Governance

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Political Trust in China

By Lianjiang Li
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Political Science, Governance

Examining the dimensions of Chinese citizens’ trust in the current regime

Strategic Responsiveness

How Congress Confronts Presidential Power

By Scott H Ainsworth, Brian M Harward, and Kenneth W Moffett
Subjects: Political Science, American Politics, Governance, Political Behavior and Public Opinion
Series: Legislative Politics and Policy Making

Revealing the role of policy in the struggle for power between Congress and the president

Decentralization, Local Governance, and Inequality in the Middle East and North Africa

Edited by Kristen Kao & Ellen Lust
Subjects: Political Science, Governance, Middle and Near Eastern Studies
Series: Emerging Democracies

Examines how decentralization affects local communities

Engineering Stability

Rebuilding the State in Twenty-First Century Chinese Universities

By Xiaojun Yan
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Political Science, Governance
Series: China Understandings Today

How can a state reinvent itself to survive?

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

The Troubling State of India's Democracy

Edited by Dinsha Mistree, Šumit Ganguly, and Larry Diamond
Subjects: Asian Studies, South/Southeast Asia, Political Science, Governance, Political Communication
Series: Emerging Democracies

Assessing the condition and potential trajectories of India’s democracy

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

Decisiveness and Fear of Disorder

Political Decision-Making in Times of Crisis

By Julius Maximilian Rogenhofer
Subjects: Political Science, Governance, Human Rights, Political History
Series: Configurations: Critical Studies of World Politics

Examines how the need to appear decisive becomes the paramount consideration for politicians in crisis situations

None of the Above

Protest Voting in Latin American Democracies

By Mollie J. Cohen
Subjects: Latin American Studies, Political Science, Political Behavior and Public Opinion, Governance
Series: Emerging Democracies

How citizens casting an invalid vote still contribute to democracy

Seeds of Mobilization

The Authoritarian Roots of South Korea's Democracy

By Joan E. Cho
Subjects: Political Science, Governance, Asian Studies, Korea
Series: Emerging Democracies

Examines the roles of industrialization and tertiary education in Korea’s nonlinear path to democracy

Security. Cooperation. Governance.

The Canada-United States Open Border Paradox

Edited by Christian Leuprecht & Todd Hataley
Subjects: Political Science, Governance, International Relations

Reveals Canada–US border and security policies vary drastically depending on regional needs

How Informal Institutions Matter

Evidence from Turkish Social and Political Spheres

with a foreword by B. Guy Peters

By Zeki Sarigil
Subjects: Political Science, Political Theory, Conflict Resolution & Peace Studies, Governance

Informal institutions are core to political life

The Medieval Constitution of Liberty

Political Foundations of Liberalism in the West

By Alexander William Salter & Andrew T. Young
Subjects: Political Science, Political Economy, Governance

Locating the roots of western liberal democracy in the late medieval period rather than the Age of Enlightenment

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

Technical Territories

Data, Subjects, and Spaces in Infrastructural Asia

By Luke Munn
Subjects: Political Science, Human Rights, Governance

Toward a geography of infrastructure

Mediterranean in Dis/order

Space, Power, and Identity

By Rosita Di Peri & Daniel Meier
Subjects: Political Science, Governance, Political Theory

Multidisciplinary rethinking of space and power

Putting Federalism in Its Place

The Territorial Politics of Social Policy Revisited

By Scott L. Greer, Daniel Béland, André Lecours, and Kenneth A Dubin
Subjects: Political Science, Governance, Public Policy

This book proposes a method for understanding the relationship between federalism and public policy in a comparative and institutional perspective

Youth without Representation

The Absence of Young Adults in Parliaments, Cabinets, and Candidacies

By Daniel Stockemer & Aksel Sundstrom
Subjects: Political Science, Governance

Why young people are excluded from office

The Politics of Bad Governance in Contemporary Russia

By Vladimir Gel'man
Subjects: Political Science, Governance, Political Economy

Human history is in reality a history of corrupt governments

Power / Knowledge / Land

Contested Ontologies of Land and Its Governance in Africa

By Laura German
Subjects: African Studies, Political Science, Governance
Series: African Perspectives

Explores contested truths surrounding land governance in Africa and beyond

Democracy's Meanings

How the Public Understands Democracy and Why It Matters

By Nicholas T. Davis, Kirby Goidel, and Keith Gaddie
Subjects: Political Science, Governance, Political Behavior and Public Opinion

How do the people who make up American democracy view and judge its process?

Evading the Patronage Trap

Interest Representation in Mexico

By Brian Palmer-Rubin
Subjects: Latin American Studies, Political Science, Public Policy, Governance

Patronage negatively affects economic opportunity for small farms and businesses

Governing Abroad

Coalition Politics and Foreign Policy in Europe

By Sibel Oktay
Subjects: Political Science, Public Policy, Governance, International Relations

Brings political parties back to the study of foreign policy

Opposing Power

Building Opposition Alliances in Electoral Autocracies

By Elvin Jiayun Ong
Subjects: Political Science, Governance, Asian Studies, South/Southeast Asia
Series: Emerging Democracies

Why Opposition Parties Use Alliances to Fight Autocracy, and When They Don't

Bridging State and Civil Society

Informal Organizations in Tajik/Afghan Badakhshan

By Suzanne Levi-Sanchez
Subjects: Political Science, Governance

An unprecedented, rare study of Central Asian politics and their ramifications for the world

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