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How Democracies Die by
Is our democracy in danger? Harvard professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt have spent more than twenty years studying the breakdown of democracies in Europe and Latin America, and they believe the answer is yes. Democracy no longer ends with a bang--in a revolution or military coup--but with a whimper: the slow, steady weakening of critical institutions, such as the judiciary and the press, and the gradual erosion of long-standing political norms.
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Comparative Politics is a journal that communicates new ideas and research findings to social scientists, scholars, and students. It is also indispensable to experts throughout the world. Click here to browse articles via CCBC's JSTOR database subscription.
International Trade Agreements and Political Economy
This book presents a comprehensive view of recent developments in the theory of international trade agreements and political economy, by focusing on research by Raymond Riezman. This pioneering work introduced terms of trade effects and strategic behavior to the theory of international trade agreements. This is complemented by a careful analysis of how politics affects international trade agreements.The book brings together work which focuses on the question of why international trade agreements occur and what forms they take.
Governments of the World
U.S. elections, the introduction of democracy to Afghanistan, international refugee aid efforts. Such topics are in the news and in classroom discussions every day. Governments of the World provides authoritative and up-to-date background information on nearly 200 countries' institutions and governments. It describes and analyzes how they affect citizens in the daily exercise of their rights and responsibilities.
