This book presents empirical research on the nature and structure of political violence. While mo...

This study examines the process of the disintegration of the Soviet state.

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In an in-depth comparative analysis, Stefano Bartolini studies the history of socialism and worki...

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This book argues there is no single best institutional arrangement for organizing modern societies.

This book, first published in 2005, offers a comprehensive political economy approach to the stud...

Robert H. Bates addresses the origins of state failure in late twentieth-century Africa.

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This book addresses several of the classic questions in African Studies.

Kathleen Thelen explains the historical origins of important cross-national differences in four c...

The impact of legislative and political authority on the internal development of the European Par...