Over the last 40 years, Africa has experienced relatively fewer secessionist conflicts than
most other regions of the world, even though it is otherwise plagued with political violence …

Given the global trend of increasing ethnocultural diversity and the outbreak of nationalist
movements based on cultural, linguistic, and territorial identities, this review focuses on …

Employing analytical tools borrowed from game theory, Carles Boix offers a complete theory
of political transitions, in which political regimes ultimately hinge on the nature of economic …

Nationalism has become the most prevalent source of political conflict and violence in the
world. Scholarship has provided scant guidance about the prospects of containing the dark …

Because of the redistributive nature of institutions and the availability of implementable
alternatives with different distributive consequences, the desire of federation members to …

Despite implicating ethnicity in everything from civil war to economic failure, researchers
seldom consult psychological research when addressing the most basic question: What is …

Russia poses a major puzzle for theorists of party development. Whereas virtually every
classic work takes political parties to be inevitable and essential to democracy, Russia has …

The paradox of federalism is about whether self-rule accommodates or exacerbates ethnic
divisions. A federal arrangement that formally recognizes ethno-linguistic diversity to help …

At a time when globalization is supposedly producing homogeneity, differences derived from
ethnicity have become especially lethal. Ethnic violence within states is now much more …

Objective We argue that the “everyday nationalism” approach is both useful and necessary
for improving existing constructivist approaches in the comparative study of nationalism and …