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Making Autocracy Work
Can meaningful representation emerge in an authoritarian setting? If so, how, when, and why? Making Autocracy Work identifies the trade-offs associated with representation in …
Risk Inequality and Welfare States
The transformation of night-watchman states into welfare states is one of the most notable societal developments in recent history. In 1880, not a single country had a nationally …
Who Speaks for the Poor?
Who Speaks for the Poor? explains why parties represent some groups and not others. This book focuses attention on the electoral geography of income, and how it has changed over …
Latin American Party Systems
Political parties provide a crucial link between voters and politicians. This link takes a variety of forms in democratic regimes, from the organization of political machines built …
Courts under Constraints
This study offers a theoretical framework for understanding how institutional instability affects judicial behavior under dictatorship and democracy. In stark contrast to …
Rebuilding Leviathan
Why do some governing parties limit their opportunistic behaviour and constrain the extraction of private gains from the state? This analysis of post-communist state reconstruction …
Organized Violence after Civil War
Nearly half of all countries emerging from civil conflict relapse into war within a few years of signing a peace agreement. The postwar trajectories of armed groups vary from …
Oil Is Not a Curse
This book makes two central claims: first, that mineral-rich states are cursed not by their wealth but, rather, by the ownership structure they choose to manage their mineral …
From the Ballot to the Blackboard
From the Ballot to the Blackboard provides the first comprehensive account of the political economy of education spending across the developed and developing world. The book …
Crude Democracy
This book challenges the conventional wisdom that natural resource wealth promotes autocracy. Oil and other forms of mineral wealth can promote both authoritarianism and democracy, …
Presidential Impeachment and the New Political Instability in Latin America
Documents the emergence of a pattern of political instability in Latin America. Traditional military coups have receded in the region, but elected presidents are still ousted from …
Capitalism, Democracy, and Welfare
This book, first published in 2005, builds on institutionalist theory in both economics and political science to offer a general political economy framework for the study of …