Demonstrates how local political parties have retained a role of critical importance in American politics.

Examines the role of politics in the environmental policy making process.

Comprehensive overview of the inroads made by Complexity Thinking approaches and ideas in the study and practice of world politics.

In-depth examination of a rarely studied article of the United States Constitution.

A fresh reading of Oakeshott’s contributions to the ongoing conversation of modern political thought.

Detailed examination of the territorial and governance dimensions of contemporary welfare reforms in the United States and Europe.

Groundbreaking study demonstrating how Japan's leaders play an important role in diplomacy.

A sweeping study of political murder in Latin America.

Illuminates how local board systems operate and the motivations and experiences of their members.

Explores how individuals and groups adapt to the challenges of globalization.

New edition of the provocative history of the tenuous relationship between the scientific study of politics and the real world of American democracy.

Addresses the power of oligopolistic corporations in contemporary society.

Chronicles JFK’s growing confidence and ambition while a member of the US Senate.

Explores how political activism, art, and popular culture challenge the discrimination and injustice faced by “illegal” and displaced peoples.

Examines the origins, spread, and effectiveness of the initiative.

Examines and measures the extent to which statutory language affects judicial behavior.

Investigates how leaders’ personalities shape important foreign policy shifts.

Critical analysis of Plan Colombia, a multibillion dollar US counternarcotics initiative.

Innovative examination of the tensions between universal and more uniquely American definitions of cherished rights.

Inspiring oral history of the impact of cultural and educational exchange between South Africa and the United States during apartheid.

Seeks to understand and explain the behavior of party elites during the 2008 Democratic Party presidential race.

Develops an alternative framework for describing and explaining African American politics and the American political system and applies it to a number of case studies.

Seeks to explain the causes of ambiguously worded state legislation.

In-depth study of the recall, the most important popular device allowing voters to remove unresponsive elected officials from office.

A compelling intellectual and political study of a leading post–civil rights era African American political theorist and strategist.