Bücher der Reihe Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics

The book explains why and when laws go unenforced in developing countries. It argues that the tolerance of street vending and squatting is a form of informal welfare provision and a more effective means to mobilize the poor than conventional state social policies.

Who Speaks for the Poor? offers a new account of cross-national differences in the political and partisan representation of low-income voters, focusing attention on the electoral geography of income and how it changed over time. Comparative analysis sheds light on the absence of a low-income people's party in the USA.

Drug wars have ravaged Latin America, from Pablo Escobar in Colombia and El Chapo in Mexico to the favelas of Rio de Janeiro. This book helps social scientists, area specialists, and policymakers understand why state crackdowns often backfire, and why deterrence-based approaches have been successful but hard to implement and sustain.

Examines a set of voter information campaigns worldwide to assess their effectiveness, and develops a new social science research model aimed at cumulative learning. It will appeal to academics and practitioners looking for innovative ways to conduct social science research that is rigorous, policy-relevant, and cumulative.

This book focuses on clientelism, the pattern of exchanges between politicians and votes as citizens promise to vote for a politician in order to receive benefits. While many scholars have explored the threats to clientelism, this book is the first exploration into why clientelism survives, and even thrives, in certain countries.

Why are some slums in India's cities able to demand development from the state while others fail? Drawing on two years of fieldwork, Auerbach explains this uneven success of slum residents. This book is aimed at researchers and students in comparative politics, political economy, development studies, urban studies, and South Asian studies.

This book offers the first comprehensive analysis of the wave of revolutionary terrorism in affluent countries, focusing on the development paths followed by countries during the interwar period. It will appeal to researchers and students interested in studying political violence, conflict, and terrorism.

The processes through which democratic representation succeeds or goes astray are illustrated through examples and statistical description in nineteen countries. This book is accessible to both scholars and advanced undergraduate students of democratic representation, comparative elections, and parliamentary government.

This book will interest scholars of China, authoritarian regimes, political control and repression, civil society, protest, and local governance. It shows how the Chinese state uses local civil society groups as hidden but effective tools of informal control to suppress dissent and implement far-reaching policies.

This book introduces a social policy theory of everyday borrowing to examine how the rise of credit as a private alternative to the welfare state creates a new kind of social and economic citizenship. It is for scholars across the social sciences who study financialization, comparative political economy, and inequality.

Leading political scientists provide a new framework for understanding the interplay of politics and economics in the US, drawing on comparative and historical perspectives to identify distinctive features of the US landscape and how these have interacted with one another over time to create unique patterns of power and inequality.

Leading political scientists provide a new framework for understanding the interplay of politics and economics in the US, drawing on comparative and historical perspectives to identify distinctive features of the US landscape and how these have interacted with one another over time to create unique patterns of power and inequality.

This book challenges the conventional wisdom that natural resource wealth promotes autocracy. Oil and other forms of mineral wealth can promote both authoritarianism and democracy, the book argues, but they do so through different mechanisms; an understanding of these different mechanisms can help elucidate when either the authoritarian or democratic effects of resource wealth will be relatively strong. Exploiting game-theoretic tools and statistical modeling as well as detailed country case studies and drawing on fieldwork in Latin America and Africa, this book builds and tests a theory that explains political variation across resource-rich states. It will be read by scholars studying the political effects of natural resource wealth in many regions, as well as by those interested in the emergence and persistence of democratic regimes.

Michael Wallerstein was a leader in developing a rigorous comparative political economy approach to understanding substantive issues of inequality, redistribution, and wage-determination. His early death from cancer left both a hole in the profession and a legacy that will surely provide the foundation for research on these topics. This volume collects his most important and influential contributions, organized by topic, with each topic preceded by an editorial introduction that provides overview and context.

Focusing on the distribution of risk within societies, this book presents a parsimonious theory of social policy emergence, divergence, and change. It is suitable for advanced undergraduate courses and graduate seminars in political economy, social policy, labor market politics, political behavior, political psychology, sociology, and class stratification.

Post-Communist Party Systems examines democratic party competition in four post-communist polities in the mid-1990s: Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland. The book demonstrates various developments within the four countries with regard to different voter appeal of parties, patterns of voter representation, and dispositions to join other parties in legislative or executive alliances.