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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the Luebbert Best Book Award, Comparative Politics Section of the American Political Science Association""A profound examination. . . . [and] a remarkable piece of scholarship."---Peng Peng, The Developing Economies"Compelling. . . . [The Rise and Fall of Imperial China] is essential reading for scholars of the Chinese state."---Guillaume Beaud, The International Spectator

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Book SynopsisThis IPCC Report provides an up-to-date global assessment of current and projected greenhouse gas emissions from all sources and sectors, mitigation options that reduce emissions or remove greenhouse gases from the atmosphere, and progress towards meeting climate ambitions. IPCC reports are a trusted multi-disciplinary resource.

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Book SynopsisA talk-centered qualitative analysis of three hundred Indian village assemblies, revealing how the deliberation between citizens in a mass democracy is influenced by state policy and literacy. Essential reading for those interested in participation, development, and deliberative democracy. This title is also available as Open Access.Trade Review'Using a detailed analysis of gram sabha deliberations in over two hundred villages bordering four states, this book provides a rich picture of participatory grassroots democracy in South India. Instead of the usual preoccupation with quantitative indicators of service delivery outcomes, Rao and Sanyal focus on development of civic capacity, engagement between civil society and state officials, and political legitimacy of the state, and how these vary with historical inequality, literacy and state policy.' Dilip Mookherjee, Director of the Institute for Economic Development, Boston University'This valuable book documents the diverse voices from the ground that form the body and soul of everyday democracy in action. It serves as a crucial reminder to urban readers that the the real crucible of Indian democracy is not the quinquennial Election Day, but the messy, contested terrain of gram sabhas, where citizens ask questions, demand answers, and help make decision-making responsive and reflexive.' Ashwini Deshpande, Delhi School of Economics'In Oral Democracy, Sanyal and Rao engage in a detailed comparative analysis to illuminate how local state capacity and literacy influence the extent to which an institutionalized system of public collective deliberation (gram sabhas) contributes to the transformation of the practice of citizenship in contemporary India. This rigorous analysis produces a pathbreaking contribution to our understanding of political culture outside the West. Their book should be widely read by social scientists who wish to better understand the broad institutional context in which the poor defend their dignity in an extraordinarily unequal society.' Michele Lamont, Director of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University and author of The Dignity of Working menTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Discursive political culture; 3. Political construction, state enactments, and citizen performances; 4. The role of literacy in deliberative democracy; 5. Conclusion: oral democracy.

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Book SynopsisConflict of interest occurs at all levels of governance, ranging from local to global, both in the public and the corporate and financial spheres. There is increasing awareness that conflicts of interest may distort decision-making processes and generate inappropriate outcomes, thereby undermining the functioning of public institutions and markets. However, the current worldwide trend towards regulation, which seeks to forestall, prevent and manage conflicts of interest, has its price. Drawbacks may include the stifling of decision-making processes, the loss of expertise among decision-makers and a vicious circle of distrust. This interdisciplinary and international book addresses specific situations of conflict of interest in different spheres of governance, particularly in global, public and corporate governance.Table of ContentsPart I. General: 1. Conflict of interest as a cross-cutting problem of governance Anne Peters; 2. Conflict of interest from the perspective of the sociology of organised action Erhard Friedberg; 3. Empirical research on conflict of interest: a critical look Michael Davis; Part II. Global Governance: 4. Conflict of interest of international civil servants Auguste Nganga Malonga; 5. How to start thinking about conflict of interest in global governance? René Urueña; 6. Conflict of interest in international investment arbitration August Reinisch and Christina Knahr; 7. Conflict of interest in universal human rights bodies Michal Davala; Part III. Public Governance: 8. Conflict of interest and administrative law Jean-Bernard Auby; 9. Conflict of interest and the administration of public affairs – a local perspective Benjamin Schindler; 10. A dilemma in the separation of powers: public servants as legislators Thomas Braendle and Alois Stutzer; 11. Politicians as judges? Conflict of interest in Swiss parliament during decisions on the validity of popular initiatives Anna Christmann; 12. Private vices, public benefits? Small-town bureaucratization in Namibia Gregor Dobler; 13. Conflict of interest of heads of state: the example of Madagascar Jan Christoph Richter; Part IV. Corporate and Financial Governance and the Professions: 14. Conflict of interest: compliance and its contribution to corporate governance in the financial services sector Monika Roth; 15. Conflict of interest and the furore over banker compensation Andrew Stark; 16. Conflict of interest related to management and board payments – profit-based remuneration systems make things worse Lukas Handschin; 17. Taking conflict of interest in corporate law seriously – direct and indirect rules addressing the agency problem Rashid Bahar and Antoine Morand; 18. Conflict of interest at the bedside: surrogate decision making at the end of life Susan P. Shapiro; Part V. Conclusion: 19. Managing conflict of interest: lessons from multiple disciplines and settings Anne Peters.

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Book SynopsisOne of the greatest challenges facing human civilization is the provision of secure, affordable energy without causing catastrophic environmental damage. As the world''s largest economy, and as a world leader in energy technologies, the United States is a particularly important case. In the light of increased competition from other countries (particularly China), growing concerns about the local and global environmental impacts of the energy system, an ever-present interest in energy security, and the realization that technological innovation takes place in a complex ecosystem involving a wide range of domestic and international actors, this volume provides a comprehensive and analytical assessment of the role that the US government should play in energy technology innovation. It will be invaluable for policy makers in energy innovation and for researchers studying energy innovation, future energy technologies, climate-change mitigation, and innovation management. It will act as a suppTrade Review'… this volume is an invaluable addition to a wider energy innovation literature that can, and should, be read by US policy-makers, particularly at the federal level. It is an account of how the US federal government has been responding to the need for [research, development and demonstration] RD&D in the energy sector. It is a critical analysis of how the RD&D aspect of US energy innovation, especially its ever-changing political dynamics can be accelerated. It also offers a thorough discussion of how RD&D could be systematically facilitated through a structured approach. It is a concise, well-focused study of the RD&D aspect of a rather complex and messy energy innovation system.' Laurence L. Delina, Journal Science and Public PolicyTable of Contents1. The need to transform US energy innovation Matthew Bunn, Laura Diaz Anadon and Venkatesh Narayanamurti; 2. Expanding, and improving targeting of, US investment in energy innovation: an analytical approach Laura Diaz Anadon, Gabriel Chan and Audrey Lee; 3. Reforming US energy innovation institutions: maximizing the return on investment Nathaniel Logar, Venkatesh Narayanamurti and Laura Diaz Anadon; 4. Encouraging private-sector energy technology innovation and public-private cooperation Charles Jones, Laura Diaz Anadon and Venkatesh Narayanamurti; 5. Maximizing the benefit from international energy innovation cooperation Ruud Kempener, Matthew Bunn and Laura Diaz Anadon; 6. Transforming US energy innovation: how do we get there? Laura Diaz Anadon, Venkatesh Narayanamurti and Matthew Bunn.

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Book SynopsisThe book is a comprehensive study of India''s relationship with the non-proliferation regime, and its transformative evolution from a perennial outlier to one seeking greater integration with the regime and its normative structures. The highlight of this study is its incisive conceptual analysis of the regime as a functional system and its structural complexities, which brings forth new insights on the regime''s core ideas like non-proliferation and counter-proliferation. The book also provides an extensive non-Western narrative on the concept of counter-proliferation and its conceivable role and influence in the regime. It breaks new ground in explaining India''s quest for an anti-proliferation strategy, which could determine its status and future in the emerging global nuclear order. It will be a substantial contribution to the literature on India''s approach towards non-proliferation, counter-proliferation and disarmament, and will enhance the understanding of the impact of the regime''s normative structures on India''s nuclear decisions.Trade Review'This book successfully brings out a whole gamut of … complex questions to the fore, answers to which have remained fluid, with ever evolving newer analyses and interpretations.' Swaran Singh, H-NetTable of ContentsPreface; 1. Introduction; 2. From non-proliferation to counter-proliferation: the regime's conceptual crisis; 3. The state and the regime: the complex interplay of actors, norms and interests; 4. India, NPT and the non-proliferation regime; 5. The routes to nuclear disarmament: an Indian perspective; 6. Counter-proliferation: the quest for an Indian strategy; 7. India's participation in the proliferation security initiative: the counter-proliferation case study; 8. India's role in global anti-proliferation: the post nuclear deal agenda; 9. Conclusion; Select bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisIn a broadly comparative, historical and quantitative analysis, this study reveals the unity of European electorates and party systems. Investigating thirty countries in Western and Central-Eastern Europe over 150 years of electoral history, the author shows the existence of common alignments and parallel waves of electoral change across the continent. Europeanization appears through an array of indicators including cross-country deviation measures, uniform swings of votes, the correspondence between national arenas and European Parliament, as well as in the ideological convergence among parties of the same families. Based on a painstaking analysis of a large wealth of data, the study identifies the supra-national, domestic and diffusion factors at the origin of Europeanization. Building on previous work on the nationalization of politics, this new study makes the case for Europeanization in historical and electoral perspective, and points to the role of left-right in structuring the ETrade Review'To what degree have political ideologies in different European nations converged over time? Are national politics becoming European politics? In this book, Daniele Caramani provides a deeply informed, insightful, and persuasive account of how national cleavages, party politics, and electoral behavior have been transformed across Europe since the nineteenth century. The result is an immense contribution to our understanding of the political development of Europe.' Gary Marks, Burton Craige Distinguished Professor, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and Research Chair in Multilevel Governance, VU Amsterdam'With this book, Caramani, the authority on party nationalization in Europe, extends his ideas and methodological tools to explore Europeanization. In spite of many cross-national differences, Caramani convincingly argues about the commonality among voters and parties across Europe. By weaving together a wealth of electoral, survey, and other types of data, the book provides a weighty and informative analysis.' Scott Morgenstern, University of Pittsburgh'In the tradition of Stein Rokkan, Caramani's work seeks broad scope and long reach in portraying the development of party system configurations in Europe. Caramani's study is a necessary and welcome foundation to more fine-grained analysis of strategic interaction among parties. His research uncovers lasting patterns and slow-moving trends across European democracies, such as the early development of matching cleavage alignments and cohesion within party families or over-time swings in the fortunes of party families across Europe, as well as the correspondence of programmatic configurations of parties at both the European and the national system levels. Any investigation of democratic party competition will have to draw on Caramani's findings.' Herbert Kitschelt, George V. Allen Professor of International Relations, Duke UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction: electoral integration in Europe; Part I. Framework: 1. Theoretical framework: Europeanization in historical perspective; 2. Research design: European party families and party systems; Part II. Analysis: 3. Homogeneity: convergence and deviation in European electoral development, 1848–2012; 4. Uniformity: electoral waves and electoral swings across Europe, 1848–2012; 5. Correspondence: overlapping vs distinctive electorates in national and European elections, 1974‒2012; 6. Cohesion: ideological convergence within European party families, 1945–2009; 7. Closure: the Europeanization of cabinet and coalition politics, 1945‒2009; Part III. Assessment: 8. Sources of Europeanization: supra-, within-, and trans-national; Explanations; Conclusion: toward European-wide representation.

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Book SynopsisChina is widely viewed as a global powerhouse that has achieved a remarkable economic transformation with little political change. Less well known is that China''s leaders have also implemented far-reaching governance reforms designed to promote government transparency and increase public participation in official policymaking. What are the motivations behind these reforms and, more importantly, what impact are they having? This puzzle lies at the heart of Chinese politics and could dictate China''s political trajectory for years to come. This extensive collaborative study not only documents the origins and scope of these reforms across China, but offers the first systematic assessment by quantitatively and qualitatively analyzing the impact of participation and transparency on important governance outcomes. Comparing across provinces and over time, the authors argue that the reforms are resulting in lower corruption and enhanced legal compliance, but these outcomes also depend on a broader societal ecosystem that includes an active media and robust civil society.Trade Review'This illuminating volume changes the way you think about the role of information in China. The authors make a powerful case that, even amid tight political control, transparency is altering China's government, with deep implications for the economic and political future.' Evan Osnos, National Book Award-winning author of Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China'In this thoughtful and well-documented work, the authors challenge conventional wisdom about the absence of political reform in China. Through fascinating case studies, they demonstrate the diversity of reform practices in China and identify areas of success and failure.' J. Stapleton Roy, former US ambassador to China'This is a highly rigorous yet very readable study of how authoritarian governance in China works and does not work to achieve policy objectives and maintain domestic stability. The authors bring to bear a rare combination of practical on-the-ground experience and formal academic training to analyze one of the Chinese Communist Party's greatest dilemmas: how to improve governance and bolster state legitimacy by allowing popular opinions to be heard in the policy process without ever hinting that the broad public will or should gain direct control over who governs or how.' Thomas Christensen, Princeton University, New Jersey and author of The China Challenge: Shaping the Choices of a Rising Power'This book provides excellent empirical strategies to scholars, students and policymakers interested in the successes and failures of Chinese governance reforms and policy innovations. As the authors demonstrate, Chinese policymakers are increasingly adopting better governance practices to stave off political threats. Moreover, these reforms are not just window-dressing; they have changed the way laws are enacted and compliance is at least partly achieved.' Mary E. Gallagher, Director of the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan'The authors skillfully blend the latest statistics on corruption with illuminating case studies to argue that enlisting the Chinese public to monitor the bureaucracy would yield better results than continuing the current heavy-handed crackdown that targets corrupt individuals one at a time.' Yuen Yuen Ang, Foreign AffairsTable of ContentsPreface; 1. China's approach to governance reform; 2. Concept, chronology, and drivers of transparency reform; 3. Transparency and corruption: analysis of variation within China and hypothesis testing; 4. Comparing approaches to combatting corruption: the Guangdong and Chongqing models; 5. Concept, chronology, and drivers of participation reform; 6. Participation and compliance: analysis of variation and hypothesis testing; 7. Making policy in public: a comparison of three Chinese provinces; 8. The road ahead; Works cited; Index.

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Book SynopsisFree Expression and Democracy takes on the assumption that limits on free expression will lead to authoritarianism or at least a weakening of democracy. That hypothesis is tested by an examination of issues involving expression and their treatment in countries included on The Economist''s list of fully functioning democracies. Generally speaking, other countries allow prohibitions on hate speech, limits on third-party spending on elections, and the protection of children from media influences seen as harmful. Many ban Holocaust denial and the desecration of national symbols. Yet, these other countries all remain democratic, and most of those considered rank more highly than the United States on the democracy index. This book argues that while there may be other cultural values that call for more expansive protection of expression, that protection need not reach the level present in the United States in order to protect the democratic nature of a country.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments; 1. The protection of free expression in a democracy; 2. Varieties of expression; 3. Incitement of crime; 4. Hate speech; 5. Holocaust denial and other false assertions of fact; 6. Political party bans; 7. Political campaign limitations; 8. The desecration of national symbols and lèse majesté; 9. Defamation; 10. Attacks on personal honor; 11. Obscenity and child pornography; 12. Children and expression; 13. Criminal trials and freedom of the press; 14. Government secrecy; 15. A matter of choices; Index.

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Book SynopsisWhere Did the Revolution Go? considers the apparent disappearance of the large social movements that have contributed to democratization. Revived by recent events of the Arab Spring, this question is once again paramount. Is the disappearance real, given the focus of mass media and scholarship on electoral processes and ''normal politics''? Does it always happen, or only under certain circumstances? Are those who struggled for change destined to be disappointed by the slow pace of transformation? Which mechanisms are activated and deactivated during the rise and fall of democratization? This volume addresses these questions through empirical analysis based on quantitative and qualitative methods (including oral history) of cases in two waves of democratization: Central Eastern European cases in 1989 as well as cases in the Middle East and Mediterranean region in 2011.Trade Review'This is a fascinating book exploring democratization processes with an innovative approach: blending social movement studies with the literatures on democratization and on revolutions. Rich in its use of captivating oral history interviews with activists, it asks the question [of] how movements' characteristics at the time of transition might affect the qualities of the ensuing democracy, and therefore the future dynamics of protest itself. A must-read for scholars and activists alike.' Laszlo Bruszt, Scuola Normale Superiore, Florence, and Central European University, Budapest'Scholars have focused so much on the sources of democratization that they sometimes forget to examine how waves of mobilization end, and with what consequences. Drawing on the literatures on social movements, democratization, and revolutions, della Porta's sweeping new book identifies common dynamics in democratization cycles. Drawing on a broad range of evidence ranging from Eastern Europe to the Arab Spring, she shows that the forms and pathways of mobilization influence the qualities of the ensuing regime. This is a book that students of comparative democratization, social movements, and revolutions cannot afford to miss.' Sidney Tarrow, Cornell University'Donatella della Porta's important new book persuasively shows how the complex legacies of the revolutionary pathway to democracy shape the nature of the new democracies that emerge through such dynamics - generally in very positive ways. With a foundation in broadly comparative research, the analysis identifies and disentangles cognitive, emotional and relational consequences of popular mobilizations in the context of regime change.' Robert M. Fishman, Carlos III University, Madrid'Brilliant and illuminating! This book is timely and highly relevant indeed as our world rapidly transforms violently rather than democratically. It speaks as much to academics striving to bring together complex debates in the social sciences dealing with political transformations and pathways to democracy as it speaks to the activist. Donatella della Porta masters the art of critically and productively engaging with social movement and transformation literature alike and pushing for the intellectual limits of these. At the same time, she gives much well-deserved space to the actors, to those who brought the revolutions into life and still struggle to understand where the revolution went. A must-read for democratic revolutionaries, young and old.' Cilja Harders, Free University of BerlinTable of ContentsAcknowledgements; 1. Where did the revolution go? The outcomes of democratization paths; 2. Cycles of protest and the consolidation of democracy; 3. 'How great that you exist…': shifting conceptions of democracy; 4. 'It was a tsunami': shifting emotions; 5. 'Like a house of cards': time intensity and mobilization; 6. Civil society organizations: decline or growth?; 7. A normalization of politics?; 8. Socioeconomic rights and transition paths; 9. The protest process in the Arab Spring; 10. Arab Spring: which democratic qualities in Egypt and Tunisia?; 11. Where did the revolution go? Some conclusions; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisWhy has violence spiked in Latin America''s contemporary democracies? What explains its temporal and spatial variation? Analyzing the region''s uneven homicide levels, this book maps out a theoretical agenda focusing on three intersecting factors: the changing geography of transnational illicit political economies; the varied capacity and complicity of state institutions tasked with providing law and order; and organizational competition to control illicit territorial enclaves. These three factors inform the emergence of ''homicidal ecologies'' (subnational regions most susceptible to violence) in Latin America. After focusing on the contemporary causes of homicidal violence, the book analyzes the comparative historical origins of weak and complicit public security forces and the rare moments in which successful institutional reform takes place. Regional trends in Latin America are evaluated, followed by original case studies of Central America, which claims among the highest homicide rates in the world.Trade Review'A brilliant example of how careful social science research can illuminate the most pressing problems of our times, Homicidal Ecologies shows why democracy and the end of civil war didn't bring peace to Latin America. Rather than resulting from economic inequality or weak democratic institutions, homicidal violence soared along the routes of the Continental drug trade where cartels compete and the state is too weak or corrupt to rein them in.' Andreas Wimmer, author of Nation Building: Why Some Countries Come Together While Other Fall Apart'Latin America has the highest homicide rates in the world. Homicidal Ecologies offer a comprehensive portrait of violence in the region, and a broader theory of illicit markets, state capacity, and their responses to structural conditions and organizational incentives. It will prove indispensable not only to Latin Americanists but to students of violence and political development more generally. This book's importance cannot be overstated. It is a must-read.' M. Victoria Murillo, Columbia University'Civil war and dictatorship have virtually vanished in Latin America. Yet in many parts of the region, violent death remains a part of daily life. Through awe-inspiring data collection and encyclopedic area expertise, Deborah J. Yashar provides a granular descriptive picture of Latin America's homicidal ecologies. She convincingly demonstrates that homicide levels have skyrocketed in zones where state weakness and corruption spawn deadly competition to control the transit of illicit goods.' Dan Slater, University of Michigan'Homicidal Ecologies is a pathbreaking account of the tragic surge in violence in post-civil war Central America. Yashar breaks new theoretical ground in explaining how criminal violence is related to illicit economies, state capacities, and organizational competition over territorial enclaves and transportation routes. This book is essential reading for anyone who seeks to understand the deep societal roots of violence in Central America, and why some countries are more susceptible to it than others.' Kenneth Roberts, Cornell University, New York'In this eagerly anticipated book, Deborah J. Yashar takes up one of the most critical challenges facing Latin America today: how to understand the violence that has plagued the region after democratization. Showcasing Yashar's deep knowledge of Central America, Homicidal Ecologies explains this violence as the result of competition between organizations over the control of territory - an argument that is especially compelling because it draws on transnational, national, and subnational levels of analysis.' Kent Eaton, University of California, Santa CruzTable of ContentsPart I. Introduction: 1. Violence in third wave democracies; 2. Engaging the theoretical debate and alternative arguments; Part II. The Argument about Homicidal Ecologies: 3. Illicit economies and territorial enclaves: the transnational context and domestic footprint; 4. State capacity and organizational competition: strategic calculations about territory and violence; Part III. Divergent Trajectories in Central America: Three Post-Civil War Cases: 5. High violence in post-Civil-War Guatemala; 6. High violence in post-Civil War El Salvador; 7. Circumscribing violence in post-Civil War Nicaragua; Part IV. Looking Backwards and Forwards: 8. Concluding with states.

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Book SynopsisExclusion by Elections develops a theory about the circumstances under which ''class identities'' as opposed to ''ethnic identities'' become salient in democratic politics, and links this theory to issues of inequality and the propensity of governments to address it. The book argues that in societies with even modest levels of ethnic diversity, inequality invites ethnic politics, and ethnic politics results in less redistribution than class politics. Thus, contrary to existing workhorse models in social science, where democracies are expected to respond to inequality by increasing redistribution, the argument here is that inequality interacts with ethnic diversity to discourage redistribution. As a result, inequality often becomes reinforced by inequality itself. The author explores the argument empirically by examining cross-national patterns of voting behaviour, redistribution and democratic transitions, and he discusses the argument''s implications for identifying strategies that caTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Why worry about inequality and ethnic politics? Part I. The Theoretical Argument: 3. Social structure and distributive politics in elections; 4. A theory of social structure, electoral identities and party systems; 5. Inequality, ethnic polarization and the democratic process; Part II. Empirical Evidence for the Argument: 6. Theory and causal identification; 7. Income and voting behavior; 8. Inequality, ethnic diversity and the ethnification of party systems; 9. Social structure, redistribution and democratic transitions; 10. Conclusion: inequality and the politics of exclusion.

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Book SynopsisPolicy makers and academics alike have mistakenly promoted an agenda which takes well-governed democratic and consolidated ''Weberian'' states as the model for the world and the goal of development programs. Whilst Western industrial democracies are the exception, areas of limited statehood where state institutions are weak and ineffective, are everywhere, and, this books argues, can still be well-governed. Three factors explain effective governance in areas of limited statehood: Fair and transparent institutions ''fit for purpose,'' legitimate governors accepted by the people, and social trust among the citizens. Effective and legitimate governance in the absence of a functioning state is not only provided by international organizations, foreign aid agencies, and non-governmental organizations but also by multi-national companies, rebel groups and other violent non-state actors, ''traditional'' as well as religious leaders, and community-based organizations. Börzel and Risse base theiTrade Review'This superb book explores the dimensions of public-private collaborations in politics, and in how this and other relationships lead to the emergence of local and global governance at new levels and in new forms. Locating this exploration firmly in the empirical as well as theoretical, this book offers a compelling critique and alternative to mainstream social science approaches. By focusing on the dynamics of cooperation that spans state and societal, and national and international boundaries, the two authors provide a novel approach to understanding the evolution of the international system. This will be a book that others will have to address, a soon-to-be classic in the field of international relations, as well as in comparative politics for its emphasis on the diverse forms of governance in areas of limited state authority.' William Reno, Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, Northwestern University'Since the 1990s, the international community has pursued statebuilding as the solution to the problem of fragile states. Borzel and Risse challenge this focus and demonstrate that non-state governance is not only possible but can be effective when would-be governors are competent, legitimate, and trusted. Governance Under Anarchy? is a pathbreaking book that brings insights from the literature on heterogeneous global governance to the question of 'domestic' governance.' David A. Lake, Gerri-Ann and Gary E. Jacobs Professor of Social Science, University of California, San DiegoTable of Contents1. Introduction: the world is not Denmark!; Part I. Setting the Stage: Concepts and Theories: 2. Areas of limited statehood and governance: concepts and measurements; 3. Theorizing governance in areas of limited statehood; Part II. Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood: Empirical Evidence: 4. Who, why, and how? actors and modes of governance; 5. Security; 6. Human rights, rule of law, and democracy; 7. Welfare; 8. Conclusions; 9. References.

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Book SynopsisFracking is a novel but contested energy technology so what makes some countries embrace it whilst others reject it? This book argues that the reason for policy divergence lies in procedures and processes, stakeholder inclusion and whether a strong narrative underpins governmental policies. Based on a large set of primary data gathered in Poland, Bulgaria and Romania, it explores shale gas policies in Central Eastern Europe (a region strongly dependent on Russian gas imports) to unveil the importance of policy regimes for creating a ''social license'' for fracking. Its findings suggest that technology transfer does not happen in a vacuum but is subject to close mutual interaction with political, economic and social forces; and that national energy policy is not a matter of ''objective'' policy imperatives, such as Russian import dependence, but a function of complex domestic dynamics pertaining to institutional procedures and processes, and winners and losers.Trade Review'Existing academic scholarship and public discourse on fracking has focused almost entirely on North America or Western Europe. This book fills an essential gap not only by examining an often neglected frontline in the shale gas revolution - Eastern Europe - but by utilizing a rich original dataset and an interdisciplinary mosaic of conceptual tools. Anybody concerned about the future of natural gas ought to read this book.' Benjamin K. Sovacool, University of Sussex'This timely monograph from highly respected academic Professor Goldthau provides an excellent analysis of the political and policy issues associated with the highly contentious practice of fracking to extract gas from shale. He masterfully considers the difficult question of social license to operate both generally and within the Central and Eastern European context, providing the reader with an excellent assessment of the critical issues. His consideration of such issues pertaining to shale gas extraction in Central and Eastern Europe will quickly become an important tool for researchers and policy makers alike.' Tina Hunter, Aberdeen University School of Law'This important book is among the first to link the geopolitics of energy firmly back to local policy dynamics. It reveals how critical national policy is in determining whether society accepts - or rejects - fracking technology. A highly-recommended read for anyone interested in European energy security, and the prospects of shale to eventually 'go global'.' Meghan O'Sullivan, Harvard Kennedy School, MassachusettsTable of Contents1. Introduction: shale gas, energy security and comparative public policy; 2. The policy context: European energy security and Russian import dependence; 3. The analytical context: policy regimes and the social license; 4. The stalling front runner: Poland; 5. The nay-sayer: Bulgaria; 6. A no with options: Romania; 7. The comparative public policy of shale gas in Eastern Europe; 8. Conclusion: shale gas, technology transfer and energy security.

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Book SynopsisThe Fates of Political Parties focuses on a number of individual Latin American countries as well as the region as a whole, identifying considerable variation regarding how parties survive and even revive after an electoral crisis. The book demonstrates that parties can be remarkably enduring institutions.Trade Review'Why do some established parties survive or reinvent themselves while other parties disappear when party systems collapse? The Fates of Political Parties provides a compelling explanation to this important but understudied question. Jennifer Cyr carefully shows how high-cost organizational and ideational resources, such as party branches, militants, ideologies, and brands, shape the destiny of parties in crisis contexts. Rigorously argued and exhaustively researched, this book should be the starting point for future research on party survival. It is essential reading not only for scholars specializing in Latin American politics, but for anyone interested in understanding why some parties persist.' Raúl L. Madrid, University of Texas, Austin'The Fates of Political Parties is an impressive and highly topical study of what happens to parties when a party system enters crisis. It is strongly recommended for readers interested in party survival, and the politics of the Andes generally. The book provides compelling evidence for the importance of subnational politics, the power of ideas, and the capacities of parties to reinvent themselves. An essential contribution to the literature.' Maxwell A. Cameron, Director, Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions, University of British Columbia, Vancouver'By explaining why the fates of parties diverge in the aftermath of electoral crises, this ambitious new book makes a number of critical interventions in the literature on political parties. Jennifer Cyr has used her impressive empirical command of three complicated and crucial cases - Bolivia, Peru, and Venezuela - to develop a powerful and general theory of party survival and revival. Conceptualizing parties as complex entities, this book shows that we need to think expansively not just about the nature of the organizational and ideological resources potentially available to parties, but also about the range of functions they perform in democracy.' Kent Eaton, University of California, Santa Cruz'In this highly original and fascinating book, Lessing (Chicago) examines drug wars in Latin America from the comparative perspective of conflict between the state and drug cartels (as nonstate actors). … This groundbreaking book draws on substantive local research and interviews.' A. Siaroff, Choice'In The Fates of Political Parties, Cyr takes us past the hang-wringing stage of party crisis and pushes us to consider what comes next. Theoretically and conceptually, the book is rich … It is equally impressive as a study in how to conduct rigorous, question-driven, and theoretically informed fieldwork.' Ryan E. Carlin, Latin American Research ReviewTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Political parties and their resources; 3. Explaining the fates of parties; 4. The resource wealth of parties after party-system collapse: the empirical record in the Andes; 5. Survival and revival in an atomized party system: Peru after 1992; 6. Survival and revival in a regionalized party system: Venezuela after 1998; 7. The difficulties of survival and revival in a hyper-fluid party system: Bolivia after 2005; 8. Conclusion: resources and the fates of parties.

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Book SynopsisWhy do governments backtrack on major policy reforms? Reversals of pension privatization provide insight into why governments abandon potentially path-departing policy changes. Academics and policymakers alike will find this work relevant in understanding market-oriented reform, authoritarian and post-communist politics, social security, and the politics of aging populations around the world.Trade Review'… the book makes an important contribution both to pension policy and to market-oriented reform studies and will be appreciated by a wide audience of scholars and policymakers.' Daria Prisiazhniuk, Europe-Asia StudiesTable of ContentsFigures and tables; Pension terminology; Preface; Part I. Introduction and Theory: 1: Introduction: explaining the puzzling reversal of pension privatization; 2. Backtracking on pension privatization around the world; 3. A theory of policy reversal; Part II. Global Trends in Pension Privatization Reversal: 4. Evidence on pension policy reversals from around the world; Part III. Pension Privatization Reversal under Moderate Reform; Overview of Case Studies: 5. Russia's staggered reversal of reform; 6. Russia's domestic stakeholders and backtracking on reform; 7. Variation in pension policy reversals: Hungary and Poland; Summary of case findings; Part IV. Conclusion: 8. The importance of understanding policy reversal; Appendix of interviews conducted by author; References; Index.

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Book SynopsisCitizens around the world look to the state for social welfare provision, but often struggle to access essential services in health, education, and social security. This book investigates the everyday practices through which citizens of the world''s largest democracy make claims on the state, asking whether, how, and why they engage public officials in the pursuit of social welfare. Drawing on extensive fieldwork in rural India, Kruks-Wisner demonstrates that claim-making is possible in settings (poor and remote) and among people (the lower classes and castes) where much democratic theory would be unlikely to predict it. Examining the conditions that foster and inhibit citizen action, she finds that greater social and spatial exposure - made possible when individuals traverse boundaries of caste, neighborhood, or village - builds citizens'' political knowledge, expectations, and linkages to the state, and is associated with higher levels and broader repertoires of claim-making.Trade Review'Studies in political science are often written as if citizens interact with the state only during elections. Yet, as Gabrielle Kruks-Wisner shows in her remarkable book, many of the most important interactions that people in rural Rajasthan have with state actors - about access to water, electricity, healthcare, food, shelter, and other forms of social protection - are almost daily activities. This makes it crucial to understand the conditions under which citizens do (or don't) make claims for these services. Claiming the State provides compelling answers, and in so doing, provides new and important insights into how citizens in poor countries interact with their governments.' Daniel N. Posner, James Coleman Professor of International Development, University of California, Los Angeles'Kruks-Wisner rightly notes scholars of political participation have remained preoccupied with exceptional or episodic moments: mass mobilizations, armed struggles, voting, and campaign rallies. In doing so, they have neglected the quotidian forms of participation that define the political lives of most citizens across the global south. Her book rightly shifts attention to everyday claim-making, and asks important questions: who makes claims, when, and how? Using meticulously collected data from north India she finds surprising answers: claim-making is not the exclusive purview of men, urbanites, the wealthy, or the socially privileged. It can occur in even the most unlikely pockets, especially when citizens develop social and economic networks extending beyond their locality or social group. Claiming the State should have a sizeable impact in reorienting studies of political participation towards life between elections, and in how we think of the practice of citizenship in contemporary India.' Tariq Thachil, Vanderbilt University, TennesseeTable of ContentsPart I. Introduction and Theory: 1. Introduction: citizenship and social welfare; 2. A theory of active citizenship; Part II. Citizenship Practice In Rajasthan: 3. The institutional terrain of the state; 4. Seeking the state: claim-making patterns and puzzles; 5. Encountering the state: citizens' social and spatial exposure; 6. Claiming the state: exposure as a catalyst for citizen action; Part III. Consequences and Extensions: 7. The consequences of claim-making; 8. Conclusion: active citizenship in Rajasthan and beyond; Appendices; References; Index.

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Book SynopsisBorder regions are often considered to be the neglected margins. In this book, Paul Nugent argues that through a comparison of the Senegambia and the trans-Volta (Ghana/Togo), we can see that the geographical margins have shaped notional centres at least as much as the reverse. Through a study of three centuries of history, this book demonstrates that states were forged through an extended process of converting a topography of settled states and slaving frontiers into colonial borders. It argues that post-colonial states and larger social contracts have been configured very differently as a consequence. It underscores the impact on regional dynamics and the phenomenon of peripheral urbanism. Nugent also addresses the manner in which a variegated sense of community has been forged amongst Mandinka, Jola, Ewe and Agotime populations who have both shaped and been shaped by the border. This is an exercise in reciprocal comparison and shuttles between scales, from the local and the particular to the national and the regional.Trade Review'This must-read West African showpiece, magnificently executed in the finest traditions of African historical scholarship, with notably intensive archival and library research and extensive fieldwork, should be replicated for other regions to bridge a yearning gap in African and global historiography.' Anthony I. Asiwaju, University of Lagos, Nigeria'A model example of deeply-contextualized comparative research. It makes a compelling case that the analytical framework within which African states are viewed should be shifted from 'neo-patrimonialism' to 'social contract' - the latter being deftly deployed throughout this well-written and accessible study.' Gareth Austin, University of Cambridge'This ambitious work argues that to understand states and state-making in contemporary Africa, one must focus on 'the margins' - that is, on the making of boundaries and borders. This radical redefinition of analytic perspective, developed in a text of grand historical and spatial sweep, has produced a book that will be a great interest to historians, political scientists, geographers and anthropologists.' Catherine Boone, London School of Economics and Political Science'A tremendously creative study, masterfully bringing to the West African fore that which has hitherto been seen as marginal: the edges of the colonial and postcolonial state. With his fine frontier brush, Nugent paints us a different conceptual picture of how we ought to reimagine the centres and perimeters of African polities.' William F. S. Miles, Northeastern University, BostonTable of Contents1. Centering the margins: states, borderlands and communities; Part I. From Frontiers to Boundaries: 2. Configurations of power in comparative perspective: commerce, people and belief to c.1880; 3. Port cities, frontiers and boundaries: spatial lineages of the colonial state; Part II. States and Taxes, Land and Mobility: 4. Constructing the compound, keeping the gate: a fiscal anatomy of colonial state-making, c.1900–40; 5. Being seen like a state: frontier logics, colonial administration and traditional authority in the borderlands; 6. Border regulation and state-making at the margins: taxation, migration and contraband during the interwar years; 7. Land, belief and belonging in the borderlands; Part III. Decolonization and Boundary Closure, 1939–69: 8. Bringing the space back in: decolonization, development and territoriality c.1939–60; 9. The vanishing horizon of Senegambian unity: statist visions and border dynamics; 10. Forging the nation, contesting the border: identity politics and border dynamics in the Trans-Volta; Part IV. States, Social Contracts and Respacing From Below, 1970–2010; 11. Barnacle states and boundary lines: states, trade and urbanism in the Senegambia; 12. The remaking of Ghana and Togo at their common border: Alhaji Kalabule meets Nana Benz; 13. Boundaries, communities and 're-membering': festivals and the negotiation of difference; Conclusion. Boundaries and state-making: comparisons through time and space.

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Book SynopsisIn the early twenty-first century, courts have become versatile actors in the governance of many constitutional democracies, and judges play a variety of roles in politics and policy making. Assembling papers penned by academic specialists on high courts around the world, and presented during a year-long Andrew W. Mellon Foundation John E. Sawyer Seminar at the University of California, Berkeley, this volume maps the roles in governance that courts are undertaking and the ways they have come to matter in the political life of their nations. It offers empirically rich accounts of dramatic judicial actions in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and Asia, exploring the political conditions and judicial strategies that have fostered those assertions of power and evaluating when and how courts'' performance of new roles has been politically consequential. By focusing on the content and consequences of judicial power, the book advances a new agenda for the comparative study of courts.Trade Review'Consequential Courts constitutes a major contribution to the comparative study of courts. It provides abundant and detailed examples of politically consequential behaviour of many courts which are not always the object of academic research. It provides abundant and detailed examples of politically consequential behaviour of many courts which are not always the object of academic research. It sets an agenda for future research in this area, and provides much food for thought on the methodological problems associated with large-scale comparative studies of Courts.' Sebastian Castro Quiroz, The Cambridge Law JournalTable of ContentsPart I. Expanding Judicial Roles in New or Restored Democracies: 1. The politics of courts in democratization: four junctures in Asia Tom Ginsburg; 2. Fragmentation? Defection? Legitimacy? Explaining judicial roles in post-communist 'colored revolutions' Alexei Trochev; 3. Constitutional authority and judicial pragmatism: politics and law in the evolution of South Africa's constitutional court Heinz Klug; 4. Distributing political power: the constitutional tribunal in post-authoritarian Chile Druscilla L. Scribner; 5. The transformation of the Mexican Supreme Court into an arena for political contestation Mónica Castillejos-Aragón; Part II. Expanding Judicial Roles in Established Democracies: 6. Courts enforcing political accountability: the role of criminal justice in Italy Carlo Guarnieri; 7. The Dutch Hoge Raad: judicial roles played, lost, and not played Nick Huls; 8. A consequential court: the US Supreme Court in the twentieth century Robert A. Kagan; 9. Judicial constitution-making in a divided society - the Israeli case Amnon Reichman; 10. Public interest litigation and the transformation of the Supreme Court of India Manoj Mate; 11. The judicial dynamics of the French and European fundamental rights revolution Mitchel de S.-O.-l'E. Lasser; 12. Constitutional courts as bulwarks of secularism Ran Hirschl; Part III. Four 'Provocations': 13. Why the legal complex is integral to theories of consequential courts Terence C. Halliday; 14. Judicial power: getting it and keeping it John Ferejohn; 15. Out of phase: politics, regimes, and regime politics Mark A. Graber; 16. The mighty problem continues Martin Shapiro; 17. Conclusion: of judicial ships and winds of change Diana Kapiszewski, Gordon Silverstein and Robert A. Kagan.

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Book SynopsisOrganizing Against Democracy illuminates answers to the question of how far-right parties try to establish roots in democratic societies. Ellinas examines the local organizational 'lives' of three of the most extreme parties in Europe and the responses of democratic actors against them.Trade Review'This is a path-breaking study. Though we have long recognized that all politics are local, few, if any, scholars have examined far-right parties as local organizations. Ellinas provides extensive local interviews and event analyses that are deeply impressive on their own. But his greatest contribution is to use these primary sources as the foundation for a compelling argument about party success and failure. With strong implications for how institutional actors and local communities should react to the threats that the far-right presents, this book is not only very good, but also much needed.' Nancy Bermeo, Princeton University and University of Oxford'Many great studies of the far-right view this topic from the top down, and we need more work that looks at it from the ground up. This absorbing and impressively detailed book does exactly that. Ellinas clearly demonstrates that local-level organization, or the lack thereof, matters. For those concerned about the rise of extremism, this book also suggests, optimistically, that counter-mobilisation can make a difference.' Tim Bale, Queen Mary University of London'In this clinical analysis of some of Europe's most openly racist and violent political movements, Antonis A. Ellinas makes a compelling case for a robust political and societal response … His exhaustive and meticulous research offers both a roadmap for those hoping to contain these forces, as well as a warning that dedicated right-wing extremists will remain an enduring feature of liberal democracy.' David Art, Tufts University, Massachusetts'Thanks to its fresh analytical perspective and meticulous research, Organizing against Democracy not only offers a landmark contribution on Greece's Golden Dawn, but also opens up a whole new line of investigation on European right-wing extremism. Unlike most scholars, Ellinas puts the local context front and center of his explanation of the rise of the extreme right, offering a uniquely rich set of empirical evidence. This careful and insightful close-range analysis greatly enhances our comparative understanding of this troubling phenomenon.' Giovanni Capoccia, University of Oxford'Parties' organizational set-up interacts with their strategies and electoral support, but few studies probe into this relationship. Ellinas deals with this subject through a detailed empirical analysis of the local organizational dynamics of select extreme radical right-wing parties in Europe, particularly Greece's Golden Dawn. He has completed a model investigation on which others should be encouraged to build.' Herbert Kitschelt, Duke University, North Carolina'Ellinas delves where few have gone before: into the murky and dangerous internal politics of three extreme right-wing parties located across Europe. It is a forensic analysis of their internal organization and activities to try to determine what helps or hinders their growth. As such, this timely and important study provides warnings for the future of our democratic systems in periods of stress. This is high-quality political science.' Kevin Featherstone, London School of Economics and Political Science'Challenges the predominant focus on national right-wing parties' endogenous characteristics, national electoral results, and extremist leaders.' T. D. Lancaster, Choice'Ellinas provides a timely and ambitious project and suggests ample avenues for future scholarship.' Trevor Allen, Perspectives on Politics'The strength of this book lies in the combination of national politics with the microdynamics of local development … the book fully convinces with its comprehensive framework, compelling argumentation, and clear writing style. Overall, Antonis Ellinas provides a seminal work on the organizational effectiveness of extreme rightwing parties. The book will be of interest to scholars of comparative (party) politics and of modern Greece.' Maik Fielitz, Journal of Modern Greek Studies'Many great studies of the far-right view this topic from the top down, and we need more work that looks at it from the ground up. This absorbing and impressively detailed book does exactly that. Ellinas clearly demonstrates that local-level organization, or the lack thereof, matters. For those concerned about the rise of extremism, this book also suggests, optimistically, that counter-mobilisation can make a difference.' Tim Bale, Sage JournalsTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Extremist right-wing parties in Europe; 3. The organizational development of extremist right-wing parties; 4. The organizational development of the Golden Dawn; 5. Variation in local organizational development; 6. Endogenous drivers of local organizational development; 7. Electoral drivers of local organizational development; 8. The state and local organizational development; 9. Societal reactions and local organizational development; 10. The local development of extremist right-wing parties in Germany and Slovakia; 11. Conclusions.

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Book SynopsisLebanon and Israel/Palestine are two political entities that expanded in 1920 and 1967 respectively, and became divided societies characterized by periods of stability and conflict. This book provides the first detailed comparison between the two states and also explores the effects of their expansion on their changing relations. It looks first at how both expanded states attempted to cope with their predicaments, focusing on the relationship between state, community and security, before moving on to analyze the de-stabilizing effects of expansion on Israeli-Lebanese relations. The book draws on previously unpublished official documents, memoirs, media resources and films produced in Lebanon and Israel/Palestine, in addition to existing works on the two states and the Middle East. Bridging the gap between comparative politics and international relations, it will interest students of Lebanon and Israel/Palestine, the Middle East, and conflict and peace.Trade Review'Oren Barak undertakes a remarkable comparison of two states established to reflect and represent tight-knit communities - Jews in Israel and Maronite Christians in Lebanon. In each case, something went terribly wrong on the way to becoming nation-states. State expansion by Israel in 1967 and by Lebanon in 1920 ended up crippling the state, undermining security, and leading to divided societies. State Expansion and Conflict is a tour de force, demonstrating the dark dangers of state ambition and enlargement.' Joel Migdal, University of Washington'Thoroughly researched and elegantly written, this book offers a thought-provoking and highly instructive comparison between the state's expansion and its consequences in Israel/Palestine and in Lebanon, whose shared border has, from 1967 onwards, become one of the major arenas of the Arab-Israeli conflict. The broader insights provided in this book will be of interest to students of conflict and peace in the Middle East and beyond, and its conclusions are bound to generate debate in both divided societies that, as Oren Barak persuasively shows, are much more similar than one might think.' Asher Kaufman, University of Notre Dame, IndianaTable of ContentsList of figures; Acknowledgements; Preface; Chronology; 1. Introduction; 2. State expansion and its effects; 3. From nation-states to divided societies: Lebanon and Israel/Palestine; 4. Lebanon: weak and legitimate; 5. Israel/Palestine: strong and illegitimate; 6. Lebanon and Israel/Palestine compared; 7. The deterioration of Israeli-Lebanese relations; 8. Two conflicts intertwined; 9. Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisDrawing on a range of previously unexamined sources, this comparative study of two contemporary Arab nations proposes a compelling new theory that accounts for the complexities of religion-state dynamics across the Arab world. These case studies will appeal to anyone keen to understand the post-uprisings Arab landscape, including both scholars and policymakers.Trade Review'The apposite institutionalization of religion poses a political quandary for many states in the Arab world. Regulating Islam deftly explores a cocktail of three factors: ideology, political opponent profile, and institutional endowment that interact to shape the state's stance on religion. Tracing the evolution in state policy on religious education in Morocco and Tunisia over the past 60 years, Feuer accounts for the variation found in these policies across time and case, explains paradoxical outcomes (e.g. traditionally-minded states that choose to reduce state support for religion) and introduces new concepts such as 'identity bargaining' where political leaders, faced with daunting political and resource constraints, 'split the difference' between linguistic and religious dimensions of identity, and ultimately privilege an emphasis on Islam in the state educational system. An enlightening contribution to the politics of religion in the Arab world and beyond.' Eva Bellin, Myra and Robert Kraft Professor of Arab Politics, Crown Center for Middle East Studies, Brandeis University, Massachusetts'Sarah J. Feuer combines theoretical sophistication with extensive fieldwork in Morocco and Tunisia to bring new insight into how governments regulate religion in general and religious education in particular. First she demonstrates that existing theories, while providing insight, fail to fully explain Tunisia and Morocco. She then weaves an intricate yet accessible and understandable theory based on the interaction between a government's ideology, its institutional strength, and the nature of its opposition to explain how governments formulate religion policy. This thoughtful and insightful book will influence how we think about religion policy well beyond Morocco and Tunisia.' Jonathan Fox, Yehuda Avner Professor of Religion and Politics, Bar Ilan University, IsraelTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Toward a theory of religious regulation; 2. The Moroccan ingredients of religious regulation; 3. Striking an identity bargain in Morocco; 4. The Tunisian ingredients of religious regulation; 5. Balancing Muhammad and Montesquieu in Tunisia; 6. Regulating Islam after the spring.

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Book SynopsisAt a time of increasing doubts about political legitimacy, concern for equal and inclusive democratic processes and deliberation is sweeping the social sciences. In this empirical study, the author presents the collective practices of political translation, which help multilingual and culturally diverse groups work together more democratically.Trade Review'For decades, those of us intensely interested in the inequalities that typically arise in social movements despaired of finding ways to counter those inequalities - of class, gender, race, and language. Now, in a breakthrough analysis, Nicole Doerr shows how the techniques of political translation can right many of the inegalitarian wrongs that typically flow from an open participatory setting. In a series of closely observed and well-analyzed cases, Doerr shows how social movement activists evolved these techniques and used them effectively. A must-read for anyone interested in social movements or (an unusual juxtaposition) deliberative democratic theory.' Jane Mansbridge, Charles F. Adams Professor of Political Leadership and Democratic Values, Harvard University'Rich in empirical evidence and original in its theoretical approach, this book discusses challenges and opportunities for the discursive quality of democracy in culturally diverse forums. Different from neutral facilitators, political translators have the potential to address positional misunderstanding emerging from inequalities and power. An essential read for those who are interested in deliberative democracy in social movements and beyond.' Donatella della Porta, Dean of the Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences, Scuola Normale Superiore, Florence'At last - an innovative, specific way to make public deliberation inclusive, democratic, and effective. Nicole Doerr's groundbreaking study of decision-making forums on two continents is a must-read for anyone interested in moving beyond the tensions and misunderstandings of modern politics.' Kathleen Blee, Senior Associate Dean, Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pittsburgh'Political Translation is one of those rare gems that offers a fresh perspective - dare I say, a new language - for understanding recurrent themes in the study and practice of participatory democracy: power, inequality, inclusion/exclusion, and bridging cultural-political differences. This path-breaking analysis highlights translation as a critical practice and metaphor with the potential to transform our understanding of social movements.' Jeffrey S. Juris, Northeastern University, Massachusetts'All in all, Political Translation is a compelling book about building a culture of justice through changing how we interact with other(nes)s in our diverse societies. It also provides an impressive bibliography on radical democracy from multidisciplinary angles; an invaluable resource for those willing to continue this fascinating and necessary journey.' Julie Boéri, Translation StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction: bridging differences within deliberation: political translation; 1. Paris: a political translation collective emerges; 2. Frankfurt versus Atlanta: political translators as coalition leaders; 3. Santa Brigida, California: how political translation failed at City Hall; 4. Santa Brigida revisited; Conclusion: a new model for deliberation.

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Book SynopsisMeasurement and targets have been widely criticised as distorting policy and engendering gaming - yet they continue to be widely used in government. This book offers an original new account explaining the persistent appeal of performance measurement. It argues that targets have been adopted to address a crisis of trust in politics, through creating more robust mechanisms of accountability and monitoring. The book shows that such tools rarely have their intended effect. Through an in-depth analysis of UK targets on immigration and asylum since 2000, it shows that far from shoring up trust, targets have engendered cynicism and distrust in government. Moreover, they have encouraged intrusive forms of monitoring and reform in public administration, with damaging consequences for trust between politicians and civil servants. Despite these problems, performance measurement has now become embedded in techniques of public management. It has also become normalised as a way of framing policy problems and responses. Thus despite their acknowledged problems, targets are likely to retain their allure as techniques of political communication and governance.Trade Review'A fantastically important and timely book on a topic of phenomenal and - alas - ever growing importance. This is a major intervention in a debate whose significance can scarcely be over-stated. Highly recommended.' Colin Hay, Sciences Po, Paris'[…] the book is highly commendable for showing how what might otherwise risk being dismissed as a narrow technical issue is in fact embedded in, and of importance to, broader political systems. Making these arguments is at the core of showing why public administration is such an important area for research. Relating public administration literature to sociological and similar perspectives, which is relatively unusual, further cements the likely enduring value of the book's contribution.' Oliver James, JPARTTable of Contents1. Performance measurement and the production of trust; 2. The problem of political trust; 3. The double life of targets; 4. Monitoring public administration; 5. Information and trust; 6. Public trust in targets; 7. Targets and issue definition; 8. After performance measurement?

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Book SynopsisThis volume brings together critical legal scholarship and theories of forced migration that draw attention to the dual role of law as it pertains to transitional justice and mass violence resulting in forced population movements. Contributors to the volume analyze how forced migration in the Global South have impacted contemporary realities. While there has been considerable focus on refugees and asylum seekers from conflict zones, there is less attention paid to the far more numerous internally displaced peoples (IDPs), stateless people, warehoused refugees, non-status displaced and returnees in the Global South. In this volume, a multidisciplinary group of scholars question the reasons behind the restrictive choices that lock us into area studies modalities instead of genuine interdisciplinary analysis by linking the traditional subject matter of transitional justice with the realities of forced migration in the Global South.Table of ContentsPart I. The Past as the Memory of the Present: 1. Borderlands of Independent India: transition, violence, and justice Ranabir Samaddar; 2. A restorative justice approach to the 'Armenian problem': transitional justice between past and future Turgut Tarhanlı; 3. Hybrid courts, transitional justice, and displacement in the Global South Nergis Canefe; Part II. Law, Justice, and Hope: 4. Transitional justice, displacement and the rights of the young: retributive and restorative approaches in the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide Marisa O. Ensor; 5. Beyond agreements: management tools to support peace agreements in the case of displaced populations in Colombia Fabio Diaz Pabon; 6. State-based truth commissions: the case of post-war Sri Lanka Jessica Chandrashekar; 7. The right of return in Iraq: conceptualizing insecurity, state fragility, and forced displacement Shamiran Mako and Hannibal Travis; Part III. Ethics of Witnessing: 8. Persecution, prosecution, protection: doing international justice for sexual violence Galya Ben-Arieh; 9. Transitional justice, reconciliation and reconstruction process: the case of former LTTE female combatants in post-war Sri Lanka Nasreen Chowdhory and Shamna Hussein; 10. The principle of legal certainty: impact assessment of the Syrian refugee crisis on the Turkish law on foreigners and international protection Lami Bertan Tokuzlu; 11. Perspectives on legal justice and victim reparations in the diasporic African Great Lakes region Helen Hintjens and Jackson Odong.

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Book SynopsisHow does culture interact with the way societies understand, live with, and act in relation to climate change? While the importance of the exchanges between culture, society and climate in the context of global environmental change is increasingly recognised, the empirical evidence is fragmented and too often constrained by disciplinary boundaries. Written by an international team of experts, this book provides cutting-edge and critical perspectives on how culture both facilitates and inhibits our ability to address and make sense of climate change and the challenges it poses to societies globally. Through a set of case studies spanning the social sciences and humanities, it explores the role of culture in relation to climate and its changes at different temporal and spatial levels; illustrates how approaching climate change through the cultural dimension enriches the range and depth of societal engagements; and establishes connections between theory and practice, which can stimulate aTrade Review'Multidisciplinary studies by 23 contributing authors who explore how human cultures conceptualize and respond to climate … Though the book does not downplay social, psychological, and economic factors that have slowed climate action at the societal level, its chapters collectively suggest a surprisingly optimistic view: namely, that human cultures throughout history have exhibited curiosity about and resilience to climate … Clear writing and thoughtfully chosen images make this book accessible and engaging for broad audiences.' D. P. Genereux, ChoiceTable of ContentsForeword; 1. Climate and culture: taking stock and moving forward Hilary Geoghegan, Giuseppe Feola and Alex Arnall; 2. Cultures of prediction in climate science Martin Mahony, Gabriele Gramelsberger and Matthias Heymann; 3. Visualising climate and climate change: a longue durée perspective Sebastian Vincent Grevsmühl; 4. Indigenous knowledge regarding climate in Colombia: articulations and complementarities among different knowledges Astrid Ulloa; 5. Thin place: new modes of environmental knowing through contemporary curatorial practice Ciara Healy; 6. Multi-temporal adaptations to change in the Central Andes Julio C. Postigo; 7. Not for the faint of heart: tasks of climate change communication in the context of societal transformation Susanne C. Moser; 8. At the frontline or very close: living with climate change on St Lawrence Island, Alaska, 1999–2017 Igor Krupnik; 9. Localising and historicising climate change: extreme weather histories in the United Kingdom Georgina Endfield and Lucy Veale; 10. From denial to resistance: how emotions and culture shape our responses to climate change Allison Ford and Kari Marie Norgaard; 11. Effective responses to climate change – some wisdom from the Buddhist worldview Peter Daniels; 12. Creating a culture for transformation Karen O'Brien, Gail Hochachka and Irmelin Gram-Hanssen; 13. Back to the future? Satoyama and cultures of transition and sustainability John Clammer; 14. Culture and climate change: experiments and improvisations – an afterword Renata Tyszczuk and Joe Smith; Index.

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Book SynopsisScholars typically emphasize the importance of organized networks and long-term relationships for sustaining electoral clientelism. Yet electoral clientelism remains widespread in many countries despite the weakening of organized parties. This book offers a new account of how clientelism and campaigning work in weak party systems and in the absence of stable party-broker relationships. Drawing on an in-depth study of Peru using a mixed methods approach and cross-national comparisons, Muñoz reveals the informational and indirect effects of investments made at the campaign stage. By distributing gifts, politicians buy the participation of poor voters at campaign events. This helps politicians improvise political organizations, persuade poor voters of candidates'' desirability, and signal electoral viability to strategic donors and voters, with campaign dynamics ultimately shaping electoral outcomes. Among other contributions, the book sheds new light on role of donations and business actors and on ongoing challenges to party building.Trade Review'In this extraordinary book, Muñoz introduces a reconceptualization of clientelism, which will reshape our understanding of electoral behavior in new democracies. Using a multi-method research design that includes survey experiments, focus groups, in-depth interviews, and case study comparisons, Muñoz shows how politicians lacking strong party organizations use handouts to boost their rallies. She then shows that rallies, and not handouts, influence electoral behavior. This book is a 'must-read' for any student of electoral behavior, democracy, and Latin American politics.' M. Victoria Murillo, Columbia University, New York'Paula Muñoz persuasively shows how clientelism works in the absence of political parties, testing the argument through an impressive and thorough mixed-methods strategy that embeds intensive fieldwork (ethnography, in-depth interviews) and survey experiments in a sub-national comparison. The crisis of political parties elsewhere makes the argument travel widely, well beyond the scope of Peruvian politics. The unusual combination of theoretical scope, methodological sophistication, and substantive relevance make this book an essential reference for the years to come.' Juan Pablo Luna, Instituto de Ciencia Política, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile'Politicians hand out microwaves, cement, and cash, even when they lack strong parties to guarantee that gifts translate into votes. Paula Muñoz provides a highly original account of how politicians provide goods not to buy off voters, but to gain attention from the media, campaign donors, and voters. The rich evidence reveals how vote buying and political campaigning are deeply intertwined in much of the developing world, and how democracy works - with a few extra gifts on the side - without political parties.' Alisha C. Holland, Princeton University, New JerseyTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. An informational theory of electoral clientelism; 3. Clientelistic linkages in Peru and the limits of conventional explanations; 4. Convoking voters and establishing electoral viability; 5. Influence from the citizens' point of view; 6. Analyzing campaigns; 7. Conclusions; Appendices.

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Book SynopsisRegime Consolidation and Transitional Justice explores the effect of transitional justice measures on ''regime consolidation'', or the means by which a new political system is established in a post-transition context. Focusing on the long-term impact of transitional justice mechanisms in three countries over several decades, the gradual process by which these political systems have been legitimatised is revealed. Through case studies of East and West Germany after World War II, Spain after the end of the Franco dictatorship in 1975 and Turkey''s long journey to achieving democratic reform, Regime Consolidation and Transitional Justice shows how transitional justice and regime consolidation are intertwined. The interdisciplinary study, which will be of interest to scholars of criminal law, human rights law, political science, democracy, autocracies and transformation theories, demonstrates, importantly, that the political systems in question are not always ''more'' democratic than theirTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Methodology; 3. The concept of regime change and consolidation; 4. Transitional justice measures; 5. The case studies: Germany, Spain and Turkey; 6. Regime consolidation through transitional justice.

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