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Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy
How do democracies form and what makes them die? Daniel Ziblatt revisits this timely and classic question in a wide-ranging historical narrative that traces the evolution of modern …
Democratic Experiments in Africa
Between 1989 and 1994, 41 out of 47 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa underwent significant political reform, including in many cases the first competitive elections in a generation. …
Democracy and Redistribution
When do countries democratize? What facilitates the survival of authoritarian regimes? What determines the occurrence of revolutions, often leading to left-wing dictatorships, such …
Paths toward Democracy
The question of whether democratization is an elite-led process from above or a popular triumph from below continues to be an area of contention among political scientists. …
Making Markets in the Welfare State
Over the past three decades, market reforms have transformed public services such as education, health, and care of the elderly. Whereas previous studies present markets as having …
The Art of Political Control in China
When and why do people obey political authority when it runs against their own interests to do so? This book is about the channels beyond direct repression through which China's …
How Institutions Evolve
The institutional arrangements governing skill formation are widely seen as a key element in the institutional constellations defining ‘varieties of capitalism’ across the …
Making Peace in Drug Wars
Over the past thirty years, a new form of conflict has ravaged Latin America's largest countries, with well-armed drug cartels fighting not only one another but the state itself. …
Accountability Without Democracy
Examines the fundamental issue of how citizens get government officials to provide them with the roads, schools, and other public services they need by studying communities in …
Autocracy and Redistribution
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 world? A long-standing …
Nationalist Mobilization and the Collapse of the Soviet State
This study examines the process by which the seemingly impossible in 1987 - the disintegration of the Soviet state - became the seemingly inevitable by 1991, providing an original …
Hierarchical Capitalism in Latin America
This book argues that Latin America has a distinctive, enduring form of hierarchical capitalism characterized by multinational corporations, diversified business groups, low skills …