Conceptualising Comparative Politics
About the Book Series
Advisory Board: Colin Hay (University of Sheffield), Courtney Jung (University of Toronto), Todd Landman (University of Essex), Mark Lichbach (University of Maryland), Shinasi Rama (New York University), Vivien Schmidt (Boston University), Till Förster (University of Basel), Zheng Yongnian (East Asia Institute/National University of Singapore)
Conceptualising Comparative Politics: People, Polities, and Markets seeks to bring a distinctive approach to comparative politics by rediscovering the discipline’s rich conceptual tradition and inter-disciplinary foundations. It aims to fill out the conceptual framework on which the rest of the subfield draws but to which books only sporadically contribute, and to complement theoretical and conceptual analysis by applying it to deeply explored case studies. The series publishes books that make serious inquiry into fundamental concepts in comparative politics (crisis, legitimacy, credibility, representation, institutions, civil society, reconciliation) through theoretically engaging and empirical deep analysis.
The Making of China’s Working Class: A World to Lose
1st Edition
By Marc Blecher
August 29, 2025
Marc Blecher presents a seminal analysis on development of the urban working class in China. Chinese workers have been the subjects of a great deal of analysis by scholars, documentation by journalists and activists, and portrayal by writers, filmmakers, and artists. The Making of China’s Working ...
Is There Such a Thing as Populism?: 3 Provocations and 5 1/2 Proposals
1st Edition
By Benjamin Arditi
October 08, 2024
Is There Such a Thing as Populism? calls into question our common understanding of populism. Taken on their own, commonplace references to the people, leaders, or elites are more like dog whistles or false positives of populism than part of a serious attempt to address the phenomenon. Scholars ...
Populism in Power: Discourse and Performativity in SYRIZA and Donald Trump
1st Edition
By Giorgos Venizelos
October 08, 2024
Shifting attention away from policy achievements and effects on democracy, this book focuses on the charismatic function of populist discourse – comprising antagonistic narratives, transgressive style and appeals to the common people. The book puts forward an integrative approach that brings ...
Right-Wing Populism in Latin America and Beyond
1st Edition
Edited
By Anthony W. Pereira
June 02, 2023
With contributions from 22 scholars and empirical material from 29 countries within and beyond Latin America, this book identifies subtypes of populism to further understand right-wing populist movements, parties, leaders, and governments. It seeks to examine whether the term populism continues to ...
Authoritarian Gravity Centers: A Cross-Regional Study of Authoritarian Promotion and Diffusion
1st Edition
Edited
By Marianne Kneuer, Thomas Demmelhuber
December 13, 2021
Autocracies not only resist the global spread of democracy but are sources of autocratic influence and pressure. This book presents a conceptual model to understand, assess, and explain the promotion and diffusion of authoritarian elements. Employing a cross-regional approach, leading experts ...
Populism in Global Perspective: A Performative and Discursive Approach
1st Edition
Edited
By Pierre Ostiguy, Francisco Panizza, Benjamin Moffitt
December 30, 2020
Pathbreaking theoretically and innovative in treatment, Populism in Global Perspective is a seminal addition to the literature on arguably the most controversial and fervently discussed topic in political science today. The book brings together established and rising stars in the field of populism ...
Politics as a Science: A Prolegomenon
1st Edition
By Philippe C. Schmitter, Marc Blecher
July 22, 2020
In Politics as a Science, two of the world's leading authorities on Comparative Politics, Philippe C. Schmitter and Marc Blecher, provide a lively introduction to the concepts and framework to study and analyze politics. Written with dexterity, concision and clarity, this short text makes no claim ...
Manipulating Political Decentralisation: Africa's Inclusive Autocrats
1st Edition
By Lovise Aalen, Ragnhild L. Muriaas
July 12, 2019
Can autocrats establish representative subnational governments? And which strategies of manipulation are available if they would like to reduce the uncertainty caused by introducing political decentralisation? In the wake of local government reforms, several states across the world have introduced ...
What Kind of Democracy?: Participation, Inclusiveness and Contestation
1st Edition
By Kateřina Vráblíková
July 27, 2018
The broad expansion of non-electoral political participation is considered one of the major changes in the nature of democratic citizenship in the 21st century. Most scholars – but also governments, transnational and subnational political institutions, and various foundations – have adopted the ...
Migration Governance across Regions: State-Diaspora Relations in the Latin America-Southern Europe Corridor
1st Edition
By Ana Margheritis
June 16, 2017
Migration policies are rarely effective. Examples of unintended and undesirable outcomes abound. In Latin America, very little is known about the impact and long-term sustainability of state policies towards emigrants. Following a world-wide trend, Ecuador, Uruguay, Mexico, Argentina, and Brazil ...
The Politics of Governance: Actors and Articulations in Africa and Beyond
1st Edition
Edited
By Lucy Koechlin, Till Förster
November 29, 2016
How do government arrangements emerge? When and how does individual agency turn into collective agency? How do sensory experiences of violence, instability, etc affect the configuration of governance arrangements? When, why, and how are governance arrangements institutionalized? This book seeks to...
From Religious Empires to Secular States: State Secularization in Turkey, Iran, and Russia
1st Edition
By Birol Başkan
May 31, 2016
In the 1920s and the 1930s, Turkey, Iran and Russia vehemently pursued state-secularizing reforms, but adopted different strategies in doing so. But why do states follow different secularizing strategies? The literature has already shattered the illusion that secularization of the state has been a ...