This volume presents the picture of competitive politics in as many as 24 states of India. It addresses the issue of relationship between parliamentary election and assembly election as it evolved during 2008-2013. Making the best use of the National Election Study of 2009, the …
Contributed articles on the caste membership of the members of state-level legislative assemblies of India.
Contributed articles on the caste membership of the members of state-level legislative assemblies of India.
When political scientists began to systematically examine whether the state ballot initiative process had spillover consequences, they found the initiative process had a positive impact on civic engagement. Recent scholarship casts doubt on these conclusions, determining the bal…
The 1783 Treaty of Paris, which officially recognized the United States as a sovereign republic, also doubled the territorial girth of the original thirteen colonies. The fledgling nation now stretched from the coast of Maine to the Mississippi River and up to the Great Lakes. W…
Campaign contributions are widely viewed as a corrupting influence, but most scholarly research concludes that they have marginal impact on legislative behavior. Lynda W. Powell shows that contributions have considerable influence in some state legislatures but very little in ot…
"This is a fluently written history of ancient Greece seen from the perspective of localism and the origins of the Greek City-State. Much like our own time, from the 8th century BCE until and even beyond its imperial end, the Greek world was constantly expanding and experiencing…
Over the last quarter century, a nationalized and increasingly conservative Republican Party made unprecedented gains at the state level, winning control of twenty-four new state governments. Liberals and conservatives alike anticipated far-reaching consequences, but what has th…
