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University of Notre Dame Press The Practice of Human Development and Dignity
Book SynopsisAlthough deeply contested in many ways, the concept of human dignity has emerged as a key idea in fields such as bioethics and human rights. It has been largely absent, however, from literature on development studies. The essays contained in The Practice of Human Development and Dignity fill this gap by showing the implications of human dignity for international development theory, policy, and practice. Pushing against ideas of development that privilege the efficiency of systems that accelerate economic growth at the expense of human persons and their agency, the essays in this volume show how development work that lacks sensitivity to human dignity is blind. Instead, genuine development must advance human flourishing and not merely promote economic betterment. At the same time, the essays in this book also demonstrate that human dignity must be assessed in the context of real human experiences and practices. This volume therefore considers the meaning of human dignity inducTrade Review“The Practice of Human Development and Dignity is a very timely book and starts a fascinating conversation. Doing dignity is a question of presence and relationship. Any intervention then should begin by offering my presence, my hearth, and that deep form of listening that opens the source of our shared dignity.” —Mathias Nebel, co-editor of Searching for the Common Good
£45.00
University of Notre Dame Press Nostalgia after Apartheid
Book SynopsisIn this engaging book, Amber Reed provides a new perspective on South Africa's democracy by exploring Black residents' nostalgia for life during apartheid in the rural Eastern Cape. Reed looks at a surprising phenomenon encountered in the post-apartheid nation: despite the Department of Education mandating curricula meant to teach values of civic responsibility and liberal democracy, those who are actually responsible for teaching this material (and the students taking it) often resist what they see as the imposition of white values. These teachers and students do not see South African democracy as a type of freedom, but rather as destructive of their own African culturewhereas apartheid, at least ostensibly, allowed for cultural expression in the former rural homelands. In the Eastern Cape, Reed observes, resistance to democracy occurs alongside nostalgia for apartheid among the very citizens who were most disenfranchised by the late racist, authoritarian regime. Examining a rural Trade Review“Amber Reed’s Nostalgia after Apartheid contributes to important deliberations about a longing for a past that was without doubt oppressive and discriminatory. Yet there is something about ‘order’ and ‘tradition’ that generates nostalgia, and Reed is able to convey this well through her ethnographic work.” —Monique Marks, author of Transforming the Robocops"In this fascinating and beautifully written ethnography on rural life in post-apartheid South Africa, Amber Reed compellingly reveals how the transition from apartheid to liberal democracy has failed the rural youth who now regard the Mandela miracle of 1994 as a betrayal and have developed a bizarre sense of nostalgia for life under apartheid. Nostalgia after Apartheid delivers a significant contribution to the anthropology of southern Africa and to the understanding of the social, cultural, and political meanings of the post-apartheid transition in South Africa." —Leslie J. Bank, co-editor of Migrant Labour After Apartheid"In this well-researched monograph, Amber Reed assesses the effectiveness of both nongovernmental and state-sponsored curricular efforts to educate Black youth on the benefits of liberal democracy, gender equality, and human rights." —Choice"Amber Reed’s Nostalgia After Apartheid examines how the failings of democracy in South Africa are articulated through critiques of cultural liberalism and manifested in debates over culture and tradition. In this nuanced, rigorously researched ethnography, Reed develops a complex set of interlocking arguments that are focused on South Africa but relevant elsewhere." —Anthropology and Education Quarterly"An ethnography that is theoretically informed and eminently teachable." —American Anthropologist"This lucidly written monograph opens new ground, particularly in the study of education and Black conservatism during the post-apartheid era. It also raises a series of crucial questions for future debate."—The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
£999.99
University of Notre Dame Press Memoirs on Pauperism and Other Writings Poverty
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Tocqueville’s Memoirs on Pauperism and Other Writings is particularly timely in an era of massive reorganizations of the economic and political landscapes and growing inequality. Henderson makes a compelling case for the importance and paradoxical nature of Tocqueville’s arguments.” —Catherine Labio, co-editor of The Great Mirror of Folly“This bracing and often elegant collection of texts deserves a place on the shelves of all scholars and citizens interested in Tocqueville, as well as of policy thinkers brave enough to confront the essential, only imperfectly solvable problems with which the great author confronts us.” —Ralph C. Hancock, translator of Natural Law and Human Rights"An inspired volume . . . introduc[ed] in a lucid and informative way. Christine Dunn Henderson helpfully highlights the 'paradoxes' at the core of Tocqueville’s thoughts on poverty and public welfare." —Law & Liberty"This recent addition to the Tocqueville literature in English offers the first translation of Tocqueville’s Second Memoir on Pauperism (1837). . . . The value of this small volume lies in the way it reveals Tocqueville’s thought in evolution." —The Tocqueville ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Memoir on Pauperism (1835) 2. Second Memoir on Pauperism (1837) 3. Letter on Pauperism in Normandy (undated) 4. Pauperism in America (1833)
£52.70
University of Notre Dame Press Memoirs on Pauperism and Other Writings
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Tocqueville’s Memoirs on Pauperism and Other Writings is particularly timely in an era of massive reorganizations of the economic and political landscapes and growing inequality. Henderson makes a compelling case for the importance and paradoxical nature of Tocqueville’s arguments.” —Catherine Labio, co-editor of The Great Mirror of Folly“This bracing and often elegant collection of texts deserves a place on the shelves of all scholars and citizens interested in Tocqueville, as well as of policy thinkers brave enough to confront the essential, only imperfectly solvable problems with which the great author confronts us.” —Ralph C. Hancock, translator of Natural Law and Human Rights"An inspired volume . . . introduc[ed] in a lucid and informative way. Christine Dunn Henderson helpfully highlights the 'paradoxes' at the core of Tocqueville’s thoughts on poverty and public welfare." —Law & Liberty"This recent addition to the Tocqueville literature in English offers the first translation of Tocqueville’s Second Memoir on Pauperism (1837). . . . The value of this small volume lies in the way it reveals Tocqueville’s thought in evolution." —The Tocqueville ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Memoir on Pauperism (1835) 2. Second Memoir on Pauperism (1837) 3. Letter on Pauperism in Normandy (undated) 4. Pauperism in America (1833)
£17.99
University of Notre Dame Press Integral Human Development
Book SynopsisTrade Review“The wide range of authors and the variety of approaches, from analysis of literature and critique of limitations of one or another position, to reports on actual development work in different parts of the world, make it a rich compendium contributing to an important conversation between Catholic social teaching and the capability approach.” —Patrick Riordan, S.J., author of Recovering Common Goods"This is a book to borrow and relish. ...It wrestles thoughtfully with an issue that should concern us all in a pluralistic world that faces very serious, human-induced, global challenges." — Church TimesTable of ContentsIntroduction by Séverine Deneulin and Clemens Sedmak Part 1. Foundations 1. The anthropologies of CST and CA by Amy Daughton 2. Orthodox personhood: Clarifying the anthropological presuppositions of human development by Dana Bates 3. Freedom and agency: A conceptual exploration within CST and CA by Lori Keleher 4. Dignity and community in CA and CST by Joshua Schulz 5. Persistent gender inequality: Why CST needs CA by Katie Dunne 6. Integral ecology: Autonomy, the common inheritance of the earth and creation theology by Cathriona Russell 7. Caring for the earth: Challenges for CST and CA by Clemens Sedmak Part 2. Common Ground for Action 8. Development as freedom together: Human dignity and human rights in CST and CA by Meghan Clark 9. Encounter and agency: An account of a grassroots organization in Uganda by Ilaria Schnyder von Wartensee and Elizabeth Hlabse 10. Agency, power and ecological conversion: The case of the Conflict-Free Technology campaign by Guillermo Otano Jiménez 11. Integral human development: A role for children’s savings accounts? by James P. Bailey 12. Preferential option for the poor and solidarity in practice: A Salzburg initiative to combat child poverty in Romania by Helmut P. Gaisbauer 13. Combining CST and CA to promote integral human development by Séverine Deneulin and Augusto Zampini-Davies Conclusion by Clemens Sedmak and Séverine Deneulin
£48.60
University of Notre Dame Press Death and Conversion in the Andes
Book SynopsisThis work examines death rituals in South America and how traditional native American beliefs fell to the wayside when Christian rituals came into power.Trade Review“Death and Conversion in the Andes: Lima and Cuzco, 1532-1670 looks at death rituals of the people of South America during this time and how traditional native American beliefs fell to the wayside and how Christian rituals came into power. Gabriela Ramos executes this history well and provides much insight into the period . . . a solid addition to any world or native American history collection.” —The Midwest Book Review“Gabriela Ramos makes a compelling case that death was at the center of the spiritual encounter between Andeans and Spaniards in colonial Peru. . . . Ramos’s work is based on a close reading of nearly five hundred wills written by indigenous residents of Lima and Cuzco . . . her deep research in previously underused sources offers abundant evidence of the importance of death in the encounter between Christians and indigenous people.” —Church History“[Ramos’s] interdisciplinary analysis finds that elite burials in consecrated ground contributed to the spread and acceptance of Christianity among urban sectors of the Andean population. . . . She portrays the church and its dictates as both a destructive force (of traditional beliefs and practices) and one that ordered an emerging colonial society.” —The Americas“Ramos exploited the difficult to access and use notarial records in Lima and Cuzco to amass a corpus of some 500 Indian testaments for her section on wills, graves, and funerary rites. This is a major effort and her analysis of them is exceptional. The result compares favorably to well-known studies of Spanish wills of the period, and provides for the possibility of comparison with the attitudes of the outsiders.” —Renaissance Quarterly“Ramos’s subject is post-conquest Andean peoples’ adaptive creativity in relation to beliefs and practices surrounding death, as well as the ways in which society was remade and relationships between its members restructured, by means of adaptations in the conceptualization of death and their expression in everyday actions and rituals. The book is one of the more original contributions of recent years, and makes a fine complement to Gose.” —Bulletin of Latin American Research“Gabriela Ramos has produced a deeply researched study that argues that the Christianization of death was crucial to the conversion of indigenous Andean peoples and to the construction of a colonial order. . . . a fine and important work of scholarship that is key to Andean studies and will contribute to ongoing discussions of how and why native Andean peoples responded, adapted, and made sense of Catholic tenets about the here and now and the hereafter.” —The Catholic Historical Review“Deserving a featured place in the already excellent scholarship on religion in the Andes, Ramos’s work should contribute to graduate courses on empire, colonialism, evangelization, and ritual, as well as surveys of Latin American history. While future scholarship will have to examine death outside of Lima and Cuzco, Ramos’s careful study should serve as a point of departure for future work on religious conversion in colonial Latin America.” —Sixteenth Century Journal“. . . Ramos examines the establishment of indigenous hospitals and parishes, will-making, confraternities, burial places and rites and, together with the detailed figures provided in the appendices, she succeeds in producing a well-written, systematic and pioneering study of an important aspect of early modern Andean society.” —Ecclesiastical History“Ramos has meticulously revised hundreds of archival documents in the production of this study, and her account of urban Andeans’ readiness to accept Christianity is a welcome corrective to previous accounts of conversion that highlight resistance. . . . This is a valuable study, particularly where it touches on matters of the individual and personhood.” —Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute“Death and Conversion in the Andes is more than just another approach to the colonization and evangelization of the New World. It is also an innovative research on the birth of Andean Catholicism, a hybrid creed, which proves the strength of ancient beliefs on the one hand, and the adaptability of humans—in this case Andeans and Spaniards alike—to changing political, religious, and cultural circumstances, being, in Ramos’s words, ‘actors in a major cultural transformation.’” —European History Quarterly
£87.55
University of Notre Dame Press Immigration and the Border
Book SynopsisThe advent of the twenty-first century marks a significant moment in the history of Latinos in the United States. The fourth wave of immigration to America is primarily Latino, and the last decades of the twentieth century saw a significant increase in the number of Latino migrants, a diversification of the nations contributing to this migration, and an increase in the size of the native-born Latino population. A backlash against unauthorized immigration, which may indict all Latinos, is also underway. Understanding the growing Latino population, especially its immigrant dimensions, is therefore a key task for researchers in the social sciences and humanities. The contributors to Immigration and the Border address immigration and border politics and policies, focusing on the U.S. side of the border. The volume editors have arranged the essays into five sections. The two chapters in the first section set the stage and discuss the binational lives of Mexican migrants; chTrade Review“With Immigration and the Border: Politics and Policy in the New Latino Century, editors David L. Leal and José E. Limón have gathered an impressive group of contributors from diverse fields to provide an understanding of immigration dynamics in contemporary American political and civic life. Written in an accessible style, this fine volume delivers extensive coverage of political and border issues, making it valuable for students in many Latino studies courses.” —Jorge Chapa, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign"This volume makes an original contribution by presenting new research in the field of Latino studies. The varied perspectives of the contributors make the book appealing to scholars and students in political science, sociology, anthropology, education, Latino studies, and border studies. Immigration and the Border: Politics and Policy in the New Latino Century will also appeal to Latino organizations and policy advocates." —Raquel Marquez, University of Texas at San Antonio“Immigration and the Border is an invaluable repository of information, and a welcome contribution to public and college library shelves.” —The Midwest Book Review"Other than its interdisciplinary approach, the collection's helpfulness results from its inclusion of youth (a sector of the Latino population that is exploding but often not understood or studied), the fact that in several essays the researchers point to policies that are more productive, and an approach that does not ignore those left behind in the sending countries." —Theological Studies
£105.40
University of Notre Dame Press Power and Regionalism in Latin America
Book SynopsisIn Power and Regionalism in Latin America: The Politics of MERCOSUR, Laura Gómez-Mera examines the erratic patterns of regional economic cooperation in the Southern Common Market (MERCOSUR), a political-economic agreement among Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, and, recently, Venezuela that comprises the world's fourth-largest regional trade bloc. Despite a promising start in the early 1990s, MERCOSUR has had a tumultuous and conflict-ridden history. Yet it has survived, expanding in membership and institutional scope. What explains its survival, given a seemingly contradictory mix of conflict and cooperation? Through detailed empirical analyses of several key trade disputes between the bloc's two main partners, Argentina and Brazil, Gómez-Mera proposes an explanation that emphasizes the tension between and interplay of two sets of factors: power asymmetries within and beyond the region, and domestic-level politics. Member states share a common interest in preserviTrade Review"Gómez-Mera offers an extremely valuable contribution to our understanding of why the globe is fragmenting into regional blocs—and the implications for the future of international relations theory and practice. By masterfully integrating domestic interest groups and institutions, she brings life to the formation of foreign policy. Equally valuable are the bright lights she shines on the dangerously underdeveloped study of Brazilian foreign policy and interests." —Richard Feinberg, University of California, San Diego"This study provides a theoretically sophisticated and empirically rich analysis of the complex links between regional cooperation and inequalities of power. Its carefully researched re-construction of the patterns of conflict and cooperation within MERCOSUR represents a valuable addition to our understanding of regional dynamics within South America and their connection with domestic politics. It also significantly advances the debate on a crucial broader question in the study of contemporary global politics and political economy: the relationship between regionalism and a world of emerging regional powers." —Andrew Hurrell, University of Oxford"In a very engaging and accessible manner, Laura Gómez-Mera has successfully applied the standing theories of international relations to the case of MERCOSUR. She has woven together international/systemic and domestic theories as these pertain to the role and interaction of Brazil and Argentina, the two main middle powers in MERCOSUR. Through this analysis of regional integration and interstate conflict and cooperation, Gómez-Mera thoroughly covers all the necessary methodological bases while also bringing her subject to life. The sectoral case studies she provides reflect a tremendous amount of original fieldwork; those, combined with a sophisticated conceptual framework, comprise a valuable contribution to the field." —Carol Wise, University of Southern California“Power and Regionalism in Latin America uses a sophisticated model to explain the apparently erratic pattern of conflict and cooperation in Mercosur. Gomez Mera’s contribution is unique in that she creatively combines IR theory with the International Political Economy literature on regionalism and regional trade agreements. The result is a path-breaking study that sheds light on the specificity of regionalism in South America.” —Mario E. Carranza, Texas A&M University-Kingsville"A careful theoretical scheme includes domestic, bureaucratic, and external bloc forces to explain the evolution of this [MERCOSUR] regional integration bloc. . . . The multidimensional theoretical approach does clearly get at the complexity of the MERCOSUR case, in which domestic actors are influential but the state, albeit often divided, remains central in responding to domestic and international pressures." —Choice“This is a solid book explaining the apparently erratic pattern of conflict and cooperation in the South American integration bloc, MERCOSUR. A careful theoretical scheme includes domestic, bureaucratic, and external bloc forces to explain the evolution of this regional integration bloc . . . [while] adding specificity to the interaction between regionalism and globalization in a developing region.” —Choice“Power and Regionalism in Latin America adds depth and breadth to scholarly reflections on Mercosur and more widely on the drivers of regional cooperation. It carefully distinguishes between survival and success of integration. The interplay of systemic forces, especially regional power configurations, and domestic interests, especially state agencies’ preferences, will determine whether Mercosur will be a case of one or the other. For now, Gomez-Mera provides a convincing explanation of what is perhaps the only consistency in Mercosur’s trajectory: its inconsistency.” —Bulletin of Latin American Research
£87.55
Pennsylvania State University Press Why Budgets Matter Budget Policy and American
Book SynopsisThis is a comprehensive account of how conflicts over the powers to tax, spend and borrow have been at the centre of American politics and how these budgetary conflicts have shaped national politics by determining the size and role of the federal government.
£30.56
University of Texas Press Fragmented Lives Assembled Parts Culture
Book SynopsisA compelling ethnographic examination of global capitalism's impact, colonial and post-colonial, in Mexico's Ciudad Juárez.Table of Contents Acknowledgments Chapter 1. Introduction Part I. Sixteenth-Century Conquests (1521-1598) and their Postcolonial Border Legacies Chapter 2. The Invention of Borderlands Geography: What Do Aztlán and Tenochtitlán Have to Do with Ciudad Juárez/Paso del Norte? Chapter 3. The Problem of Color in Mexico and on the U.S.-Mexico Border: Precolonial, Colonial, and Postcolonial Subjectivities Part II. Culture, Class, and Gender in Late-Twentieth-Century Ciudad Juárez Chapter 4. Maquiladoras, Gender, and Culture Change Chapter 5. The Political Economy of Tropes, Culture, and Masculinity Inside an Electronics Factory Chapter 6. Border Inspections: Inspecting the Working-Class Life of Maquiladora Workers on the U.S-Mexico Border Chapter 7. Culture, Class, and Union Politics: The Daily Struggle for Chairs inside a Sewing Factory in the Larger Context of the Working Day Chapter 8. Women, Men, and "Gender" in Feminist Anthropology: Lessons from Northern Mexico's Maquiladoras Part III. Alternating Imaginings Chapter 9. Reimagining Culture and Power against Late Industrial Capitalism and Other Forms of Conquest through Border Theory and Analysis Epilogue Notes Bibliography Permissions Credits Index
£23.39
University of Texas Press Film in the Middle East and North Africa
Book SynopsisA timely window on the world of Middle Eastern cinema, this remarkable overview includes many essays that provide the first scholarly analysis of significant works by key filmmakers in the region.Table of Contents Preface: Creative Responses to Conflict, Josef Gugler Part 1: Regime Critics Confront Censorship in Iranian Cinema, Eric Egan The Hidden Half (Tahmineh Milani): Love, Idealism, and Politics, Fakhreddin Azimi Marriage of the Blessed (Mohsen Makhmalbaf): The Wounds of War and the Betrayal of the Revolution, Eric Egan Under the Skin of the City (Rakhshan Bani-Etemad): Under the Surface Contrasts, Rini Cobbey Stray Dogs (Marziyeh Meshkini): Cruelty and Humanity amid Hardship in Afghanistan, Eric Egan Part 2: Tolerated Parodies of Politics in Syrian Cinema, Lisa Wedeen The Dupes (Tawfik Saleh): Three Generations Uprooted from Palestine and Betrayed, Nadia Yaqub The Extras (Nabil Maleh): Lovers Suffer the Twin Repressions of Patriarchal Culture and a Police State, Josef Gugler Part 3: Lebanese Cinema and the Representation of War, Lina Khatib In the Shadows of the City (Jean Khalil Chamoun): Reconciling the Diverse Legacies of a Collective Memory, Edward Gibeau Part 4: Israeli Cinema Engaging the Conflict, Nurith Gertz and Yael Munk Kedma (Amos Gitai): The Birth of Two Nations at War in 1948, Nurith Gertz, Gal Hermoni, and Yael Munk Avanti popolo (Rafi Bukaee): Battle Cry of the Fallen, Judd Ne'eman and Yael Munk Part 5: A Chronicle of Palestinian Cinema, Nurith Gertz and George Khleifi Waiting (Rashid Masharawi): A Scattered People Waiting for a Shared Future, Nadia Yaqub Tale of the Three Jewels (Michel Khleifi): Children Living and Dreaming amid Violence in Gaza, Nurith Gertz and George Khleifi Paradise Now (Hany Abu-Assad): Narrating a Failed Politics, Nadia Yaqub Part 6: Political Film in Egypt, Walter Armbrust Destiny (Youssef Chahine): Liberal and Fundamentalist Islam Clash amid the Splendor of Twelfth-Century Andalusia, Josef Gugler Closed Doors (Atef Hetata): The Attractions of Fundamentalism, Josef Gugler and Kim Jensen Part 7: Cinema and State in Tunisia, Florence Martin Bedwin Hacker (Nadia El Fani): A Hacker Challenges Western Domination of the Global Media, Josef Gugler Part 8: From State Production to Cinéma d'Auteur in Algeria, Roy Armes Days of Glory (Rachid Bouchareb): Another Vision of French History, Olivier Barlet Hamlet of Women (Mohamed Chouikh): Village Chronicles from a Time of Terrorism, Denise Brahimi Part 9: Morocco: A National Cinema with Large Ambitions, Kevin Dwyer Ali Zaoua, Prince of the Streets (Nabil Ayouch): The Harsh Life of Street Children and the Poetics of Childhood, Josef Gugler Contributors Film Index Name Index
£25.19
University of Texas Press Foreign Policy and Economic Dependence
Book SynopsisThe foreign policy repercussions of international economic dependence.Table of Contents Acknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. International Economic Dependence 3. Foreign Policy Compliance 4. United States Economic Dependencies 5. Compliance in the General Assembly 6. Theoretical and Policy Implications Notes Index
£999.99
University of Texas Press The Duty to Act
Book SynopsisShapo cuts through the emotion and the complexity to present a view of litigated tort law problems that is both legally sound and intuitively appealing.Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Part One Private Duties to Act: Legal Affirmation of the Obligations of Personal Power Introduction I. Primarily Economic Relationships That Give Rise to Duties Businesses, Professions, and Activities Methods of Creating Relationships II. Relationships More Closely Personal III. Protection against Third Parties A Spectrum of Customers and Employees The Case of Violence in the Tavern Private Duties and Public Control The Professional Bystander IV. Plaintiff’s Own Conduct a Hazard V. A Thesis on the “Unrelated” Bystander: The Law as a Manifestation That “It Tolls for Thee” Summary Part Two Public Duties to Act: Vindicating Personal Interests against Invasion and Neglect by Commonwealth Power Introduction VI. Highway Safety as a Paradigm of Liability for Planning and Maneuvering Traffic Control: Duties to the Public and the Dependence of Individuals Highway Design: Choice, Knowledge, and Fairness VII. Security Firefighting Inspection Rescue Police Functions VIII. Welfare Medical Care Municipal Services Educational Standards Linking Public and Private Obligation: Police Duty and Individual Welfare Summary Notes Index
£999.99
University of Washington Press Holy Science
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Reading Banu Subramaniam is equal parts pleasure and provocation...Subramaniam’s work is a testament to the power of interdisciplinary impurity between the humanities and sciences." * Reading Religion *
£110.48
University of Washington Press Holy Science
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Reading Banu Subramaniam is equal parts pleasure and provocation...Subramaniam’s work is a testament to the power of interdisciplinary impurity between the humanities and sciences." * Reading Religion *
£29.66
Yale University Press Immigration Race New Challenges for American
Book SynopsisA selection of insights about conflicts and competition, vital to those who formulate immigration policies. The insights are derived from the work of authors such as Frank D. Bean, Thomas E. Cavanagh, John A. Garcia, Peter H. Schuck, Wendy Zimmerman, and more.
£30.00
Yale University Press The Unsustainable Costs of Partial Deregulation
Book SynopsisShows that we have only partial deregulation, a mixture of oligopoly structure with direct price control. This work also explores why this system leads to volatile and high prices, reduced investment, and low profitability, and what policy actions can be implemented to address these problems.
£42.75
Yale University Press The Future of Nature
Book SynopsisAn innovative anthology that offers a global perspective on how people think about predicting the future of life on EarthTrade Review“This book, drawing primarily from a 300-year legacy of Western scientific literatures related to global thinking, gives much-needed historical context for the ongoing development of human conceptions of themselves and the whole Earth in relation to each other."—Julianne Lutz Warren, New York University -- Julianne Lutz Warren“Among the greatest challenges for the anthology in the ‘Age of Instant Downloads’ is to offer a whole that is more than the sum of the book’s disparate selections. With so many of these readings easily accessible online, the success of such collections resides in the editors’/contributor’s introductions. Robin, Sörlin, and Warde do a wonderful job of bundling together various conceptual elements under the rubric of ‘global change.’ Their approach offers a very appealing way to introduce key environmental themes to students in a clear and coherent way."—Edward D. Melillo, Amherst College -- Edward D. Melillo"The Future of Nature is a very unusual type of book as it consists of largely natural science texts edited and organized by three humanities scholars...It will be extremely useful in bringing together in one volume a selection of foundational texts for the prevailing thinking about future global change.”—Poul Holm, Trinity College, Dublin -- Poul Holm"This representative and comprehensive collection of the original publications is no small achievement, but what makes the book really sing is the annotated commentary that sets each in its intellectual context and time and show how collectively they build to the understanding of today. There is absolutely no book like it.”—Thomas E. Lovejoy, University Professor of Environmental Science and Policy, George Mason University -- Thomas Lovejoy“The theme of ‘global change’ turns out to be an excellent way to structure a collection that includes primary sources spanning three centuries as well as commentaries that are uniformly insightful as well as usefully brief. The long time span makes this collection particularly valuable."—Harriet Ritvo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology -- Harriet Ritvo“The editors have done a marvelous job of bringing together a fascinating set of primary materials and a superb set of commentaries that provide something we sorely need: more intellectual history of environmental science and thought.”—Jay Turner, Wellesley College -- Jay TurnerWinner the 2013 New England Book Festival given by the JM Northern Media Family of Festivals, in the Compilations/Anthologies Category. -- New England Book Festival * JM Northern Media *
£30.00
Yale University Press Broken Bargain Bankers Bailouts and the Struggle
Book SynopsisA history of major financial crisesand how taxpayers have been left with the bill In the 1930s, battered and humbled by the Great Depression, the U.S. financial sector struck a grand bargain with the federal government. Bankers gained a safety net in exchange for certain curbs on their freedom: transparency rules, record-keeping and antifraud measures, and fiduciary responsibilities. Despite subsequent periodic changes in these regulations, the underlying bargain played a major role in preserving the stability of the financial markets as well as the larger economy. By the free-market era of the 1980s and 90s, however, Wall Street argued that rules embodied in New Dealera regulations to protect consumers and ultimately taxpayers were no longer neededand government agreed. This engaging history documents the country's financial crises, focusing on those of the 1920s, the 1980s, and the 2000s, and reveals how the two more recent crises arose from the neglect of this fundamental bargaiTrade Review“Day has written a sweeping account of financial calamities. She shows how often we’ve been wracked by crises, and how quickly we forget why, setting up the next one. Buckle in.”—Mark Zandi, Moody’s Analytics"Kathleen Day provides a panoramic and insightful analysis of financial booms and crashes that have shaped our nation’s history. She demonstrates that loose credit and weak regulation have played key roles in promoting every speculative boom since the 1920s. Her book is required reading for everyone who wants to understand how to prevent the next financial crisis."—Arthur E. Wilmarth, Jr., George Washington University Law School"An essential narrative of the regulatory cycles that predate financial crises, Broken Bargain offers an important lesson in the dangers of amnesia as Washington once again embarks on deregulation, repeating the mistakes of the past."—Sheila Bair, founding Chair of the Systemic Risk Council and former Chair of the FDIC
£26.12
Yale University Press The Bretton Woods Agreements
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewSelected for Choice's 2019 Outstanding Academic Titles List “A terrific compilation of original documents and commentaries on the Bretton Woods agreement of 1944. In this time of challenge, this book is a welcome reminder of why and how this important international agreement was formed and how it operated to influence the global economy.”—Helen Milner, Princeton University“By bringing together historical documents and contextual essays by leading political scientists and economists, this volume enables readers to see the Act of creation of the post war financial system—that it blended idealism and reality, politics and economics and personalities.”—Angela Redish, University of British Columbia
£22.50
Yale University Press Free Enterprise An American History
Book SynopsisAn incisive look at the intellectual and cultural history of free enterprise and its influence on American politics Throughout the twentieth century, free enterprise has been a contested keyword in American politics, and the cornerstone of a conservative philosophy that seeks to limit government involvement into economic matters. Lawrence B. Glickman shows how the idea first gained traction in American discourse and was championed by opponents of the New Deal. Those politicians, believing free enterprise to be a fundamental American value, held it up as an antidote to a liberalism that they maintained would lead toward totalitarian statism. Tracing the use of the concept of free enterprise, Glickman shows how it has both constrained and transformed political dialogue. He presents a fascinating look into the complex history, and marketing, of an idea that forms the linchpin of the contemporary opposition to government regulation, taxation, and programs such as Medicare.Trade Review“[Glickman] effectively highlights the ways in which the future of free enterprise was, to its supporters, always under threat.”—Matthew Rees, Wall Street Journal"A remarkable work of scholarship. It reflects a deep immersion in a wide range of sources that have rarely if ever been brought together. It reframes debates about the origins of conservatism in a very important and original way.”—Kimberly Phillips-Fein, New York University“Resolutely, adeptly, and effectively, Glickman tracks how the meanings and uses of “free enterprise” evolved into a “fighting slogan” on behalf of business interests and against the commonweal. By showing how conservatives constructed this rhetorical tool for attacking taxes and regulation, he unravels their claims that long-standing American traditions vindicate the modern uses of “free enterprise.”—Pamela Laird, University of Colorado Denver“In this sweeping intellectual and cultural history, Lawrence Glickman proves a sure guide to the economically vague yet politically talismanic meaning of the phrase ‘free enterprise.’ He demonstrates that the most enduring features of American business conservatism have long expressed themselves through this maddingly mythic construction.”—Nelson Lichtenstein, author of A Contest of Ideas: Capital, Politics, and Labor“In an age of political fakery, nothing has surpassed the fake populism that has roiled the American Right. Lawrence Glickman's brilliant book traces its history to the big-business reactionaries of the 1930s who seized upon the slogan ‘free enterprise’ and turned it into a credo to attack New Deal reform. A failure then, it has succeeded wildly since -- a crucial story of our time that Glickman tells with scholarly authority and literary grace.”—Sean Wilentz, author of The Age of Reagan: A History. 1974-2008“Today’s common sense is the result of yesterday’s political and intellectual battles. Lawrence Glickman offers an invaluable excavation of how the idea of ‘free enterprise’ helped legitimize and accelerate the rise of business power, the attacks on government, and the opposition to racial equity. This is essential reading for understanding the current crises of inequality, democracy, and corporate power—and for imagining a new more inclusive liberalism for the 21st century.”—K. Sabeel Rahman, President of Demos
£26.12
Yale University Press The Cost of Free Money
Book SynopsisA penetrating account of how unchecked capital mobility is damaging international cooperation, polarizing the economic landscape, and ultimately reshaping the global orderTrade Review"Subacchi is an expert on global financial and monetary systems. In this book, she lucidly describes the failings of the international monetary “non-system” that emerged after the collapse of the Bretton Woods system in the 1970s."—Martin Wolf, Financial Times ‘Best Books of 2020: Economics’"With so much uncertainty surrounding the new lay of the economic land, and the behaviour of those with key roles in shaping it, this book offers some well-presented solutions, formulated with fairer outcomes firmly in mind."—Emma Newlands, Scotland on Sunday “Just as we are getting used to the existence of ‘magic money trees’ which have helped finance the massive stimulus packages we have seen during the pandemic...here comes this excellent book to remind us that there is no such thing as free money [and] exposes the perils lying ahead of not getting to grips with the change in the world order.”—Vicky Pryce, 'Reading Room' for The Society of Professional Economists “People interested in global economic policy matters will find this a thought-provoking book.” – Arslan Razmi, Journal of Economics‘This highly readable analysis warns of the dangers of unchecked capital flows and weak global cooperation, and persuasively makes the case for the revival of a rules-based international economy. With nationalism on the rise, this is a vital account of the history and likely evolution of the international financial system.’—Niall Kishtainy, author of A Little History of Economics 'This book focuses on three tensions: those between the dominance of the dollar and an increasingly multipolar world economy; between free capital flows and financial stability; and that between the US and China. Subacchi highlights that there are no easy ways of relieving these tensions. She may not leave readers confident about our collective international monetary prospects, but it will certainly provoke thought.’—Barry Eichengreen, author of Hall of Mirrors ‘Using her deep knowledge of the international economy and China, Subacchi eloquently and insightfully explains the increasing pressure on the international monetary system. It is to be fervently hoped that after the latest global shock, policymakers will follow Subacchi’s advice to reform and reenergize.’—Tamim Bayoumi, author of Unfinished Business
£21.38
Yale University Press Reality of Dreams
Book SynopsisAn exploration of radical megaprojects in the Ecuadorian Amazon, considering the fate of utopian fantasies under conditions of global capitalismTrade Review“Reality of Dreams is theoretically and empirically rich, deeply researched, closely argued, and very well written. This highly original work dismantles the developmental fantasies of the petro-state, showing how they crash miserably against the reality of petro-capitalism and how possibilities of radical social change emerge spontaneously from their debris.”—Mazen Labban, author of Space, Oil and Capital“Reality of Dreams hovers in exciting ways over shadows cast by the secret dread animating all theory—that in the not so long run, nothing makes sense. What we have are fantasies rendered in ruins midst the juggernaut of ‘development.’ It is grotesque. It is absurd. It is unbelievable.”—Michael Taussig, author of Mastery of Non-Mastery in the Age of Meltdown“Reality of Dreams is an epic tale of heroic modernization that takes us into the dark, dystopian heart of the post-neoliberal Citizens’ Revolution and President Correa’s petro-dream world, emerging into a world ever more fit for capitalist plunder.”—Michael J. Watts, Class of 1963 Professor of Geography and Development Studies Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley“From the Jesuits, to Jonestown, to the (failed) from-scratch urban modernist ventures, Amazonia has not lacked for utopian experiments. Japhy Wilson’s fantastic book explores the Ecuadorian iteration of yet another tropical urban utopia fever dream.”—Susanna B. Hecht, author of Scramble for the Amazon and Fate of the Forest
£35.62
Yale University Press The Art of War in an Age of Peace
Book SynopsisAn informed modern plan for post-2020 American foreign policy that avoids the opposing dangers of retrenchment and overextensionTrade Review“A masterful examination of past American grand strategy and foreign policies, a compelling, thoughtful, and thought-provoking proposal of a new grand strategy by one of America’s foremost writers and thinkers on U.S. defense, foreign policy, and geopolitics.”—General David Petraeus, U.S. Army (Ret.), former Commander of the Surge in Iraq, U.S. Central Command, and the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan, and former Director of the CIA“An exceptional, vividly-written guide to American strategy in the post-pandemic world, from one of America’s best national security thinkers. O’Hanlon makes a compelling case for resolute restraint at a moment when the United States is no longer the only big kid on the geopolitical block, and faces an array of new challenges.”—William Burns, former Deputy Secretary of State“O’Hanlon’s deep passion for scholarship and his desire to see America do the right thing have animated his decades in Washington. His book is a rewarding read on what the U.S. role in the world should be in these fraught times.”—Jung Pak, Brookings Institution“Many scholars write about grand strategy, but O’Hanlon’s technical, strategic, and practical skills are unique. His insights are essential for anyone trying to understand how America should navigate the daunting geopolitical environment it confronts today.”—Hal Brands, author of American Grand Strategy in the Age of Trump“For the many of us despondent about the state of international relations today, O’Hanlon offers a bracing corrective, a masterpiece that should banish any nostalgic yearning for the ‘simplicity’ of the Cold War.”—Jeffrey Feltman, former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State and former U.N. Under Secretary General “O’Hanlon wisely and convincingly argues that restraint is the right answer for America. Not withdrawal, not isolationism, but restraint.”—Bruce Riedel, retired CIA officer, Brookings Institution
£16.14
WW Norton & Co The Missing Middle Working Families and the
Book SynopsisAn eye-opening look at how America's social policy has been hijacked by a rhetoric of extremes.
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WW Norton & Co One Mighty and Irresistible Tide The Epic
Book SynopsisA sweeping history of the twentieth-century battle to reform American immigration laws that set the stage for today’s roiling debates.Trade Review"While ‘we tend to describe immigrants’ stories as feats of will and strokes of destiny,’ Yang reminds us, ‘it is not destiny that brings a family here but politics.’ This is a message worth noting as we approach November. " -- David Nasaw - The New York Times Book Review"Anyone who doesn’t understand that we are a nation of immigrants should be given a copy of Yang’s powerful and cogent look at immigrant strictures put in place in 1924 that were revoked by the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act." -- Bethanne Patrick - The Washington Post"An effort to understand precisely what kind of nation of immigrants we are and how we arrived at this moment in our history... Admirably thorough." -- Philip Terzian - The Wall Street Journal"A masterly study of political struggle... Yang has written a captivating account, full of personality and drama—and significance... worth reading to the last page." -- David M. Shribman - The Boston Globe"Yang sketches lively portraits of the famous and obscure players behind the legislative fights... [Her] voyage across early-20th-century U.S. immigration debates makes palpable how much diplomacy and perseverance are required to win legislative change." -- Laura Wides-Muñoz - The Washington Post
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WW Norton & Co One Mighty and Irresistible Tide The Epic
Book SynopsisA sweeping history of the twentieth-century battle to reform American immigration laws that set the stage for today’s roiling debates.
£20.06
WW Norton & Co The American Age
Book SynopsisUpdated and revised, this edition presents expanded information on the foreign policy of the Jefferson period. A final chapter covers the events of 1989 and after, into the Clinton administration.
£49.40
Wiley Agricultural Development Policy
Book SynopsisAgricultural policy is undergoing a dramatic change the world over. Governmental bodies and agencies are moving away from traditional forms of intervention in agriculture and creating new policies. Essential to policy--makers in the middle of this revolution is a reference that distills the lessons of international research and experience.Table of ContentsForeword ix Acknowledgements xi Introduction 1 1 Agriculture and Economic Development: Basic Considerations 3 1.1 Beginnings 3 1.2 The Agricultural Sector and Economic Growth 4 1.3 Agricultural Growth and Poverty Reduction 9 Discussion Points for Chapter 1 12 2 Strategies and the Agricultural Policy Framework 15 2.1 Strategies and Policies 15 2.2 The Nature of Agricultural Policy Instruments 19 2.3 Objectives of Agricultural Policy 22 2.4 The Role of Government 25 2.5 Implementation of Strategies and Policies 30 Discussion Points for Chapter 2 32 3 Broad Issues of Agricultural Policy 35 3.1 Agricultural Policy and the Macroeconomic Framework 35 3.2 Fiscal Expenditures and Subsidies 37 3.3 Improving the Incomes of the Rural Poor 44 3.4 Gender and Agricultural Development 46 3.5 Selected Issues in Privatization 48 3.6 Principal Aspects of the Legal Framework 51 Discussion Points for Chapter 3 53 4 Policies that Influence Producer Incentives 55 4.1 The Setting 55 4.2 Agricultural Prices and Their Determinants 56 4.3 Trade Policy 58 4.4 Exchange Rate Policy 74 4.5 Fiscal Policy and Agricultural Prices 80 4.6 Macroeconomic Policy Options for Agriculture 82 4.7 Sectoral Policies that Influence Agricultural Prices 86 4.8 Food Security, Agricultural Prices and the Rural Poor 98 4.9 Observations on Price Stabilization and Agricultural Development 103 Discussion Points for Chapter 4 104 5 Land Tenure Policies 109 5.1 Introduction 109 5.2 The Importance of Land Tenure 110 5.3 Objectives of Land Tenure Policies 111 5.4 Overview of Issues and Trends concerning Land Tenure 116 5.5 The Nature of Land Rights 121 5.6 Communal, Collective and Individual Rights to Land 130 5.7 Experiences with Land Reform 142 5.8 Policies for Land Markets 149 5.9 Improving Access to Land for the Poor and for Women 176 Discussion Points for Chapter 5 191 6 Water Management Policies in Agriculture 197 6.1 Introduction 197 6.2 Policy Objectives for the Irrigation Sector 203 6.3 Strategic Planning for Irrigation as Part of Water Resource Management 207 6.4 Strategic Issues in Irrigation Development 211 6.5 Principal Policy Issues in the Irrigation Sector 223 6.6 Institutional and Process Issues in Water Management 248 6.7 Irrigation as a Tool of Rural Development 269 Discussion Points for Chapter 6 271 7 Policies for Agricultural and Rural Finance 277 7.1 The Role of Finance in Agricultural Development 277 7.2 Policy Objectives for Rural Finance 287 7.3 Keys to the Sustainability and Efficiency of Financial Intermediation 295 7.4 The Regulatory Framework for Rural Finance 300 7.5 Structural Considerations for Rural Financial Institutions 317 7.6 Approaches to Managing Rural Financial Institutions 330 7.7 Macroeconomic Policy to Support Rural Financial Intermediation 340 7.8 Elements of a Strategy for Developing Rural Finance 346 Discussion Points for Chapter 7 351 8 Policies for Agricultural Technology 357 8.1 Introduction: The Role and Context of Agricultural Technology 357 8.2 Issues in Agricultural Research 363 8.3 Issues in Agricultural Extension 375 8.4 New Directions in Agricultural Research 390 8.5 New Approaches to Agricultural Extension 404 Discussion Points for Chapter 8 420 9 Agricultural Development Strategies: Process and Structure 425 9.1 The Roles of an Agricultural Strategy 425 9.2 Participatory Processes for Developing Strategies 428 9.3 Structure and Consistency in a Strategy 442 9.4 Substantive Orientations of an Agricultural Strategy 450 9.5 Rural Development and Poverty Alleviation 460 9.6 Implementation of a Strategy 474 9.7 Concluding Observations 475 Discussion Points for Chapter 9 476 Annex: National Economic Policies and Irrigation in Yemen 483 1 Water in Yemen’s Development Process 483 2 Demand Management vs. Water Supply Options 484 3 The Origins of the Water Crisis 485 4 Principal Policy Instruments Available for Water Demand Management 486 5 Bearing the Costs of Change 487 6 Schematic Presentation of Policy Options 488 7 Fiscal and Strategic Issues 488 8 Summary 490 Index 493
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Applying Public Administration in Dev Guideposts
Book SynopsisThis publication addresses key governance issues in the management of development, drawing seminal papers from the 1999 Jubilee conference proceedings of the journal Public Administration and Development. It provides a review of the state-of-the-art.Table of ContentsPERSPECTIVES: THE DEVELOPMENT AND ADMINISTRATIVE AGENDA. The Last Fifty Years and the Next Fifty Years: A Century of PublicAdministration and Development (P. Collins). Combining Good Fortune and Careful Planning in Botswana: Lessons ofSuccess in Presidential Leadership (K. Masire). Challenges before Policy-Makers and Service Providers (P.Sundaram). Globalisation: Threat or Opportunity? (P. Streeten). STATE, MARKET AND CIVIL SOCIETY. State, Market and Civil Society: Towards Partnership? (P.Collins). Securing the Public Interest under Pluralistic Institutional Design(N. Girishankar). Decentralised Governance and Poverty Reduction: Relevant Experiencein Africa and Asia (D. Belshaw). Local Government Reform and Community-Driven Development:Asia-Pacific Experiences (M. Turner). Public Ownership and the Community (P. McKinlay). Subsidiarity in Public Governance: Issues and Implications forStakeholders (D. Wright). Public-Private Partnerships as a Strategy for LocalCapacity-Building: Some Suggestive Evidence from Latin America (A.Fiszbein). Considerations on Governance from a Local Perspective: Towards aFramework for Addressing Critical Disjunctures in Urban Policy (P.McCarney). Networking and Collaboration Among Voluntary Organisations, LocalBodies and Government Functionaries in India: Experiences inStrengthening Local Self-Governance (B. Acharya). Public Interest Partnerships (PIPs): Is a New Governance ParadigmEmerging in ASEAN? (J. Gonzalez & J. Mayfield). Is the Role Played by Donors in Supporting Uganda's NGO SectorEnabling it to Develop Effectively? (T. Wallace). The Changing Role of International Technical Co-operation (L.Joy). ISSUES IN GOVERNANCE. Governance and Development: New Frontiers (P. Collins). Local Government Reform in Central and Eastern Europe: Form andSubstance (K. Davey). Subnational Government in South Africa Since the Transition toDemocracy from Apartheid (T. Mokgoro). Democracy, Development and the Institutionalised Participation ofthe Poor for Poverty Reduction (N. Webster). Small but Smart, or Small and Out-Smarted? Micro States, OffshoreFinance and Economic Vulnerability (M. Hampton). Natural Disasters, Complex Political Emergencies and PublicServices: Re-Juxtaposing the Narratives after Hurricane Mitch (I.Christoplos). The Emerging Development-Security Complex (M. Duffield). Selected Further Reading. Index.
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Reforming Health Care
Book SynopsisThis superlative text applies philosophical analysis to the daily problems of health service policy and practice. Provides readers with an understanding of the practical detail and the theoretical fundamentals of health reform.Table of ContentsPartial table of contents: The Logic of Health Reform (D. Seedhouse). INTERNATIONAL HEALTH REFORM. Health Care Reform in the United States (C. Hackler). Health Care Reform in the UK: Working for Patients? (D. Gladstone M. Goldsmith). Choosing Core Health Services in The Netherlands (H. Have). Reforming Health Care in South Africa (M. Simpson). BENEATH THE CRACKS--HEALTH REFORM AND SOCIAL JUSTICE. Going Off the Dole: A Prudential and Ethical Critique of the"Healthfare" State (S. Spicker). Health Reform and the Utopian Ideology of the New Right (M.Loughlin). Who Should Be Responsible for a Nation's Health? (V. Schubert-Lehnhardt) THE NEED FOR THEORY--A CASE STUDY IN THEPHILOSOPHY OF HEALTH PROMOTION. The Borders of Health Promotion (A. Cribb). Bad Faith and Victim-Blaming: The Limits of Health Promotion (C.Dougherty). Conclusion. Index.
£97.16
Wiley Modern Transport Geography 2 Rev
Book SynopsisThis book should be in the library of every transportation researcher. Ronald Sheck Intermodal and guideway research program director, Center for Urban Transportation Research, University of Florida There is no escape from transport. By sea, air, road or rail, we rely on transport to connect individuals, businesses and cities.Trade Review"This is an excellent textbook..." --Progress in Human Geography, January 2001Table of ContentsTransport Geography: An Introduction. Transport and Development: Theoretical Approaches. The Role of Transport in the Development Process. Transport Policy and Control. Transport and Environment. Urban Travel Patterns. Urban Transport Problems and Solutions. Inter-Urban Transport. Rural Areas: The Accessibility Problem. Transport for Tourism and Recreation. Bulk Freight Transport. Multimodal Freight Transport. International Surface Passenger Transport: Prospects and Potential. International Air Transport. Sustainability.
£87.26
John Wiley & Sons Inc Global Commons 2e Environmental and Technological
Book SynopsisThis new and updated edition is essential for those wanting to understand the limits to collective action on global environmental problems. It develops and applies the tools of regime analysis to the question of how the various global commons are, or fail to be, governed effectively.Trade Review"...a welcome revision of a valuable book..." ---- Aslib Book Guide, August 2000Table of ContentsPreface to the First Edition Preface to the Second Edition International Agreements on the Global Commons Abbreviations and Acronyms 1 The Governance of the Commons The Nature of the Commons The Global Commons The 'Tragedy of the Commons' Governance and Regimes Notes 2 Regime Analysis Issue Areas Actors Principles and Norms Decision-making Procedures Rules Regime Change Notes 3 The Oceans The Law of the Sea Whaling Marine Pollution The Deep Seabed Summary Notes 4 Antarctica The Antarctic Treaty System - A Single Regime Principles and Norms Organization and Procedures Rules Monitoring and Enforcement Scientific Activity Summary Notes 5 Outer Space The Space Commons and Space Law Military Uses Environment and Space Debris Information Flow Orbit and Spectrum Summary Notes 6 The Atmosphere Stratospheric Ozone Climate Change Summary Notes 7 Regime Effectiveness Effectiveness as International Law Effectiveness as Transfer of Authority Effectiveness as Behaviour Modification Effectiveness as Problem Solving Regime Assessment Notes 8 Explaining Regime Incidence and Change Structural Explanations Utilitarian Explanations Plural Interests and Values Changing Cognitions - Epistemic Communities A Synthesis? Notes 9 Conclusion Global and Local Commons Multi-layer Governance Notes References Index
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LUP - University of Michigan Press American Dove
Book SynopsisArgues that the US is overly reliant on the active use of force and should employ more peaceful foreign policy tools. Rather than relying on loose analogies or common sense, American Dove bases its argument directly on an eclectic mix of academic literature, including realist, liberal, and constructivist theory as well as psychology.
£23.70
The University of Michigan Press Financing Medicaid
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£28.45
LUP - University of Michigan Press When Courts and Congress Collide
Book SynopsisWhile Congress fights tooth and nail over countless judicial nominations, no federal judge has ever been impeached on the basis of their decision making. This book suggests that the explanation for this incongruity is not the balance of powers, but a dynamic equilibrium. It is suitable for students of American government, Congress and the courts.Trade ReviewAs gripping for its historical insight as for its relevance in our world of contentious confirmation hearings and threats - real or perceived - against judicial independence. - Harvard Law Review ""Making a strong argument that our independent judiciary derives more from intrabranch and interbranch norms than from the text of the Constitution, the book raises some well-timed concerns about the withering of these norms.... The story that unfolds in its pages is interesting and provocative."" - Legislative Studies Section Newsletter, American Political Studies Association
£22.75
The University of Michigan Press Shaping the Future of Power
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£64.95
The University of Michigan Press ReForming the State
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£21.80
LUP - University of Michigan Press Carrots Sticks and Ethnic Conflict Rethinking
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£26.55
The University of Michigan Press The Political Influence of Business in the
Book SynopsisMany citizens, politicians, and political activists voice concern about the political influence of business in the European Union (EU). But do business interests really pull the strings in Brussels? Contrary to expectations, this book shows that business is no more influential than other interests in shaping contemporary EU policies.Trade ReviewThe authors offer a compelling argument about what 'lobbying success' actually is. Organized interests' success should be judged relative to their own original preferences, not simply whether others collectively succeeded in changing or defending the status quo. They support this argument with innovative empirical analyses of interest group activity in Brussels. This will be an essential title for anybody interested in lobbying in the EU and beyond."" - Tim LaPira, James Madison University
£64.95
The University of Michigan Press Isolation and Engagement
Book SynopsisPresidents and their advisors consistently seek to improve the management of foreign policy decision processes. This book analyses administrations from Kennedy to Nixon as they sought to strike a balance between the personal style of the president and the need for a strong interagency structure that could systematically evaluate policy options.Trade Review“This work is an important scholarly contribution. Newmann carefully reconstructs, with meticulous attention to archival sources, case studies of decision making on China policy across the Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon presidencies. Yet there is more: he explores how the evolving decision-making structures and processes of each of these presidents, and the presidential actors themselves, affected policy outcomes. His overall analysis of a dynamic, ‘evolutionary-balanced’ model for understanding presidential choice is intriguing and worthy of attention.” —John P. Burke, John G. McCullough Professor of Political Science Emeritus, University of Vermont “In Isolation and Engagement, William Newmann provides us with invaluable insight into the continual adaptation in the processes of presidential decision making, changes that are driven by the interaction of institutional political forces and idiosyncratic aspects of each president.” —George C. Edwards III, University Distinguished Professor and Jordan Chair Emeritus, Texas AM University, and Distinguished Fellow, University of OxfordTable of Contents List of Figures and Tables Acknowledgments Note on Chinese Transliteration and Sources Chapter One: Introduction Chapter Two: The Evolution-Balance Model Chapter Three: John F. Kennedy: “A Livelier Sense of Duty” Chapter Four: Kennedy and China Chapter Five: Lyndon B. Johnson: “Energy in the Executive” Chapter Six: Johnson and China Chapter Seven: Richard M. Nixon: “If Men Were Angels…” Chapter Eight: Nixon and China Chapter Nine: Conclusion
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University of California Press The Political Logic of Economic Reform in China
Book SynopsisThis study analyzes policy-making in a non-democratic authoritarian country, explaining the history of Chinese market reforms from 1979 to the present. Drawing on interviews with high-level Chinese officials, it pieces together detailed histories of economic reform policy decisions.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Formal Authority Relations Among Central Communist Party and Government Institutions in the People's Republic of China PART 1. INTRODUCTION 1. The Political Logic of Economic Reform 2. The Prereform Chinese Economy and the Decision to Initiate Market Reforms PART 2. CHINESE POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS 3. Authority Relations: The Communist Party and the Government 4. Leadership Incentives:- Political Succession and Reciprocal Accountability 5. Bargaining Arena: The Government Bureaucracy 6. Who Is Enfranchised in the Policy-making Process? 7. Decision Rules: Delegation by Consensus 8. Chinese Political Institutions and the Path of Economic Reforms PART 3· ECONOMIC REFORM POLICY-MAKING 9. Playing to the Provinces: Fiscal Decentralization and the Politics of Reform 10. Creating Vested Interests in Reform: Industrial Reform Takeoff, 1978-81 11. Leadership Succession and Policy Conflict: The Choice Between Profit Contracting and Substituting Tax-for-Profit, 1982-83 221 12. Building Bureaucratic Consensus: Formulating the Tax-for-Profit Policy, 1983-84 13. The Power of Particularism: Abortive Price Reform and the Revival of Profit Contracting, 1985-88 PART 4· CONCLUSION 14. The Political Lessons of Economic Reform in China Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Indias Nuclear Bomb The Impact on Global
Book SynopsisIn May 1998, India shocked the world - and many of its own citizens - by detonating five nuclear weapons in the Rajasthan desert. This title presents a comprehensive history of how the world's largest democracy, has grappled with the twin desires to have and to renounce the bomb.Trade Review"One does not have to agree with all of Mr. Perkovich's arguments to recognize that much of what passes as conventional wisdom in international relations today is simply not true. Accordingly, his book is a useful antidote to many of the illusions of our age." - Mackubin Thomas Owens, Washington Times "Meticulously researched and well-written." - The Economist "Perkovich's epic book provides not only one of the most detailed and authoritative accounts of India's nuclear weapon programme but also one of the most cogent constructions of India's nuclear rationale." - W.P.S. Sidhu, Ethnic Conflict Research Digest "Perkovich has written the definitive account of nuclear decision-making in India. At the same time, he makes a major contribution to nonproliferation scholarship in general." - R.A. Strong, Choice "An extraordinary and perhaps definitive account of 50 years of Indian nuclear policymaking." - Foreign Affairs "Essential reading for those concerned with the issue of non-proliferation." - Robert W. Cahn, Nature "The most authoritative and exhaustive account so far of the development of India's nuclear programme since independence. This meticulously researched volume is an outstanding contribution to a subject mired in deliberate misunderstandings." - Gurharpal Singh, Times Higher Education Supplement "No book written in recent times - in fact, at any time since 1947 - on India's nuclear bomb can be compared to George Perkovich's book in its wide coverage, insightful research and sheer objectivity. In all these three departments this book excels beyond measure." - M. V. Kamath, The Daily Mail (India) "Rich, definitive...at all times fair. It is hard to see how it will be superseded." - Lawrence Freedman, Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsACKNOWLEDGMENTS Introduction ONE Developing the Technological Base for the Nuclear Option 1948-1963 TWO The First Compromise Shift toward a "Peaceful Nuclear Explosive" 1964 THREE The Search for Help Abroad and the Emergence of Nonproliferation DECEMBER 1964-AUGUST 1965 FOUR War and Leadership Transitions at Home AUGUST 1965-MAY 1966 FIVE The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and Secretly Renewed Work on a Nuclear Explosive 1966-1968 SIX Political Tumult and Inattention to the Nuclear Program 1969-1971 SEVEN India Explodes a "Peaceful" Nuclear Device 1971- 1974 EIGHT The Nuclear Program Stalls 1975-1980 NINE More Robust Nuclear Policy Is Considered 1980-1984 TEN Nuclear Capabilities Grow and Policy Ambivalence Remains NOVEMBER 1984-DECEMBER1987 ELEVEN The Nuclear Threat Grows Amid Political Uncertainty 1988-1990 TWELVE American Nonproliferation Initiatives Flounder 1991- 1994 THIRTEEN India Verges on Nuclear Tests 1995-MAY 1996 FOURTEEN India Rejects the CTBT JUNE 1996-DECEMBER 1997 FIFTEEN The Bombs That Roared 1998 Conclusion: Exploded illusions of the Nuclear Age Afterword: January 1999-January 2001 APPENDIX India's Nuclear Infrastructure NOTES INDEX
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University of California Press Just One Child
Book SynopsisExplains how the leaders China decided to limit all couples to one child. This book focuses on the historic period 1978-80 and documents the manner in which a handful of leading aerospace engineers hijacked the population policymaking process and formulated a strategy that treated people like missiles.Trade Review"Compelling... Masterfully crafted... Just One Child is a bold, brilliant book." -- Ruth Rogaski, Vanderbilt University Historical Stds In The Natural Sciences "Greenhalgh is our most surefooted guide to China's adventure in mass birth planning ... As a study of scientific policy-making in China, Just One Child is without peer." Science (AAAS) "The first step in questioning the one-child policy will be an open and truthful exploration of its origins and history. This book is an admirable leap towards that goal." Times Literary Supplement (TLS) "Fascinating." The Lancet "Highly engaging." -- Siumi Maria Tam Chinese Cross Currents "Greenhalgh finds the missing pieces of the puzzle." Signs "Penetrating analysis." NatureTable of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Preface xi Acknowledgments xix 1. Introduction: An Anthropology of Science Making and Policymaking 1 2. History: The "Ideology" Before the "Science" 45 making population science 79 3. A Chinese Marxian Statistics of Population 81 4. A Sinified Cybernetics of Population 125 5. A Chinese Marxian Humanism of Population 169 making population policy 191 6. The Scientific Revolution in Chengdu 193 7. Ally Recruitment in Beijing 232 8. Scientific Policymaking in Zhongnanhai 271 9. Conclusion: Why an Epistemic Approach Matters 307 Notes 345 List of Interviews 361 References 371 Index 395
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University of California Press Pet Food Politics
Book SynopsisTells the story of how, in early 2007, a few telephone calls about sick cats set off the largest recall of consumer products in US history and an international crisis over the safety of imported goods ranging from food to toothpaste, tires, and toys. This title reveals the connections among the food supplies for pets, farm animals, and people.Trade Review"A detective story that identifies plenty of perpetrators as well as victims...[Warns] that the problems wouldn't stop with animals" Atlantic "Informative... Begging comparison with Sinclair's The Jungle." Publishers Weekly "Fantastically readable." Food & Wine "Iluminate(s) the connections between the food supplies of humans, farm animals and pets... Highlight(s) the broader failings of food regulation." The Economist "A serious investigative tome." Financial Times "A call to action that we can all hope the new Obama administration hears before there's a repeat of the tragedy." Casper Star Tribune Sunday "Nestle is one of the best writers on the general subject of the food industry... Guaranteed to get you thinking." Booklist "Like a good novel, the book is a quick, even entertaining read. The message, however, is one that demands paying attention." San Francisco Chronicle "A call to action that we can all hope the new Obama administration hears before there's a repeat of the tragedy." Sacramento Bee "The information and its implications are eye-opening. It's a call to action that we can all hope the new Obama administration hears." -- Gina Spadafori The Daily Citizen "Reads like a gripping murder mystery." Alternet.orgTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. A Recall to Break All Records 2. A Brief Historical Digression 3. The Sequence of Events 4. What Is Menu Foods? 5. Menu's Muddled Response: What, When, and Where 6. The Cat and Dog Body Count 7. A Toxic False Alarm: Aminopterin 8. At Last the Culprit: Melamine 9. Melamine: A Source of Dietary Nitrogen 10. Melamine: A Fraudulent Adulterant, But Puzzling 11. How Much Melamine Was in the Pet Food? 12. Mystery Solved: Cyanuric Acid 13. The China Connection 14. More Melamine: Rice and Corn "Proteins" 15. More Melamine Eaters: Farm Animals and People 16. The FDA's Response 17. Repercussion #1: China's Food Safety System 18. Repercussion #2: The China Backlash 19. Repercussion #3: The FDA in Crisis 20. Repercussion #4: Pet Food Politics Appendix: The Melamine Recalls List Notes List of Tables and Figures Acknowledgments Index
£18.00
University of California Press Taxing the Poor
Book SynopsisLooks at the way we tax the poor in the United States, particularly in the American South, where poor families are often subject to income taxes, and where regressive sales taxes apply even to food for home consumption. This book argues that these policies contribute in unrecognized ways to poverty-related problems.Trade Review"Impressive ... straightforward, compelling, and well-documented... This is an important book-for lots of reasons." -- Daniel T. Lichter, Cornell University American Jrnl Of Sociology "Recommended." -- R.S. Rycroft ChoiceTable of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Tables Preface Acknowledgments 1. The Evolution of Southern Tax Structures 2. Barriers to Change: Inertia, Supermajorities, and Constitutional Amendments 3. The Geography of Poverty 4. Tax Traps and Regional Poverty Regimes 5. The Bottom Line Conclusion: Are We Our Brothers' Keepers? Appendix I. How Many Lags of X? by Scott M. Lynch Appendix II. Tables Notes Index
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University of California Press Disposable People
Book SynopsisSlavery is illegal throughout the world, yet more than twenty-seven million people are still trapped in one of history's oldest social institutions. This book points the way to abolishing slavery in global economy. It presents actual slaves, slaveholders, and public officials in well-drawn historical, geographical, and cultural contexts.Trade Review"Disposable People is an eloquently written plea on behalf of people who have been neglected in public discourse. Writing in a readable fashion and providing a gripping account of slaves and their families around the world, Bales reminds us that modernism has not reached all of humanity. The new type of slavery teaches us that although conditions have improved for many millions of people around the world, there are others who have not experienced any of the benefits of the global economy. For those millions of people around the world today, the global economy serves as the yoke that enslaves them." * Human Rights Quarterly *"Kevin Bales has written a fascinating book seeking to re veal the new slavery and calling for action to eradicate its presence. The book is at its best when it provides a voice for the stories of disposable people, and when it calls on the rest of us to live up to our responsibilities in a global world." * Labour / Le Travail *Table of ContentsPreface to the Revised Edition Preface to the 2012 Edition 1. The New Slavery 2. Thailand: Because She Looks Like a Child 3. Mauritania: Old Times There Are Not Forgotten 4. Brazil: Life on the Edge 5. Pakistan: When Is a Slave Not a Slave? 6. India: The Ploughman's Lunch 7. What Can Be Done? Coda: Three Things You Can Do to Stop Slavery Appendix I: A Note on Research Methods Appendix 2: Excerptsfrom International Conventions on Slavery Notes Acknowledgments Index
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University of California Press Agrarian Dreams
Book SynopsisPresents the study of organic farming. This book includes a thorough investigation of the federal organic program, a discussion of how the certification arena has continued to grow and change since its implementation, and a guide to the structure of the organic farming sector.Table of ContentsList of Tables List of Abbreviations Preface to the Second Edition Acknowledgments Maps 1. Agrarian Dreams 2. Finding the Way: Roads to Organic Production 3. Organic Farming: Ideal Practices and Practical Ideals 4. California Dreaming: California's Agro-Industrial Legacy 5. Organic Sediment: A Geography of Organic Production 6. Conventionalizing Organic: From Social Movement to Industry via Regulation 7. Organic Regulation Ramified 8. California Organics, Fifteen Years On Appendix Notes Glossary References Index
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