The global ascendance of populism has produced an explosion of research, bringing
together scholarship on American and comparative politics as well as encouraging …

Clientelism is characterized by the combination of particularistic targeting and contingency-
based exchange. This method of contingent exchange thrives in both autocracies and …

Authoritarian populist parties have advanced in many countries, and entered government in
states as diverse as Austria, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, and Switzerland. Even small …

Across Europe and many other parts of the world, traditional parties of the left seem to be in
terminal decline. While there are many reasons for this, we argue that the most important …

For more than a century, from 1900 to 2006, campaigns of nonviolent resistance were more
than twice as effective as their violent counterparts in achieving their stated goals. By …

Offering a single, coherent framework of the political, economic, and social phenomena that
characterize post-communist regimes, this is the most comprehensive work on the subject to …

Scholars are coming to terms with the fact that something is rotten in the new democracies of
Central Europe. The corrosion has multiple symptoms: declining trust in democratic …

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 …

What has happened to the European radical left after the collapse of the USSR? How has it
reacted, reformed, even revived? This new volume is one of the first to provide an overview …

Why, when, and how does populism emerge in a stable democracy? This article investigates
the political logic and ideological appeal of a rarely explored form of populism: technocratic …