By examining the institutions of government through the lens of constitution-making, Crafting Constitutional Democracies provides a broad and insightful introduction to ...

In The Collapse of Liberalism, noted political scientist Charles Noble takes liberalism to task for not being radical enough—for what he sees as a long history of how ...

The American Anomaly systematically analyzes and explains the U.S. political system by way of comparison with other countries, especially other industrialized democracies. It ...

Examining democracies from a comparative perspective helps us better understand why politics—or “who gets what, when, and how”—differs among democracies. In American ...

In the long-established democracies of Western Europe, electoral turnouts are in decline, membership is shrinking in the major parties, and those who remain loyal partisans are ...

How can political science help you understand the world you live in? Modern approaches to the study of politics analyze why Congress, the president, the courts, and other ...

Brimming with data and examples from the heated 2004 election, and laced with previews of 2008, the twelfth edition of this classic text offers a complete overview of the ...