Margaret Levi

Of Rule and Revenue

Margaret Levi's wide-ranging theoretical and historical study demonstrates the importance of political relative to economic factors in accounting for ...

Of Rule and Revenue

Margaret Levi's wide-ranging theoretical and historical study demonstrates the importance of political relative to economic factors in accounting for ...

Trust and Governance

Trust and Governance asks several important questions: Is trust really essential to good governance, or are strong laws more important? What leads peo...

Cooperation Without Trust?

Some social theorists claim that trust is necessary for the smooth functioning of a democratic society. Yet many recent surveys suggest that trust is ...

Analytic Narratives

Students of comparative politics have long faced a vexing dilemma: how can social scientists draw broad, applicable principles of political order from...

Consent, Dissent, and Patriotism

Democratic governments are able to elicit, legally and legitimately, both money and men from their populations. Certainly there is tax evasion, draft ...

A Moral Political Economy

Present, Past, and Future

Economies - and the government institutions that support them - reflect a moral and political choice, a choice we can make and remake. Since the dawn ...

In the Interest of Others

Organizations and Social Activism

A groundbreaking study of labor unions that advances a new theory of organizational leadership and governance In the Interest of Others develops a new...

Whom Can We Trust?

How Groups, Networks, and Institutions Make Trust Possible

Conventional wisdom holds that trust is essential for cooperation between individuals and institutions—such as community organizations, banks, and l...

Labor Standards in International Supply Chains

Aligning Rights and Incentives

The authors examine developments in labor standards in global supply chains over the past thirty years, analyzing factors that create challenges and o...

Competition and Cooperation

Conversations with Nobelists about Economics and Political Science

The discussions analyze, adapt, and extend the Nobelist's seminal work, showing how it has carried over into political science and paved the way for f...

Inside Rebellion

Some rebel groups abuse noncombatant populations, while others exhibit restraint. Insurgent leaders in some countries transform local structures of go...

A Weapon Against War

Conscientious Objection in the U.S., Australia and France

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Bureaucratic Insurgency

The Case of Police Unions

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Women in "the Working Man's Paradise"

Sole Parents, the Women's Movement, and the Social Policy Bargain in Australia

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Compliance to the Commonwealth Income Tax in Australia

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