Political leaders use different tactics to ensure widespread compliance with state policies
and to minimize resistance. Scholarship tends to treat different tactics individually …

If the end of the 20th century was defined by the relatively widespread acceptance of
democracy, the second decade of the 21st century is marked by concerns about backsliding …

How do duly elected rulers weaken checks on executive power, curtail civil and political
liberties, and undermine the integrity of the electoral process? Drawing on sixteen cases of …

From the 1980s through the first decade of the twenty-first century, the spread of democracy
across the developing and post-Communist worlds transformed the global political …

The institutions of global governance have changed dramatically in recent years. New
organizational forms—including informal institutions, transgovernmental networks, and …

Nongovernmental organizations are central to contemporary global governance, and their
numbers and influence have grown dramatically since the middle of the twentieth century …

When and why do people obey political authority when it runs against their own interests to
do so? This book is about the channels beyond direct repression through which China's …

Benchmarking practices have rapidly diffused throughout the globe in recent years. This can
be traced to their popularity amongst non-state actors, such as civil society organisations …

What role do men play in women's political representation? When and why do they support
more inclusivity for women in office? Given that all political parties today have men in a …

Not all international nongovernmental organizations (INGOs) are created equal, Some have
emerged as" leading INGOs" that command deference from various powerful audiences and …