Valeria Brusco & Thad Dunning 
Brokers, Voters, and Clientelism [EPUB ebook] 
The Puzzle of Distributive Politics

The public expects organizations to come together and cooperate in times of crisis, yet we know that organizations often fall short of this anticipation. Today inter-organizational structures are the …

How should Israel respond to the changing external threats that confront it? This paper argues that the country»s traditional security concept is obsolete and must be reformulated. How this is …

West Germany is now one of the world»s most powerful and prosperous states. The author emphasizes that Germany has become a new Germany, with different capabilities and needs than the Germany of …

Foreign policy—including economic policy and national security policy—and the appropriate planning, decisionmaking, and execution of that policy depend upon foreign intelligence, which must be …

Political Ideologies and the Democratic Ideal analyzes political ideologies to help readers understand individual ideologies, and the concept of ideology, from a political science perspective. This b …

This book provides a historical perspective of the Uruguay Round agreement and focuses on the interaction between the developed and developing countries on matters relating to the global trading …

This book of ten original essays provides a showcase of currently diverse theoretical agendas in the field of international relations. Contributors address the theoretical analysis that their …

The role of money in the US electoral process has become more and more controversial in recent years. Following the Buckley ruling and other legislation in 1996, candidates and political parties are …

This book argues that the way in which we use the concept of ‘state’ in many African countries must involve a deeper engagement of the complex workings of state–society relations, rather than a maste …

This book focuses on how advances in ICT have brought about a sea change in the way people work, live and share while also making them vulnerable. These advances exhibit a fundamentally reformed glob …