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When Things Fell Apart
Cambridge University Press 2008; US$ 18.00Robert H. Bates addresses the origins of state failure in late twentieth-century Africa. more...
Essays on the Political Economy of Rural Africa
Cambridge University Press 1983; US$ 28.00This book addresses several of the classic questions in African Studies. more...
State in Society
Cambridge University Press 2001; US$ 28.00The essays in this book trace the development of Joel Migdal's 'state-in-society' approach. This approach illuminates how power is exercised around the world, and how and when patterns of power change. The essays situate the approach within the classic literature in political science, sociology, and related disciplines. more...
Labor Unions, Partisan Coalitions, and Market Reforms in Latin America
Cambridge University Press 2001; US$ 27.00Due to economic crises, labor parties followed economic policies that hurt labor unions during the 1990s, such as trade liberalization and privatization. This book explains why labor unions resisted on some occasions, and submitted on others, and the consequences of their actions by studying three countries: Argentina, Mexico, and Venezuela. more...
Mandates and Democracy
Cambridge University Press 2001; US$ 24.00If politicians want to be reelected or see their party reelected at the end of their term, why would they impose unpopular policies? Susan Stokes develops a model of policy switches and tests it with statistical and qualitative data from Latin American elections over the last two decades. more...
Stuffing the Ballot Box
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 47.00Stuffing the Ballot Box is a pioneering study of electoral fraud and reform. It focuses on Costa Rica, a country where parties gradually transformed a fraud-ridden political system into one renowned for its stability and fair elections by the mid-twentieth century. more...
Sustaining Abundance
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 26.00This book represents the first comprehensive study evaluating the comparative performance of national environmental policies since the beginning of the modern environmental era. It lays out four major explanations of environmental performance and evaluates them using an advanced statistical analysis of data from seventeen wealthy countries. more...
Legislative Politics in Latin America
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 30.00This study explores legislative politics in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico. Instead of beginning with an assumption that these legislatures are either rubber-stamps or obstructionist bodies, the chapters provide a fresh analytical approach to describe and explain the role of these representative bodies in these consolidating democracies. more...
Why Women Protest
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 25.00This book compares two ideologically opposed examples of women's movements in Chile: the movement against the democratically-elected government of President Salvador Allende and that against the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet. This book explains the similarities between these movements. more...
Crony Capitalism
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 30.00This book addresses the issue of money politics in Korea. It asks whether we can reconcile the view of an efficient developmental state in Korea before 1997 with reports of massive corruption and inefficiency in that same country in 1998 and 1999. more...









