Adopting a geographic lens to examine the employment of guestworkers in the United States, Be Our Guest offers readers the most comprehensive analysis of guestwork in tourism that has been produced to date. In weaving together the constellation of political and economic factors that exist across...

The civil rights era wrought a revolution in southern politics and precipitated some of the most momentous political changes in U.S. history. The precipitous increase in black turnout is incontrovertible, as is the reemergence of the southern GOP in the decades following the Voting Rights Act of...

Why do politicians undertake costly reform? Though reform is never likely, according to received theories (based predominantly on Western democratic models) various electoral “accountability mechanisms” are what provide incentives for politicians to pursue improvements in public policy....