This book analyzes primary source evidence from militia groups, demonstrating the driving forces behind the post-war trajectory of armed groups.

A bold re-interpretation of democracy's historical rise in Europe, Ziblatt highlights the surprising role of conservative political parties with sweeping implications for democracy today.

Combining quantitative and qualitative methods, this book presents a revisionist account of the post-Soviet wars and their settlement.

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...

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

Based on years of fieldwork in Colombia, this is an analysis of rebel institutions and civilian-combatant relations in civil war.

The Political Logic of Poverty Relief places electoral politics and institutional design at the core of poverty alleviation.

A comparative study of the role of political parties and movements in the founding and survival of developing world democracies.