Participatory governance mechanisms have been widely promoted in developing countries.
They are claimed to bring about several public policy benefits, including increased …

Not all politics is local. Not even local politics is necessarily local. The reemergence of local
politics is not comparable to the nationalization of politics but is rather an element making …

Approximately 1 billion people currently live in informal settlements, primarily in urban areas
in low-and middle-income countries. Informal settlements are defined by poor-quality …

The ascendance of austerity policies and the protests they have generated have had a deep
impact on the shape of contemporary politics. The stunning electoral successes of SYRIZA …

We inhabit a perpetually accelerating and increasingly interconnected world, with new
ideas, fads, and fashions moving at social-media speed. New policy ideas, especially “ideas …

Transportation policies, plans, and projects all flow through state institutions because of the
substantial cost of infrastructure and the need to assess transportation system performance …

This book explores the impact of economic crises and free-market reforms on party systems
and political representation in contemporary Latin America. It explains why some patterns of …

Democratization studies became a sub-field of political science/international relations only
very gradually. Despite the rich pool of data generated by the early 'third wave'transitions in …

In Europe, as in the rest of the Western world, scholarly interest in social movements
developed with the wave of protest that, in the late sixties, shook confidence in the 'end of …

Why do some parties formed by social movements develop top-down structures while others
stay more open and responsive to their social bases? The first rigorous comparative study of …