Bøger af Ronald A. Francisco

This landmark study describes the momentous events from 1989 to 1991 that led up to German unification, explaining how and why they happened as they did, and analyzing them in relation to issues in comparative and international politics and to current theories in political science.

In this book, the author presents a unique new set of sub-daily data from over thirty countries and seven civil wars. The author uses them to test two models of conflict, the predator-prey model and the competing species model.

Comprises empirical tests of the theoretical implications of collective action theory specifically with regard to mobilization. This book is based on the author's European Protest and Coercion Data, which won the Comparative Politics Section of American Political Science Association award for the best data set in 2007.

The author stresses the need to mix dividend-growth stocks and closed-end bond funds to fund retirementas well as explains Roth IRAs, 401(k)s and other such tax-free forms ofretirement financing.