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Tracing the history of Mexico's Zapatista movement and the emergence of its controversial masked spokesman, Subcommandante Marcos, this investigates the implications of two important questions: Can charismatic authority be used to further progressive politics without simultaneously doing damage?, and is it possible for a movement with a charismatic leader to achieve an egalitarian society?

Why did the Truman administration reject a pragmatic approach to the Taiwan Strait conflict - recognizing Beijing and severing ties with Taipei - and instead choose the path of strategic ambiguity? Dean Chen sheds light on current US policy by exploring the thoughts and deliberations of President Truman and his top advisers. He also highlights the very unambiguous, and continuing, liberal aims of US Taiwan policy.

How have colonial and partisan politics in Puerto Rico affected the language used in public schools? What can we learn from the conflict over the place of English in Puerto Rican society? How has the role of English evolved over time? Addressing these questions, Jorge Schmidt explores the complex relationships among politics, language, and education in Puerto Rico from 1898 to the present.

Despite the pervasiveness of electoral democracy in Latin America, the police continue to repress political protests. Why? Does the majority of the public support the repression of protests? If not, whom do they hold accountable, and how? Michelle Bonner offers a new perspective on police reform and democratic accountability by analysing how people talk about the policing of protests in Argentina and Chile.

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Ngonidzashe Munemo challenges the conventional wisdom that African governments lack the technical capacity and political will to respond to drought and the threat of famine. Through a comparative analysis of three politically disparate countries - Botswana, Kenya, and Zimbabwe - he demonstrates that differences in the ways that governments face similar drought-induced food crisis are the result not of incompetence, but of rational political co...

Provides an in-depth exploration of the causes and consequences of racial wealth inequality. Drawing on both national data and case studies from New York City, Martin probes the reasons for discrepancies in wealth accumulation and their significance for black Americans of all economic classes. Her work allows a deeper understanding of the impact of asset poverty on individuals, families, communities, and the nation as a whole.

Even in local elections, money matters—but just how much? Drawing on multifaceted data from more than 700 races featuring 2, 800 candidates, Brian Adams comprehensively investigates the role of money and the effects of campaign finance reforms at the local level.

What is the impact of globalisation on identity politics? This offers a comprehensive analytical framework and detailed case studies to explain how identity-based collectives both exploit and are shaped by the new realities of a globalised world.

Why do some enduring, violent rivalries between states end peacefully, while others drag on interminably or cease only with the complete collapse or defeat of one of the states? Eric Cox provides extensive evidence to support his explanation of how these disputes end, comparing successful and failed attempts to terminate rivalries in Latin America and the Middle East.

Why have so many attempts at democracy in the past half-century failed? Confronting this much discussed question, this title offers a novel explanation for the coups and rebellions that have toppled fledgling democratic regimes and that continue to threaten many democracies.

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John Cameron draws on power-based approaches to the study of democratization as he explores efforts by indigenous and peasant groups to gain control of local governments and deepen democracy in Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru. Cameron addresses three fundamental questions: What factors explain the success or failure of local political movements in the Andes? What forms of democracy are emerging in indigenous- and peasant-controlled municipalities? ...

Why does China act as it does in its pursuit of energy security? Are "resource wars” inevitable? Going beyond traditional analyses that focus on China as a regional and global threat, Jean Garrison sheds new light on the roots of the country's energy policy and the constraints that it faces. Her attention to the competing developmental and environmental priorities at play in China's domestic politics is a critical contribution to the global en...

Explores the legendary United Farm Workers' campaign to organise labourers - predominantly Latino immigrants - in California's strawberry industry. Tracing the UFW's actions from the picking fields to the world of government offices and corporate boardrooms, Mireles shows how the very traits that made the union such a successful advocate for farm workers also inhibited the meaningful participation of those same workers in the union.

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Why do some African local governments perform well, while others fail to deliver even the most basic services to their constituents? Gina Lambright finds answers to this question in her investigation of the factors that contribute to good - and those that result in ineffective - institutional performance at the district level in Uganda.