Donald Horowitz

The Deadly Ethnic Riot

Donald Horowitz defines a deadly ethnic riot as "an intense, though not necessarily unplanned, lethal attack by members of one ethnic group on civilia...

Ethnic Groups in Conflict, Updated Edition With a New Preface

Drawing material from dozens of divided societies, Donald L. Horowitz constructs his theory of ethnic conflict, relating ethnic affiliations to kinshi...

Constitutional Change and Democracy in Indonesia

How did democracy became entrenched in the world's largest Muslim-majority country? After the fall of its authoritarian regime in 1998, Indonesia purs...

A Democratic South Africa?

Constitutional Engineering in a Divided Society

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

Ethnic Groups in Conflict

To understand ethnic conflict is an ambitious task, but by focusing on the logic and structure of conflict and discussing measures to abate it, Horowi...

Coup Theories and Officers' Motives

Sri Lanka in Comparative Perspective

Donald Horowitz presents a case study of an attempted military coup in Sri Lanka. On the basis of interviews with twenty-three participants in this at...

Constitutional Processes and Democratic Commitment

From one of our leading scholars of comparative constitutionalism, advice for everyone involved in the surprisingly common practice of constitution-wr...

The Courts and Social Policy

In recent years, the power of American judges to make social policy has been significantly broadened. The courts have reached into many matters once t...