book discusses the future of the nation-state…

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    Power in Movement: Social Movements and Contentious Politics
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    Unlike political or economic institutions, social …

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    Political Parties, Growth and Equality: Conservative and Social Democratic Economic Strategies in the World Economy
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    3.22     · 9 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1998 · 4 editions
    This book describes the contrasting economic strat…

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    Continuity and Change in Contemporary Capitalism
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    3.50     · 6 Ratings · published 1999 · 8 editions
    Capitalist democracies have always displayed consi…

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    Subversive Institutions: The Design and the Destruction of Socialism and the State
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    3.45     · 20 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 1999 · 6 editions
    Based on a series of controlled comparisons among …

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    Post-Communist Party Systems: Competition, Representation, and Inter-Party Cooperation
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    3.00     · 2 Ratings · published 1999 · 5 editions
    Post-Communist Party Systems examines democratic p…

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    Policy, Office, or Votes?: How Political Parties in Western Europe Make Hard Decisions
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    3.25     · 4 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1999 · 9 editions
    Leaders of political parties often have to choose …

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    Paths toward Democracy: The Working Class and Elites in Western Europe and South America
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    3.89     · 9 Ratings · published 1999 · 7 editions
    The question of whether democratization is an elit…

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    Reconstructing the State: Personal Networks and Elite Identity in Soviet Russia
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    3.00     · 3 Ratings · published 2000 · 7 editions
    Why do some state building efforts succeed when ot…

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    Money, Markets, and the State: Social Democratic Economic Policies since 1918
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    Money, Markets, and the State provides in-depth ex…

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    Pol Mobilzatn Europe Left 1860-1980
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    4.20     · 5 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2000 · 4 editions
    In an in-depth comparative analysis, Stefano Barto…

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    Labor Unions, Partisan Coalitions, and Market Reforms in Latin America
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    3.25     · 4 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2001 · 9 editions
    Due to economic crises, labor parties followed eco…

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    No Other Way Out: States and Revolutionary Movements, 1945-1991
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    No Other Way Out provides a powerful explanation f…

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    Politics after Neoliberalism: Reregulation in Mexico
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    4.50     · 4 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1997 · 9 editions
    During the past two decades, virtually all develop…

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    Public Support for Market Reforms in New Democracies
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    2.00     · 1 Ratings · published 2001 · 5 editions
    Do people in new democracies that are undergoing m…

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    Mandates and Democracy: Neoliberalism by Surprise in Latin America
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    3.86     · 7 Ratings · published 1997 · 14 editions
    Does it matter when politicians ignore the promise…

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    Unemployment in the New Europe
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    The movement for European integration has yielded …

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    State in Society: Studying How States & Societies Transform & Constitute One Another
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    3.54     · 50 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1997 · 17 editions
    The essays in this book trace the development of J…

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    Clientelism, Interests, and Democratic Representation: The European Experience in Historical and Comparative Perspective
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    This book charts the evolution of clientelist prac…

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    The European Parliament and Supranational Party System: A Study in Institutional Development
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    3.00     · 2 Ratings · published 1997 · 9 editions
    This book examines the impact of increased legisla…

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    Crony Capitalism: Corruption and Development in South Korea and the Philippines
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    3.67     · 18 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 1998 · 10 editions
    Why has the literature on Asian development not ad…

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    Nationalist Mobilization and the Collapse of the Soviet State
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    3.65     · 26 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2002 · 15 editions
    This study examines the process by which the seemi…

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    Global Capital, Political Institutions, and Policy Change in Developed Welfare States
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    This book argues that the dramatic post-1970 rise …

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    Macroecon Pol Developed Democracies
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    This book synthesizes and extends modern political…

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    Redeeming the Communist Past: The Regeneration of Communist Parties in East Central Europe
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    This major study examines one of the most surprisi…

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    Governing from Below: Urban Regions and the Global Economy
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    Cities play a growing role in governing. This new …

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    Legislative Politics in Latin America
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    3.50     · 2 Ratings · published 2002 · 9 editions
    This theoretically inspired study explores legisla…

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    Institutional Change and Political Continuity in Post-Soviet Central Asia: Power, Perceptions, and Pacts
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    The establishment of electoral systems in Kazakhst…

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    Stuffing the Ballot Box: Fraud, Electoral Reform, and Democratization in Costa Rica
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    3.67     · 6 Ratings · published 1998 · 10 editions
    This pioneering study of electoral fraud and refor…

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    Why Women Protest: Women's Movements in Chile
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    3.69     · 16 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1998 · 12 editions
    This book compares two ideologically opposed examp…

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    Understanding Ethnic Violence: Fear, Hatred, and Resentment in Twentieth-Century Eastern Europe
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    This book seeks to identify the motivations of ind…

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    Deliberate Discretion?: The Institutional Foundations of Bureaucratic Autonomy
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    The laws that legislatures adopt provide a crucial…

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    Comparative Historical Analysis in the Social Sciences
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    This review of the accomplishments and future agen…

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    Global Capital and National Governments
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    This book examines the degree to which internation…

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    Sustaining Abundance: Environmental Performance in Industrial Democracies
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    3.50     · 2 Ratings · published 2003 · 12 editions
    Representing the first comprehensive study of its …

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    Forces of Labor: Workers' Movements and Globalization Since 1870
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    Recasting labor studies in a long-term and global …

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    Democracy and Redistribution
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    Employing analytical tools borrowed from game theo…

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    Insurgent Collective Action and Civil War in El Salvador
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    3.87     · 77 Ratings · 6 Reviews · published 2003 · 10 editions
    Elisabeth Wood's account of insurgent collective a…

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    Race and Regionalism in the Politics of Taxation in Brazil and South Africa
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    4.60     · 5 Ratings · published 2003 · 9 editions
    Evan Lieberman's analysis focuses on the politics …

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    Regressive Taxation and the Welfare State: Path Dependence and Policy Diffusion
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    3.57     · 7 Ratings · published 1999 · 7 editions
    Political economists have viewed large public expe…

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    Political Topographies of the African State: Territorial Authority and Institutional Choice
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    4.21     · 19 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2003 · 9 editions
    Catherine Boone examines political regionalism in …

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    Why Ethnic Parties Succeed: Patronage and Ethnic Head Counts in India
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    3.06     · 16 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 2004 · 9 editions
    Drawing on a study of variation in the performance…

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    The Nationalization of Politics.
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    4.50     · 2 Ratings · published 2003 · 11 editions
    Daniele Caramani describes the transformation of p…

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    Votes and Violence: Electoral Competition and Ethnic Riots in India
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    Revealing why Hindu-Muslim riots in India break ou…

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    Procedural Politics: Issues, Influence and Institutional Choice in the European Union
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    Under what conditions, in what ways, and with what…

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    How Institutions Evolve: The Political Economy of Skills in Germany, Britain, the United States, and Japan
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    Kathleen Thelen explains the historical origins of…

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    Public Opinion, Democracy and Market Reform in Africa
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    Based on the Afrobarometer, a survey research proj…

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    Imagined Economies: The Sources of Russian Regionalism
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    4.00     · 1 Ratings · published 2004 · 9 editions
    This book examines the economic bases of regional …

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    Courts under Constraints: Judges, Generals, and Presidents in Argentina
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    This study offers a theoretical framework for unde…

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    Capitalism, Democracy, and Welfare
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    Based on the key idea that social protection in a …

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    Trust and Rule
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    Rightly fearing that unscrupulous rulers would bre…

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    Democracy Derailed in Russia: The Failure of Open Politics
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    Although Russia experienced dramatic political bre…

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    Hamilton's Paradox: The Promise and Peril of Fiscal Federalism
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    As new federations take shape and old ones are rev…

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    Regional Economic Voting: Russia, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic, 1990–1999
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    This study demonstrates that in a time of massive …

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    Taxation, Wage Bargaining, and Unemployment
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    4.67     · 3 Ratings · published 2006 · 12 editions
    Why were European economies able to pursue the sim…

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    Crucibles of Political Loyalty: Church Institutions and Electoral Continuity in Hungary
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    This book investigates one of the oldest paradoxes…

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    Candidate Strategies and Electoral Competition in the Russian Federation: Democracy without Foundation
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    In the early 1990s, competitive elections in the R…

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    The Logic of Violence in Civil War
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    By analytically decoupling war and violence, this …

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    Age in the Welfare State: The Origins of Social Spending on Pensioners, Workers, and Children
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    This book asks why some countries devote the lion'…

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    Federalism, Fiscal Authority, and Centralization in Latin America
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    This book explores the politics of fiscal authorit…

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    Voting for Autocracy: Hegemonic Party Survival and its Demise in Mexico
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    This book provides a theory of the logic of surviv…

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    Inside Rebellion: The Politics of Insurgent Violence
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    3.84     · 92 Ratings · 8 Reviews · published 2006 · 13 editions
    Some rebel groups abuse noncombatant populations, …

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    Presidentialism, Parliamentarism, and Democracy
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    3.38     · 24 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 2006 · 8 editions
    This book addresses the following why are presiden…

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    Rebuilding Leviathan: Party Competition and State Exploitation in Post-Communist Democracies
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    3.50     · 14 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2007 · 7 editions
    Why do some governing parties limit their opportun…

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    Cultural Contestation in Ethnic Conflict
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    Ethnic conflict often focuses on culturally charge…

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    State Repression and the Domestic Democratic Peace
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    Does democracy reduce state repression as human ri…

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    The Architecture of Government: Rethinking Political Decentralization
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    4.83     · 6 Ratings · published 2007 · 11 editions
    Since the days of Montesquieu and Jefferson, polit…

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    Presidential Impeachment and the New Political Instability in Latin America
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    3.91     · 11 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2007 · 12 editions
    Documents the emergence of a pattern of political …

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    Accountability without Democracy: Solidary Groups and Public Goods Provision in Rural China
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    3.95     · 21 Ratings · 4 Reviews · published 2007 · 9 editions
    This book examines the fundamental issue of how ci…

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    When Things Fell Apart: State Failure in Late-Century Africa
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    3.58     · 197 Ratings · 16 Reviews · published 2008 · 19 editions
    In the later decades of the 20th century, Africa p…

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    Selected Works of Michael Wallerstein: The Political Economy of Inequality, Unions, and Social Democracy
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    Michael Wallerstein was a leader in developing a r…

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    Party Competition between Unequals: Strategies and Electoral Fortunes in Western Europe
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    Why do some political parties flourish, while othe…

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    The Foundations of Ethnic Politics: Separatism of States and Nations in Eurasia and the World
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    Despite implicating ethnicity in everything from c…

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    Welfare and Capitalism in Postwar Japan: Party, Bureaucracy, and Business
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    This book explains how postwar Japan managed to ac…

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    Representation through Taxation: Revenue, Politics, and Development in Postcommunist States
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    Social scientists teach that politicians favor gro…

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    Crude Democracy: Natural Resource Wealth and Political Regimes
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    3.58     · 19 Ratings · published 2008 · 10 editions
    This book challenges the conventional wisdom that …

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    Legislative Voting and Accountability
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    3.80     · 5 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2008 · 10 editions
    Legislatures are the core representative instituti…

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