The second edition of this popular text provides a comprehensive introduction to the main
research methods employed in the study of politics and assessment of their strengths and …

Decentralization is a word that has been used by different people to mean a good many
different things. But what do we see in practice? Experiments with local government that end …

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the study of international diplomacy,
covering both theory and practice. This second edition has been revised and updated, with …

Die vergleichende Politikwissenschaft ist eine Teildisziplin der Politikwissenschaft, deren
Selbstverständnis sich durch die vergleichende Methode ergibt. Oftmals ist die …

LGBT rights have expanded across the Western Hemisphere, albeit unevenly. This article
seeks to explain this uneven progress. It argues that important tenets in the literature on the …

In earlier decades, there was a consensus about a specific comparative method. It was
differentiated from a statistical and from a case-study methodology, and it emphasized …

The heated debates between proponents of rational-choice, culturalist, and structuralist (or
historical institutionalist) analysis over method and substance derive from differences over …

Bei der vorliegenden Arbeit handelt es sich um meine Dissertationsschrift, die ich im Herbst
2008 abgeschlossen und eingereicht habe. Damit ging ein Forschungsprojekt zu Ende, das …

" New institutional economics and public-choice literature indicate that it is possible to
achieve greater efficiency and equity in public decisionmaking by internalizing externalities …

The academic study of human rights since the 1948 UN Declaration has flourished
considerably, a process that has increasingly involved a variety of disciplines from the legal …