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How the structure of legal authority affects political inequality
In the process of both European and American state development, legal institutions developed from many separate venues with overlap** jurisdictions...
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A House Divided: Donald Trump and the Transformation of American Politics
Taking as its methodological principle the requirement to articulate long-term trends and conjunctural determinants as key to the analysis of...
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Blame it on my youth: the origins of attitudes towards immigration
Recent studies have demonstrated generational differences in attitudes towards immigration, however, less is known about what are the exact factors...
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Have you been served, your honor? Yes, thank you, your excellency: the judiciary and political corruption
Using a sample of 56 countries (28 rich and 28 poor), observed over the period 2004–2013, our paper develops an analysis of the contagion of...
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Gender and Identity in the Jigsaw Puzzle of Trump’s Zero Sum Politics
In this chapter, Margaret Walton-Roberts provides an analysis of Donald Trump through an intersectional gendered lens. In this analysis,...
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Politics and Society
In this chapter we identify the characters of political sociology as a “connective social science” that studies political phenomena by creating...
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Russian-Western Relations: A Trust Never Built
This chapter describes the evolution of Russian-Western relations after the Cold War and Russia’s search for a post-Cold War national identity. The...
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Explaining MPs’ Representative Conception in EU Politics
This chapter examines MPs’ conceptual patterns of representation based on interview data. The main purpose is to uncover the causal mechanisms behind...
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Thou Shalt Not Deport? Religious Ethical Discourse and the Politics of Asylum in Poland and Israel
The chapter explores the use of religious ethical discourse to support more or less restrictionist state policies toward asylum seekers. Drawing on...
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Altruism and Spite in Politics: How the Mind Makes Welfare Tradeoffs About Political Parties
How much will people sacrifice to support or oppose political parties? Extending previous work on the psychology of interpersonal cooperation, we...
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Language Barriers: Causal Evidence of Linguistic Item Bias in Multilingual Surveys
Accurate estimation of public opinion in diverse countries requires survey questions that operate similarly across languages. We leverage 3,026...
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The 20th CPC National Congress and China’s Foreign Policy: implication and reflection
A new central leadership was elected at the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC), ensuring China’s domestic political...
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The Confederation of the Mountain Peoples of the Caucasus: A Nonunitary, Nonstate Actor in Georgian-Abkhazian(-Russian) Relations
The chapter discusses the role of the Confederation of the Mountain Peoples of the Caucasus (CMPC) as a nonstate actor in the conflict in Abkhazia in...
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The United Nations and New Multilateralism
The United Nations is the heart of the international system. The path to a better, more peaceful, and more sustainable future is paved with...
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Closing the Gender Gap in Legislative Debates: The Role of Gender Quotas
Democratic societies increasingly look into gender quotas as a means to increase women’s representation in politics. Yet even as women occupy more...
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Ukraine and the Civilizational Choice of the Shared Neighbourhood
The Ukrainian conflict is a consequence of the failure to establish a mutually acceptable settlement in Europe after the Cold War. The efforts to...
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Building a Community of Shared Future in Indo-Pacific Region: Challenges and Potential
The last decade has seen the concept of ‘Indo-Pacific’ emerge as yet more of a concept as also a source of inter-state contestation, competition,...
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The Great Climate Transformation
In this chapter, the main theoretical framework of the book is presented. The main argument has two strands. First, it is argued that the dynamic...
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An Introduction: Protests, Pandemic, and Security Predicaments in Hong Kong, China, Taiwan, and the US
This chapter surveys and summarizes chapters in this volume in dealing with key developments since 2019, including the Hong Kong Protests, the...
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Hard Decisions on Soft Power: Opportunities and Difficulties for Chinese Soft Power
Broadly defined, power is the ability to affect others to obtain the outcomes one wants. One can affect other individuals’ behavior in three main...