Books by Alfred (Wallace Sayre Professor of Government Stepan

Empirically thorough and conceptually clear, Crafting State-Nations will have a substantial impact on the study of comparative political institutions and the conception and understanding of nationalism and democracy.

This volume brings together articles by the one of the leading scholars in comparative politics, written over the last 30 years of the 20th century in the field of comparative politics and in particular, the topic of the nature of contemporary democracy and its prospects.