In 1958, facing court-ordered integration, Virginia's governor closed public schools in three cities. His action provoked not only the NAACP but also large numb

Latin American democracies of the sixties and seventies, most theories hold, collapsed because they had become incompatible with the structural requirements of

The effort to legislate family and medical leave policies in the United States illustrates a dilemma at the heart of the American political process. Faced with

Latin American democracies of the sixties and seventies, most theories hold, collapsed because they had become incompatible with the structural requirements of

The fall of the Soviet communist regime in 1991 offers a challenging contrast to other instances of democratic transition and change in the last decades of the