Books in the Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics series

To understand the political causes and consequences of inequality, this book digs deep into voters' attitudes to redistribution. It provides a novel explanation of how the demand for redistribution is the result of expected future income, the negative externalities of inequality, and the relationship between altruism and population heterogeneity.

"State-Building as Lawfare offers a unique study on how the state and other social forces regulate everyday life. Focusing on the case of Russian state presence in postwar Chechnya, the book explores how state and non-state legal systems are used to achieve political goals. Egor Lazarev applies this theory of state-building as lawfare to study how politicians and individuals navigate Russian state law, Sharia, and customary law in postwar Chechnya. The book addresses two interrelated puzzles: why do local rulers tolerate and even promote non-state legal systems at the expense of state law, and why do some members of repressed ethnic minorities choose to resolve their everyday disputes using state legal systems instead of non-state alternatives? By analyzing the legacies of the prolonged armed conflict of the 1990s and 2000s, Lazarev sheds an important light on state-building from above and below"--

"This pioneering work explores a new wave of widely overlooked conflicts that have emerged across the Andean region, coinciding with the implementation of internationally acclaimed indigenous rights. Why are groups that have peacefully cohabited for decades suddenly engaging in hostile and, at times, violent behaviours? What is the link between these conflicts and changes in collective self-identification, claim-making, and rent-seeking dynamics? And how, in turn, are these changes driven by broader institutional, legal and policy reforms? By shifting the focus to the 'post-recognition', this unique study sets the agenda for a new generation of research on the practical consequences of the employment of ethnic-based rights. To develop the core argument on the links between recognition reforms and 'recognition conflicts', Lorenza Fontana draws on extensive empirical material and case studies from three Andean countries - Bolivia, Colombia and Peru - which have been global forerunners in the implementation of recognition politics. Lorenza B. Fontana is Associate Professor of International Politics in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Glasgow. Her research has addressed questions around the ethnic politics of socio-environmental conflicts, the domestic politics of human rights of vulnerable groups, and, more recently, the contentious politics of wildfires"--

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 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.

Focusing on Kenya since independence, Hassan shows how leaders politicize the management of state institutions to induce bureaucratic behavior that furthers their political goals. This nuanced analysis will interest political scientists and scholars studying African politics, state bureaucracy, and political violence.

This book is for students of migration studies and public policy seeking to understand why governments adopt the immigration policies they do. Antje Ellermann provides critical insights into the dynamics of immigration politics in the United States, Canada, Germany, and Switzerland from the postwar era to the present.

The causes of under-development are political, yet those who study development often fail to investigate the impact of politics. Drawing on field work, history and theory, this book probes the political roots of under-development.

Incomplete rural property rights are endemic throughout most of the developing world. This book explores the political origins of this lack of rights and how it negatively impacts rural autonomy and development outcomes such as economic growth, inequality, urbanization, education, and the links between political parties and voters.

Ansell and Lindvall present the first comprehensive analysis of the origins of modern public services. Recounting conflicts among parties and religious groups over the political control of services, from prisons to schools and asylums, the book is for anyone interested in political science, public administration, history, and political sociology.

This book explains the persistence of violent, unaccountable policing in Latin American democracies. It is for scholars, students, educators, policy makers, journalists, advocates, and ordinary citizens who are concerned with the relationship between police and communities, human rights, democracy, and police reform.

This book is for scholars, students, journalists, and policy makers who study criminal violence, narco wars, transitions to democracy, corruption, and Mexican and Latin American politics. It analyzes the outbreak and intensification of Mexico's crime wars, revealing the political foundations of large-scale criminal violence in new democracies.

How and why do armed rebellions start? This study offers a rare look into the incipient stages of rebellion, arguing that only rebel groups controlling local rumor networks survive and become viable challengers to governments. It is a valuable resource for both scholars and policymakers of political science.

Despite the rapid urbanization of African societies, the socio-economic changes associated with urbanization are not having the political effects that many expected. This book contributes to understanding African urbanization, political behavior, and the ability of developing societies to transition away from clientelism.

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.

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.

Why Bother? offers and tests a new theory about participation in politics and, in particular, why people vote and join protests. This book will appeal to students and scholars in political science, sociology, and social psychology and to members of the public who want to understand trends in political participation.

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.

The first rigorous comparative study of movement-based parties, this book shows not only how movements form parties but also how movements contribute to shaping parties' internal politics and organizational models. Anria sheds new light on Latin America's three most innovative leftist parties: Bolivia's MAS, Brazil's PT, and Uruguay's FA.

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.

How do democracies form and what makes them die? In a wide-ranging narrative of democracy's history in Europe, from 1830s Britain to Adolf Hitler's 1933 seizure of power in Weimar Germany, the book offers a re-interpretation of how stable political democracy is built, coming to the bold conclusion that democracy's historical adversaries, conservative political parties, shape democracy's viability.

Can meaningful representation arise in an authoritarian setting? Making Autocracy Work identifies the trade-offs associated with representation in authoritarian environments and then tests the theory with original data from China's National People's Congress (NPC), the country's highest formal political institution.