Co-written with Karen Barkey and Sudipta Kaviraj, published by Oxford University Press.
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Revises prevailing understandings of simplistic East-West; Secular-Religious; and Democratic-Authoritarian binaries.
Presents a three-way comparison between Turkey, India and Pakistan
Applies a unique...
Across the globe, the domain of the litigator and the judge has radically expanded, making it increasingly difficult for those who study comparative and international politics, public policy and regulation, or the evolution of new modes of governance to avoid encountering a great deal of law and...
A powerful dissection of one of the fundamental problems in American governance today: the clash between presidents determined to redirect the nation through ever-tighter control of administration and an executive branch still organized to promote shared interests in steady hands, due deliberation...
Co-Edited with Kazuko Suzuki.
Provides a direct engagement of social-scientific perspectives on race with recent developments in genomics that use racial/ethnic terminologies in medical research. Includes perspectives that go outside the US context and beyond traditional Western paradigms of race...
In recent decades, democracies across the world have adopted measures to increase popular involvement in political decisions. Parties have turned to primaries and local caucuses to select candidates; ballot initiatives and referenda allow citizens to enact laws directly; many places now use...
The Art of Power is a challenge to traditional political theory. Diego A. von Vacano examines the work of Machiavelli, arguing that he establishes a new, aesthetic perspective on political life. He then proceeds to carry out the most extensive analysis to date of an important relationship in...
The French Constitutional Council, a quasi-judicial body created at the dawn of the Fifth Republic, functioned in relative obscurity for almost two decades until its emergence in the 1980s as a pivotal actor in the French policymaking process. Alec Stone focuses on how this once docile institution...
The role of race in politics, citizenship, and the state is one of the most perplexing puzzles of modernity. While political thought has been slow to take up this puzzle, Diego von Vacano suggests that the tradition of Latin American and Hispanic political thought, which has long considered the...
This collection of essays spans the period 2005-2008, when Evo Morales was consolidating power despite extreme opposition by both elites in Eastern Bolivia and the United States. While Hugo Chávez is no longer on the political scene, and the Castro brothers in Cuba represent an older brand of...
In 1950, a European political space existed, but only as a very limited site of international governance; today, the European Union governs in an ever-growing number of policy domains. This book provides an eye-opening account of the development of the European Union, from a relatively specialized...
