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Cambridge University Press The Informal Regulation of Criminal Markets in
Book SynopsisThis book explains how states informally regulate drug markets in Latin America. It shows how and why state actors, specifically police and politicians, confront, negotiate with, or protect drug dealers to extract illicit rents or prevent criminal violence. The book highlights how, in countries with weak institutions, police act as interlocutors between criminals and politicians. It shows that whether and how politicians control their police forces explains the prevalence of different informal regulatory arrangements to control drug markets. Using detailed case studies built on 180 interviews in four cities in Argentina and Brazil, the book reconstructs how these informal regulatory arrangements emerged and changed over time.Trade Review'We long suspected that state actors in Argentina and Brazil were deeply involved in illicit narcotics markets and that this involvement was producing the interpersonal violence that periodically shakes these countries. But we didn't know how state intervention, drug trafficking, and violence intersect and interact. This book systematically dissects this relation and offers a novel and insightful perspective to understand and explain one of the most intractable issues in contemporary Latin America. Superbly written and brilliantly argued, the plethora of scholarly and policy lessons packed in this book will make it an unavoidable reference in the study of contemporary Latin America.' Javier Auyero, Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Professor in Latin American Sociology, University of Texas-Austin, author of The Ambivalent State: Police-Criminal Collusion at the Urban Margins'When and how do illicit markets come to be jointly governed by states and organized crime? Hernán Flom unpacks how relations between politicians, police, and criminals generate informal regulatory arrangements that shape state and criminal violence associated with drug markets in Latin America. Insightful theorization and rich empirics make this book an important contribution to the growing research on the politics of crime.' Eduardo Moncada, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Barnard College, Columbia University and author of Resisting Extortion: Victims, Criminals, and States in Latin America (Cambridge University Press, 2021)'This path-breaking book explains how politics in weakly institutionalized democracies shape the ways in which state authorities and the police informally regulate illicit drug markets. Theoretically insightful and empirically rich, Flom's study of four metropolitan areas in Argentina and Brazil masterfully weaves the voices of hundreds of cops and politicians into a cogent explanation of the different uses of violence and corruption to govern illicit markets in the Global South. The book is essential reading for students of governance, regulation, illicit economies, crime, and the police.' Guillermo Trejo, Professor of Political Science, University of Notre Dame'Hernán Flom studies rigorously the relationship between elected politicians and police to explain diverse informal regulatory regimes of drug markets in Argentina and Brazil. This book contributes to theorizing the multiple, and often unexpected, ways in which states interact with drug markets, not only repressing them or enforcing the law, but also tolerating, preying upon, or protecting them. His focus on the police as a pivotal actor expands our knowledge of the intricate dynamics that connect states and criminal markets. The book is an important addition to the literature on criminal violence, drug markets, and policing.' Angélica Durán-Martínez, Associate Professor of Political Science, Director of Global Studies Ph.D. Program, The University of Massachusetts LowellTable of Contents1. Informal regulation of criminal markets in Latin America; 2. A theory of drug market regulation; 3. Particularistic confrontation: The persistent war between gangs and police in Rio De Janeiro; 4. Particularistic negotiation: The decentralization of police corruption and increase in violence in Rosario, Santa Fe; 5. Coordinated protection: The consolidation of centralized corruption in Buenos Aires; 6. Coordinated coexistence: The consolidation of a police-gang truce in São Paulo; 7. Regulation of criminal markets in weak institutional contexts.
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Cambridge University Press Stealth Lobbying
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Cambridge University Press In Defense of Ideology
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Cambridge University Press Africas Urban Youth
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Cambridge University Press Africas Urban Youth
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Cambridge University Press The Origins and Consequences of Congressional Party Election Agendas
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Cambridge University Press American Foreign Policy and Process
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Cambridge University Press Contested Liberalization
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Cambridge University Press Contested Liberalization
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Cambridge University Press Mobility Economies in Europes Borderlands
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Cambridge University Press Ukraine and Russia
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Cambridge University Press The Collaborative Congress
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Cambridge University Press The Collaborative Congress
Book SynopsisThe Collaborative Congress challenges the conventional narrative of a hopelessly dysfunctional legislature by revealing and analyzing the widespread use of collaboration for successful policymaking. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.
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Cambridge University Press The Political Writings of George Washington
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Cambridge University Press The Political Writings of George Washington Volume 2 17881799
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Cambridge University Press The Political Writings of George Washington
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Cambridge University Press Working Class Inclusion
Book SynopsisCombines original survey experiments from Argentina and Mexico with national surveys from 18 Latin American countries to examine how the near exclusion of working-class citizens from legislatures affects citizens' evaluations of government. The book's findings demonstrate that voters want more workers in office.
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Cambridge University Press Working Class Inclusion
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Cambridge University Press The Origins and Consequences of Congressional Party Election Agendas
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Cambridge University Press The Philippines
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Cambridge University Press The Politics of Social Protection During Times of Crisis
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Cambridge University Press Written and Unwritten
Book SynopsisThe United States Federal Courts of Appeals decide cases concerning the most important issues of our time. This book is an unprecedented look into the internal operations of the courts, detailing the norms and unwritten customs of their day to day operations.Trade Review'This book, authored by an eminent federal circuit judge and an expert academic, fills a conspicuous void when it comes to understanding how our federal appellate courts work in practice. Long overdue, it provides a blueprint for both the legal practitioner and those interested in learning more about the practical considerations that define appellate advocacy. On my bookshelf for sure.' Kenneth R. Feinberg, Esq., former Administrator of the September 11, Victim Compensation Fund'The judicial administration 'dream team' of Judge Jon O. Newman and Duke Law Professor Marin K. Levy have discovered and described the written and unwritten practices and customs of the nation's 13 courts of appeals. Appellate lawyers, judges, and scholars will be delighted to have this compilation of practices and customs, many of which vary considerably from circuit to circuit.' David F. Levi, Dean Emeritus, Duke University Law School, and former President, American Law Institute'The book means that lawyers can more readily find out how to present their cases in different circuits. It means that the judges of different circuits can far more easily learn how their counterparts elsewhere in the federal system organize the judicial appellate task. And it means knowledge will bring about improvement as judges in each circuit learn how others handle similar problems. The result: a judicial system that works better for those whom it serves.' Stephen Breyer, US Supreme Court (retired) from the ForewordTable of ContentsForeword; Preface; Introduction; 1. The Chief Judge of a Circuit; 2. Administrative Structure; 3. Calendars, Panels, and Assignment of Cases; 4. Motions; 5. Expedited Appeals; 6. Briefs of Parties and Amici Curiae; 7. Oral Argument; 8. Precedential Opinions; 9. Non-Precedential Opinions; 10. En Banc Procedures; 11. Promoting the Expeditious Disposition of Appeals; 12. Death Penalty Cases; 13. Senior Judges; 14. Judicial Councils and Judicial Conferences; 15. Information on Websites; 16. Miscellaneous Provisions; Conclusion; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Robust Governance in Turbulent Times
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Cambridge University Press Myanmar
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Cambridge University Press Environmental Politics in East Asia
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Cambridge University Press Politics in a Pandemic
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Cambridge University Press Global Chinas Shadow Exchange
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Cambridge University Press Chinese Global Infrastructure
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Cambridge University Press Robust Governance in Turbulent Times
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Cambridge University Press Refugee Policies in East Asia
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Cambridge University Press Thailand
Book SynopsisThis Element aims to provide an overview of Thai politics with an up-to-date discussion of the characteristics of political regimes, political economy, and identity and mobilization that are grounded in historical analysis stretching back to the formation of the modern nation state.
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Cambridge University Press Social Media and Politics in Southeast Asia
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Cambridge University Press Sustainable Development and the Environment in Southeast Asia
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Cambridge University Press The Welfare State in East Asia
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Cambridge University Press Rethinking Colonial Legacies across Southeast Asia
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Cambridge University Press Making We the People
Book SynopsisIn 2014, Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzō announced the expansion of Japan's war powers, challenging a constitutional precedent that had been in place for seventy years. This book examines the history of Japan and Korea's post-World War II constitution-making, in order to shed light on the countries' modern legacies.Trade Review'Hahm and Kim's extraordinary intellectual achievement provides rare illumination of the crucial and deeply misunderstood concept of popular sovereignty. Their learned, elegant, and searching analysis should be an enduring part of the conversation that must be conducted if we are to make sense of our common constitutional predicament.' Gary J. Jacobsohn, H. Malcolm Macdonald Professor of Constitutional and Comparative Law, University of Texas, Austin'The simultaneous writing of constitutions in twentieth-century Japan and Korea, two countries under heavy American influence, makes an obvious candidate for comparative study yet no such work has been undertaken until now. In Making We the People, Hahm and Kim have dug deeply into both histories and their global context, offering a nuanced and thoughtful account.' Andrew Gordon, Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History, Harvard University'Hahm and Kim persuasively argue that we can only discover who 'We the People' named in a constitution are by adopting a broader spatial and temporal lens … that considers external influences, creative uses of the past, and shifting definitions of peoplehood. Making We the People thus contributes significantly to comparative constitutional studies, East Asian studies, and scholarship on nation building and democratic theory.' Celeste L. Arrington, Pacific Affairs'Making We the People, by Chaihark Hahm and Sung Ho Kim, is an important addition to the literature on comparative constitutional law generally and on constitution-making in particular, on at least two levels. I recommend it highly in relation to both. … Making We the People is a refreshing and welcome entry into this somewhat messy field. Many of the observations that the authors make, sometimes in passing, offer insights into the enterprise of constitutional renewal that ring true and deserve emphasis.' Cheryl Saunders, ICONTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. The unbearable lightness of the people; 2. War and peace; 3. The ghost of empire past; 4. A room of one's own; Conclusion.
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Cambridge University Press Politics of the Poor
Book SynopsisThis book challenges the ongoing debates on poor people's negotiations with democracy. It analyses the varied ways in which the poor participate in a democracy. Based on fieldwork, Roy argues that poor people neither assimilate into the universal values associated with democracy nor maintain their difference vis-à-vis democracy.Table of ContentsList of tables, maps and charts; Acknowledgements; Glossary; Introduction: against false binaries; 1. The perspectives of the study: towards an Agonistics of democracy; 2. Political spaces: institutional opportunity structures; 3. Political spaces: social relations of power; 4. From clientelism to citizenship?: The politics of supplications; 5. From moral vocabularies to languages of stateness?: The politics of demands; 6. From backwardness to improvement?: The politics of disputation; 7. From tradition to modernity?: The politics of imagination; Conclusion: the politics of the poor: agonistic negotiations with democracy; Annexure 1: the dramatis personae; Annexure 2: the census survey; Annexure 3: the Multidimensional Poverty Index; Annexure 4: Schedule for BPL Census 2002; Annexure 5: Schedule for BPL Census 2002 West Bengal; Annexure 6: BPL Cutoff List for West Bengal; Annexure 7: Bihar Mahadalit Vikas Mission Mandate; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press More Utopia Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought
Book SynopsisThis is a fully revised edition of one of the most successful volumes in the Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought series. Incorporating extensive updates to the editorial apparatus, including the introduction, suggestions for further reading, and footnotes, this third edition of More's Utopia has been comprehensively re-worked to take into account scholarship published since the second edition in 2002. The vivid and engaging translation of the work itself by Robert M. Adams includes all the ancillary materials by More's fellow humanists that, added to the book at his own request, collectively constitute the first and best interpretive guide to Utopia. Unlike other teaching editions of Utopia, this edition keeps interpretive commentary - whether editorial annotations or the many pungent marginal glosses that are an especially attractive part of the humanist ancillary materials - on the page they illuminate instead of relegating them to endnotes, and provides students withTrade Review'Adams and Logan's edition has always stood head and shoulders above the crowd for its fluent translation and scrupulous annotation, now superbly updated for the 500th anniversary of the initial publication of More's masterpiece. The ideal edition for students in all disciplines of the humanities.' John Guy, Clare College, CambridgeTable of ContentsPreface; Textual practices; Introduction; Chronology; Suggestions for further reading; Thomas More to Peter Giles; Book I; Book II; Ancillary materials from the first four editions; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Comparative Constitutional Reasoning
Book SynopsisExamining reasoning practices of constitutional judges across eighteen legal systems globally, this book focuses on leading cases in order to compare processes, using a combination of qualitative and quantitative analysis. Contributors offer the most comprehensive and systematic account of constitutional reasoning to date, in the first ever study of this scale.Trade Review'Despite substantial academic attention to the rise of judicial power, we know fairly little about how newly empowered courts interpret their constitutions and justify their decisions. This timely and impressive edited collection fills this gap by presenting qualitative and quantitative data from 18 courts and over 700 cases. The volume is a must-read for those interested in comparative constitutional interpretation.' Mila Versteeg, University of Virginia School of Law'This volume is the mature product of a very thorough, innovative, and reasonably large research project. It is impossible to do justice to the richness of its findings …' Katalin Capannini-Kelemen, I-CONnect (www.iconnectblog.com)Table of Contents1. Introduction: comparing constitutional reasoning with quantitative and qualitative methods András Jakab, Arthur Dyevre and Giulio Itzcovic; 2. The High Court of Australia Cheryl Saunders and Adrienne Stone; 3. The Austrian Constitutional Court Konrad Lachmayer; 4. The Supreme Federal Court of Brazil Conrado Hübner Mendes; 5. The Supreme Court of Canada Hugo Cyr and Monica Popescu; 6. The Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic Zdeněk Kühn; 7. The European Court of Human Rights Janneke Gerards; 8. The European Court of Justice Giulio Itzcovich; 9. The French Constitutional Council Arthur Dyevre; 10. German Federal Constitutional Court Michaela Hailbronner and Stefan Martini; 11. The Constitutional Court of Hungary András Jakab and Johanna Fröhlich; 12. The Supreme Court of Ireland Eoin Carolan; 13. The Israeli Supreme Court Suzie Navot; 14. The Constitutional Court of Italy Tania Groppi and Irene Spigno; 15. The Constitutional Court of South Africa Christa Rautenbach and Lorens du Plessis; 16. The Spanish Constitutional Court Marian Ahumada Ruiz; 17. The Constitutional Court of Taiwan Wen-Chen Chang; 18. The Supreme Court (House of Lords) of the United Kingdom Tamas Gyorfi; 19. The Supreme Court of the United States Howard Schweber and Jennifer L. Brookhart; 20. Conclusion András Jakab, Arthur Dyevre and Giulio Itzcovich.
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Cambridge University Press Smugglers and Saints of the Sahara Regional Connectivity in the Twentieth Century African Studies
Book SynopsisSmugglers and Saints of the Sahara describes life on and around the contemporary border between Algeria and Mali, exploring current developments in a broad historical and socioeconomic context. Basing her findings on long-term fieldwork with trading families, truckers, smugglers and scholars, Judith Scheele investigates the history of contemporary patterns of mobility from the late nineteenth century to the present. Through a careful analysis of family ties and local economic records, this book shows how long-standing mobility and interdependence have shaped not only local economies, but also notions of social hierarchy, morality and political legitimacy, creating patterns that endure today and that need to be taken into account in any empirically-grounded study of the region.Trade Review'The Sahara is neither a romantic land of luxury-laden camel caravans nor a vast empty darkness hiding the likes of al-Qa'ida. Judith Scheele's Sahara is the most dynamic 'space' in today's Africa, one brought alive by ceaselessly expanding and contracting human networks that invest in 'place' even as mobility defines 'community'. Scheele brings us into al-Khalil, the infamous Malian-Algerian-frontier trans-shipment centre where 'men are men', virtue non-existent and 'family-loyalty' the definition of survival. She introduces us to the multi-national work teams of enormous transport trucks that criss-cross the desert with foodstuffs, cigarettes and cocaine, licit and illicit loads side-by-side, protected by always-present AK-47s. During sixteen months, Scheele … observed, questioned, interviewed … [and] accessed family-held Arabic documents … Scholarship is impressive, arguments convincing; this is the book many who know the Sahara will wish they had written.' E. Ann McDougall, University of Alberta'[This] is an informative book based on tireless multisite research in local and colonial archives and among long-distance entrepreneurs, dispersed families and itinerant communities. Scheele approaches Saharan truck stops and oasis towns as dynamic nodes dependent on constant interchange with other nodes that together form a web of 'Saharan connectivity'. This is a must-read for anyone interested in the region and in carrying out trans-Saharan fieldwork.' Ghislaine Lydon, University of California, Los AngelesTable of Contents1. Founding saints and moneylenders: regional ecologies and oasis settlement; 2. Saints on trucks: Algerian traders and settlement in the biblād al-sūdān; 3. Dates, cocaine, and AK 47s: moral conundrums on the Algero–Malian border; 4. Struggles over encompassment: hierarchy, genealogies, and their contemporary use; 5. Universal law and local containment: assemblies, qudāh and the quest for civilisation; 6. Settlement, mobility, and the daily pitfalls of Saharan cosmopolitanism; Conclusion: Saharan connectivity and the 'swamp of terror'; Glossary; References; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Rival Reputations
Book SynopsisCharting the turbulent history of US-North Korea relations from the 1960s to 2010, Van Jackson surveys the role of reputation to understand why most - but not all - North Korean threats are dismissed and why their acts of unreciprocated violence against more powerful states do not lead to war.Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. The 'reputations in rivalry' framework; 3. The USS Pueblo crisis (1968); 4. The EC-121 shoot-down (1969); 5. The Panmunjom crisis (1976); 6. The North Korean nuclear crisis (1993–4); 7. Nuclear conflict and North-South provocations; 8. Implications for theory and policy; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Moral Economy of Elections in Africa
Book SynopsisDo elections turn people into democratic citizens? Elections have long been seen as a way to foster democracy, development and security in Africa, with many hoping that the secret ballot would transform states. Adopting a new approach that focusses on the moral economy of elections, Nic Cheeseman, Gabrielle Lynch and Justin Willis show how elections are shaped by competing visions of what it means to be a good leader, bureaucrat or citizen. Using a mixed-methods study of elections in Ghana, Kenya and Uganda, they explore moral claims made by officials, politicians, civil society, international observers and voters themselves. This radical new lens reveals that elections are the site of intense moral contestation, which helps to explain why there is such vigourous participation in processes that often seem flawed. Demonstrating the impact of these debates on six decades of electoral practice, they explain why the behaviour of those involved so frequently transgresses national law and inTrade Review'A fresh and nuanced exploration of elections in Africa through the lens of moral virtue. How do political actors – citizens, politicians, officials – endeavor to 'do the right thing' (as they see it) about voting, seeking office and managing the polls? Using multiple research methods, the authors uncover a range of complex popular conceptions of good leadership and proper elections. They find that, in resolving tensions between civic virtue and patrimonial obligation, many Africans are constructing forms of political accountability that are culturally authentic.' Michael Bratton, Michigan State University'Cheeseman, Lynch and Willis critically examine the behavior of key actors in Africa's electoral processes. Drawing on the tension between civil and patrimonial registers, this book offers new and provocative insights into the dynamics of African elections. Highly relevant for students and scholars of African politics and beyond.' Sebastian Elischer, University of Florida'A timely and important book on ideas of virtue and the moral economy of elections in Africa. It is comprehensive in its comparison of Ghana, Kenya, and Uganda and is an essential read for scholars of politics.' Peace A. Medie, University of Bristol'Why do people invest time, money and energy in elections that are not free and fair? This provocative book draws on careful research in Kenya, Uganda and Ghana to persuasively argue that a politics of virtue is at play, in which both voters and politicians use elections to stake out moral claims. The book, which challenges conventional understandings of elections, such as those that focus on patrimonial and ethnic politics, is certain to gain recognition as one of the most important theoretical works on African politics.' Aili Mari Tripp, University of Wisconsin, Madison'Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates. Graduate students and faculty.' C. E. Welch, ChoiceTable of ContentsIntroduction. Writing African elections; 1. Towards a moral economy of elections in Africa; 2. Elections, states and citizens: a history of the ballot in Ghana, Kenya and Uganda; Part I. Promoting Civic Virtue: National Exercises: 3. Making states and citizens through the ballot; 4. The eyes of the world are upon us: the aspirations and limitations of international election observation; 5. Creating democrats: Civil society and voter education; Part II. The Moral Economy in Action: 6. Performing virtue: politicians, leadership and election campaigns; 7. Navigating multiple moralities: popular expectations and experiences of the polls; 9. Conclusion: the electoral fallacy revisited.
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Cambridge University Press From Media Systems to Media Cultures
Book SynopsisIn From Media Systems to Media Cultures: Understanding Socialist Television, Sabina Mihelj and Simon Huxtable delve into the fascinating world of television under communism, using it to test a new framework for comparative media analysis. To understand the societal consequences of mass communication, the authors argue that we need to move beyond the analysis of media systems, and instead focus on the role of the media in shaping cultural ideals and narratives, everyday practices and routines. Drawing on a wealth of original data derived from archival sources, programme and schedule analysis, and oral history interviews, the authors show how communist authorities managed to harness the power of television to shape new habits and rituals, yet failed to inspire a deeper belief in communist ideals. This book and their analysis contains important implications for the understanding of mass communication in non-democratic settings, and provides tools for the analysis of media cultures globallTrade Review'From Media Systems to Media Cultures is a wonderful contribution to comparative media studies. It theorizes the complex and little-known world of state socialist television, and provides a compelling example of what it means to compare media cultures, and how this is related to the study of media systems.' Daniel C. Hallin, University of California, San Diego'This ambitious volume performs exemplary comparative research on socialist television, shifting the emphasis from media systems to media cultures. This book makes a major contribution to the study of mass communication under authoritarian rule and is a significant intervention in global communication and media research.' Aniko Imre, author of TV Socialism'This book fruitfully uses the state socialist TV landscape to reset our notions of media culture across diverse national contexts. Refracting the idea of comparative media through the gaze of entangled modernities, it complicates existing understandings of Cold War TV and recasts it in terms more consonant with culture. A creative and generative study that promises to have decisive impact on how we think about comparative media research.' Barbie Zelizer, Raymond Williams Professor of Communication, University of Pennsylvania'In this pioneering, deeply researched and remarkably wide-ranging study, Mihelj and Huxtable have brought the insights of media studies to bear on the history of socialist television. They are sensitive to cultural particularities but always alive to comparisons and connections, both between individual socialist countries and between socialist 'East' and liberal democratic 'West'. Historians and theorists of Western media will have much to learn from this book as they reflect on their own fields.' Stephen Lovell, King's College LondonTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Media cultures; 3. Historical context; 4. Varieties of modernity; 5. Publications; 6. Privacy; 7. Transnationalism; 8. Everyday time; 9. History; 10. Extraordinary time; 11. Conclusion.
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Cambridge University Press Thailand
Book SynopsisThis Element aims to provide an overview of Thai politics with an up-to-date discussion of the characteristics of political regimes, political economy, and identity and mobilization that are grounded in historical analysis stretching back to the formation of the modern nation state.
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Cambridge University Press The Rule of Law in the Islamic Republic of Iran
A comprehensive and detail-oriented analysis of the rule of law in the Islamic Republic of Iran and its social, political and historical contexts. The interdisciplinary and comparative nature of the book appeals to readers at the crossroads of comparative law, social science, Middle East and Islamic studies.
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Cambridge University Press Governance and Politics in the PostCrisis European Union
Book SynopsisAn original textbook providing a much-needed new perspective on how the European Union's policies and institutions have changed in light of the multiple crises and transformations since 2010. Its unique critical perspective will appeal to undergraduate and graduate students of politics and European studies taking courses on the politics of the EU.Trade Review'In this textbook, leading EU scholars provide a comprehensive account of how EU institutions and policies have changed during and after the multiple crises the EU has been facing since 2008.' Prof. Dr Tanja A. Börzel, Chair for European Integration at the Otto-Suhr-Institute for Political Science, Freie Universität Berlin'A textbook for the troubled times in which we live, placing those troubles at the very heart of the analysis. Exciting, innovative, timely and, above all, honest in its analysis, this is the new key reference for all students of European integration and disintegration.' Colin Hay, Professor of Political Sciences in the Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics, Sciences Po, Paris'This exciting new book studies the European Union by incorporating the many challenges that it is facing, in a host of policy-making areas, whether they be the Brexit, politicization of European integration, or the legacies of the migration and financial crises. It also examines the ongoing issues ahead: differentiation, social inequalities and what the EU can do to improve global governance. This much-awaited book provides a novel take on European integration in the current challenging times and is bound to become a very important must-read book for students, researchers and practitioners.' Amy Verdun, Professor of Political Science, University of VictoriaTable of ContentsForeword; Chronology; Glossary; Abbreviations; 1. The European Union as a political regime, a set of policies and a community after the crisis: an overview Ramona Coman, Amandine Crespy and Vivien Schmidt; Part I. The EU's political regime: 2. European regional integration from the 20th to the 21st century Kiran Klaus Patel; 3. Institutions and decision-making in the European Union Sergio Fabbrini; 4. Regulatory networks and policy communities Jacob Hasselbalch and Eleni Tsingou; 5. Old and new concepts of EU governance: intergovernmentalism, supranationalism, and parliamentarism Vivien A. Schmidt; Part II. Key policy areas in flux: 6. Cohesion and the EU budget: is conditionality undermining solidarity? John Bachtler and Carlos Mendez; 7. Agriculture and environment: greening or greenwashing? Gerry Alons; 8. The internal market: increasingly differentiated? Michelle Egan; 9. The European Monetary Union: how did the Euro area get a lender of last resort? Cornel Ban; 10. Social policy: is the EU doing enough to tackle inequalities? Amandine Crespy; 11: Labour markets and mobility: how to reconcile competitiveness and social justice László Andor; 12: Managing the refugee crisis: a divided and restrictive Europe? Sarah Wolff; 13: Security in the Schengen Area: limiting rights and freedoms? Julien Jeandesboz; 14: Trade policy: which gains for which losses? Ferdi De Ville; 15. Global tax governance: is the EU promoting tax justice? Rasmus Corlin Christensen and Len Seabrooke; 16. The common security and defence policy in transition: towards 'strategic autonomy'? Jolyon Howorth; Part III: Existential debates: 17. North and south, east and west: is it possible to bridge the gap? Kristin Makszin, Gergő Medve-Bálint and Dorothee Bohle; 18. Democracy and the rule of law: how can the EU uphold its common values? Ramona Coman; 19. Democracy and disintegration: does the state of democracy in the EU put the integrity of the Union at risk? Joseph Lacey and Kalypso Nicolaïdis; Appendices; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Americas Voucher Politics
Book SynopsisWhat explains the explosive growth of school vouchers in the last two decades? In America''s Voucher Politics, Ursula Hackett shows that the voucher movement is rooted in America''s foundational struggles over religion, race, and the role of government versus the private sector. Drawing upon original datasets, archival materials, and more than one hundred interviews, Hackett shows that policymakers and political advocates use strategic policy design and rhetoric to hide the role of the state when their policy goals become legally controversial. For over sixty years of voucher litigation, white supremacists, accommodationists, and individualists have deployed this strategy of attenuated governance in court. By learning from previous mistakes and anticipating downstream effects, policymakers can avoid painful defeats, gain a secure legal footing, and entrench their policy commitments despite the surging power of rivals. An ideal case study, education policy reflects multiple axes of conflict in American politics and demonstrates how policy learning unfolds over time.Trade Review'This theoretically rich, empirically compelling analysis shows how conservatives have used devilishly clever, evolving policy designs and obfuscating rhetorical strategies to achieve their goal of limiting the role of government and breaking unions. A seminal contribution to American political development, public policy, public law, and education policy which I read with awe.' Andrea Louise Campbell, Massachusetts Institute of Technology'America's Voucher Politics answers one of the most interesting policy puzzles of our time: how did school vouchers go from the fringes to the mainstream? As important as that question is, however, this book is about more than education policy. In telling the tale of school vouchers, Hackett illuminates policy-making more broadly, by shining a light on the many ways that policymakers make it hard for voters to see what government is doing. And, she does it effectively, as the book is a case study in how to write about public policy. The argument is compelling, the evidence convincing, and the prose engaging.' David Campbell, University of Notre Dame'Hackett's brilliant and timely analysis transforms the way we understand state policy and politics. Weaving together racial, religious, and civic foundational orders in US history, policy design, legal cases, and political rhetoric, the book reveals the complex, long-term strategies that political elites use to obfuscate public policy goals when they face public opposition or potential legal challenge. The result is a set of state policies that are not merely hidden, but constitute a form of doubly distanced attenuated governance. It is hard to imagine that state politics and policy research will ever be the same.' Lisa L. Miller, Rutgers University'… Hackett's book provides a roadmap for how to structure and carry out this type of work and encourages those of us who study the hidden welfare state to think more deeply about what it means that the state is hidden and why.' Chloe N. Thurston, American Politics'For readers well informed about the history of voucher politics in US education, this volume will add additional layers of analysis and understanding. Those new to the debate will find this book offers a meaningful, in-depth overview along with well-reasoned arguments about how and why the present situation has come to be and ways to adjust the system … Highly recommended.' W. Miller, Choice'America's Voucher Politics: How Elites Learned to Hide the State is an extraordinary study offering research based and insightful analysis of the history and contemporary employment of school vouchers and their selective education purposes, as well as their political implications … highly recommended as a unique and critically important contribution to our on-going national discussion of school vouchers.' The Midwest Book Review; Library BookwatchTable of ContentsIntroduction. Subtle forms of circumvention; 1. America's foundational identity struggles; 2. Two dimensions of attenuated governance; 3. The racial struggle: segregation grants in the Brown era; 4. The religious struggle: vouchers and the church-state question; 5. The public-private struggle: union opposition and the educational establishment; 6. Tax credit scholarships in an era of Republican dominance; 7. Education savings accounts and controversies beyond; Conclusion. Attenuated governance and the state.
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Cambridge University Press The Dynamics of Public Opinion
Book SynopsisA central question in political representation is whether government responds to the people. To understand that, we need to know what the government is doing, and what the people think of it. We seek to understand a key question necessary to answer those bigger questions: How does American public opinion move over time? We posit three patterns of change over time in public opinion, depending on the type of issue. Issues on which the two parties regularly disagree provide clear partisan cues to the public. For these party-cue issues we present a slight variation on the thermostatic theory from (Soroka and Wlezien (2010); Wlezien (1995)); our implied thermostatic model. A smaller number of issues divide the public along lines unrelated to partisanship, and so partisan control of government provides no relevant clue. Finally, we note a small but important class of issues which capture response to cultural shifts.Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Implied Thermostatic Response; 3. Absolute Opinion Change; 4. Conclusion; Appendix: Comparing the Survey Research Agenda to the Congressional Agenda.
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