Political violence is rising in the United States, with Republicans and Democrats divided
along racial and ethnic lines that spurred massive bloodshed and democratic collapse …

Recent alterations to violent groups in the United States and to the composition of the two
main political parties have created a latent force for violence that can be 1) triggered by a …

This book represents a considerable revision and expansion of Public Choice II (1989). As
in the previous additions, all of the major topics of public choice are covered. These include …

Existing theories of the nature of the state in Western capitalist democracies have been
mostly propounded from one of three major theoretical perspectives, each emphasising a …

Since the end of the Cold War, more and more countries feature political regimes that are
neither liberal democracies nor closed authoritarian systems. Most research on these hybrid …

First published in 1991. This book initially offers a critique of some key rational public choice
models, to show that they were internally inconsistent and ideologically slanted. Then due to …

After describing the universe of 233 new parties formed in 19 West European and Anglo-
American democracies from 1960 through 1980, the authors use data on those parties to …

This volume, newly published in paperback, is part of a comprehensive effort by RJ Rummel
to understand and place in historical perspective the entire subject of genocide and mass …

THE AIM OF THIS ARTICLE IS TO SUGGEST HOW CRIMINOLOGY CAN REMEDY ITS
neglect of the important phenomenon of state crime, without adopting such a broad …

From assumptions of parties as rational actors, this study develops four measures of
government performance: duration, mode of resignation, subsequent alternation, and …