The meaning of Mexican democratization, Susan Eckstein; the costs and benefits of joining an extremist party membership in pre-1933 Nazi Party, William Brustein; political participation of men and women in postwar Kuwait, Katherine Meyer, Yousef Aliand Sheri Locklear; citizenship, state membership, and nationhood - association or disassociation? Chikako Kashiwazaki; speaking loudly and carrying a big stick - the effects of power tactics and structural power on the perceptions of the power use, Stan A. Kaplowitz et al; culture-evolutionary approach to state growth, sean D. stryker; the organizational state - origins and prospects, David Knoke; the local state, capital and opportunities for local autonomy - a reassessment of the Greater London Council's local economic strategy, Daniel Egan; the gender gap in voting behaviour evidence from a referendum on woman suffrage, Susan E. Marshall; countermovement dynamics in federal systems - a comparison of abortion politics in Canada and the United States, David S. Meyer, Suzanne Staggenborg; expanding the class politics debate - the social origins of urban political cleavages in the United States, Michael Rempel; state capacity, policy feedback and affirmative action for black women and Latinos, John David Skrentny.