Examines the different approaches in state spending on pensions and benefits in various countries.

This study examines democratic party competition in four post-communist polities in the mid-1990s, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland.

Susan Stokes explores why Latin American politicians seeking re-election would impose unpopular policies.

This book demonstrates that there is logic to violence in civil war.

Focuses on important political-economic changes in industrialized countries, namely unemployment and inequality.

This book demonstrates that there is logic to violence in civil war.

This book charts the evolution of clientelist practices in several western European countries.

This book focuses on the strategic interaction of workers, employers and the state in postwar Italian strikes.

This book tracks change in training institutions in four democracies over a century of development.

This book explains the relationship between Hindu-Muslim riots and elections in India.

The collapse of socialist dictatorships in Europe from 1989 to 1992.

This book focuses on the strategic interaction of workers, employers and the state in postwar Italian strikes.

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 provides a comprehensive explanation and application of time-series, pooled, event history, and Boolean methods to substantive problems of the welfare state.

This is the key book on global urban development at the start of the twenty-first century. It systematically reviews the main scenarios for the first 25 years of the twenty-first century and outlines an action plan to meet likely problems.