西摩·马丁·李普塞特（1922—2006年）曾在加利福尼亚大学伯克利分校、哈佛大学、斯坦福大学任教。主要研究方向为政治社会学、社会分层理论、公共舆论以及知识分子的社会学研究。曾担任美国政治学会主席、社会学研究学会主席，并入选美国国家科学院以及美国艺术与科学院院士。代表作有《政治人——政治的社会基础》、《共识与冲突》等。

迈克尔·罗伯托（Michael A.Roberto），布莱恩特大学教授，曾任美国哈佛大学商学院教授，美国一流的领导力和决策研究专家。他曾两次获得哈佛大学优秀教学奖——艾伦杨格奖，七次获得布莱恩特大学杰出MBA教授奖。 他长期为苹果、可口可乐、沃尔玛等大公司以及美国联邦调查局、航空航天局等政府机构进行领导力和风险决策的培训、咨询，并经常受邀在《哈佛商业评论》《麻省理工斯隆管理评论》等顶尖商业杂志上发表观点。

Harvard Business School's Michael Roberto draws on powerful decision-making case studies from every walk of life, showing how to promote honest, constructive dissent and skepticism; use it to improve decisions; and align organizations behind those decisions. Learn from disasters like the Space Shuttle Columbia and JFK's Bay of Pigs Invasion, from successes like Sid Caesar and...(展开全部)

Many of the fundamental questions in social science entail an examination of the role played by social institutions. Why do we have so many social institutions? Why do they take one form in one society and quite different ones in others? In what ways do these institutions develop? When and why do they change? Institutions and Social Conflict addresses these questions in two way...(展开全部)

杰克·奈特研究政治经济制度的一流学者，曾任华盛顿大学政治学系教授。他以其独特的跨学科研究方法，涉及哲学、经济学、政治学和法律等学科领域，发表了许多有关民主理论、法治、司法决策以及制度形成与变迁理论的论文，学术成果具有开创性。主要著作包括《制度与社会冲突》、《解释社会制度》（与伊塔·塞尼德合著）和《正义的选择》（与李·爱泼斯坦合著）等。

How does the Chinese banking sector really work? Nearly all financial institutions in China are managed by members of the Communist Party, yet economists and even those who engage the Chinese banking sector simply do not have a framework with which to analyze the links between banking and politics. Drawing from interviews, statistical analysis, and archival research, this book ...(展开全部)

This book unveils a potent new approach to one of the oldest debates in political economy--that over whether class conflict or group competition is more prevalent in politics. It goes further than any study to date by outlining the conditions under which one type of political conflict is more likely than the other. Michael Hiscox focuses on a critical issue affecting support fo...(展开全部)

A compelling, expansive history of the relationship between China and Russia, from the seventeenth century to the present Russia and China, the largest and most populous countries in the world, respectively, have maintained a delicate relationship for four centuries. In addition to a four-thousand-kilometer border, they have periodically shared a common outlook on political an...(展开全部)