Economic Policy-Making in the Neo-Liberal Era

Antoinette Handley

Handley considers why and how business in South Africa and Mauritius has constructively contested the making of economic policy while, conversely, business in Zambia and Ghana has struggled to develop any autonomous political capacity.

Contentious Performances

Charles Tilly

Tilly analyzes popular collective struggles and presents a method for describing contentious events, shows how this method yields superior explanations of contentious events, and applies this method to such events in Great Britain from 1758 to 1834.

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Do Power Sharing Institutions Work?

Pippa Norris

Norris updates and refines the theory of consociationalism to take account of the flood of contemporary developments in power-sharing that have occurred worldwide since the early 1970s.

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Separatism of States and Nations in Eurasia and the World

Henry E. Hale

Hale argues that ethnic identity is a cognitive uncertainty-reduction device with special capacity to exacerbate, but not cause, collective action problems. He then applies this concept to illuminate separatism in the USSR and CIS.

Lessons from Risk Management and Risk Assessment

Edited by Paul Bracken, Ian Bremmer, David Gordon

Venturing into uncharted waters, this book brings together risk management experts and practitioners from different fields with internationally-recognized national security scholars to produce the first systematic inquiry into risk and its applications in national security.

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Edited by Richard M. Price

At what point can we concede that the realities of world politics require that moral principles be compromised, and how do we know when a real ethical limit has been reached?

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A Global Perspective

Edited by Anirudh Krishna

Contrary to conventional wisdom, evidence from 24 diverse countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America examined in this volume shows how poor people do not value democracy any less than their richer counterparts.

Universal Human Rights in a World of Difference

Brooke A. Ackerly

Ackerly has written a feminist and a universal theory of human rights that bridges the relativists’ concerns about universalizing from particulars and the activists' commitment to justice.

The Communist Party's Embrace of China's Private Sector

Bruce Dickson

Dickson challenges the notion that economic development is leading to political change in China, arguing that China's entrepreneurs have become partners with the ruling Chinese Communist Party to promote economic growth while maintaining the political status quo.

Party, Bureaucracy, and Business

Margarita Estevez-Abe

Estevez-Abe traces Japan's highly egalitarian form of capitalism to the electoral strategies of its politicians and analyzes how the current electoral system renders obsolete the old form of welfare capitalism.

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