This book explores the motives of local political elites and armed groups in carrying out violence against civilians during civil war.

This book proposes a new theory of identity politics in elections, explaining why it is difficult for democracies to address rising inequality.

Who Speaks for the Poor? explains why parties represent some groups and not others. This book focuses attention on the electoral geography of income, and how it has changed over time, to account for cross-national differences in the political and partisan representation of low-income voters. Jusko develops a general theory of new party formation that shows how changes in the geographic distribution of groups across electoral districts create opportunities for new parties to enter elections, especially where changes favor groups previously excluded from local partisan networks. Empirical...

The book explains why and when laws go unenforced in developing countries.