Latecomer State Formation

Latecomer State Formation

Latin American governments systematically fail to provide the key public goods for their societies to prosper. Sebastián Mazzuca argues this is because nineteenth-century Latin American state formation occurred in a […]


Prisms of the People

Prisms of the People

Grassroots organizing and collective action have always been fundamental to American democracy but have been burgeoning since the 2016 election, as people struggle to make their voices heard in this […]


Influx & Efflux: Writing up with Walt Whitman

Influx & Efflux:  Writing up with Walt Whitman

In influx & efflux Jane Bennett pursues a question that was bracketed in her book Vibrant Matter: how to think about human agency in a world teeming with powerful nonhuman […]


Immigrant Incorporation in East Asian Democracies

Immigrant Incorporation in East Asian Democracies

Despite labour shortages and rapidly shrinking working-age populations, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan shared restrictive immigration policies and exclusionary practices toward immigrants until the early 2000s. While Taiwan maintained this […]


Armed Guests: Territorial Sovereignty and Foreign Military Basing

Armed Guests:  Territorial Sovereignty and Foreign Military Basing

In the wake of World War II, the United States and its allies developed a new type of security arrangement in which a state could maintain a long-term, peacetime military […]


Worldviews in Science, Technology and Art in International Relations

Worldviews in Science, Technology and Art in International Relations

This volume brings together 19 original chapters, plus four substantive introductions, which collectively provide a unique examination of the issues of science, technology, and art in international relations.  The overarching […]


America’s State Governments: A Critical Look at Disconnected Democracies

America’s State Governments: A Critical Look at Disconnected Democracies

This timely and important new work takes a critical look at government in the American states and illustrates the disconnect between state government institutions and their constituents.  The text illuminates […]


Congress: The First Branch

Congress:  The First Branch

In this accessible overview of the United States Congress’s past and present, Ginsberg and Hill introduce students to the country’s most democratic institution.  This text surveys Congressional elections, the internal […]


How Organizations Develop Activists: Civic Associations and Leadership in the 21st Century

How Organizations Develop Activists: Civic Associations and Leadership in the 21st Century

Why are some civic associations better than others at getting–and keeping–people involved in activism? From MoveOn.org to the National Rifle Association, Health Care for America Now to the Sierra Club, […]


Groundbreakers: How Obama’s 2.2 Million Volunteers Transformed Campaigning In America

Groundbreakers: How Obama’s 2.2 Million Volunteers Transformed Campaigning In America

Much has been written about the historic nature of the Obama campaign. The multi-year, multi-billion dollar operation elected the nation’s first black president, raised and spent more money than any […]