Presents a theory to account for the different strategies pursued by rebel groups in civil war.

This book questions the reasons why presidential democracies more likely to break down than parliamentary ones.

Explains emergence of revolutionary movements in more than a dozen countries during Cold War era.

This book examines how labor policies were made in the US, Germany, and Japan during the 1980s.

This book provides a theory of the logic of survival of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).

Stuffing the Ballot Box is a pioneering study of electoral fraud and reform.

This book helps explain one of the most politically salient puzzles in comparative political economy: why some countries have much higher unemployment rates than others.

This book examines how competing political parties rebuilt the state in Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia.

This book shows that partisanship and electoral politics play a role in the selection of policies to generate growth and competitiveness.

Studies how culture drives ethnic conflict, but can also help mitigate it.

Is there an easier way to build and deliver rich internet applications (RIAs) other than the Flash IDE or Ajax? Yes with Adobe Flex 2, the Flex 2 SDK. This book provides you what you need to build RIAs. It also offers you practical and useful examples that reveal how and why to use a particular feature of Flex 2, and when and when not to.

This book discusses the future of the nation-state in a world of global markets.

Why labor unions resisted and submitted during the economic crises of the 1990s.

Examines how interim governments all around the world and throughout the twentieth century have effected democratic regime changes.