Four distinguished scholars in political science analyze American democracy from a comparative point of view, exploring how the U.S. political system differs fr

The activist state of the New Deal started forming decades before the FDR administration, demonstrating the deep roots of energetic government in America. In th

The second edition of this classic text covers contemporary democracy movements including the Arab Spring and its aftermath, Occupy, and new nations as well as

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Examining 36 democracies from 1945 to 2010, this text arrives at conclusions about what type of democracy works best. It demonstrates that consensual systems st