Princeton Studies in Global and Comparative Sociology⁹

Andreas Wimmer, Series Editor

An increasing number of social scientists are no longer content with focusing on a single society but are keen to explore processes that affect all societies or that can be understood only through systematic comparisons across them. The Princeton Series in Global and Comparative Sociology aims to publish books that dare to compare either by focusing on global phenomena or by studying social processes across countries and continents.

Popular Politics and the Path to Durable Democracy Mohammad Ali Kadivar
When protests swept through the Middle East at the height of the Arab Spring, the world appeared to be on the verge of a wave of democratization. Yet with the failure of many of these uprisings, it has become clearer than ever that the...
The Global Rules of Art: The Emergence and Divisions of a Cultural World Economy Larissa Buchholz
Prior to the 1980s, the postwar canon of “international” contemporary art was made up almost exclusively of artists from North America and Western Europe, while cultural agents from other parts of the world often found themselves on...
Mapping the Transnational World: How We Move and Communicate across Borders, and Why It Matters Emanuel Deutschmann
Increasingly, people travel and communicate across borders. Yet, we still know little about the overall structure of this transnational world. Is it really a fully globalized world in which everything is linked, as popular catchphrases...
Agents of Reform: Child Labor and the Origins of the Welfare State Elisabeth Anderson
The beginnings of the modern welfare state are often traced to the late nineteenth-century labor movement and to policymakers’ efforts to appeal to working-class voters. But in Agents of Reform, Elisabeth Anderson shows that the...
Persuasive Peers: Social Communication and Voting in Latin America Andy Baker, Barry Ames, and Lúcio Rennó
In Latin America’s new democracies, political parties and mass partisanship are not deeply entrenched, leaving many votes up for grabs during election campaigns. In a typical presidential election season, between one-quarter and...
Nation Building: Why Some Countries Come Together While Others Fall Apart Andreas Wimmer
Nation Building presents bold new answers to an age-old question. Why is national integration achieved in some diverse countries, while others are destabilized by political inequality between ethnic groups, contentious politics, or even...
Give and Take: Developmental Foreign Aid and the Pharmaceutical Industry in East Africa Nitsan Chorev
Give and Take looks at local drug manufacturing in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda, from the early 1980s to the present, to understand the impact of foreign aid on industrial development. While foreign aid has been attacked by critics as...
Citizenship 2.0: Dual Nationality as a Global Asset Yossi Harpaz
Citizenship 2.0 focuses on an important yet overlooked dimension of globalization: the steady rise in the legitimacy and prevalence of dual citizenship. Demand for dual citizenship is particularly high in Latin America and Eastern...
The Paradox of Vulnerability: States, Nationalism, and the Financial Crisis John L. Campbell and John A. Hall
Why are small and culturally homogeneous nation-states in the advanced capitalist world so prosperous? Examining how Denmark, Ireland, and Switzerland managed the 2008 financial crisis, The Paradox of Vulnerability shows that this is...