Comparative Politics

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In Pursuit of Prosperity

Industrial Policy and the Politics of Economic Upgrading

By Charles R Hankla
Subjects: Political Science, Political Economy, Comparative Politics

When is economic upgrading successful and when does it fail?

The Dilemma of Compliance

Political Parties and Post-Election Disputes

By Svitlana Chernykh
Subjects: Political Science, Political Theory, Comparative Politics, European Studies, Eastern European Studies

Exploring the causes and consequences of post-election disputes

Autocrats Can't Always Get What They Want

State Institutions and Autonomy under Authoritarianism

By Nathan J Brown, Steven D Schaaf, Samer Anabtawi, and Julian G Waller
Subjects: Political Science, Governance, Comparative Politics
Series: Emerging Democracies

Discovering why autocrats may not be in total control

Making Sense of the Arab State

Edited by Steven Heydemann & Marc Lynch
Subjects: Middle and Near Eastern Studies, Political Science, Comparative Politics, Governance
Series: Emerging Democracies

Exploring the surprising strengths and weaknesses of the Arab state

State Institutions, Civic Associations, and Identity Demands

Regional Movements in Greater Southeast Asia

Edited by Amy H. Liu & Joel Selway
Subjects: Asian Studies, South/Southeast Asia, Political Science, Political Behavior and Public Opinion, Comparative Politics
Series: Emerging Democracies

An in-depth look at why autonomy movements fail or succeed

Walking the Gendered Tightrope

Theresa May and Nancy Pelosi as Legislative Leaders

By Melissa Haussman & Karen M. Kedrowski
Subjects: Political Science, American Politics, Comparative Politics, Gender Studies, Women's Studies
Series: The CAWP Series in Gender and American Politics

Examines how women in higher office must balance feminine stereotypes with exercising their power

Lobbying the Autocrat

The Dynamics of Policy Advocacy in Nondemocracies

Edited by Max Grömping & Jessica C. Teets
Subjects: Political Science, Governance, Comparative Politics
Series: Emerging Democracies

The surprising symbiosis between dictators and citizen lobbyists complicates our understanding of autocratic regimes

Disruptions as Opportunities

Governing Chinese Society with Interactive Authoritarianism

By Taiyi Sun
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Political Science, Comparative Politics
Series: China Understandings Today

How authoritarian states adapt to new phenomena

Radicalization in Theory and Practice

Understanding Religious Violence in Western Europe

Edited by Thierry Balzacq & Elyamine Settoul
Subjects: Political Science, Comparative Politics, Religion

Building on a comparative case study, explores the conditions under religious radicalization leading to violent action

International Security in a World of Fragile States

Islamic States and Islamist Organizations

By S. Yaqub Ibrahimi
Subjects: Political Science, International Relations, Comparative Politics

Fragile states are laboratories for Islamist terror groups

Struggles for Political Change in the Arab World

Regimes, Oppositions, and External Actors after the Spring

Edited by Lisa Blaydes, Amr Hamzawy, and Hesham Sallam
Subjects: Political Science, Comparative Politics, Political Behavior and Public Opinion
Series: Emerging Democracies

Long-term effects of the Arab Spring

The Dictator's Dilemma at the Ballot Box

Electoral Manipulation, Economic Maneuvering, and Political Order in Autocracies

By Masaaki Higashijima
Subjects: Political Science, Comparative Politics, Political Behavior and Public Opinion, Political Economy
Series: Emerging Democracies

Dictators don't dance

The Dictator's Dilemma at the Ballot Box

Electoral Manipulation, Economic Maneuvering, and Political Order in Autocracies

By Masaaki Higashijima
Subjects: Political Science, Comparative Politics, Political Behavior and Public Opinion, Political Economy
Series: Emerging Democracies

Dictators don't dance

Normalization in World Politics

By Nicolas Lemay-Hebert & Gëzim Visoka
Subjects: Political Science, Comparative Politics, International Relations, Conflict Resolution & Peace Studies

The imposition of normalcy on fragile states and crises and its implications for world politics

Capital Choices

Sectoral Politics and the Variation of Sovereign Wealth

Revised Edition

By Juergen Braunstein
Subjects: Political Science, Political Economy, Comparative Politics

Demystifies the process of sovereign wealth fund creation and examines the policy and economic issues surrounding them, updated for a post-Covid world

Fragile Dreams

Tales of Liberalism and Power in Central Europe

By John Abley Gould
Subjects: Political Science, Comparative Politics, Political History

A highly readable account of Central Europe’s experience after communism

The Causes of Post-Mobilization Leadership Change and Continuity

A Comparative Analysis of Post-Color Revolution in Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan, and Georgia

By Vasili Rukhadze
Subjects: Political Science, Comparative Politics, International Relations, Governance
Series: New Comparative Politics

Large, fragmented coalitions disintegrate

Coronavirus Politics

The Comparative Politics and Policy of COVID-19

By Scott L. Greer, Elizabeth J King, Elize Massard da Fonseca, and Andre Peralta-Santos
Subjects: Political Science, Comparative Politics, Public Policy

Global experts develop explanations of how governments responded to COVID-19

War and Rights

The Impact of War on Political and Civil Rights

By David L Rousseau
Subjects: Political Science, Political History, Comparative Politics, International Relations

Long wars foster democratic freedom in strong states

European-Russian Power Relations in Turbulent Times

By Mai'a Cross & Ireneusz Pawel Karolewski
Subjects: Political Science, International Relations, Conflict Resolution & Peace Studies, Comparative Politics

Getting poked by the Bear?

Fragile but Resilient?

Turkish Electoral Dynamics, 2002-2015

By Ali Carkoglu & Ersin Kalaycioglu
Subjects: Political Science, Governance, Comparative Politics, Political Behavior and Public Opinion

Globalism has sharpened the urban/rural divide in 21st century Turkish elections

Coalition of the unWilling and unAble

European Realignment and the Future of American Geopolitics

By John R Deni
Subjects: Political Science, International Relations, Comparative Politics

An uneasy relationship with Europe threatens U.S. interests in China, and the world

Early Communist China

Two Studies

By Ronald Suleski & Daniel Bays
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Political Science, Comparative Politics
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

Two studies examine the Fu-t’ien Incident and the Agrarian Reform in Kwangtung

Chinese Domestic Politics and Foreign Policy in the 1970s

By Allen S. Whiting
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Political Science, International Relations, Comparative Politics
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

Two studies exploring the question of linkage between Beijing’s foreign policy and domestic politics in the PRC

Central Documents and Politburo Politics in China

By Kenneth Lieberthal, James Tong, James Tong, Sai-cheung Yeung, and Sai-cheung Yeung
Subjects: Political Science, Comparative Politics, Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

A study of the dynamics at the center of Chinese politics as revealed in the “Central Documents” through which the leadership communicates with the rest of the political system.

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