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Organizing Against Democracy
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The Local Organizational Development of Far Right Parties in Greece and Europe
Antonis A. Ellinas | University of Cyprus
Organizing Against Democracy illuminates answers to the question of how far-right parties try to establish roots in democratic societies. Ellinas examines the local organizational ‘lives’ of three of the most extreme parties in Europe and the responses of democratic actors against them.
296pp 24 b/w illus. 8 tables
Mar. 2022 9781108400350 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99
Jan. 2020 9781108415149 Hardback GBP 78.99 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781108227926
Patchwork States
The Historical Roots of Subnational Conflict and Competition in South Asia
Adnan Naseemullah
Patchwork States argues that South Asia’s politics of violence, development and electoral competition are rooted in colonial and post-colonial statebuilding. It lays out a framework that links different forms of governance under colonialism to subnational political outcomes, providing a new way of looking at colonial legacies in social science.
280pp
Jun. 2022 9781009158411 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99
Jun. 2022 9781009158428 Hardback GBP 84.99 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781009158404
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Power in Movement
Social Movements and Contentious Politics
Fourth edition
Sidney Tarrow | Cornell University, New York
Sidney Tarrow charts the rise, dynamics, and decline of social movements as part of political struggle and asks how they advance or regress democracy. This fully updated edition includes new material on the Capitol attack, the growth of populism around the world, and the role of social media.
Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
350pp
Aug. 2022 9781009219846 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99
Aug. 2022 9781009219853 Hardback GBP 69.99 / USD 89.99 eISBN 9781009219839
Resisting Backsliding
Opposition Strategies against the Erosion of Democracy
Laura Gamboa
Resisting Backsliding examines how opposition strategies can help or hinder potential autocrats erode democracy. Focusing on Hugo Chávez in Venezuela and Alvaro Uribe in Colombia, the book shows that the strategies and goals of the opposition are key to understanding why some executives successfully erode democracy while others do not.
320pp
Oct. 2022 9781009164078 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99
Oct. 2022 9781009164061 Hardback GBP 79.99 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781009164085
Rule-Making Rules
An Analytical Framework for Political Institutions
Stefano Bartolini | European University Institute, Florence
This book defines and distinguishes political institutions in their various forms, whilst exploring the constitutive ambiguities of the term. It will appeal to scholars and advanced students of political institutions in comparative politics, and in political science and political sociology more broadly.
300pp 2 b/w illus. 8 tables
Jun. 2022 9781009206273 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781009206303
Sharing Power, Securing Peace?
Ethnic Inclusion and Civil War
Lars-Erik Cederman
Addressing the widespread academic criticism of power sharing, this book uses systematic data and advanced methods to highlight the importance of practices as opposed to formal institutions, their preventive rather than merely post-conflict effect, and how they are invoked by governments in anticipation of potential violent challenges.
300pp
Jul. 2022 9781108406550 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 34.99
Jul. 2022 9781108418140 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108284639
State-Building as Lawfare
Custom, Sharia, and State Law in Postwar Chechnya
Egor Lazarev | Yale University, Connecticut How does the state impose the rules that regulate everyday life? This book explores state-building as lawfare – the use of state and non-state legal systems to achieve political goals – to analyze how Russian state law, Sharia law, and customary law interact in postwar Chechnya.
Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
300pp
Dec. 2022 9781009245951 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009245913
The Deep Roots of Modern Democracy
Geography and the Diffusion of Political Institutions
John Gerring | University of Texas, Austin
This book explores the deep roots of modern democracy, focusing on geography and long-term patterns of global diffusion, through statistical analyses of new databases, small-N studies and a review of the historical literature. It will appeal to historically-oriented social scientists, political historians, and anyone interested in democracy.
360pp 24 b/w illus. 8 maps 54 tables
Aug. 2022 9781009114899 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
Aug. 2022 9781009100373 Hardback GBP 89.99 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781009115223
The Founding of Modern States
Richard Franklin Bensel | Cornell University, New York
This book examines the rise of the modern state through six case studies of state formation in England, the United States, France, the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, and the Islamic Republic of Iran. The book summarizes key events in modern history and offers theories about the creation of modern states.
568pp
Oct. 2022 9781009247214 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
Oct. 2022 9781009247207 Hardback GBP 89.99 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781009247245
The Politics of Comprehensive School Reforms
Cleavages and Coalitions
Katharina Sass | Universitetet i Bergen, Norway
Why are school systems structured differently across countries? This book examines this question through an in-depth analysis of school politics in Germany and Norway during the post-war period of educational expansion. It uses a Rokkanian theoretical framework to make sense of the crossinterest coalitions behind important school reforms.
Cambridge Studies in the Comparative Politics of Education
320pp
Aug. 2022 9781009235181 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781009235211
The Politics of Religious Party Change
Islamist and Catholic Parties in Comparative Perspective
A. Kadir Yildirim | Rice University, Houston
This book uses comparative analysis to examine ideological change and secularization of religious political parties. It traces the similar historical origins of Islamist and Catholic parties in the Middle East and Western Europe, chronicles their conflicts with existing religious authorities, and analyzes their subsequently divergent paths.
Cambridge Studies in Social Theory, Religion and Politics
320pp
Feb. 2023 9781009170741 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781009170734
Theories of Institutions
Joseph Jupille | University of Colorado Boulder
Explores concepts of power, efficiency, sociality, and time, each of which is key to understanding institutions. Since the four logics are closely tied to four different disciplines, the authors’ integrated approach speaks to several distinct disciplines all while it promotes interdisciplinary conversations.
304pp
Jan. 2022 9780521879293 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781139034142
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Thou Shalt Have No Other Gods before Me Why Governments Discriminate against Religious Minorities
Jonathan Fox
This book examines diverse causes of governmentbased religious discrimination, including secular ideologies, religious monopolies, wealth, regime, and more, against 771 minorities in 183 countries over a twenty-five year period.
308pp 18 b/w illus. 42 tables
Aug. 2022 9781108715676 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99
Mar. 2020 9781108488914 Hardback GBP 78.99 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781108773171
Undue Process
Persecution and Punishment in Autocratic Courts
Fiona Feiang Shen-Bayh | College of William and Mary, Virginia
Why do autocrats hold political trials when outcomes are presumed known from the start? Focusing on sub-Saharan Africa since independence, this book provides insight into the role of judiciaries in authoritarian regimes: how courts can be used to repress political challengers, institutionalize punishment, and undermine the rule of law.
Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
240pp
Sep. 2022 9781009197144 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99
Sep. 2022 9781009197137 Hardback GBP 79.99 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781009197151
Violent Resistance
Militia Formation and Civil War in Mozambique
Corinna Jentzsch | Universiteit Leiden
By relying on extensive fieldwork from Mozambique, Violent Resistance explains when, where, and how communities form militias to defend themselves against violence. This book defines a research agenda on militias as social movements and an integral part of armed conflict, and revisits the historiography of the civil war in Mozambique.
Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics
300pp
Jan. 2022 9781108837453 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108936026
Why Democracies Develop and Decline
Michael Coppedge | University of Notre Dame, Indiana
Drawing on very extensive new data from the Varieties of Democracy project, this volume presents and evaluates the most prominent theories of democratization and democratic decline and sets out the global history of the development of democracy over the last two centuries.
350pp
Jun. 2022 9781316514412 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781009086974
