The democratization literature has increased our understanding of the role of institutional
variables in the study of democratic sustainability. Debates about the dangers of …

Despite an increased need to measure presidential power and the increased use of such
measurements in empirical studies, there has been little examination of the relative merits 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 …

Institutional theory plays a significant role in contemporary political science. As in the
previous editions, the new fourth edition provides an overview of the major institutional …

New democracies around the world have adopted constitutional courts to oversee the
operation of democratic politics. Where does judicial power come from, how does it develop …

A comprehensive, methodological, and theoretical survey of comparative politics
Comparative Politics provides a comprehensive, theoretical, and methodological …

Democracy does not evolve sui generis. The spatial clustering in democracy and transitions
suggests that international factors play a prominent role in forging democracies as well as …

Arend Lijphart is one of the world's leading and most influential political scientists whose
work has had a profound impact on the study of democracy and comparative politics …

Neste livro, alterno o termo modelo Westminster com o de modelo majoritário para referir-
me a um modelo genérico de democracia. Também é possível usá-lo de forma mais …

Few scholars have systematically examined whether the world outside a state's borders can
influence the prospects for democracy. Jon Pevehouse argues that regional organizations …