▪ Abstract This article provides an overview of recent developments in historical
institutionalism. First, it reviews some distinctions that are commonly drawn between the …

Third-generation theories of revolution pointed to the structural vulnerabilities of regimes as
the basic causes of revolutions. In the last decade, critics of structural theories have argued …

This chapter aims to detail the narrative policy framework (NPF) in an effort to provide a
means by which policy researchers in a variety of contexts can advance scientific …

Este artigo analisa a trajetória de construção de políticas públicas para a agricultura familiar
no Brasil, procurando enfatizar as" gerações" ou referenciais de políticas públicas …

The 'new institutionalism'is a term that now appears with growing frequency in political
science. However, there is considerable confusion about just what the 'new …

For nearly a decade now, academic social movement studies have been shaped by the
organizing efforts and conceptual frameworking of the three authors of the present book …

Populism is best understood as a Manichaean worldview linked to a characteristic language
or discourse. Chavismo, the movement that sustains Hugo Chávez in Venezuela, is a …

Xi Chen explores the question of why there has been a dramatic rise in and routinization of
social protests in China since the early 1990s. Drawing on case studies, in-depth interviews …

This article pushes forward our understanding of populism by developing one of the more
underappreciated definitions of populism, populism as discourse. It does so by creating a …

Early in the 1950s my parents tired of summer holidays mostly spent on chilly wind-swept
beaches and embarked, with hire car, tents, and four young children, on what was, in the …