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Japan's electoral system, which emphasizes first-past-the-post, single-member district rules, has led the country's party system to become consolidated around the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ). [...]

Abstract: The authors explain why ethnicity briefly played a role in Russian politics in the early 1990s and then faded away. They reject explanations that focus on demographic, economic, and [...]

Abstract: In the wake of the collapse of communist regimes between 1989 and 1991, political scientists turned their attention to explaining the variation in the development of political parties and [...]

Abstract: Focusing on the battle between democrats and their opponents does not provide a satisfying way to explain the political trajectories of the former Soviet states. A more useful approach [...]

Abstract: For most of the 1990s, many analysts focused their attention on determining the circumstances under which a particular set of economic policies could be implemented in a post-communist state. [...]

SNAPSHOTS At Johnny's Cafe on West Main Street in Carrboro, North Carolina, customers savor gourmet coffee with fresh pastries. Known for more than two decades as Johnny's Sporting Goods, the [...]

In 1986, Kenneth Lieberthal observed that the study of China in the United States had had little effect on the evolution of political science. Over twenty years later, its impact [...]

This article uses notes generated by France's surveillance of African and Afro-Caribbean migrants during the interwar years to analyze the use black men made of racial terms such as negre [...]

As Prime Minister Nikita Khrushchev and President Dwight Eisenhower made efforts to liberalize relations between the Soviet Union and the United States, progressive Californians gestured warmly toward Soviet Deputy Prime [...]

Elinor Accampo, Blessed Motherhood, Bitter Fruit: Nelly Roussel and the Politics of Female Pain in Third Republic France (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006). In the introduction to her [...]

Pierre Rosanvallon, The Demands of Liberty: Civil Society in France Since the Revolution, trans. Arthur Goldhammer (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007). Although French public opinion is strikingly negative towards [...]

Electioneering for the Japanese Lower House has undergone significant changes in recent years. While voter mobilization strategies still figure prominently in the local-level campaigns of individual candidates, political parties increasingly [...]

Catharine Macaulay and Mercy Otis Warren: The Revolutionary Atlantic and the Politics of Gender KATE DAVIES New York: Oxford University Press, 2005 336 pp. Kate Davies enters into a flourishing [...]

Abstract: This introduction to a special section of Demokratizatsiya describes the European University at St. Petersburg/Georgetown University project on 'New Approaches to Russian Politics and Security.' The guest editor reviews [...]

The Many Faces of Political Islam: Religion and Politics in the Muslim World, by Mohammed Ayoob. University of Michigan Press, 2008. 232 pages. $22.95, paperback. Although explicitly aimed at students [...]

This article revisits the electoral emphasis of hybrid regime studies, arguing instead that the impact of elections is structured by variations in prior political institutions, particularly the dismantlement or maintenance [...]

A stable and effective party system depends on consistent and enduring support from social groups. Using the Lipset-Rokkan paradigm as a point of departure, this article tests the relationship between [...]

Joan B. Wolf, Harnessing the Holocaust: The Politics of Memory in France (Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2004). Established in France in the 1980s and 90s by scholars such as [...]

Herman Lebovics, Bringing the Empire Back Home: France in the Global Age (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004). Bringing the Empire Back Home is Herman Lebovics's third book on French [...]

France and the United States are commonly portrayed as proceeding from diametrically opposed presumptions in their approaches to race policy. (1) The United States, this line of argument goes, has [...]

The Institutional Imperative: The Politics of Equitable Development in Southeast Asia. By Erik Martinez Kuhonta. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2011. Hardcover: 352pp. Southeast Asia's 'miracle' growth was both rapid and [...]

The Politics of Uneven Development: Thailand's Economic Growth in Comparative Perspective. By Richard F. Doner. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009.351 pp. $80.00 (cloth); $24.99 (paper). Richard Doner's new book [...]

William D. Irvine, Between Justice and Politics: The Ligue des Droits de l'Homme, 1898-1945 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007). In 2002, more than 500 cartons containing the confiscated pre-World War [...]

Platt, Harold. Shock Cities: The Environmental Transformation and Reform of Manchester and Chicago. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. Alexis de Tocqueville saw it as a 'monstrosity': a city where [...]

Faith in Moderation: Islamist Parties in Jordan and Yemen, by Jillian Schwedler. Cambridge University Press, 2006. 252 pages. $80, hardcover. Does political participation lead Islamist parties to be more moderate? [...]

The focus of interest surrounding the welfare state has changed gradually but sustainably, given the challenges of economic globalization (Scharpf/Schmidt 2000), the segmented Europeanization of national welfare states (Lamping 2009) [...]

African Film: New Forms of Aesthetics and Politics by Manthia Diawara Berlin: Prestel Verla9, 2010. 320 pages; 40 color illustrations, 20 b/w illustrations + 1 DVD. $34.95 / 19.99 £, [...]

Joshua M. Zeitz, White Ethnic New York: Jews, Catholics, and the Shaping of Postwar Politics. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. 296 pp. Joshua Zeitz's lucid and provocative [...]

Schultz, Ronald. The Republic of Labor: Philadelphia Artisans and the Politics of Class, 1720-1830. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. Pp. xi, 298. Illustrations. $63.00. Schultz suggests that the 'rights [...]

Walter, Richard J. Politics and Urban Growth in Buenos Aires: 1910-1942. (Cambridge Latin American Studies). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Pp. xii, 278. Tables, maps, photographs, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. [...]

Mollenkopf, John Hull, A Phoenix in the Ashes: The Rise and Fall of the Koch Coalition in New York City Politics. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1992. Pp. xi, [...]