This book uses original data from China's National People's Congress to challenge conceptions of representation, authoritarianism, and the political system.

Explains how dictatorships rise, survive, and fall, along with why some but not all dictators wield vast powers.

“When Gessen speaks about autocracy, you listen.” —The New York Times “A reckoning with what has been lost in the past few years and a map forward with

Is democratic governance good for economic prosperity? Does it accelerate progress towards social welfare and human development? Does it generate a peace-divide

This book explores human polity with respect to its nature, context, and evolution. Specifically, it examines how individual wills translate into political ideo