In this book, nine scholars representing various perspectives examine institutions that govern economic activity in the United States and the dramatic changes they have ...

This updated edition of Charles Tripp's A History of Iraq covers events since 1998, and looks at present-day developments right up to mid-2002. Since its establishment by the ...

Explores the political reactions of elites and society in the Russian Federation after the collapse of communist party rule and the break-up of the USSR.

This volume presents a shared effort to apply a general historical-institutionalist approach to the problem of assessing institutional change in the wake of communism's ...

This book examines the way democracy is thought about and lived by people in the post-communist world.

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Edited by two of the world's leading analysts of post-communist politics, this book brings together distinguished specialists on the Baltic states (Estonia, Latvia and ...

This study explores the fundamental differences between direct mail solicitation and personal-solicitation networks, and the influence of candidate resources in nomination ...

This book examines the behaviour of political parties in situations where they experience conflict between two or more important objectives.

This book compares the political process and role of the media using controversy over abortion.