Books in the Sage Library of Political Science series

This major reference collection, edited by one of the foremost scholars in the field, organizes, defines and clarifies diverse and wide ranging theories of federalism.

This Major Work brings together articles that have made an impact and have implications beyond their disciplinary field or topic, presented in four comprehensive volumes.

This Major Work brings together key papers on political extremism and radicalism, focussing predominantly upon extremism and radicalism within (liberal) democratic contexts, but also moving beyond this by including both (particularly historic) studies of the main extremist regimes and articles of the 20th century.

This important set captures the diversity of post-Soviet politics so as offer a timely collection of seminal excerpts on the subject, thereby giving insight into how we understand Russia today.

The last 25 years have seen literature about electoral systems grow exponentially in level and range of output. This collection examines and maps these rapid developments.

Internationally renowned editors, Stewart Clegg and Mark Haugaard, have joined forces to compile this major collection on power theory in politics.

Focusing on democratic leaders in the political sphere, this essential collection includes classic works from Machiavelli and Weber, to works from Skowronek and other contempory political scientists.

Presenting a collection of field-defining published works, both classical and contemporary, these four volumes define health systems, consider tensions in health policy, look at health systems comparatively, and examine the politics of health system reform.

This collection explains aspects or experiments in democratization across the world and relates the substantial body of work on comparative, cross-regional and cross-case work across thematic fields of study, enabling researchers to make sense of the best of a broad and potentiall intimidating field.

This collection of volumes investigates the issue of corruption, including research literature which covers concepts and cases, through to causes, consequences and possible cures.

This collection brings together for the first time a broad range of perspectives on the diverse and highly significant subject of political science.

Rational choice politics has now become central to the discipline of political science - this set will lay out the most exciting advances in our theoretical understanding of political institutions and political philosophy.

Comparative Politics addresses the classic questions of political science: the formation and collapse of regimes and governments; the political calculations, values, and behavior of citizens; the relationship between collective choice and policy outcomes, between state and citizen, between international arena and domestic politics.

Part of the SAGE Library of Political Science, This four volume set is the first to collect the most significant and insightful articles on Public Governance into a single volume set.

This five-volume Major Work brings together the key articles that laid the foundations, extended and deepened the techniques, and demonstrated the application of the empirical-methodological toolbox of modern positive political science.