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The world is changing dramatically and in an age of Brexit and Trump, the themes of isolation and fragmentation permeating the western world stand in sharp contrast to events along the Silk Roads, where ties have been strengthened and mutual cooperation established.  Following the Silk Roads eastwards from Europe through to China, by way of Russia and the Middle East, \u003ci\u003eThe New Silk Roads\u003c\/i\u003e provides a timely reminder that we live in a world that is profoundly interconnected. 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While increasing numbers of people rely primarily or exclusively on online platforms, authoritarian regimes have concurrently developed a formidable array of technological capabilities to constrain and repress their citizens. In The Rise of Digital Repression, Steven Feldstein documents how the emergence of advanced digital tools bring new dimensions to political repression. Presenting new field research from Thailand, the Philippines, and Ethiopia, he investigates the goals, motivations, and drivers of these digital tactics. Feldstein further highlights how governments pursue digital strategies based on a range of factors: ongoing levels of repression, political leadership, state capacity, and technological development. 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Yet, in the end, Feldman guides us through more hopeful alternatives. This is essential reading for those who are concerned about the struggle between freedom and repression. * Steven Livingston, Professor \u0026amp; Founding Director Institute for Data, Democracy, and Politics, George Washington University *\u003cbr\u003eSteve Feldstein delivers a book that will be viewed as indispensable to anyone concerned with the intersection of technology and the state, and particularly, the evolving impact on people's quest for freedom the world over. In original case studies, he details how the current rising tide of authoritarianism has been enabled by digital repression. This tide could recede; equally compelling are the strategies he outlines for democratic governments, for civil society activists, and for those in the private sector looking to stem the tide. * Sarah E. Mendelson, Distinguished Service Professor of Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University, Former U.S. Ambassador to the UN's Economic and Social Council *\u003cbr\u003eThis book is a must-read on the myriad ways that state repression has adapted to the digital age. Through data-driven analysis and original case studies, Steven Feldstein provides a comprehensive guide to online censorship, disinformation, and surveillance. This is an excellent primer for those looking to understand how to push back against digital authoritarianism. * Adrian Shahbaz, Director for Technology and Democracy, Freedom House *\u003cbr\u003eDigital technologies were once seen as a harbinger of liberalization and democratization. Thanks to 'big data,' A.I., machine learning, facial recognition, and other mass surveillance systems, they have now become an autocrat's best friend and a big business opportunity. With precision and clarity, Steven Feldstein documents the disturbing spread of the political economy of digital repression and offers pathways to help resist it. 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A major reason for its popularity is its promise of mental and physical well-being: yoga and meditation are thought to be spiritual paths to self-improvement. Yoga is also widely practiced in prisons, another large business in the United States. Prisons in all fifty states offer yoga and meditation as a form of rehabilitation. But critics argue that such practices can also have disempowering effects, due to their emphasis on acceptance, non-judgment, and non-reaction. If the root of suffering is in the mind, as the philosophy behind yoga and meditation suggests, then injustice (including mass incarceration) may be reduced to a mental state requiring coping techniques rather than a more critical mindset. Others insist that yoga can heighten people''s attention to structural violence, hierarchy, racism, and inequity. In fact, some of history''s most radical activists, including M.K. Gandhi and Thich Nhat Hanh, traced their ethical and political commitments to their grounding in yogic or meditative traditions. Yoga and meditation programs no doubt offer crucial respite for those who are incarcerated, but what sort of political effects do they have? Do they reinforce the neoliberal logic of mass incarceration which emphasizes individual choices, or can they assist marginalized people in navigating systemic injustice? Drawing on collaborations with incarcerated practitioners, interviews with volunteers and formerly incarcerated practitioners, and her own fieldwork with organizations offering yoga\/meditation classes inside prisons, Farah Godrej examines both the promises and pitfalls of yoga and meditation. Freedom Inside? reveals the ways in which incarcerated persons have used yogic practices to resist the dehumanizing effects of prisons, and to heighten their awareness of institutional racism and mass incarceration among poor people and people of color. Godrej argues that while these practices could unwittingly exacerbate systemic forms of inequity and injustice, they also serve as resources for challenging such injustice, whether internally (via the realm of belief) or externally (through action). A combination of ethnography and political theory, Freedom Inside? reimagines the concept of resistance in a way that considers people''s interior lives as a crucial arena for liberation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFreedom Inside? is far more than a book about yogic and meditative practices in prison. It is a reflection on the neoliberal seductions of self-help and what self-improvement means in the context of an oppressive total institution. Farah Godrej questions everything, including her role as a researcher, a volunteer, a critic of the carceral state. The result is a deeply meditative, careful, and caring book. By resisting the false dichotomies of self-help versus systemic critique, as well as the \"violent\/non-violent\" distinction, Godrej pushes us past the deadly classifications so endemic to the prison industrial complex. * Naomi Murakawa, Princeton University, and author of The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison America *\u003cbr\u003eIn this ambitious book, Farah Godrej asks after the tensions, ambivalences, and potentially transformative political work performed by yoga and meditation in the gut of the racialized carceral state. Combining decades of first-person experience as a practitioner of yoga, direct research inside the California prison system, and the sensibilities of an accomplished political theorist, Freedom Inside? is an original, boundary-crossing work that contributes to critically important questions about the relationship between individual practices of the mind, heart, and body and quiescence to—or revolt against—broader collective structures of domination and suffering. * Timothy Pachirat, author of Every Twelve Seconds: Industrialized Slaughter and the Politics of Sight and Among Wolves: Ethnography and the Immersive Study of Power *\u003cbr\u003eThrough the lens of a four-year ethnography as a yoga and meditation instructor in prison, Godrej explores the insidious culture of individual responsibility, the widespread acceptance of responsibilization assumptions by people who volunteer in prison rehabilitation programs, and the limited but real possibilities for institutional reform and individual redemption. 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The World of Prison Volunteers 8. \"Making them Better Human Beings\" or \"Stirring the Pot\"?: Interviews with Volunteers  9. Yogic Philosophy, Nonviolence, and Resistance in a Women's Prison, co-authored with Reighlen Jordan and Maitra 10. Conclusion","brand":"Oxford University Press Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732530737495,"sku":"9780190070090","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780190070090.jpg?v=1719997297"},{"product_id":"who-cares-the-social-safety-net-in-america-9780190074463","title":"Who Cares The Social Safety Net in America","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWho Cares is a fresh, informative look at the nature of the American welfare state: why do we care about some needs more than others? 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Infamously, the sheltered Osama bin Laden, whose attack on 9\/11 Towers ushered in the Global War on Terror, drew tens of thousands of American troops to the country, where they remain today.In Afghanistan: What Everyone Needs to Know, leading scholar Barnett R. Rubin provides an overview of this complicated nation. After providing a concise history of Afghanistan, he explores the various peoples and cultures of the country and its relations with neighbors like Pakistan and Iran. He also provides an authoritative overview of the conflicts that have plagued t\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt speaks to everyone. 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The impulse reached its apogee in the United States with the election of Trump, but it was a force in Europe ever since the Great Recession sent the European economy into a prolonged tailspin. In the simplest terms, populism is a political ideology that vilifies economic and political elites and instead lionizes ''the people.'' The people, populists of all stripes contend, need to retake power from the unaccountable elites who have left them powerless. And typically, populists'' distrust of elites shades into a catchall distrust of trained experts because of their perceived distance from and contempt for ''the people.'' Another signature element of populist movements is faith in a savior who can not only speak directly to the people, but also serve as a vessel for the plain people''s hopes and dreams. Going back to the 1890s, a series of such saviors have come and gone in the US alone, from William Jennings Bryan to Huey Long to -- finally -- Donald Trump.In The Populist Temptation, the eminent economic historian Barry Eichengreen focuses on the global resurgence of populism today and places it in a deep context. Alternating between the present and earlier populist waves from modern history, he argues that populists tend to thrive most in the wake of economic downturns, when it is easy to convince the masses of elite malfeasance. Yet while there is more than a grain of truth that bankers, financiers, and ''bought'' politicians are responsible for the mess, populists'' own solutions tend to be simplistic and economically counterproductive. Moreover, by arguing that the ordinary people are at the mercy of extra-national forces beyond their control -- international capital, immigrants, cosmopolitan globalists -- populists often degenerate into demagoguery and xenophobia. There is no one solution to addressing the concerns that populists raise, but Eichengreen argues that there is an obvious place to start: shoring up and improving the welfare state so that it is better able to act as a buffer for those who suffer most during economic slumps. For example, America''s patchwork welfare state was not well equipped to deal with the economic fallout that attended globalization and the decline of manufacturing in America, and that played no small part in Trump''s victory. 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Eichengreen brilliantly describes the backlash unleashed by economic difficulties and dislocation periodically throughout history, and the varying success of political regimes to rise to the challenge. Historical treatments with their focus on deeply rooted processes can be fatalistic. Eichengreen nicely sidesteps that trap, with a hopeful, constructive message pointing the way forward. * Dani Rodrik, Harvard University *\u003cbr\u003eIn The Populist Temptation, Barry Eichengreen, amongst the foremost international economists today, explains why we are seeing an outburst of populist movements across the industrial world, and how they mirror similar movements from history. He argues that while the populists have genuine grievances, the solutions their leaders propose are unlikely to work. Eichengreen is skeptical that populists' concerns can be addressed easily. However, his insightful analysis is an essential starting point for anyone who wants to understand one of the most important developments of our times. * Raghuram G. Rajan, Katherine Dusak Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance, University of Chicago *\u003cbr\u003eBarry Eichengreen has written a characteristically lucid book on the contemporary threat of populism... * The Financial Times *\u003cbr\u003eThe publication of these excellent books is therefore timely... Amid a surge in such publications on a changing world they stand out for their clarity of analysis and writing. * Paschal Donohoe, The Irish Times (referring to both The Populist Temptation and Ctrl Alt Delete, How Politics and the Media Crashed Our Democracy) *\u003cbr\u003eBarry Eichengreen is the world leader in distilling the lessons of economic history for the policy makers of today. This important book is the best we yet have on populism and the antidotes it demands. * Lawrence H. Summers, President Emeritus and Charles W. Eliot University Professor, Harvard University *\u003cbr\u003eNo one makes economic history relevant to today while doing justice to the past like Barry Eichengreen. The Populist Temptation is the best of American and European perspectives on the worst of current EU and US politics. Sobering and sensible, this is a necessary interpretative guide to our times. * Adam S. Posen, President, Peterson Institute for International Economics *\u003cbr\u003eFinally, a superb book that places populism in its proper historical context. And who better to write it than Barry Eichengreen, a master at shedding light on our contemporary economic problems from a historical perspective? Eichengreen brilliantly describes the backlash unleashed by economic difficulties and dislocation periodically throughout history, and the varying success of political regimes to rise to the challenge. Historical treatments with their focus on deeply rooted processes can be fatalistic. Eichengreen nicely sidesteps that trap, with a hopeful, constructive message pointing the way forward. * Dani Rodrik, Harvard University *\u003cbr\u003eIn The Populist Temptation, Barry Eichengreen, amongst the foremost international economists today, explains why we are seeing an outburst of populist movements across the industrial world, and how they mirror similar movements from history. He argues that while the populists have genuine grievances, the solutions their leaders propose are unlikely to work. Eichengreen is skeptical that populists concerns can be addressed easily. However, his insightful analysis is an essential starting point for anyone who wants to understand one of the most important developments of our times. * Raghuram G. 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To do so, Long puts small states'' relationships at the center of his approach. Although small states are defined by their position as materially weaker actors vis-a-vis large states, Long argues that this condition does not condemn them to impotence or irrelevance. Drawing on typological theory, Long builds an explanation of when and how small states might achieve their goals. 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He urges his scholarly colleagues to redefine international relations studies by stretching beyond the interactions of great powers to focus on the many smaller states that light up the geopolitical firmament. * Richard Feinberg, Foreign Affairs *\u003cbr\u003e[A]gainst the aims it sets for itself - to outline and demonstrate the significance of a relational approach to the study of small states that starts from the position of asymmetry and is global in coverage - A Small State's Guide to Influence in World Politics succeeds remarkably. It should be warmly received and become a touchstone text for anybody interested in how the majority of the world's states engage in international affairs. * Prof. Jack Corbett, The Round Table *\u003cbr\u003eTom Long has written an invaluable primer for policy makers and diplomats in small states and scholars of International Relations. He offers a new methodological approach to navigating the asymmetries of inter-state relations, based on exhaustive research, a fairly comprehensive bibliography and a wide-ranging examination of relevant case studies. From a Caribbean perspective, I would have preferred that he had referenced the writings of Shridath Ramphal and Ronald Sanders, but this should not detract from the quality of his research, which is a major contribution to small state diplomacy and IR theory. * Riyad Insanally, Former Ambassador of Guyana to the USA and the Organization of American States *\u003cbr\u003eWritten with clarity and rigour, this is a must-read book for anyone who wants to understand how and why small states fail or succeed in world politics. * Anders Wivel, Professor of International Relations, Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen *\u003cbr\u003eBased on IR theory and grounded in small states scholarship, this book provides an innovative integrated account of small states strategies to deal with constraints and opportunities they face in world politics. The comprehensive theoretical argument is illustrated by a series of compelling short case studies. This timely book is a must-read for scholars and practitioners alike. * Diana Panke, Chair of Multi-level Governance, University of Freiburg (Germany) *\u003cbr\u003eMost books on small states tend to detail a particular issue or the external behavior of states in one region. This book is a remarkable attempt to go beyond this by analyzing the entire spectrum of small states-European as well as in the developing world. Long does this by formulating a detailed pre-theoretical framework through which small state influence attempts can be impartially assessed. The book is notable for both its attention to careful theorizing, as well as the breadth of cases drawn on in support of the author's thesis. Anyone interested in the security and economic behavior of small states will find much to ponder theoretically, and much to draw on descriptively. 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Industry and financial analysts have predicted that the number of Internet-enabled devices will increase from 11 billion to upwards of 75 billion by 2020. Regardless of the number, the end result looks to be a mind-boggling explosion in Internet connected stuff. Yet, there has been relatively little attention paid to how we should go about regulating smart devices, and still less about how cybersecurity should be enhanced. Similarly, now that everything from refrigerators to stock exchanges can be connected to a ubiquitous Internet, how can we better safeguard privacy across networks and borders? Will security scale along with this increasingly crowded field? Or, will a combination of perverse incentives, increasing complexity, and new problems derail progress and exacerbate cyber insecurity? For all the press that such questions have received, the Internet of Everything remains a topic little understood or appreciated by the public.This volume demystifies our increasingly smart world, and unpacks many of the outstanding security, privacy, ethical, and policy challenges and opportunities represented by the IoE. Scott J. Shackelford provides real-world examples and straightforward discussion about how the IoE is impacting our lives, companies, and nations, and explain how it is increasingly shaping the international community in the twenty-first century. Are there any downsides of your phone being able to unlock your front door, start your car, and control your thermostat? Is your smart speaker always listening? How are other countries dealing with these issues? This book answers these questions, and more, along with offering practical guidance for how you can join the effort to help build an Internet of Everything that is as secure, private, efficient, and fun as possible.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Internet of Things will be a driving economic, political, and cultural, force throughout this century. Shackelford does an excellent job of introducing readers to the many facets and implications of this technology, from how they communicate to how they challenge the global digital ecosystem. Essential reading for anyone who needs to understand our hyperconnected future. * Bruce Schneier, Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School and author of Click Here to Kill Everybody *\u003cbr\u003eScott Shackelford's latest book provides an essential contribution to the vital discussion about the impact of technology on society. 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Brunello, CHOICE *\u003cbr\u003eBy connecting concepts such as authoritarian soft power and public diplomacy to extraterritorial repression, Dukalskis shows how autocratic regimes shape global norms. ... Dukalskis builds the framework to untangle the growing and insidious power of authoritarians to sell dictatorship and crush dissent. Highly recommended. * CHOICE *\u003cbr\u003eAlexander Dukalskis's intriguing book, in which he puts forward the concept of 'authoritarian image management', defined as 'comprising efforts by the state or its proxies to enhance or protect the legitimacy of the state's political system for audiences outside its borders'. * Falk Hartig, International Affairs *\u003cbr\u003eIt is difficult to combine approaches from Comparative Politics and International Relations in ways that both speak to contemporary issues, yet also provide scholars with a framework that could be applied to other cases. 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Dukalskis is to be applauded for a pioneering book that will serve as the reference point for a future research area that—nolens volens—will become more and more pressing. * Johannes Gerschewski, WZB Berlin Social Science Center *\u003cbr\u003eMaking the World Safe for Dictatorship is a fascinating survey of the techniques of authoritarian image management, from propaganda and PR aimed at international audiences to the use of censorship, threats, and coercion abroad. Dukalskis' book sheds light on and provides a framework for analyzing an important global phenomenon: the use of extraterritorial mechanisms by authoritarian regimes to buttress and secure their rule. * Sheena Greitens, The University of Texas at Austin *\u003cbr\u003eAs Making the World Safe for Dictatorship demonstrates, today's autocracies are not hermit kingdoms ruled by simple-minded dictators. To the contrary, they are sophisticated regimes that use transnational connections to shore up their power. With evidence from China, Rwanda, and North Korea, Dukalskis offers a compelling framework that integrates the repressive and image-making logics of transnational authoritarianism. By doing so, he radically expands our understanding of how such regimes operate in our globalized world. * Edward Schatz, University of Toronto, author of Slow Anti-Americanism *\u003cbr\u003eThis is an excellent book that represents a major contribution to the field of study on authoritarian politics. Alexander Dukalskis has written a nuanced and highly illuminating study of the ways in which authoritarian regimes seek to manage their image abroad and shape the international environment to their own needs. The book includes a sophisticated theoretical framework that identifies the motivations, tactics, and outcomes behind these image management efforts, and it supports the theoretical arguments with innovative and original data. It is essential reading for scholars and practitioners interested in the international politics of authoritarian rule. * Oisín Tansey, King's College London *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments Chapter 1 - Introduction: Making the World Safe for Dictatorship  Chapter 2 - The Motivations Behind Authoritarian Image Management Chapter 3 - Mechanisms of Authoritarian Image Management Chapter 4 - Selling Dictatorship \u0026amp; Silencing Dissent:  A Global Snapshot Chapter 5 - Controlling Critical Messengers: Foreign Correspondents in China Chapter 6 - Promoting \u0026amp; Controlling the China Dream: China's External Propaganda and Repression Chapter 7 - Projecting Peace \u0026amp; Prosperity: Authoritarian Image Management and RPF Rwanda Chapter 8 - Coping with a Post-Communist World: North Korea Chapter 9 - Conclusion: Looking Backward, Forward, and Inward References Appendix 1: PR \u0026amp; Lobbying Data by Authoritarian States in the United States, 2018-2019 Appendix 2: Authoritarian Actions Abroad Database (AAAD) - Codebook Appendix 3: Pro-DPRK Groups with Internet Presences","brand":"Oxford University Press Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732643721559,"sku":"9780197520130","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}]},{"product_id":"science-secrecy-and-the-smithsonian-9780197520338","title":"Science Secrecy and the Smithsonian","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is the story of how the Smithsonian Institute became intertwined in a secret biological warfare project.During the 1960s, the Smithsonian Institution undertook a large-scale biological survey of a group of uninhabited tropical islands in the Pacific. It was one of the largest and most sweeping biological survey programs of all time, a six-year-long enterprise during which Smithsonian personnel banded 1.8 million birds, captured live specimens and took blood samples, and catalogued the avian, mammalian, reptile, and plant life of 48 Pacific islands. But there was a twist. The study had been initiated, funded, and was overseen by the U.S. Biological Laboratories at Fort Detrick, Maryland. The home of the American biological warfare program. In signing the contract to perform the survey, the Smithsonian became a literal subcontractor to a secret biological warfare project. And by participating in the survey, the Smithsonian scientists were paving the way for top-secret biological war\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn his well-written book about the Pacific Program, author Ed Regis provides a detailed description on how the POBSP was organized, the islands visited and their wildlife or about the people involved in the program...The book is enjoyable to read and a welcome addition to the history of biological warfare. The book is therefore highly recommended. * Robert Petersen, Special consultant at the Centre for Biosecurity and Biopreparedness, Statens Serum Institute *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface  Chapter 1  Secrecy Comes to the Smithsonian    Chapter 2  Recruitment       Chapter 3  Prequels        Chapter 4  Life in the Field       Chapter 5  The Artificial Atoll      Chapter 6  Project 112       Chapter 7  \"Bird Bombs\"      Chapter 8  The Military Payoff      Chapter 9  The \"Secret\" Emerges      Chapter 10  Fate of the Islands       Chapter 11  Aftermath and Aftereffects      Epilogue          Appendix","brand":"Oxford University Press Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732643754327,"sku":"9780197520338","price":24.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780197520338.jpg?v=1719997777"},{"product_id":"seeing-like-an-activist-9780197526439","title":"Seeing Like an Activist","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere are few movements more firmly associated with civil disobedience than the Civil Rights Movement. In the mainstream imagination, civil rights activists eschewed coercion, appealed to the majority''s principles, and submitted willingly to legal punishment in order to demand necessary legislative reforms and facilitate the realization of core constitutional and democratic principles. Their fidelity to the spirit of the law, commitment to civility, and allegiance to American democracy set the normative standard for liberal philosophies of civil disobedience.This narrative offers the civil disobedience of the Civil Rights Movement as a moral exemplar: a blueprint for activists who seek transformative change and racial justice within the bounds of democracy. Yet in this book, Erin R. Pineda shows how it more often functions as a disciplining examplea means of scolding activists and quieting dissent. As Pineda argues, the familiar account of Civil Rights disobedience not only misremembers history; it also distorts our political judgments about how civil disobedience might fit into democratic politics.Seeing Like an Activist charts the emergence of this influential account of civil disobedience in the Civil Rights Movement, and demonstrates its reliance on a narrative about black protest that is itself entangled with white supremacy. Liberal political theorists whose work informed decades of scholarship saw civil disobedience like a white state: taking for granted the legitimacy of the constitutional order, assuming as primary the ends of constitutional integrity and stability, centering the white citizen as the normative ideal, and figuring the problem of racial injustice as limited, exceptional, and all-but-already solved. Instead, this book sees civil disobedience from the perspective of an activist, showing the consequences for ideas about how civil disobedience ought to unfold in the present. Building on historical and archival evidence, Pineda shows how civil rights activists, in concert with anticolonial movements across the globe, turned to civil disobedience as a practice of decolonization in order to emancipate themselves and others, and in the process transform the racial order. Pineda recovers this powerful alternative account by adopting a different theoretical approach--one which sees activists as themselves engaged in the creative work of political theorizing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePineda's work examines the theory behind the concept of civil disobedience, explaining how activists used the civil disobedience strategy to challenge global white supremacy. In the process she returns to prominence the sometimes forgotten importance of the arrest of Fannie Lou Hamer and others ... in an introduction that becomes a catalyst for understanding the decision-making of movement activists discussed at length in the book. * D. O. Cullen, CHOICE *\u003cbr\u003eInterweaving counter-history and political theory in a way that speaks to our present moment, Pinedas book revolutionizes our understanding of one of the most invoked and iconic, but also most misunderstood examples of civil disobedience. With her remarkably profound, rigorous, and compelling study, Pineda manages to open up new theoretical and political possibilities beyond the unquestioned assumptions that constrain the mainstream understanding of protest and disobedience. Recovering the radical, indeed revolutionary potential of political contestation, her book should be read by anyone interested in building a new world. * Robin Celikates, Free University of Berlin *\u003cbr\u003eSeeing Like an Activist makes an important and original contribution to scholarship on civil disobedience by highlighting activists (in this case in the Civil Rights Movement in the US in the 1960s) as important political thinkers in their own right. Drawing on careful case studies of the \"jail, no bail\" campaigns pioneered by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and the 1963 Birmingham Campaign led by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), Pineda shows how the ideas and actions of civil rights activists powerfully contradict the most cherished premises of the philosophical literature on civil disobedience that purports to draw on their example. * Juliet Hooker, Brown University *\u003cbr\u003eA powerful account of how acts of courageous defiance can simultaneously assert freedom and expose structures of racial domination, Pineda's incisive study recovers the genuine radicalism of the nonviolent activism of the civil rights movement. Upending received wisdom about nonviolence as a peaceful, constitutional path to social progress, Pineda shows how activists conceived and enacted nonviolence as a decolonizing practice of self-liberation. * Karuna Mantena, Columbia University *\u003cbr\u003eSeeing Like an Activist is a tour de force, and a joy to read. It is going to transform how political theorists see civil disobedience, and it offers a master class on how to do truly democratic political theory—theory that grows out of democratic actors' practices, rather than trying to fit those actors into existing theories. Political theorists, historians, philosophers, and really everyone else should all read it. If you want to think about what nonviolent direct action can mean for democracy, in the past, present, and\/or future, you need to read Pineda's book. * Lida Maxwell, Boston University *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Civil Disobedience and the Civil Rights Movement  Chapter 1: Seeing Like a White State  Chapter 2: An Entire World in Motion  Chapter 3: Incarceration as Liberation  Chapter 4: Forcing the Better Argument  Chapter 5: The Techniques of Disavowal  Epilogue: To Build a New World","brand":"Oxford University Press Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732644082007,"sku":"9780197526439","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}]},{"product_id":"debating-multiculturalism-should-there-be-minority-rights-debating-ethics-9780197528389","title":"Debating Multiculturalism Should There be","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo this reader at least, this lively debate volume shows very clearly that traditional liberalism, with its core principles of public neutrality and toleration, requires multiculturalism—the position laid out here by Peter Balint. Others will find in Patti Lenard`s 'political inclusion' model a new way of defending a more orthodox multiculturalism of minority rights. But the perhaps most powerful message of this book is the narrow range of disagreement on the necessity of multiculturalism in liberal-democratic societies. * Christian Joppke, University of Bern (Switzerland) *\u003cbr\u003eHas multiculturalism failed, and if so, why has it failed? Lenard and Balint explore these questions while offering their positions for and against multiculturalism. Lenard justifies multiculturalism on the basis of political inclusion. Balint criticizes multiculturalism on the basis of liberal neutrality. The authors broadly agree about the ideals of liberal democracy and they both take minority rights seriously. But they disagree about the 'knowability' of culture, the application of multiculturalism to Indigenous peoples and national minorities, and the sources and risks of social fragmentation. Readers will find two cogent arguments and an illuminating debate that remind us why multicultural ideals are still worth defending and yet remain contested today. * Avigail Eisenberg, University of Victoria (Canada) *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Multiculturalism and Minority Rights Peter Balint \u0026amp; Patti Tamara Lenard  PART I: Pro Multiculturalism Patti Tamara Lenard Chapter 1: Introduction to Part I Chapter 2: What is Culture? Why Political Inclusion? Chapter 3: Cultural Claims and Political Inclusion Chapter 4: Cultural Preservation and Multicultural Accommodation Chapter 5: Non-Interference and Political Inclusion Chapter 6: Shared Public Culture in Diverse States  PART II: Against Multicultural Minority Rights Peter Balint Chapter 7: Introduction to Part II Chapter 8: We are All Neutralists Now!   Chapter 9: Neutrality without Minority Rights Chapter 10: National Minorities, Indigenous Peoples, and Historical Injustice Chapter 11: Multiculturalism and the Demands on Citizens Chapter 12: Conclusion to Part II  Part III: Responses Chapter 13: Response to Balint Culture not Colanders: Why Neutralism Fails to Respond Effectively to the Challenges of Cultural Diversity Patti Tamara Lenard Chapter 14: Response to Lenard  Multiculturalism without Minority (or Majority) Rights   Peter Balint","brand":"Oxford University Press Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732644409687,"sku":"9780197528389","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}]},{"product_id":"american-global-preeminence-9780197534670","title":"American Global PreEminence","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA unique analysis that assesses how we can determine which country will be the next world leader. Will China surpass the United States as the world''s leader? In American Global Pre-eminence, William R. Thompson argues that the answer depends on leads in technological innovation, energy, and global reach. These are the forces that influence the hierarchy of global power--a system which began emerging a thousand years ago and started becoming more evident after the 1490s, especially after Dutch activities in the seventeenth century and British operations in the nineteenth century. The US followed in this fashion after 1945. Yet leads do not last forever. Ironically, as it becomes clearer how technological innovation, military force, and energy power interact, the processes under scrutiny may themselves be fundamentally transforming. Thus, Thompson contends, the real policy question is not whether the US is ahead or behind China but, rather, whether it will remain possible for a single s\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis volume deals with complex arguments using clear language, fairly crafted propositions, well-designed indicators, and the very insightful long leadership cycle perspective. It brings sharp focus and real life into the increasingly foggy question of US decline.\" -Robert A. Denemark, Professor of Political Science and International Relations, University of Delaware\u003cbr\u003eThis book is an insightful inquiry into the decline of US hegemony that deploys an evolutionary comparative perspective on the long history of rise and fall of empires and hegemonic core states. Thompson contends that the coming time of troubles will require careful peaceful co-existence among the great powers to avoid massive calamities.\" -Christopher Chase-Dunn, Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Director of the Institute for Research on World-Systems, University of California-Riverside\u003cbr\u003eA superb treatment of the economic, technological, military, and domestic foundations of the rise and prospective decline of American pre-eminence in world politics over the last two centuries. Thompson's theoretically innovative and empirically systematic analysis, anchored in a deeper historical perspective, is essential reading for anyone interested in the future of American global leadership and world order.\" -Jack S. Levy, Board of Governors Professor, Rutgers University\u003cbr\u003eThompson has been one of the major scholars contributing to our understanding of international politics. At a time when scholars are focused on the rise of China and the alleged decline of the US, his most recent work in this area could not be more timely. And unlike most approaches to the rise and decline of powers today, this one is correctly placed in the context of long-term dynamics that help explain where we are now and where we are heading. Combining rigorous theory with new data on military and economic capabilities, along with a strong historical perspective, this excellent contribution to the field of international relations should be on the desks of both scholars and students in the field.\" -Thomas J. Volgy, The University of Arizona\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. American Systemic Leadership: Its Unparalleled Rise and Slow Retreat 2. System Leadership, Rise and Relative Decline in the Global Political Economy 3. The Rise of the U.S. Economy 4. The 1920-45 Shift in U.S. Foreign Policy Orientation: Theory, Grand Strategies and System Leader Ascents 5. The Relative Decline of the United States 6. The Dysfunctionality of Domestic Politics: A Form of Absolute Decline 7. The Unipolarity Mirage 8. Inching Toward the Primus inter Pares Model and the End of Systemic Leadership as We Have Come to Know It? 9. The Second Sino-American Rivalry 10. The Future of World Order References Index","brand":"Oxford University Press Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732645785943,"sku":"9780197534670","price":24.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780197534670.jpg?v=1719997783"},{"product_id":"daring-to-struggle-chinas-global-ambitions-under-xi-jinping-9780197545645","title":"Daring to Struggle Chinas Global Ambitions Under","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDaring to Struggle is a significant contribution to our understanding of those motivations, offering a response to that question that is both refreshing and often arresting. There are a number of reasons to appreciate the arrival of Bates Gill's contribution to this important enquiry. The scholarship he draws upon incorporates both primary materials as well as analysis from a wide range of secondary academic treatments. * Rosemary Foot, The China Quarterly *\u003cbr\u003eIn this probing and engrossing study, leading China scholar Bates Gill has contributed the most comprehensive and in-depth assessment to date of China's global impact under strongman ruler Xi Jinping. Clearly conceptualized, well written, and based on granular research, it is filled with insights but troubling in its implications. Professor Gill argues that Xi's China has a big chip on its shoulder and is driven by an insatiable craving for respect—when married together with the attributes of hard power, he argues that this could be a combustible combination. Daring to Struggle should be carefully read by all serious China watchers. * David Shambaugh, George Washington University *\u003cbr\u003eBates Gill offers the clearest picture yet of 'what China wants.' His well-structured study returns constantly to the Chinese Communist Party's elusive and dangerous search for legitimacy and points to the need for deep US engagement with allies and partners to navigate the Xi Era. * Michael J. Green, Senior Vice President for Asia and Japan Chair, Center for Strategic and International Studies *\u003cbr\u003eAt the very moment that China has moved to the center of global politics, Bates Gill has produced a Rosetta stone-like guide to understanding Xi Jinping's worldview. This book is essential reading for scholars, policymakers and business leaders alike. It provides an unusually lucid analysis of how Xi's China thinks about its role in the world and how Xi plans to achieve his global goals, which remain both inchoate and dynamic. Gill's aptly titled Daring to Struggle finds the right balance between analysis and forecasting in helping the reader fathom Chinese foreign policy today and in the future. * Evan Medeiros, Georgetown University *\u003cbr\u003eIn this gripping new work, Bates Gill tackles what may be the most salient set of questions in international affairs - \"what does China want?\" And \"how will it get what it wants?\" The globe's future likely hinges on the answers to these questions. Daring to Struggle dares to try, employing the lens of six thematic drivers to explain the trajectory of China's ambitions, ultimately arguing that China will not shrink from any contest. This is a must-read book for both specialists and interested observers! * Roy D. Kamphausen, The National Bureau of Asian Research *\u003cbr\u003eThe book even handedly summarises China's place in the current world: how it got there,...Gill deserves credit for making this deeply informative book very readable. It is an excellent, objective single volume primer on China's role in the contemporary world. * Christopher Ruane, Asian Affairs 54.2 *\u003cbr\u003eRecommended. Undergraduates through faculty; professionals; general readers. * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements  Introduction: Understanding China's global ambitions under Xi Jinping   1. Opportunities: Seeking national rejuvenation  2. Legitimacy: Prioritizing the Party and its rule  3. Sovereignty: Achieving territorial integrity and expanded \"strategic frontiers\"  4. Wealth: Pursuing national development and prosperity  5. Power: Leveraging China's growing economic and military might  6. Leadership:  Gaining a greater say in how the world works  7. Ideas: Competing for hearts and minds around the globe  8. Challenges: Confronting headwinds for the China Dream  Conclusion: A contested future  Notes  Index","brand":"Oxford University Press Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732647293271,"sku":"9780197545645","price":24.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780197545645.jpg?v=1719997790"},{"product_id":"dying-by-the-sword-the-militarization-of-us-foreign-policy-9780197581438","title":"Dying by the Sword The Militarization of US","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAmerican policymakers are addicted to threatening and using military force to get their way with other countries. Toft and Kushi provide an abundance of data that show how the United States has become more militaristic and more ruthless over the course of its history. Dying by the Sword is a must read for anyone interested in understanding how Washington operates on the world stage. * John J. Mearsheimer, R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science, the University of Chicago *\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on a thorough analysis of all America's wars since its foundation (and there have been many) this is a sobering and vigorous critique, warning against American exceptionalism and overdependence on armed force. * Sir Lawrence Freedman is the Emeritus Professor of War Studies at King's College London *\u003cbr\u003eIn Dying by the Sword, Monica Toft and Sidita Kushi document and analyze what has become the constant use of US military force abroad. Noting the United States' vague military and political objectives and the range of indifferent successes to catastrophic failures of these military interventions, the authors make a crucial contribution to the study of war, the use of the military tool for political ends, and U.S. foreign policy. * Jacqueline Hazelton, Executive Editor of International Security, and former Associate Professor of Strategy and Policy, the US Naval War College *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction  Chapter 1: America the Expander  Chapter 2: America the Western Hegemon  Chapter 3: America the Hesitant Helper  Chapter 4: America the Leader of the Free World  Chapter 5: America the Unipolar Hegemon  Chapter 6: America the Unleashed  Chapter 7: America the Lost?","brand":"Oxford University Press Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732654207319,"sku":"9780197581438","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780197581438.jpg?v=1719997813"},{"product_id":"justice-and-international-order-east-and-west-9780197598405","title":"Justice and International Order East and West","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReaders leave this text with a better grasp on the causes of current international differences between China and the West and with some practical means toward future cooperative flourishing. * D. 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A tour de force and an enlightening read for anyone who cares about our future. * Shiping Tang, Fudan distinguished professor, Fudan University, Shanghai, author of The Social Evolution of International Politics and The Institutional Foundation of Economic Development *\u003cbr\u003eLebow and Zhang make a compelling argument for the importance of smaller states and their inhabitants' perceptions of justice in international orders. Testing the effects of those perceptions on states' and individuals' behaviours would be a tremendous addition to their fascinating work. 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Bringing macroeconomics back into the center of the study of comparative capitalism, the authors skillfully weave economics and politics together to yield a distinctive view of the challenges facing the contemporary world. This is an illuminating volume that all political economists will want to read. * Peter A. Hall, Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies, Harvard University *\u003cbr\u003eWhat happens when growth slows down? This excellent book contributes to a growing research agenda on economic growth, ranging from heterodox economics and international political economy to political science. At the core are institutional differences between national growth regimes that are interconnected in the global economy. Understanding those institutions and dynamics will allow us to better guide the transition from fossil-fuelled growth towards decarbonization. * Anke Hassel, Professor of Public Policy, Hertie School *\u003cbr\u003eEvery once in a while, a book comes along that genuinely takes the scholarly and analytical debates in a field forwards. This impressively substantial tome is just such a volume, enriching comparative capitalisms analysis in bringing together an array of the world's leading political economists to explore growth models and capitalist restructuring in many parts of the globe. This will become a landmark volume that students and scholars of the political economy interested in the politics of capitalist growth in all parts of the globe will need to read. * Ben Clift, Professor of Political Economy, University of Warwick *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Contributors Introduction:  Rethinking Comparative Capitalism Lucio Baccaro, Mark Blyth and Jonas Pontusson  Part 1: Theoretical Perspectives  Chapter 1: Growth Models and Post Keynesian Macroeconomics Engelbert Stockhammer and Özlem Onaran  Chapter 2:  From Fordism to Franchise: Intellectual property and growth models in the Knowledge Economy Herman Mark Schwartz  Chapter 3:  Four Galtons and a Minsky: Growth Models from an IPE Perspective Herman Mark Schwartz and Mark Blyth  Part 2: Growth Models at Scale  Chapter 4: The Political Economy of the Eurozone's Post-Crisis Growth Model Alison Johnston and Matthias Matthijs   Chapter 5: China's Growth Models in Comparative and International Perspective Yeling Tan and James Conran  Chapter 6: The Politics of Growth Model Switching: Why Latin America Tries, and Fails, to Abandon Commodity-Driven Growth Jazmin Sierra  Chapter 7: The FDI-led Growth Models of the East-Central and South-Eastern European Periphery Cornel Ban and Dragos Adascalitei  Part 3: Country Case Studies  Chapter 8: Credit and Consumption-Led Growth Models in the United States and United Kingdom Alexander Reisenbichler and Andreas Wiedemann  Chapter 9: The Political-Economic Foundations of Export-led Growth: An Analysis of the German Case Lucio Baccaro and Martin Höpner   Chapter 10: Rebalancing Balanced Growth: The Evolution of the Swedish Growth Model since the mid- 1990s Lennart Erixon and Jonas Pontusson  Chapter 11: Growth and Stagnation in Southern Europe: The Italian and Spanish Growth Models  Compared Lucio Baccaro and Fabio Bulfone  Chapter 12: Global Capital and National Growth Models: The Cases of Ireland and Latvia Dorothee Bohle and Aidan Regan  Part 4: Policies and Politics  Chapter 13: Financialization and Growth Regimes Cornel Ban and Oddny Helgadóttir  Chapter 14: Political Parties and Growth Models Jonathan Hopkin and Dustin Voss  Chapter 15: Growth Models Under Austerity Evelyne Hübscher and Thomas Sattler  Chapter 16:  Welfare States and Growth Models: Accumulation and Legitimation Julia Lynch and Sara Watson  Chapter 17: Green Growth Models Jonas Nahm  Index","brand":"Oxford University Press Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732657484119,"sku":"9780197607862","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780197607862.jpg?v=1719997829"},{"product_id":"the-knowledge-polity-teaching-and-research-in-the-social-sciences-9780197611920","title":"The Knowledge Polity Teaching and Research in the","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  Preface  Introduction: From the Pipeline to the Polity  Chapter 1 The Who, When, What, and Where of Submissions and Publications  Chapter 2 The Who, When, What, and Where of Teaching  Chapter 3 The Institutional Context: Universities, Departments, and Families  Chapter 4 Advice Networks and Coauthorship  Chapter 5 Disposed to Publish or Teach? Exploring the Role of Personality  Chapter 6 The Publication Pipeline  Chapter 7 The Tweeting Polity: Mediated Public Engagement and Academic Research  Chapter 8 It Takes a Polity to Raise a Publication: Peer Reviewing and Academic Citizenship  Conclusion  Appendix A  Appendix B  References","brand":"Oxford University Press Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732658237783,"sku":"9780197611920","price":23.27,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780197611920.jpg?v=1719997833"},{"product_id":"all-the-kingdoms-of-the-world-9780197611371","title":"All the Kingdoms of the World","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA fresh assessment of Catholic integralism and other new and radical religious alternatives to liberal democracy.According to a common narrative, the twentieth century spelled the end of faith-infused political movements. Their ideologies, like Catholic integralism, would soon be forgotten. Humans were finally learning to keep religion out of politics. Or were we? In the twenty-first century, nations as diverse as Russia, India, Poland, and Turkey have seen a revival of religious politics, and many religious movements in other countries have proved similarly resilient. A new generation of political theologians passionately reformulate ancient religious doctrines to revolutionize modern political life. They insist that states recognize the true religion, and they reject modern liberal ideals of universal religious freedom and church-state separation. In this book, philosopher Kevin Vallier explores these new doctrines, not as lurid oddities but as though they might be true. The anti-lib\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis splendid book has something for everyone. For religious conservatives who question the separation of church and state, Vallier offers compelling arguments against their integration, drawing from Catholic theology, Church history, and considerations of social stability. For liberals, Vallier offers a bracing view of a powerful current stream of anti-liberal thought that should shatter any complacency about taking liberal political assumptions for granted. For people of all religious and political orientations, Vallier offers a rigorous method for assessing political proposals that does not presuppose liberal principles, but can serve as a basis for all to engage each other in serious discussion. In our politically polarized age, that is a major achievement.\" Elizabeth Anderson, Max Shaye Professor of Public Philosophy, University of Michigan\u003cbr\u003eKevin Vallier thoughtfully makes the case against post-liberal political doctrines, focusing on Catholic integralism. But he also pursues reconciliation with conservatives through his striking proposal for non-liberal charter cities within the framework of a liberal state. This book is a daring and original effort to adapt liberal political theory to a post-liberal era.\" Yoram Hazony, author of Conservatism: A Rediscovery\u003cbr\u003eIntegralism holds that state coercion is to be used to forward a religion's vision of the supernatural good. It is deeply statist and deeply illiberal; and, yet, it arguably follows from the teachings of Roman Catholicism. In All the Kingdoms of the World, Kevin Vallier does the great service of taking this position seriously-of presenting it with care, so that its attractions are plain. He also does the great service of showing why it nevertheless profoundly fails in its own terms as an account of a just, stable political order and how its failure provides lessons for the prospects of other emerging anti-liberal statisms. The book is intellectually invigorating, theoretically rigorous, and politically timely. I am grateful that it was written, and that it was Vallier who wrote it!\" Mark C. Murphy, McDevitt Professor of Religious Philosophy, Georgetown University\u003cbr\u003eThis is an excellent and important book, starting with its defense of classical liberalism over Catholic integralism and indeed illiberalism more generally...likely to be one of this year's books that turns out to really matter. * Tyler Cowen, Marginal Revolution *\u003cbr\u003eAll the Kingdoms of the World: On Radical Religious Alternatives to Liberalism is a seminal and ground-breaking work of meticulous scholarship. Impressively exceptional in organization and presentation, All the Kingdoms of the World: On Radical Religious Alternatives to Liberalism will have a special relevance and value for readers with an interest in the history of religion and politics, as well as being especially recommended for Church\/State curriculum studies lists. Highly recommended for personal, professional, community, college, and university library collections. * John Taylor, MBR Bookwatch *\u003cbr\u003eA fantastic book - an intellectual feast. * Kaushik Basu, Carl Marks Professor of International Studies, Cornell University, and former Chief Economist of the World Bank *\u003cbr\u003eThe book is a response to the unexpected return of integralism as a political option, but it is also a reflection on what kind of society enables goodness...Vallier's book succeeds in revealing the dangerous flaws of integralism, but he offers few reasons to believe that liberalism has the resources to address the major social challenges we face today. * Terence Sweeney, The Commonweal *","brand":"Oxford University Press Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732658303319,"sku":"9780197611371","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780197611371.jpg?v=1719997833"},{"product_id":"seeking-truth-and-hiding-facts-information-ideology-and-authoritarianism-in-china-9780197627662","title":"Seeking Truth and Hiding Facts Information","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJeremy Wallace's new book Seeking Truth and Hiding Facts: Information, Ideology, and Authoritarianism in China is a tour de force of scholarship on the political development of the People's Republic of China (PRC), particularly in the post-Mao era...the book is very enjoyable to read and remains accessible without compromising on theoretical depth or empirical richness. * Yan Xiaojun, The University of Hong Kong, The China Quarterly *\u003cbr\u003eProfessor Wallace offers readers a fascinating volume on how quantification and governance have gone hand in hand in China and their discontents. This is a unique perspective on and reinterpretation of China's political economy in recent decades.\" -Dali L. Yang, William C. Reavis Professor of Political Science, The University of Chicago\u003cbr\u003eIn this important book, Jeremy Wallace shows why the center in China has limited its vision to a few quantifiable indicators, such as GDP, investment, and fiscal revenue. This focus has led to a failure to see local problems like protests, debt, and pollution. Wallace's arguments speak to key debates in the study of authoritarian politics.\" -Martin K. Dimitrov, Professor of Political Science, Tulane University\u003cbr\u003eThis is an excellent book about the political economy of China and an insightful study of an authoritarian system. * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments Chapter 1: A Numbers Game  Chapter 2: Quantifying Like a Regime  Chapter 3: Seeking Truth  Chapter 4: Aftershocks  Chapter 5: Quantified Governance  Chapter 6: Hiding Facts  Chapter 7: A Neopolitical Turn  Chapter 8: Beyond Count  Bibliography  Index","brand":"Oxford University Press Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732661612887,"sku":"9780197627662","price":24.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780197627662.jpg?v=1719997845"},{"product_id":"in-a-bad-state-responding-to-state-and-local-budget-crises-9780197629154","title":"In a Bad State Responding to State and Local","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDavid Schleicher is the ideal legal scholar of cities. Anyone who is worried about the fiscal future of our states and local governments should read his insightful new book. It is remarkably deep given how much fun it is to read, and it is remarkably fun to read given the seriousness of the topic. * Edward Glaeser, Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics and Chairman of the Department of Economics, Harvard University *\u003cbr\u003eFaced with mounting Medicaid costs, footloose taxpayers, powerful public employees, and a nationalized political climate that rewards ideological grandstanding over basic competence, America's state governments have become fiscal basket cases. Confident that they'll be bailed out by the federal government at the first sign of economic distress, elected officials in state after state are choosing budget gimmickry over spending discipline, reaping political dividends all the while. But what happens when the bailout doesn't materialize, or isn't quite as generous as expected? Drawing on the history of federal responses to state fiscal disasters from the 1790s to the Covid pandemic, David Schleicher's In a Bad State offers a brilliant and engaging exposition of exactly why these fiscal reckonings have proven so painful in the past, and why the inevitable next one will be no exception. * Reihan Salam, Manhattan Institute *\u003cbr\u003eDavid Schleicher, the leading lawyer on state and city governments, has written an extraordinary book that describes with incredible clarity the complexity of the fiscal decisions that lie ahead for cities and states. It is well worth reading. * Richard Ravitch, Former Lt. Governor of New York and Chairman of the Metropolitan Transit Authority *\u003cbr\u003eDavid Schleicher, one of the most brilliant and far-ranging political thinkers of his generation, here takes on a very specific question: How federal governments should respond when state and local governments default. Schleicher's timely insight is that overspending is inextricable from the question of growth, and In a Bad State's deft history channels all the ways in which federalism has complicated and shaped the efforts to build a bigger and more modern country. The pragmatic question with which this gem-like policy book begins opens into a literary one: Of how existing legal and policy regimes might be bent in order to account for the future. * Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker *\u003cbr\u003eHighly recommended for public finance professionals, scholars, attorneys, elected officials, and legislative staff. * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart I: Why Is It So Hard To Get Out of a Bad State? An Introduction to the Problem of State and Local Fiscal Crisis Introduction: Why It Is So Hard to Get Out of a Bad State Part II: When We've Been in a Bad State: The Theory and History of Federal Responses to State and Local Fiscal Crises Chapter 1: What Has Already Been Said About Federal Responses to State and Local Budget Crises? What Has Been Left Out? Chapter 2: State Debt Crises Through the 1840s Chapter 3: The Dual Debt Crises of the Post-Civil War Period Chapter 4:  State and Local Debt Crises in The Twentieth Century Chapter 5: The Great Recession and State and Local Fiscal Crises Chapter 6:  COVID-19, the CARES Act, the MLF, and the ARP Part III: Tools for Getting Out of a Bad State Chapter 7: Introduction to the Principles for Responding to State and Local Fiscal Crises Chapter 8: Building Better Bailouts Chapter 9: Building Better Defaults Chapter 10: Building Better Forms of State and Local Austerity Chapter 11: Resilience, or Building a Better Federal System Part IV: The Conclusion, Or Why States Are Often Bad Chapter 12: Why States Are Often Bad Notes  Index","brand":"Oxford University Press Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732662071639,"sku":"9780197629154","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780197629154.jpg?v=1719997846"},{"product_id":"the-cartel-system-of-states-9780197632277","title":"The Cartel System of States","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe people who live in border towns often have closer relations with people across their immediate borders than with people in the same country as them. Despite how intertwined these border communities often are, neither community can access the governmental institutions of the nation on the other side. Why are the citizens of neighboring regions that lie across an international border often subject to very different governance systems? More broadly, why can''t public services be bought piecemeal, on an a-la-carte basis, with governments competing to provide higher quality services at the lowest cost in a marketplace for government services? These questions lie at the heart of modern International Relations.In The Cartel System of States, Avidit Acharya and Alexander Lee provide a powerful and field-shaping theory to address a fundamental issue in world politics: the character of the territorial nation-state. They contend that the modern territorial state system works as an economic cartel in which states have local, bounded monopolies in governing their citizens. States refuse to violate each other''s monopolies, even when they could do so easily. Acharya and Lee examine what makes this system stable, when and how it emerged, how it spread, how it has been challenged, and what led it to be so resilient over time. Drawing from the centuries long process of modern state formation, The Cartel System of States explains both how the present system of territorial states--by no means a foregone conclusion in retrospect--took over the world and how it might change in the future.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn The Cartel System of States, Acharya and Lee analyze rulers as monopoly providers of governance services to citizens, who collude with rulers of other countries to restrict competition and protect their local monopolies. They use their theory to interpret the rise of the modern state system, and to analyze the challenges it faces in the current international political and economic environment. The Cartel System of States presents a striking and systematic argument and evidence that will be of interest to all scholars of international politics. * Jeffry Frieden, Harvard University *\u003cbr\u003eIn this ambitious analysis, Acharya and Lee deploy the tools of political economy to explain the stability and form of the modern state system. In their model, states are collusive arrangements, in which rulers divide territory among themselves to maximize the benefits of ruling. The authors reveal the surprising sources of cartel stability and draw out the implications of their theory for the study of territorial conflict, nationalism, and international institutions. The result is insightful and deeply provocative. * Melissa Lee, University of Pennsylvania *\u003cbr\u003eThis provocative book provides a novel perspective on the international state system and its operation. It maintains that governments across the globe and over time have created and perpetuated a cartel to monopolize the governance of their citizens. Cartel theory implies a revised history of the international state system and opens up new ideas for how that system has changed and might change in the future. * Helen V. Milner, Princeton University *\u003cbr\u003eWhy is the world organized into countries with mutually recognized boundaries? Acharya and Lee's book presents a pathbreaking new answer based on the idea that potential rulers compete in a market to govern citizens and that the territorial state system that structures world politics reflects cooperation among rulers to avoid competition and extract as much as possible from citizens. This amazing book establishes this idea as a powerful lens for understanding how globalization, nationalism, state failure, and international institutions have and will shape cooperation and conflict within and between states. The book is a fantastic achievement and a must read for anyone interested in international relations. * Kenneth Scheve, Yale University *\u003cbr\u003eA wholly original and illuminating perspective on the delineation and maintenance of nation-state boundaries. Starting from beguilingly simple premises of the need for governance and the logic of the cartel, Acharya and Lee clarify the logic behind much of the history of international relations. The insights it affords are likely to be the port of departure for much subsequent work. * James Scott, Yale University *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Figures   Acknowledgments   1. Introduction   2. The Cartel Model   3. The Cartel Emerges   4. The Cartel Takes Over   5. Challenges to the Cartel   6. Resilience of the Cartel   7. The Cartel Today   Notes   Bibliography   Index","brand":"Oxford University Press Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732662432087,"sku":"9780197632277","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780197632277.jpg?v=1719997848"},{"product_id":"national-identity-and-partisan-polarization-9780197633946","title":"National Identity and Partisan Polarization","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNational Identity Identity and Partisan Polarization examines how national identity has become a central issue in political and social life across the world. Questions of identity--who should be counted as a true member of a society and who deserves assistance from the government--have displaced other social and economic issues across nations in many countries. This study considers the role of identity theoretically and in the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Austria, Germany, Sweden, Hungary, Poland, Israel, and Taiwan. Identity varies over time and over countries. Some such as Sweden have a more inclusive sense of identity--one does not need to be born in the country or have ancestry to be considered a true Swede. Other countries, such as Austria, France, Hungary, Poland, Israel, and Taiwan, have a more exclusive notion of identity--where one was born and a common heritage (race, religion, ethnicity) are seen as essential for seeing others as true members of society. Outsid\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere is no doubt this is a hugely important book. In the current era, there is an urgent need to understand better why a feeling of national identity seems such a powerful attitude. This volume brings everything together to arrive at this understanding. It offers the accumulation of a lifetime of profound scholarly work. The combination of historical evidence and a profound knowledge of data and statistical analysis is more than impressive. This book brings also a powerful moral message: it demonstrates how important education, and the universal access to education are. The evidence, assembled in this volume is just overwhelming and conclusive; and it sheds new light on current debates. Uslaner shows in this volume what political science can do, based on rigorous methods, and how this work can lead to a more just society. Maybe that is the most important contribution political science has to offer. * Marc Hooghe, University of Leuven (Belgium) *\u003cbr\u003eThis volume is an important book on an important topic. Employing data from ten widely different cultures, it nails down the significance of national identity throughout the globe. Besides political scientists, this book should also be of great interest to sociologists and social psychologists. * Thomas F. Pettigrew, University of California, Santa Cruz *\u003cbr\u003eIn National Identity and Partisan Polarization, Uslaner presents an array of empirical data showing how the partisan divisions in modern democracies have shifted from economic issues to questions of national identity, and how democracies differ in their willingness to treat diverse populations inclusively. This book is critical in understanding the nature of today's politics, from a top scholar in the field. * Francis Fukuyama, Stanford University *\u003cbr\u003eAt a time when nationalistic political parties are experiencing an upsurge in many countries, this is a valuable contribution to our understanding of the meanings and variations among national identities. I am especially impressed with the book's fair and balanced treatment as well as the extensive research that underlies this important comparative inquiry. * Robert Wuthnow, Princeton University *\u003cbr\u003eThis is an excellent book, providing a fascinating account of some of the most important questions of our time. Uslaner, a leading social capital theorist, scrutinizes the increasing political significance of national identity. * Nils Holtug, University of Copenhagen *\u003cbr\u003eThis is a singular study of inflamed politics. It is exceptional in scope, covering ten counties in all, drawing on a massive number of public opinion surveys and voting studies. And it floodlights a climactic dimension of contemporary political polarization—the electoral battle between political parties committed to opposing conceptions of national identity. * Paul Sniderman, Stanford University *\u003cbr\u003eThe relationship between national identity and politics is one of the most pressing issues in current politics. This book is a must-read for anyone who wants to understand the current political situation in Western countries. * Bo Rothstein, University of Gothenburg *\u003cbr\u003eUnderstanding the interplay between national identity and political polarisation is a central issue of our age, and Eric Uslaner handles it with depth and subtlety. Ranging across ten countries, this book brings together a rich understanding of history and a deep dive into the data. If you've ever wondered why nations have different answers to the question 'who is a true member of our society?', then this book is a must-read. * Andrew Leigh, Parliament of Australia *\u003cbr\u003eIf you want to understand why politics has become increasingly and dangerously polarized, Ric Uslaner's new book provides important insights. As Uslaner explains, people with an \"exclusive\" national identity often perceive grave threats from \"outsiders,\" which has unleashed challenging political forces. Donald Trump is one manifestation of national identity politics, but there are many others around the world. Uslaner makes clear that national identity and perceived threats to it play a critical role in our current predicament. That not every country's politics has been as consumed by tribalism provides some hope for better management of these forces. * David Madland, Center for American Progress, and author of Re-Union *\u003cbr\u003eEric Uslaner did it again. One of the most prolific political scientists of our generation, has deciphered the link between national identity and political polarization in a wide-ranging study that includes ten different countries. Beyond being a gifted scholar, Uslaner has earned a reputation for his phenomenal writing ability, which he demonstrates in the book. Like its predecessors, this book will soon become one of the pillars of contemporary comparative political research. * Ami Pedahzur, The University of Texas at Austin *\u003cbr\u003eThis book creatively explores the sources of political polarization across ten countries and over various time periods. It is a fine example of scholarship that zeroes in on the effects of diversifying societies on political outcomes. Based on a wealth of data sources and via sophisticated data analysis this book reveals that the determinants of polarization are found in the type of national identity electorates possess, rather than in the countries' institutional variation as oftentimes claimed. Guided by the idea as to who counts as a 'true member of society,' the book powerfully demonstrates the importance of being moored to a sense of belonging, community, and identity in shaping people's political choices. * Markus M. L. Crepaz, University of Georgia *\u003cbr\u003eAt a time when researchers talk about a dispersed identity when borders are disappearing, and citizens try to belong to many, often difficult to define, places, Eric M. Uslaner's book National Identity and Partisan Polarization is indispensable reading. It shows the processes of redefining national identities and using political identities in political communication. Comparing the indicated approaches in different countries increases the book's value, showing the role of specific factors. * Agnieszka Turska-Kawa, University of Silesia in Katowice *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface     Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2:  The United States   Chapter 3: The United Kingdom  Chapter 4: France   Chapter 5: Germany and Austria  Chapter 6: Sweden   Chapter 7: Central and Eastern Europe  Chapter 8: Israel and Taiwan  Chapter 9: Deservingness  Chapter 10: Reprise   References   Index","brand":"Oxford University Press Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732662792535,"sku":"9780197633946","price":49.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780197633946.jpg?v=1719997849"},{"product_id":"the-global-politics-of-jesus-9780197638842","title":"The Global Politics of Jesus","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book is essentially a neo-Anabaptist primer for political theology and church-state relations...With an approach more akin to theology than social science, this volume is an extended argument for Christian pacifism and peacemaking that some readers will welcome as a corrective to contemporary right-wing Christian political activism. * Choice *\u003cbr\u003ean impressive book * Andrew S. Gilmour, The Living Church *\u003cbr\u003eThis book skillfully counters the global rise of religious nationalism by deftly analyzing the founding mission of Christianity. It shows that by politicizing itself, Christianity has lost its prophetic voice, urgently needed to advance human rights and peace everywhere. This book will be a light for Christians and a template for religious social activism around the world.\" -Mark Juergensmeyer, author of God at War\u003cbr\u003eThis remarkable book shows how state privilege both harms Christianity and undermines global peace and democracy. In contrast, independent Christian communities that live by the radical ethic of Jesus promote human rights, dignity for the poor, women's empowerment, and peace \u0026amp; reconciliation. Beautifully written and cogently argued. * Allen Hertzke, author of Freeing God's Children *\u003cbr\u003eTracing the theology and charting the history of churches across the globe, Nilay Saiya lays bare the startling realization that whenever the church attains a privileged status with the state, true Christian practice withers and dies. This book couldn't be more timely. It is a significant contribution to the study of the church in society. It cannot be ignored by anyone who cares about the politics of Jesus Christ in our time.\" -David Fitch, BR Lindner Chair of Theology, Northern Seminary, Chicago\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements  Introduction  Chapter 1. Clashing Kingdoms  Chapter 2. Patriots, Pietists, and Prophets  Chapter 3. Wayward Christian Soldiers: Christianity and Violence  Chapter 4. Christianizing Foreign Policy: The Case of American Evangelicals and the Middle East  Chapter 5. Holy Humanitarians? Christianity and Human Rights  Chapter 6. Sowing in Shalom: Peace and Reconciliation  Chapter 7. Looking Inward: The Paradox of Privilege and the Church  Chapter 8. The Path Forward  Appendix  References  Index","brand":"Oxford University Press Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732664299863,"sku":"9780197638842","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780197638842.jpg?v=1719997859"},{"product_id":"hostile-forces-how-the-chinese-communist-party-resists-international-pressure-on-human-rights-9780197643204","title":"Hostile Forces How the Chinese Communist Party","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHostile Forces shines a light on how China has learned to manage, manipulate, and resist foreign pressure on human rights, and illustrates how support for authoritarian and nationalist policies can actually grow in response to such critiques from powers within the liberal international system.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this provocative new study, Jamie Gruffydd-Jones argues that international criticism of human rights violations by the Chinese government have not worked and are unlikely to without a fundamental change of strategy. Everyone interested in the promotion of human rights, in China or elsewhere, needs to read this book and heed its advice. * Bruce Dickson, Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, George Washington University *\u003cbr\u003eThis study offers a rich and important analysis of why international human rights campaigns that target major authoritarian regimes, like China, have yielded little success. Gruffydd-Jones demonstrates how these campaigns are selectively co-opted by Chinese authorities for propaganda purposes, and how they are often treated with suspicion by the public, especially when the critiques are communicated by China's main rival-the United States. This book is a timely reminder that great power rivalry can overshadow transnational human rights advocacy, and that authoritarian regimes are increasingly adept at diverting international condemnation into a powerful nationalistic sentiment. * Maria Repnikova, Georgia State University *\u003cbr\u003eDemocracies routinely criticize the human rights practices of autocracies. Is this criticism effective? This important book that should be widely read by policymakers documents that when the US criticizes China alone, Chinese citizens tend to rally around the government. In contrast, multilateral criticism is much more effective in shaping public opinion in China. * Erin Baggott Carter, Stanford University *\u003cbr\u003eJamie Gruffydd-Jones has written an important book examining the Chinese Communist Party's response to criticism on human rights. He explains why, when, and how Beijing permits human rights messages to pierce China's information bubble. His theoretical framework and case studies yield insights into which types of foreign critiques are most likely to trigger reforms and which are more likely to backfire, being used for propaganda purposes by China and other autocratic regimes. * Zack Cooper, American Enterprise Institute *\u003cbr\u003eA fascinating read. * Choice *\u003cbr\u003eIn a context of growing criticism of China's human rights violations, Jamie Gruffydd-Jones makes a valuable contribution in analysing the backlash and unintended consequences that this criticism might prompt as well as its impact on Chinese citizens. * Christelle Genoud, Europe-Asia Studies *","brand":"Oxford University Press Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732665971031,"sku":"9780197643204","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}]},{"product_id":"democracy-amid-crises-polarization-pandemic-protests-and-persuasion-9780197644706","title":"Democracy amid Crises Polarization Pandemic","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Annenberg team has produced an impressively comprehensive, multidisciplinary account of the 2020 election, shedding light not only on voters' choices but also on the unsettled state of American democracy. * Larry Bartels, Vanderbilt University *\u003cbr\u003eIn this book, a stellar team of scholars provides an exhaustive account of the 2020 election. After reading it, the 2020 election makes a lot more sense to me, though I now can't help wondering what it portends as the electorate and communications evolve here and abroad. It is a major and impactful work. * Christopher Wlezien, University of Texas at Austin *\u003cbr\u003eThis landmark book masterfully chronicles and analyzes the tumultuous events that unfolded during President Trump's final year in office. It is a must-read for anyone who cares about the health of our democracy. * Natalie Stroud, University of Texas, Austin *\u003cbr\u003eThe book's findings and arguments are eye-opening and scary. This is an important book for anyone who wants to better understand the 2020 election and the current and future state of American democracy. * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCh. 1 An Election Like No Other                       THE ANNENBERG IOD COLLABORATIVE  Ch. 2 What Fundamental Factors Shape Elections?                       R. LANCE HOLBERT, KATHLEEN HALL JAMIESON, MATTHEW LEVENDUSKY, AND JOSH PASEK  Ch. 3 The Data                       JOSH PASEK, KENNETH WINNEG, AND MATTHEW LEVENDUSKY   Ch. 4 The Multiple Electorates of 2020                    JOSH PASEK  Ch. 5 The Communication Electorates                    R. LANCE HOLBERT, YOTAM OPHIR, AND DROR WALTER   Ch. 6 Did the COVID-19 Pandemic Sink Trump's Re-Election?                  KATHLEEN HALL JAMIESON, MATTHEW LEVENDUSKY, AND ANDREW RENNINGER  Ch. 7 Would A Growing Economy Secure President Trump's Re-Election?                KATHLEEN HALL JAMIESON, MATTHEW LEVENDUSKY, JOSH PASEK, AND ANDREW RENNINGER  Ch. 8 Law and Order vs. Law and Order with Racial Justice                 JOSH PASEK AND KATHLEEN HALL JAMIESON  Ch. 9 \"Stop the Steal\": Voters' Beliefs about Electoral Legitimacy in the 2020 Election and Beyond                    MATTHEW LEVENDUSKY AND JOSH PASEK  Ch. 10 Primed for Insurrection: The Role of Conspiracy Theories in the 2020 Election and its Aftermath             KATHLEEN HALL JAMIESON AND DAN ROMER  Ch. 11  A Republic, If You Can Keep It                    THE ANNENBERG IOD COLLABORATIVE","brand":"Oxford University Press Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732666429783,"sku":"9780197644706","price":17.09,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780197644706.jpg?v=1719997862"},{"product_id":"the-long-game-9780197645482","title":"The Long Game","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor more than a century, no US adversary or coalition of adversaries - not Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, or the Soviet Union - has ever reached sixty percent of US GDP. China is the sole exception, and it is fast emerging into a global superpower that could rival, if not eclipse, the United States. What does China want, does it have a grand strategy to achieve it, and what should the United States do about it?In The Long Game, Rush Doshi draws from a rich base of Chinese primary sources, including decades worth of party documents, leaked materials, memoirs by party leaders, and a careful analysis of China''s conduct to provide a history of China''s grand strategy since the end of the Cold War. Taking readers behind the Party''s closed doors, he uncovers Beijing''s long, methodical game to displace America from its hegemonic position in both the East Asia regional and global orders through three sequential strategies of displacement. Beginning in the 1980s, China focused for two decades on hiding capabilities and biding time. After the 2008 Global Financial Crisis, it became more assertive regionally, following a policy of actively accomplishing something. Finally, in the aftermath populist elections of 2016, China shifted to an even more aggressive strategy for undermining US hegemony, adopting the phrase great changes unseen in century. After charting how China''s long game has evolved, Doshi offers a comprehensive yet asymmetric plan for an effective US response. Ironically, his proposed approach takes a page from Beijing''s own strategic playbook to undermine China''s ambitions and strengthen American order without competing dollar-for-dollar, ship-for-ship, or loan-for-loan.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHighly Recommended * M. G. Roskin, CHOICE *\u003cbr\u003eRecent Reviews    \"the most important book on China in years\" - Washington Post, John Pomfret\u003cbr\u003eOne of the \"Best Books of 2021\" - Financial Times\u003cbr\u003e[Doshi has] meticulously laid bare the Party's methodical advance toward global supremacy. China watchers craving a broad understanding of the Party's geopolitical thought and actions won't be disappointed.\" - Wall Street Journal, David Wilezol\u003cbr\u003eAs the US and China slip towards a new cold war, Doshi argues that Beijing is pursuing a long-term plan to displace the US as the world's most powerful nation. The verdict may sound sensationalist, but it is carefully argued and backed by deep research and primary sources.\" - Financial Times, Gideon Rachman\u003cbr\u003e[Doshi] makes his own case powerfully, with reference to an impressive array of highly authoritative Chinese texts\" - The Economist\u003cbr\u003eOf all the books to appear on this subject in 2021, this will be the one most closely read….Unlike many other Western writers on Chinese strategy, Doshi draws on a deep knowledge of the CCP's voluminous internal and public deliberations.\" - The Times Literary Supplement, Niall Ferguson\u003cbr\u003eWhat does China tell itself about itself? This isn't a rhetorical question. Rush Doshi's The Long Game is a high wattage black light that helps us explore and make sense of China's strategic ambitions to understand their grand strategy.\" - General CQ Brown, Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force\u003cbr\u003eRush Doshi's landmark new book fills in key gaps in the United States' understanding of China's strategy and what it means for U.S. policy.\" - The Council on Foreign Relations\u003cbr\u003e[A] valuable book…[Doshi] quotes extensively from the often obscure writings and speeches of Chinese leaders and thinkers.\" - Foreign Affairs, Andrew Nathan\u003cbr\u003eBrilliant, bracing and empirically rich…It may well turn out to be the one single book that distills both the Chinese approach to the world and the broad contours of Sino-American competition.\" - The Indian Express\u003cbr\u003eRush Doshi's account of China's global strategy in The Long Game is a welcome draft of cold air.\" - Claremont Review of Books-\u003cbr\u003e60 pages of painstaking footnotes, many of them quoting internal statements by Communist Party leaders and intellectuals, make it rather compelling.\" - Reuters, Pete Sweeney\u003cbr\u003eOne of the Top Political Books of 2021\" - The Hill\u003cbr\u003eAdvance Praise    \"The Long Game brings what's been largely missing from debate on US-China relations: historically informed insight into the nature of China's Leninist system and strategy.\" -Kevin Rudd, President of the Asia Society and former Prime Minister of Australia\u003cbr\u003eThe Long Game is essential in understanding China's approach to the evolving US-China relationship and global order. Unique in scope and unmatched in substance, Rush Doshi's masterfully researched work describes clearly the economic, political, and military contours of China's strategic approach. The observations, analysis, and recommendations of this superb work must be foundational to any China playbook-business, political, or military.\" -Admiral Gary Roughead, U.S. Navy (Retired)\u003cbr\u003eUsing primary sources and crisp analysis, Rush Doshi decodes Beijing's grand strategy of the last three decades. In the process, he exposes the threadbare assumptions that caused countless American policymakers, intelligence analysts, and scholars to misjudge the intentions and capacities of China's rulers. Wishful thinkers, isolationists, and accommodationists will marshal no credible counterarguments to the central findings of this superb book.\" -Matt Pottinger, Former Deputy National Security Advisor\u003cbr\u003e'What does China want?' Rush Doshi makes such a cogent case, based on a wealth of Chinese textual and behavioral evidence, that China's consistent strategy has been to displace the United States that he persuades me to re-examine my view that China's aims are open-ended and malleable. His compelling book should become an instant classic in the China field and required reading for everyone trying to figure out America's own best strategy toward China.\" -Susan Shirk, Professor and Chair of the 21st Century China Center, University of California-San Diego\u003cbr\u003eA must-read for anyone wrestling with the China Challenge. Doshi's careful analysis of Chinese language documents make a powerful case that China is pursuing a coherent grand strategy to overturn the US-led international order.\" -Graham Allison, Professor of Government, Harvard Kennedy School\u003cbr\u003eDoshi has brilliantly limned a new framework for understanding both the global ambition and the strategic challenges posed by Xi Jinping and his 'wolf warrior diplomacy.' If you're looking for the one book that best illuminates the historical logic of his unrepentant 'China Dream,' The Long Game is it.\" -Orville Schell, Director, Center on US-China Policy, the Asia Society\u003cbr\u003eBased on a careful reading of a vast array of Chinese sources, Rush Doshi presents a novel and compelling account of the evolution of Beijing's grand strategy. Doshi argues persuasively that shifts in China's behavior are driven by the Communist Party's collective assessment of trends in the global balance of power rather than by the personalities or preferences of individual leaders. The implications are not reassuring: China's increasingly open and aggressive attempts to displace the US and transform the international system began before Xi Jinping took power and will likely persist after he is gone. This important and insightful book should be required reading for scholars and policymakers alike.\" -Aaron L. Friedberg, Professor or Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University\u003cbr\u003eThe debate over whether China has a strategy to displace American leadership in Asia is over. Now comes the first authoritative account of what that strategy is. Using a vast array of original sources, Rush Doshi does unprecedented forensic work on the origins of Chinese grand strategy and its prospects for success.\" -Michael J. Green, author of By More than Providence: Grand Strategy and American Power in the Asia-Pacific since 1783\u003cbr\u003eIf you doubt that China has been pursuing a long-term, comprehensive strategy to achieve global primacy, read Rush Doshi's book. In this brilliant, definitive work, Doshi details the vaulting ambition of Beijing's agenda. Everyone interested in the future of American power and world order should read it now-or weep later.\" -Hal Brands, Johns Hopkins University and American Enterprise Institute\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1 - \"A Coherent Body of Thought and Action\": Defining Grand Strategy Chapter 2 - \"The Party Leads Everything\": Grand Strategy and the Communist Party Chapter 3 - \"New Cold Wars Have Begun\": The Traumatic Trifecta and the US Threat Chapter 4 - \"Hiding Capabilities and Biding Time\": Blunting as China's First Displacement Strategy Chapter 5 - \"A Change in the Balance of Power\": The Financial Crisis and US Decline Chapter 6 - \"Actively Accomplish Something\": Building as China's Second Strategy of Displacement Chapter 7 - \"A Suit that No Longer Fits\": The Global Order and China's Ambitions Chapter 8 - \"Towards the World's Center Stage\": Global Expansion as China's  Third Displacement Strategy Chapter 9 - \"An Asymmetric Response\": Dealing with Chinese Strategies of Displacement","brand":"Oxford University Press Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732666724695,"sku":"9780197645482","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780197645482.jpg?v=1719997863"},{"product_id":"localized-bargaining-the-political-economy-of-chinas-highspeed-railway-program-9780197648223","title":"Localized Bargaining The Political Economy of","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLooks at the rollout of one of the largest infrastructure programs in human history to show how local governments play a complex role.  China''s high-speed railway network is one of the largest infrastructure programs in human history. Despite global media coverage, we know very little about the political process that led the government to invest in the railway program and the reasons for the striking regional and temporal variation in such investments. In Localized Bargaining, Xiao Ma offers a novel theory of intergovernmental bargaining that explains the unfolding of China''s unprecedented high-speed railway program. Drawing on a wealth of in-depth interviews, original data sets, and surveys with local officials, Ma details how the bottom-up bargaining efforts by territorial authoritieswhom the central bureaucracies rely on to implement various infrastructure projectsshaped the allocation of investment in the railway system. Demonstrating how localities of different types invoke institutional and extra-institutional sources of bargaining power in their competition for railway stations, Ma sheds new light on how the nation''s massive bureaucracy actually functions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLocalized Bargaining is an important addition to the literature, providing insights into one of the most salient aspects of Chinese politics-the triangulated relationship between top decision makers, local bureaucrats, and the masses. Ma is to be applauded for providing insight into \"a regularized, controllable mechanism\" for the bottom up articulating of interests. * Karl Yan, Journal of Contemporary Asia *\u003cbr\u003eOverall, the author has conducted solid fieldwork and collected a wealth of first-hand information, which is not easy to do in China. The book's target group consists of political scientists and geographers. It not only sheds light on the politics behind the largest infrastructure project in human history, but also echoes some of the more general questions of political and geographical studies in general. * Guo Jie, Institute of Geography, Guangdong Academy of Sciences, EURASIAN GEOGRAPHY AND ECONOMICS *\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on interviews and a variety of new data sources, Localized Bargaining tells a compelling tale of the politics that drives the allocation of infrastructure in the absence of democracy—those who lobby for projects, it shows, are not citizens, but intermediary recipients such as local governments and functional departments. This is an indispensable book for understanding how bureaucratic bargaining and 'fragmented authoritarianism' works in China's infrastructure-fueled development. * Yuen Yuen Ang, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor *\u003cbr\u003eThis empirically rich book uncovers how the non-monolithic political system in China creates opportunities for local authorities to participate in the policy making of the central authority. Xiao Ma convincingly demonstrates that Chinese local governments are able to seek policy benefits because of the fragmented authorities of the decision-making bureaucracy. This insightful book makes an important contribution to understanding distributive politics in authoritarian states. * Yongshun Cai, Hong Kong University of Science \u0026amp; Technology *\u003cbr\u003eSeen from the outside, China's high-speed rail network epitomizes the centralized power of the party-state. Ma's pathbreaking study, which takes us inside the politics of railway development, reveals a far more complex picture. With rich quantitative and qualitative evidence, Ma traces the interplay of bottom-up and top-down agency and formal and informal rules, reshaping our understanding of 'who gets what, when, and how.' * Kyle A. Jaros, Associate Professor of Global Affairs, University of Notre Dame *\u003cbr\u003eXiao Ma significantly advances our understanding of bureaucracy. His investigation of the massive infrastructure investment in the Chinese high-speed rail system reveals not only the role of bureaucracy in maintaining authoritarian rule but also the mechanisms by which it does so. His rich account reveals that what seems to be top-down authority is actually a complex of bargains in which local actors transform the intentions of the centralized state: the 'cardinals,' those with significant institutional power in local territorial politics, try to impose their agenda while the 'clerics,' those with less institutional power, try to get their voices heard by mobilizing protests. This extraordinary in-depth study represents a new account of how to think about bureaucracy not only in China and not only in the developing world—but wherever major infrastructure is at issue. * Margaret Levi, Professor of Political Science, Stanford University *\u003cbr\u003eMa's book offers an insightful demonstration of localised bargaining, and thus has theoretical significance and current relevance. * Bingzhao Chang, PhD candidate at the School of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Nanjing University, China Perspectives *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDedication Acknowledgements Abbreviations List of Figures List of Tables Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Bureaucracies and Localized Bargaining Chapter 3: Local Ambitions in Central Policymaking Chapter 4: The \"Cardinals\" and the \"Clerics\" Chapter 5: The Political Geography of High-speed Railways Chapter 6: The Power of the Masses Chapter 7: Conclusion Bibliography Index","brand":"Oxford University Press Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732667412823,"sku":"9780197648223","price":29.38,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780197648223.jpg?v=1719997868"},{"product_id":"the-death-and-life-of-state-repression-9780197655375","title":"The Death and Life of State Repression","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Death and Life of State Repression addresses a problem that dates back at least 75 years, if not before. Since World War II, individuals and institutions from around the world have been concerned with state repression\/human rights violations and since about 1990, a robust empirical literature has emerged to investigate what drives this behavior up or down (i.e., exploring variation). While useful, this work has generally ignored important aspects of the Death\/Life cycle of state repression: i.e., its onset, escalation, termination and recurrence. Such an approach is important because different explanations and policies might be relevant for different parts of the cycle. Exploring a new database of repressive spells from 1976-2006 and new theory regarding spells, The Death and Life of State Repression breaks new ground in a variety of different ways. The book argues that repression is a sticky process that is largely slow-moving and non-adaptive. Consequently, change in this behavior is rare unless the ruling cohort is perturbed in some manner. What perturbs is somewhat surprising. The authors do not argue or find support for the predominant variables\/policies advanced by the international community (i.e., naming\/shaming, international law, military intervention and economic sanctions). Rather, their research advances and finds that political democratization plays a crucial role in reducing and stopping most aspects of repressive spells, and democratization itself is influenced by non-violent direct action. The book has major implications for those who wish to study state repression, as well as those who have an interest in trying to reduce and stop it from occurring across the Death\/Life cycle. The path to less repressive behavior has never been clearer.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book is a comprehensive, ambitious, and sober analysis of the life cycles of large-scale spells of state repression. Most importantly, Davenport and Appell find that domestic politics—not international politics—are the most crucial in curtailing the onset, escalation, and persistence of state repression. For all its imperfections, democracy tends to prevent a state from initiating mass violence, and nonviolent civil resistance tends to prevent such repression from escalating. This book upends much of what we thought we knew about state repression--and what can be done to stop it. A must-read. * Erica Chenoweth, Harvard University *\u003cbr\u003eChristian Davenport is the world's leading scholar of state repression and has made a great team with Benjamin Appel. The Death and Life of State Repression is an instant classic. It analyzes the correlates of entire spells of repression - how they start, how they end, and, importantly, how they escalate. Using new data, rigorous methods, deep case knowledge, and unparalleled creativity, Davenport and Appel show that there is no one-way, linear relationship between democratization and different forms of human rights violations. While democratization processes can reduce state repression, they can in turn be shaped by the legacies of repressive practices and by the interventions that try to end them. Their book has implications for the broader literature on democratization and will be the standard against which all subsequent contributions in the repression literature are measured. * Nicholas Sambanis, University of Pennsylvania *\u003cbr\u003eThe Death and Life of State Repression provides academics with an insightful and perceptive analysis that should fundamentally reconceptualize the study of large-scale human rights abuses, while offering governments and activists new insights into how to reverse such atrocities. A tour de force by Christian Davenport, one of the world's deepest thinkers on political violence, and Benjamin Appel. * Dr. Rachel Kleinfeld, Senior Fellow, Democracy, Conflict and Governance, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace *\u003cbr\u003eThis book represents a tour de force that is a must-read for all interested in stopping state repression—from scholars, to policymakers, activists, and the general public. The authors offer a new ontology of repression to study its onset, escalation, duration, and recurrence. They then meticulously examine the influence of a full range of domestic and international factors that have been proposed to curtail repression. Their sobering findings reveal that not much has helped, but there is hope, and we can do better. 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However, polarization can also produce dysfunctional outcomes, including sub-optimal decision-making processes within groups and a lower likelihood that competing groups are able to resolve differences. Extreme forms of polarization are presumably exacerbated by dogmatic or closed-minded thinking that fails to openly consider the viability of opposing viewpoints, as well as low levels of intellectual humility in which people rarely consider the possibility that their own beliefs and opinions might be fallible. This volume aims to increase the understan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI.  DEFINING AND UNDERSTANDING OPEN-MINDEDNESS, DOGMATISM, AND POLARIZATION  1. Open-Mindedness and Dogmatism in a Polarized World: Core Concepts and Definitions Victor Ottati, Chadly Stern, Whinda Yustisia, and Lori D. Bougher   2. Identity Strength Leads to Out-Group Animus and Polarization Shanto Iyengar and Matthew DeBell  II. OPEN AND CLOSED-MINDED PROCESSING: ATTITUDE FORMATION AND CHANGE  3. Attitudes in a Polarized World: Sociological and Psychological Processes of Reinforcement of Social and Political Worldviews Angelita Repetto and Dolores Albarracín  4. Openness and Persuasion: Multiple Processes, Meanings, and Outcomes Pablo Briñol and Richard E. Petty  III.  INTELLECTUAL HUMILITY AND OPEN-MINDEDNESS  5. Links Between Intellectual Humility and Open-Mindedness: Does Strength of Belief Matter? Elizabeth J. Krumrei-Mancuso and Everett L. Worthington, Jr.  6. Forms of Intellectual Humility and Their Associations with Features of Knowledge, Beliefs, and Opinions Rick H. Hoyle and Erin K. Davisson  IV.  NORMATIVE STANDARDS AND OPEN-MINDEDNESS: OPEN-MINDED COGNITION AND ACTIVELY OPEN-MINDED THINKING  7. Situation-Specific Open-Minded Cognition: Scale Validation and Incremental Effects of Person and Situation Victor Ottati, Chase Wilson, Devon Price, Yelvzaveta Distefano, and Fred B. Bryant  8. The Role of Group Context in Open-Minded Cognition Salma Moaz, Kelsey Berryman, Jeremy R. Winget, R. Scott Tindale, and Victor Ottati  9. Actively Open-Minded Thinking and the Political Effects of Its Absence Jonathan Baron, Ozan Isler, and Onurcan Y?lmaz  V. IDEOLOGY, AUTHORITARIANISM, AND DOGMATISM  10. Persistent Problems With the Conceptualization, Measurement, and Study of \"Left-Wing Authoritarianism\"  Benjamin A. Saunders and John. T. Jost  11. New Evidence On an Enduring Question: The Role of Political Ideology and Extremism in Dogmatic Thinking Chadly Stern and Benjamin C. Ruisch  VI. DOGMATISM AND OPEN-MINDEDNESS: THE INTERPLAY OF AFFECT, MOTIVATION, AND COGNITION  12. Open-Mindedness and Dogmatism in a Darwinian world: The Roles of Affective Appraisals Over Time and Circumstance George E. Marcus  13. Feeling Open or Closed-Minded: The Role of Affective Feelings in the Closing or Opening of the Mind Akila Raoul and Jeffrey R. Huntsinger  14. Terror Management, Dogmatism, and Open-Mindedness Dylan E. Horner, Alex Sielaff, Sheldon Solomon, and Jeff Greenberg","brand":"Oxford University Press Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732669051223,"sku":"9780197655467","price":51.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780197655467.jpg?v=1719997875"},{"product_id":"dictatorship-and-information-9780197672938","title":"Dictatorship and Information","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFear pervades dictatorial regimes. Citizens fear leaders, the regime''s agents fear superiors, and leaders fear the masses. The ubiquity of fear in such regimes gives rise to the dictator''s dilemma, where autocrats do not know the level of opposition they face and cannot effectively neutralize domestic threats to their rule. The dilemma has led scholars to believe that autocracies are likely to be short-lived.Yet, some autocracies have found ways to mitigate the dictator''s dilemma. As Martin K. Dimitrov shows in Dictatorship and Information, substantial variability exists in the survival of nondemocratic regimes, with single-party polities having the longest average duration. Offering a systematic theory of the institutional solutions to the dictator''s dilemma, Dimitrov argues that single-party autocracies have fostered channels that allow for the confidential vertical transmission of information, while also solving the problems associated with distorted information. To explain how \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this rigorous and innovative study, Dimitrov sheds new light on the inner workings of authoritarian regimes and on the difficulties faced by these governments to collect and systematize information about the workings of their societies. Deploying a wealth of novel archival evidence, Dimitrov documents tremendous variation in the institutions established by authoritarian regimes to gather such information. Dictatorship and Information is a must-read for all students of authoritarian regimes. * Isabela Mares, Arnold Wolfers Professor of Political Science, Yale University *\u003cbr\u003eCan authoritarian leaders reliably gauge the level of support for their regime? If they can resolve this 'dictator's dilemma,' can they act on the information effectively? Drawing on a wealth of internal documents from the Communist party-states of China and Bulgaria, Dimitrov answers (a surprising albeit qualified) 'yes' to both questions, thereby making a major contribution to our understanding of the foundations of authoritarian resilience. * Elizabeth J. Perry, Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government, Harvard University *\u003cbr\u003eMany of us have theorized and postulated about the deployment of secret police by authoritarian regimes to stay in power, but Dimitrov plumbs the depths of the archives and documents of secret police organizations in several countries and uncovers some startling new insights. This is a path-breaking work that is at once relevant to contemporary development in China and Russia, as well as a major empirical contribution to the literature that will keep scholars of authoritarian regimes busy for years to come. * Victor Shih, Associate Professor of Political Economy and Ho Miu Lam Chair in China and Pacific Relations, University of California San Diego *\u003cbr\u003eNo dictatorship can escape the paradox of repression: the more brutal the regime is, the less certain can it be about its own genuine popularity and forestall incipient opposition. In this masterful analysis, Martin Dimitrov documents how autocrats from Cold War-era communist Eastern Europe to present-day China have confronted this paradox. * Milan Svolik, Professor of Political Science, Yale University *\u003cbr\u003eCentralized autocracies that suppress open political expression employ a range of substitute channels of information about the actual dispositions of citizens. This information can be deployed either to focus repression or respond to potential sources of popular discontent. In recent years analysts have become more attentive to the ways that these mechanisms serve to stabilize autocratic rule. In his innovative comparative analysis of surveillance and monitoring in China, Bulgaria, and a range of other autocracies, Dimitrov sharpens and clarifies our understanding of why and how these efforts succeed or fail to make autocracies more flexible and resilient. * Andrew G. Walder, author of Agents of Disorder: Inside China's Cultural Revolution *\u003cbr\u003eAbundantly supported by internal documents from the communist parties and governments of Bulgaria and China,...Dictatorship and Information provides a thorough treatment of communist rule in Bulgaria. * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Figures and Maps  List of Tables  Acknowledgments  List of Abbreviations   Part I. Theory and Method  1. Introduction: Solving the Dictator's Dilemma   2. Studying Government Perceptions of Popular Discontent in Autocracies   Part II. Parallel Origins of Communist Information States  3. Monitoring and Counteracting Dissent in Bulgaria, 1944-1958   4. Monitoring and Counteracting Dissent in China, 1949-1958   Part III. Divergent Evolution of Communist Information States  5. Bread and Circuses: Consumption and Stability in Bulgaria, 1959-1988  6. Continuity and Change: Information Gathering in China, 1959-1988   Part IV. Similar Crises, Varied Contexts, Different Reforms  7. Information-Gathering Institutions in Bulgaria, 1989-1991  8. Information-Gathering Institutions in China, 1989-2019  Part V. Generalizability of the Theory  9. Scope Conditions: Authoritarian Information-Gathering Institutions  10. Conclusion: Information and Authoritarian Regime Resilience   Index","brand":"Oxford University Press Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732672229719,"sku":"9780197672938","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}]},{"product_id":"the-myth-of-the-community-fix-inequality-and-the-politics-of-youth-punishment-9780197674291","title":"The Myth of the Community Fix Inequality and the","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Myth of the Community Fix takes its reader deep into the guts of youth criminal reform that transfers justice to counties which in turn subcontract it to private foundations and operators. We discover how, in the name of \"reform,\" administrative devolution translates into increased punishment, reduced rights, continuing abuse, and public irresponsibility while reinforcing individualized conceptions of crime. Cate makes an original contribution to the sociology of the penal state that is sure to stimulate further research and public debate. * Loïc Wacquant, author of Punishing the Poor and The Invention of the \"Underclass\" *\u003cbr\u003eThe Myth of the Community Fix is a crucial and timely intervention in the criminal justice reform conversation in the United States. Cate uniquely analyzes juvenile justice policy alongside trends in the US political economy. The case studies of popular bipartisan reforms in California, Pennsylvania, and Texas reveal that our long-term disinvestment in public goods leads local governments and community-based organizations to maintain or expand carceral capacity in the name of reform. This book challenges anyone concerned about mass incarceration to craft solutions that disrupt punitive political culture rather than reinforce the status quo. * Heather Schoenfeld, author of Building the Prison State *\u003cbr\u003eSarah Cate's rich analysis shows how the community-control movement in juvenile justice reproduced the same problems of state-based institutions, but with even less political accountability. Situating juvenile justice reform within transformations in American political economy, such as privatization and welfare retrenchment, Cate reveals that devolution of juvenile institutions from state to county level control has been part of, not an alternative to, divestment from the public sector. This book is a devastating indictment of community-control models and a call to action for meaningful investment in public goods. * Lisa Miller, author of The Myth of Mob Rule *\u003cbr\u003eIt is recommended for libraries serving departments of political science, social work, and sociology. * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: The Limits of the Community-Based Reform Movement: Evidence from Pennsylvania, California and Texas Chapter 1: Abandoning Public Goods: The Turn to Community in the Context of Inequality Chapter 2: Devolution, Not Decarceration: Expanding Punishment Closer to Home Chapter 3: Privatizing Punishment: Consequences of Foundation-Led Policymaking Chapter 4: The Individual Focus: The Limits of Behavioral Solutions to Structural Problems Chapter 5: Still Punitive: Rationalizing Punishment for the 'Worst of the Worst' Conclusion: Bringing Public Goods Back In References Index","brand":"Oxford University Press Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732672688471,"sku":"9780197674291","price":19.94,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780197674291.jpg?v=1719997894"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/collections\/comparative-politics.oembed?page=11","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}