Representation through Taxation

Scott Gehlbach

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
• Social scientists teach that politicians favor groups that are organized over those that are not. Representation Through Taxation challenges this conv... Lees meer

Regressive Taxation and the Welfare State

Junko Kato

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
• Political economists have viewed large public expenditures as a product of leftist government and the expression of a stronger representation of labor... Lees meer

Recognition Politics

Lorenza B Fontana

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
• This pioneering work explores a new wave of widely overlooked conflicts that have emerged across the Andean region, coinciding with the implementation... Lees meer

Coalitions of the Weak

Victor C Shih

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
• For the first time since Mao, a Chinese leader may serve a life-time tenure. Xi Jinping may well replicate Mao's successful strategy to maintain power... Lees meer

Why Ethnic Parties Succeed

Kanchan Chandra

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
• Drawing on a study of variation in the performance of four ethnic parties in India, this book develops a theory of ethnic party performance in "patron... Lees meer

Who Speaks for the Poor?

Karen Long Jusko

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
• Who Speaks for the Poor? explains why parties represent some groups and not others. This book focuses attention on the electoral geography of income, ... Lees meer

Rebuilding Leviathan

Anna Grzymala-Busse

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
• Why do some governing parties limit their opportunistic behavior and constrain the extraction of private gains from the state? This analysis of post-c... Lees meer

The Politics of Authoritarian Rule

Milan W Svolik

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
• What drives politics in dictatorships? Milan W. Svolik argues that all authoritarian regimes must resolve two fundamental conflicts. First, dictators ... Lees meer

Policy, Office, or Votes?

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
• Leaders of political parties often have to choose among conflicting objectives, such as influence on policy, control of the government, and support am... Lees meer

Forces of Labor

Beverly J Silver

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
• Recasting labor studies in a long-term and global framework, the book draws on a major new database on world labor unrest to show how local labor move... Lees meer

Democracy and Redistribution

Carles Boix

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
• Employing analytical tools borrowed from game theory, Carles Boix offers a complete theory of political transitions. It is one in which political regi... Lees meer

Procedural Politics

Joseph Jupille

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
• After developing an argument to determine when actors will try and reshape political rules, rather than operate within them, Joseph Jupille applies it... Lees meer

Autocracy and Redistribution

Michael Albertus

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
• When and why do countries redistribute land to the landless? What political purposes does land reform serve, and what place does it have in today's wo... Lees meer

The Promise and Limits of Private Power

Richard M Locke

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
• This book examines and evaluates various private initiatives to enforce fair labor standards within global supply chains. Using unique data (internal ... Lees meer

Regional Economic Voting

Joshua A Tucker

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
• This book examines the effect of economic conditions on election results in five post-communist countries--Russia, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, and the ... Lees meer

Redeeming the Communist Past

Anna Maria Grzymaa-Busse

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
• This major study examines one of the most surprising developments in East Central European politics after the democratic transitions of 1989: the comp... Lees meer

Electoral Systems and the Balance of Consumer-Producer Power

Eric C C Chang, Mark Andreas Kayser, Drew A Linzer

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
• This book investigates the effects of electoral systems on the relative legislative and, hence, regulatory influence of competing interests in society... Lees meer

Understanding Ethnic Violence

Roger D Petersen

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
• This book seeks to identify the motivations of individual perpetrators of ethnic violence. The work develops four models gleaned from existing social ... Lees meer

Regional Economic Voting

Joshua A Tucker

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
• This book examines the effect of economic conditions on election results in five post-communist countries--Russia, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, and the ... Lees meer

Sustaining Abundance

Lyle Scruggs

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
• Representing the first comprehensive study of its kind, this book evaluates the comparative performance of national environmental policies since the b... Lees meer

The Scarce State

Noah L Nathan

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
• States are often minimally present in the rural periphery. Yet a limited presence does not mean a limited impact. Isolated state actions in regions wh... Lees meer

Policy, Office, or Votes?

Muller Wolfgang

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
• Leaders of political parties often have to choose among conflicting objectives, such as influence on policy, control of the government, and support am... Lees meer

When People Want Punishment

Lily L Tsai

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
• Against the backdrop of rising populism around the world and democratic backsliding in countries with robust, multiparty elections, this book asks why... Lees meer

Welfare and Capitalism in Postwar Japan

Margarita Estevez-Abe

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
• This book explains how postwar Japan managed to achieve a highly egalitarian form of capitalism despite meager social spending. Estevez-Abe develops a... Lees meer