Todd A. Eisenstadt 
Courting Democracy in Mexico [PDF ebook] 
Party Strategies and Electoral Institutions

Central Asia”s new states have been buffeted by financial ill winds from East Asia and Russia and by Islamic revolutionary movements from the south. In the context of widespread and deepening impove …

Angola is poised between a past marked by civil war and corruption, and a future of potential economic development. This book examines the post-Civil War period which began in 2002 and saw the rise o …

An exploration of the political significance of the Arctic”s vast untapped wealth of natural resources, and a gripping account of the race to exploit them On August 2, 2007, a Russian submarine capt …

New Directions in American Politics introduces students not just to how the American political system works but also to how political science works. La Raja brings together top scholars to write orig …

This book examines the complex relationship that exists between the construction of judicial power, and the institutional characteristics of the courts and their regime setting. It examines the intri …

For many years a neglected figure, Nikolai Bukharin has recently been the subject of renewed interest in the West. Now regarded as a leading Marxist theorist, Bukharin”s work has wide appeal to thos …

The past quarter of a century has seen extensive change throughout Europe. There have been significant changes in local government, and the European Union has come to play an increasing role in relat …

The book presents a theoretically informed typology of modes of governance which is tested in a careful selection of comparative country and policy studies. At the core is the question whether the Eu …

This book examines different legal systems and analyses how the judge in each of them performs a meaningful review of the proportional use of discretionary powers by public bodies. Although the propo …