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Political Science

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Democracy Without Associations

Transformation of the Party System and Social Cleavages in India

By Pradeep K. Chhibber
Subjects: Political Science, Comparative Politics
Series: Interests, Identities, and Institutions in Comparative Politics

A demonstration of how political parties and state policy can make some social divisions more salient than others

The Deadlock of Democracy in Brazil

By Barry Ames
Subjects: Political Science, Comparative Politics
Series: Interests, Identities, and Institutions in Comparative Politics

A sophisticated application of rational choice theory

Growing Apart

Oil, Politics, and Economic Change in Indonesia and Nigeria

By Peter Lewis
Subjects: Political Science, Comparative Politics, African Studies, Asian Studies, Economics, Development
Series: Interests, Identities, and Institutions in Comparative Politics

The story of how oil—and oil money—transformed political life in two major producer-nations

Protest and the Politics of Blame

The Russian Response to Unpaid Wages

By Debra Lynn Javeline
Subjects: Political Science, Comparative Politics, European Studies, Eastern European Studies, Political Economy, Economics, System -- Development
Series: Interests, Identities, and Institutions in Comparative Politics

Explains the absence of wide-scale protest over unpaid wages in Russia

Re-Forming the State

The Politics of Privatization in Latin America and Europe

By Hector E. Schamis
Subjects: Political Science, Comparative Politics, Political Economy
Series: Interests, Identities, and Institutions in Comparative Politics

Compares the processes leading to market reform experiments and its political effects in Latin America and Europe

Managing "Modernity"

Work, Community, and Authority in Late-Industrializing Japan and Russia

By Rudra Sil
Subjects: Political Science, Comparative Politics, Political Economy, Economics, System -- Development
Series: Interests, Identities, and Institutions in Comparative Politics

Compares industrial management in two late-industrializers—Japan and Russia—as a basis for an original theory of institution-building

Altering Party Systems

Strategic Behavior and the Emergence of New Political Parties in Western Democracies

By Simon Hug
Subjects: Political Science, Comparative Politics
Series: Interests, Identities, and Institutions in Comparative Politics

Why new political parties are formed, and why some thrive while others fade away

Institutions and Innovation

Voters, Parties, and Interest Groups in the Consolidation of Democracy - France and Germany, 1870-1939

By Marcus L. Kreuzer
Subjects: Political Science, Comparative Politics, History, Sociology
Series: Interests, Identities, and Institutions in Comparative Politics

Voters, Parties, and Interest Groups in the Consolidation of Democracy - France and Germany, 1870–1939

Political Science as Puzzle Solving

Edited by Bernard Norman Grofman
Subjects: Political Science, Comparative Politics, Political Methodology
Series: Interests, Identities, and Institutions in Comparative Politics

Demonstrates that the combination of contextual knowledge and theoretical models improves our understanding of politics

Origins of Liberal Dominance

State, Church, and Party in Nineteenth-Century Europe

By Andrew C. Gould
Subjects: Political Science, Political Economy, Comparative Politics, History
Series: Interests, Identities, and Institutions in Comparative Politics

Explores the rise of liberalism and the development of modern political institutions in Europe

Gendering Politics

Women in Israel

By Hanna Herzog
Subjects: Political Science, Comparative Politics, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Middle and Near Eastern Studies
Series: Interests, Identities, and Institutions in Comparative Politics

Considers the cultural and structural limitations on the participation of women in politics

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