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Book SynopsisMore than one million Indians travel annually to work in oil projects in the Gulf, one of the few international destinations where men without formal education can find lucrative employment. Between Dreams and Ghosts follows their migration, taking readers to sites in India, the United Arab Emirates, and Kuwait, from villages to oilfields and back again. Engaging all parties involved—the migrants themselves, the recruiting agencies that place them, the government bureaucrats that regulate their emigration, and the corporations that hire them—Andrea Wright examines labor migration as a social process as it reshapes global capitalism. With this book, Wright demonstrates how migration is deeply informed both by workers' dreams for the future and the ghosts of history, including the enduring legacies of colonial capitalism. As workers navigate bureaucratic hurdles to migration and working conditions in the Gulf, they in turn influence and inform state policies and corporate practices. Placing migrants at the center of global capital rather than its periphery, Wright shows how migrants are not passive bodies at the mercy of abstract forces—and reveals through their experiences a new understanding of contemporary resource extraction, governance, and global labor.Trade Review"Drawing upon extraordinarily rich fieldwork and a deep knowledge of the region, Andrea Wright brilliantly weaves the transnational connections between India and the Gulf. Between Dreams and Ghosts is a landmark contribution that pushes our understanding of oil, labor, and migrant lives in new and unexpected directions." —Adam Hanieh, author of Money, Markets, and Monarchies: The Gulf Cooperation Council and the Political Economy of the Contemporary Middle East"Andrea Wright's elegantly crafted ethnography of the lived experiences of Indian migrants to the Gulf oil industry is a telling narrative of the poetics and politics of labor migration. Rich with multiple perspectives and based on extensive fieldwork, Between Dreams and Ghosts stands out as a sensitive and stunning account." —Anand Yang, author of Empire of Convicts: Indian Penal Labor in Colonial Southeast Asia"Andrea Wright's compelling work shows that the oil and money on which so many studies focus is inextricably entangled with the bodies and aspirations of labor migrants. Between Dreams and Ghosts takes readers deep into the transnational swirl of moving people and objects that link the Gulf to India." —Douglas Rogers, author of The Depths of Russia: Oil, Power, and Culture after Socialism"Wright presents a fascinating, creatively researched study of Indian migrant workers in the oil industry of the Gulf states... Getting access to the exploiters as well as those exploited—and their ghost stories—is a tribute to the author's daring strategies of research. ... Highly recommended."—C. M. Henry, CHOICE"Even in a book that is in many ways fuelled by oil, the perspective of Wright's story is a very fresh take on the life-worlds that exist inside this massive industry. InBetween Dreams and Ghosts, we get to think about the materiality of the oil industry, and how the materiality itself takes on a transnational and even metaphysical life. The substantive contribution ofBeyond Ghosts and Dreamsto the study of migration in the Gulf is powerfully supported by the ways in which Wright 'passes the mic' and allows migrants to speak throughout, even allowing them to make their mark on the text. One gets the sense that Wright has been exceptionally faithful to her interlocutors and tells a story that would be recognisable to them."—Lindsey Stephenson, South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies"In dealing with migrants' lives and the biopolitics of the Indian state at a granular level, Between Dreams and Ghosts does an excellent job at uncovering the agency embedded in labor migration networks, often concealed by a mounting neoliberal corporate logic that naturalizes both labor inequalities and state intervention."—Nelida Fuccaro, Mashriq & Mahjar"Between Dreams and Ghosts is an essential text for both undergraduate and graduate students of South Asian studies, Gulf and Middle East Studies, political economy, labor, and migration; it also provides an important intervention for a range of non- academic audiences, including policy makers, journalists, labor organizers, and human rights groups."—Neha Vora, Political and Legal Anthropology ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction: Beyond Surplus and Scarcity Part I: Of Mangoes and Men One: Protecting Vulnerable Citizens Two: Cultivating Entrepreneurs Three: Building Influential Networks Part II: Connective Substances Four: Making Kin with Gold Five: The Rig and the Temple Part III: The Weight of Tradition Six: Blowing Sand Seven: The Demon of Unsafe Acts Conclusion: Enduring Debts

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Book SynopsisThis book captures an epochal juncture of two of the world's most transformative processes: the People's Republic of China's rapidly expanding sphere of influence across the global south and the disintegration of the Amazonian, Cerrado, and Andean biomes. The intersection of these two processes took another step in April 2020, when Chinese President Xi Jinping launched a "New Health Silk Road" agenda of aid and investment that would wind through South America, extending the Eurasian-African "Belt and Road Initiative" to a series of mine, port, energy, infrastructure, and agrobusiness megaprojects in the Latin American tropics. Through thirty short essays, this volume brings together an impressive array of contributors, from economists, anthropologists, and political scientists to Black, feminist, and Indigenous community organizers, Chinese stakeholders, environmental activists, and local journalists to offer a pathbreaking analysis of China's presence in South America. As cracks in the progressive legacy of the Pink Tide and the failures of ecocidal right-wing populisms shape new political economies and geopolitical possibilities, this book provides a grassroots-based account of a post-US centered world order, and an accompanying map of the stakes for South America that highlights emerging voices and forms of resistance.Trade Review"A result of deep and probing research, The Tropical Silk Road offers new critical writings, field observations, and ideas that situate the fate of Amazonian societies in the wake of China's bid for global prominence. The diverse array of experts in fine-tuned conversation with one another makes this a truly remarkable and exciting collection."—Long Bui, University of California, Irvine"The Tropical Silk Road is both an impressively ambitious and readable volume. An international cavalcade of authors examines contemporary China's outreach into Latin America, offering an engaging balance of thoughtful, interdisciplinary perspectives with considerable heft."—Carlos Rojas, Duke University"[Tropical Silk Road] is as ambitious as it is eclectic, and its contributors bring a range of valuable insights to bear on some of the most important political and economic developments facing the region."—Matthew Abel, NACLA Report on the AmericasTable of Contents0.0 Acknowledgments —Paul Amar, Lisa Rofel, María Amelia Viteri, Consuelo Fernández-Salvador, and Fernando Brancoli 0.1 Introduction: China Stepping Out, the Amazon Biome, and South American Populism —Paul Amar, Lisa Rofel, María Amelia Viteri, Consuelo Fernández-Salvador, and Fernando Brancoli 1.1: China's State and Social Media Narratives about Brazil during the COVID-19 Pandemic —Li Zhang 1.2: Cracks in the Coca Codo Sinclair Hydroelectric Project: Infrastructures and Disaster from a Masculine Vision of Development —Pedro Gutiérrez Guevara, Sofía Carpio, and Mayra Flores 1.3: Brazil and China's "Inevitable Marriage"? Post-Bolsonaro Futures and Beijing's Shift from North America to South America —Zhou Zhiwei 1.4: The China-Ecuador Relationship: From Correa's Neodevelopmentalist "Reformism" to Moreno's "Postreformism" during China's Credit Crunch (2006–2021) —Milton Reyes Herrera 1.5: China Studies in Brazil: Leste Vermelho and Innovations in South-South Academic Partnership —Andrea Piazzaroli Longobardi 1.6: Chinese Financing and Direct Foreign Investment in Ecuador: An Interests and Benefits Perspective on Relations between States through the Lens of the Win-Win Principle —David Mosquera Narváez 2.1: An Indigenous Theory of Risk: The Cosmopolitan Munduruku Analyze Chinese Megaprojects at Tapajós–Teles Pires —Luísa Pontes Molina and Alessandra Korap Silva Munduruku 2.2: Challenges for the Shuar in the Face of Globalization and Extractivism: Reflections from the Shuar Federation of Zamora Chinchipe —Jefferson Pullaguari 2.3: "Yes, We Do Know Why We Protest": Indigenous Challenges to Extractivism in Ecuador, Looking Beyond the National Strike of October 2019 —Julia Correa, Israel Chumapi, Paúl Ghaitai Males, Jennifer Yajaira Masaquiza, Rina Pakari Marcillo, and David Menacho 3.1: From Elusiveness to Ideological Extravaganza: Gender and Sexuality in Brazil-China Relations —Cai Yiping and Sonia Correa 3.2: The Refraction of Chinese Capital in Amazonian Entrepôts and the Infrastructure of a Global Sacrifice Zone —Gustavo Oliveira 3.3: "The Bank We Want": Chinese and Brazilian Activism around and within the BRICS New Development Bank —Laura Trajber Waisbich 3.4: Río Blanco: The Big Stumbling Block to the Advancement of China's Mining Interests in Ecuador —The Yasunidos Guapondélig Collective 3.5: Protectionism for Business, Precarization for Labor: China's Investment-Protection Treaties and Community Struggles in the Latin American and Caribbean Region —Ana Saggioro Garcia and Rodrigo Curty Pereira 4.1: A Mine, a Dam, and the Chinese-Ecuadorian Politics of Knowledge —Karolien van Teijlingen and Juan Pablo Hidalgo Bastidas 4.2: Rafael Correa's Administration of Promises and the Impact of Its Policies on the Human Rights of Indigenous Groups —Emilia Bonilla 4.3: China Oil and Foodstuffs Corporation in the Tapajós River "Logistics Corridor": A Case Study of Socioenvironmental Transformation in Brazil's Northeast —Alana Camoça and Bruno Hendler 4.4: Deforestation, Enclosures, and Militias: The Logistics "Revolution" in the Port of Cajueiro, Maranhão —Sabrina Felipe and Lucilene Raimunda Costa 5.1: Hungry and Backward Waters: Events, Actors, and Challenges Surrounding the Coca Codo Sinclair Hydroelectric Project in Times of COVID-19 —Sigrid Vásconez D. 5.2: Electrification of Forest Biomes: Xingu-Rio Lines, Chinese Presence, and the Sociotechnological Impact of the Belo Monte Hydroelectric Dam —Laís Forti Thomaz, Aline Regina Alves Martins, and Diego Trindade d'Ávila Magalhães 5.3: Vanity Projects, Waterfall Implosions, and the Local Impacts of Megaproject Partnerships —Consuelo Fernández-Salvador and María Amelia Viteri 5.4: "Yes We Do Exist": Ferrogrão Railway, Indigenous Voices in the Trail of Trade Corridors, and Building the Axis of "Brazilian Pragmatist Policy" toward China —Diana Aguiar 5.5: Green Marketing Extractivism in the Amazon: Imaginaries of the Ministry versus Realities of the Land —Maria Elena Rodríguez 6.1: Steel Industry's Legacies on the Outskirts of Rio de Janeiro and White Brazilian Capital-State Alliances: A Feminist Approach —Ana Luisa Queiroz, Marina Praça, and Yasmin Bitencourt 6.2: Rio de Janeiro's Unruly Carbon Periphery: Community Entrepreneurs, Chinese Investors, and the Reappropriation of the Ruins of the COMPERJ Oil Port-and-Pipeline Megaproject —Fernando Brancoli and Wander Guerra 6.3: From Cheap Credit to Rapid Frustration: Real Estate in Rio de Janeiro —Pedro Henrique Vasques 6.4: The China-Ecuador Economic Relationship's Impact on Unemployment during the Administration of President Moreno —David F. Delgado del Hierro 7.1: Savage Factories of the Manaus Free Trade Zone: Chinese Investments in the Amazon and Social Impacts on Workers —Cleiton Ferreira Maciel Brito 7.2: National Development Priorities and Transnational Workplace Inequalities: Challenges for China's State-Sponsored Construction Projects in Ecuador —Rui Jie Peng 7.3: Rio's Phantom Dubai?: Porto do Açu, Chinese Investments, and the Geopolitical Specter of Brazilian Mineral Booms —Marcos A. Pedlowski

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Book SynopsisAcross the Western world, people are angry about the inability of government to perform basic functions competently. With widespread evidence of policy failures at home and ill-conceived wars and interventions abroad, it is hardly surprising that politicians are distrusted and government is derided as a sprawling, wasteful mess. But what exactly is government supposed to do, and is the track record of Western governments really so awful? In this compelling book, leading scholar of public policy and management, Alasdair Roberts, explores what government does well and what it does badly. Political leaders, he explains, have always been obliged to wrestle with shifting circumstances and contending priorities, making the job of governing extraordinarily difficult. The performance of western democracies in recent decades is, admittedly, far from perfect but - as Roberts ably shows - it is also much better than you might think.Trade Review“This contrarian work is a welcome corrective to the doom and gloom commentary that is so common today. Not only that, it's a good read as well. It will get an intensive workout in college seminars.” Morris P. Fiorina, Stanford University “Governing, particularly in democracies, is difficult and often frustrating work. In this vital new book, Alasdair Roberts makes a convincing case that Western governments have been largely effective at addressing the challenges they face.” Stephen K. Medvic, Franklin & Marshall College"In a world dominated by narratives of democratic crisis and decline Alasdair Roberts reveals the innate complexities of modern governance and political statecraft. In a book that is as clear and accessible as it is intellectually thoughtful and provocative, Roberts offers a positive and optimistic account of contemporary politics. It offers an energising breadth of fresh air in what is otherwise a fairly gloomy scholarly space."Matthew Flinders is Professor of Politics and Founding Director of the Sir Bernard Crick Centre for the Public Understanding of Politics at the University of Sheffield. He is also President of the Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom. ‘Alasdair Roberts' pithy, accessible, and refreshingly non-partisan book offers a pragmatic yet optimistic view of the benefits and future of government. While thoughtfully acknowledging a broad range of complaints about the representativeness and effectiveness of Western democracies, Roberts persuasively counters by pointing out the undeniable progress and accomplishments of these governments. His broad thesis -- that democratic institutions work because they adapt to changing circumstances, often in unexpected ways – should provide both hope and inspiration to students and readers who despair about our current situation.’Sherry Glied, Dean, Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, New York University "This book is an ideal vehicle for challenging students to look beyond current events and to reflect upon the role of government in addressing some of our society’s biggest challenges over a broad arc of history. Roberts provides a sober account of the challenges facing the United States and other western democracies today, but engages readers in the possibility that governments are up to the challenge of adapting their governing strategies to respond to these problems. The crisp, concise book will surely foster reflection and dialogue."Eric Zeemering, University of Georgia "A remarkably clear and well written book that makes a compelling argument against conventional orthodoxy. I have used it with great success in my introductory course in political science".Jonathan Rose, Queen’s UniversityTable of ContentsACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 1. WHY IS EVERYONE SO ANGRY? 2. THE LONG PEACE 3. THE RIGHT TO RULE 4. TAMING THE ECONOMY 5. BATTLE OF THE BULGE 6. HARD CHOICES AHEAD 7. PERESTROIKA FURTHER READING NOTES

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Book SynopsisAcross the Western world, people are angry about the inability of government to perform basic functions competently. With widespread evidence of policy failures at home and ill-conceived wars and interventions abroad, it is hardly surprising that politicians are distrusted and government is derided as a sprawling, wasteful mess. But what exactly is government supposed to do, and is the track record of Western governments really so awful? In this compelling book, leading scholar of public policy and management, Alasdair Roberts, explores what government does well and what it does badly. Political leaders, he explains, have always been obliged to wrestle with shifting circumstances and contending priorities, making the job of governing extraordinarily difficult. The performance of western democracies in recent decades is, admittedly, far from perfect but - as Roberts ably shows - it is also much better than you might think.Trade Review“This contrarian work is a welcome corrective to the doom and gloom commentary that is so common today. Not only that, it's a good read as well. It will get an intensive workout in college seminars.” Morris P. Fiorina, Stanford University “Governing, particularly in democracies, is difficult and often frustrating work. In this vital new book, Alasdair Roberts makes a convincing case that Western governments have been largely effective at addressing the challenges they face.” Stephen K. Medvic, Franklin & Marshall College"In a world dominated by narratives of democratic crisis and decline Alasdair Roberts reveals the innate complexities of modern governance and political statecraft. In a book that is as clear and accessible as it is intellectually thoughtful and provocative, Roberts offers a positive and optimistic account of contemporary politics. It offers an energising breadth of fresh air in what is otherwise a fairly gloomy scholarly space."Matthew Flinders is Professor of Politics and Founding Director of the Sir Bernard Crick Centre for the Public Understanding of Politics at the University of Sheffield. He is also President of the Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom.‘Alasdair Roberts' pithy, accessible, and refreshingly non-partisan book offers a pragmatic yet optimistic view of the benefits and future of government. While thoughtfully acknowledging a broad range of complaints about the representativeness and effectiveness of Western democracies, Roberts persuasively counters by pointing out the undeniable progress and accomplishments of these governments. His broad thesis -- that democratic institutions work because they adapt to changing circumstances, often in unexpected ways – should provide both hope and inspiration to students and readers who despair about our current situation.’Sherry Glied, Dean, Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, New York University"This book is an ideal vehicle for challenging students to look beyond current events and to reflect upon the role of government in addressing some of our society’s biggest challenges over a broad arc of history. Roberts provides a sober account of the challenges facing the United States and other western democracies today, but engages readers in the possibility that governments are up to the challenge of adapting their governing strategies to respond to these problems. The crisp, concise book will surely foster reflection and dialogue."Eric Zeemering, University of Georgia "A remarkably clear and well written book that makes a compelling argument against conventional orthodoxy. I have used it with great success in my introductory course in political science".Jonathan Rose, Queen’s UniversityTable of ContentsACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 1. WHY IS EVERYONE SO ANGRY? 2. THE LONG PEACE 3. THE RIGHT TO RULE 4. TAMING THE ECONOMY 5. BATTLE OF THE BULGE 6. HARD CHOICES AHEAD 7. PERESTROIKA FURTHER READING NOTES

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Book SynopsisWith more than 500,000 people killed and at least half the population displaced, Syria's conflict is the most deadly of the twenty-first century. Russia's decision to join the war has broken the long military and political stalemate but it looks unlikely to deliver any of the core demands that spawned the original uprising against the Ba'athist regime. In this fully revised second edition of his acclaimed text, Samer Abboud provides an in-depth analysis of Syria's descent into civil war, the subsequent stalemate, and the consequences of Russian military involvement after 2015. He unravels the complex and multi-layered drivers of the conflict and demonstrates how rebel fragmentation, sustained regime violence, international actors, and the emergence of competing centers of power tore Syria apart in wholly irreversible ways. A resolution to the Syrian catastrophe seems to have emerged in the aftermath of Russia's intervention, but, as Abboud argues, this "authoritarian peace" contains the seeds of continued and future conflict in Syria. While the Assad regime has so far survived, the instability, violence, and insecurity that continue to shape everyday life for the Syrian people portend an uncertain future that will have repercussions on the wider Middle East for years to come.Trade Review"Samer Abboud’s Syria is an indispensable reference on the uprising and brutal conflict that has raged in Syria since 2011. Abboud is masterful in providing an account that is at once accessible, balanced and analytically sophisticated. He explains clearly how a wartime order took hold in Syria after 2011, who its key actors are, their roles in the conflict,and how the likely imposition of an ‘authoritarian peace’ under the Assad regime is unlikely to deliver either stability or security to a country ravaged by violence."—Steven Heydemann, Smith College "This second edition of Abboud’s small classic carries his valuable analysis forward. Bringing together the phases and dimensions of the Syrian conflict in a uniquely convincing and comprehensive way, Abboud explores how the failure of diplomacy left a stalemate, and how the stalemate was broken by Russian intervention, and yet today the conflict remains frozen but not resolved."Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter One: The Rise and Fall of the Ba'ath Party Chapter Two: The Syrian Uprising Chapter Three: Continued violence and the emergence of armed opposition Chapter Four: Before Aleppo--Stalemate and Fragmentation Chapter Five: After Aleppo--Breaking the Stalemate Conclusion: The Coming Authoritarian Peace References

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Book SynopsisWith more than 500,000 people killed and at least half the population displaced, Syria's conflict is the most deadly of the twenty-first century. Russia's decision to join the war has broken the long military and political stalemate but it looks unlikely to deliver any of the core demands that spawned the original uprising against the Ba'athist regime. In this fully revised second edition of his acclaimed text, Samer Abboud provides an in-depth analysis of Syria's descent into civil war, the subsequent stalemate, and the consequences of Russian military involvement after 2015. He unravels the complex and multi-layered drivers of the conflict and demonstrates how rebel fragmentation, sustained regime violence, international actors, and the emergence of competing centers of power tore Syria apart in wholly irreversible ways. A resolution to the Syrian catastrophe seems to have emerged in the aftermath of Russia's intervention, but, as Abboud argues, this "authoritarian peace" contains the seeds of continued and future conflict in Syria. While the Assad regime has so far survived, the instability, violence, and insecurity that continue to shape everyday life for the Syrian people portend an uncertain future that will have repercussions on the wider Middle East for years to come.Trade ReviewSamer Abboud’s Syria is an indispensable reference on the uprising and brutal conflict that have raged in Syria since 2011. Abboud is masterful in providing an account that is at once accessible, balanced and analytically sophisticated. He explains clearly how a wartime order took hold in Syria after 2011, who its key actors are, their roles in the conflict, and how the likely imposition of an ‘authoritarian peace’ under the Assad regime is unlikely to deliver either stability or security to a country ravaged by violence.” Steven Heydemann, Smith College “This second edition of Abboud’s small classic carries his valuable analysis forward. Bringing together the phases and dimensions of the Syrian conflict in a uniquely convincing and comprehensive way, Abboud explores how the failure of diplomacy left a stalemate, and how the stalemate was broken by Russian intervention, and yet today the conflict remains frozen but not resolved.” Raymond Hinnebusch, University of St AndrewsTable of ContentsIntroduction Chapter One: The Rise and Fall of the Ba'ath Party Chapter Two: The Syrian Uprising Chapter Three: Continued violence and the emergence of armed opposition Chapter Four: Before Aleppo--Stalemate and Fragmentation Chapter Five: After Aleppo--Breaking the Stalemate Conclusion: The Coming Authoritarian Peace References

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Book SynopsisWith the collapse of traditional parties around the world and with many pundits predicting a "crisis of democracy", the value of elections as a method for selecting by whom and how we are governed is being questioned. What are the virtues and weaknesses of elections? Are there limitations to what they can realistically achieve? In this deeply informed book world-renowned democratic theorist Adam Przeworski offers a warts-and-all analysis of elections and the ways in which they affect our lives. Elections, he argues, are inherently imperfect but they remain the least bad way of choosing our rulers. According to Przeworski, the greatest value of elections, by itself sufficient to cherish them, is that they process whatever conflicts may arise in society in a way that maintains relative liberty and peace. Whether they succeed in doing so in today's turbulent political climate remains to be seen.Trade Review"A fascinating analysis of how elections work and their impact on politics. Covering the 'nitty gritty' of who gets to vote, who stands and who gets elected through to major questions about whether elections reduce economic inequality and civil conflict, Adam Przeworski brilliantly combines historical narrative, normative theory and statistics to provide a thoughtful, insightful and highly engaging read."Stephen Fisher, University of Oxford"No one alive knows more about elections than Adam Przeworski or understands better what is at stake in them. This little book distills the hard won political wisdom of a lifetime. It could scarcely be more timely." John Dunn, University of Cambridge"Why Bother with Elections? is vintage Przeworski. Brutally realistic about what we can expect from competitive elections, yet nonetheless inspiring about their value, this book offers one of the most eloquent defences I have seen of the advantages of majoritarianism over the separation-of-powers system that many Americans regard as the bedrock of good governance." Ian Shapiro, Yale UniversityTable of Contents Contents Preface Introduction Part I How Elections Work 1 The Idea of Electing Governments 2 Protecting Property 3 Jockeying for Partisan Advantage 4 Conclusion: What Is Inherent in Elections? Part II What Elections Achieve and What Not Introduction 5 Rationality 6 Representation, Accountability, and Control over Governments 7 Economic Performance 8 Economic and Social Equality 9 Civil Peace 10 Conclusions Suggested Readings References

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Book SynopsisWith the collapse of traditional parties around the world and with many pundits predicting a "crisis of democracy", the value of elections as a method for selecting by whom and how we are governed is being questioned. What are the virtues and weaknesses of elections? Are there limitations to what they can realistically achieve? In this deeply informed book world-renowned democratic theorist Adam Przeworski offers a warts-and-all analysis of elections and the ways in which they affect our lives. Elections, he argues, are inherently imperfect but they remain the least bad way of choosing our rulers. According to Przeworski, the greatest value of elections, by itself sufficient to cherish them, is that they process whatever conflicts may arise in society in a way that maintains relative liberty and peace. Whether they succeed in doing so in today's turbulent political climate remains to be seen.Trade Review"A fascinating analysis of how elections work and their impact on politics. Covering the 'nitty gritty' of who gets to vote, who stands and who gets elected through to major questions about whether elections reduce economic inequality and civil conflict, Adam Przeworski brilliantly combines historical narrative, normative theory and statistics to provide a thoughtful, insightful and highly engaging read."Stephen Fisher, University of Oxford"No one alive knows more about elections than Adam Przeworski or understands better what is at stake in them. This little book distills the hard won political wisdom of a lifetime. It could scarcely be more timely." John Dunn, University of Cambridge"Why Bother with Elections? is vintage Przeworski. Brutally realistic about what we can expect from competitive elections, yet nonetheless inspiring about their value, this book offers one of the most eloquent defences I have seen of the advantages of majoritarianism over the separation-of-powers system that many Americans regard as the bedrock of good governance." Ian Shapiro, Yale UniversityTable of Contents Contents Preface Introduction Part I How Elections Work 1 The Idea of Electing Governments 2 Protecting Property 3 Jockeying for Partisan Advantage 4 Conclusion: What Is Inherent in Elections? Part II What Elections Achieve and What Not Introduction 5 Rationality 6 Representation, Accountability, and Control over Governments 7 Economic Performance 8 Economic and Social Equality 9 Civil Peace 10 Conclusions Suggested Readings References

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Book SynopsisGlobalization, heralded for decades as a harbinger of prosperity, faces a huge backlash. Derided by right-wing nationalists as a ‘globalist’ plot to undermine traditional communities, and by left-wing critics as the rule of rampaging corporations, it’s become a political punching bag around the world. In this incisive book, leading commentator Colin Crouch defends globalization against its critics to the right and left. He argues that reversing the process would mean a poorer world riven by nationalistic and reactionary antagonisms. However, globalization will only be worth saving if we institute reforms to promote social solidarity and recover pride and confidence for the cities and regions that have lost out. Crouch shows that we can therefore only save globalization from itself if we transcend the nation state and subject global economic flows to democratically responsible transnational governance. Crouch provides a much-needed riposte to the delusions that risk plunging the world back into a zero-sum game of regressive economic nationalism, combining cool-headed analysis with a visionary call for a reformed and genuinely progressive globalization.Trade Review‘A fascinating and incisive debunking of many of the globalization myths propagated by both populists and neoliberals by a genuinely distinguished scholar’.Anthony Payne, Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute ‘Ranging widely across economics, sociology, culture and politics, Colin Crouch gives a muscular, fine-grained analysis of the problems of globalization – and some valuable suggestions as to how to solve them.’Timothy Garton Ash, University of Oxford, Guardian columnistTable of Contents1. The Issues 2. The Economy 3. Culture and Politics 4. The Future

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Book SynopsisGlobalization, heralded for decades as a harbinger of prosperity, faces a huge backlash. Derided by right-wing nationalists as a ‘globalist’ plot to undermine traditional communities, and by left-wing critics as the rule of rampaging corporations, it’s become a political punching bag around the world. In this incisive book, leading commentator Colin Crouch defends globalization against its critics to the right and left. He argues that reversing the process would mean a poorer world riven by nationalistic and reactionary antagonisms. However, globalization will only be worth saving if we institute reforms to promote social solidarity and recover pride and confidence for the cities and regions that have lost out. Crouch shows that we can therefore only save globalization from itself if we transcend the nation state and subject global economic flows to democratically responsible transnational governance. Crouch provides a much-needed riposte to the delusions that risk plunging the world back into a zero-sum game of regressive economic nationalism, combining cool-headed analysis with a visionary call for a reformed and genuinely progressive globalization.Trade Review‘A fascinating and incisive debunking of many of the globalization myths propagated by both populists and neoliberals by a genuinely distinguished scholar’.Anthony Payne, Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute ‘Ranging widely across economics, sociology, culture and politics, Colin Crouch gives a muscular, fine-grained analysis of the problems of globalization – and some valuable suggestions as to how to solve them.’Timothy Garton Ash, University of Oxford, Guardian columnistTable of Contents1. The Issues 2. The Economy 3. Culture and Politics 4. The Future

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Book SynopsisExplains how various Islamists have endorsed human rights, democracy, and justice to gain influence and mobilize supportersIslamist political parties and groups are on the rise throughout the Muslim world and in Muslim communities in the West. Owing largely to the threat of terrorism, political Islam is often portrayed as a monolithic movement embodying fundamentalism and theocracy, an image magnified by the rise of populism and xenophobia in the United States and Europe. Reality, however, is far more complicated. Political Islam has evolved considerably since its spectacular rise decades ago, and today it features divergent viewpoints and contributes to discrete but simultaneous developments worldwide. This is a new political Islam, more global in scope but increasingly local in action.Emmanuel Karagiannis offers a sophisticated analysis of the different manifestations of contemporary Islamism. In a context of global economic and social changes, he finds local ma

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Book SynopsisAnthropologists and ethnographers examine the global garment industry''s impact on workers'' well-beingThe 2013 collapse of Rana Plaza, an eight-story garment factory in Savar, Bangladesh, killed over a thousand workers and injured hundreds more. This disaster exposed the brutal labor conditions of the global garment industry and revealed its failures as a competitive and self-regulating industry. Over the past thirty years, corporations have widely adopted labor codes on health and safety, yet too often in their working lives, garment workers across the globe encounter death, work-related injuries, and unhealthy factory environments. Disasters such as Rana Plaza notwithstanding, garment workers routinely work under conditions that not only escape public notice but also undermine workers'' long-term physical health, mental well-being, and the very sustainability of their employment.Unmaking the Global Sweatshop gathers the work of leading anthropologists an

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Book SynopsisA journey into de facto state-building based on ethnographic and archival research in the Turkish Republic of Northern CyprusWhat is de facto about the de facto state? In Sovereignty Suspended, this question guides Rebecca Bryant and Mete Hatay through a journey into de facto state-building, or the process of constructing an entity that looks like a state and acts like a state but that much of the world says does not or should not exist. In international law, the de facto state is one that exists in reality but remains unrecognized by other states. Nevertheless, such entities provide health care and social security, issue identity cards and passports, and interact with international aid donors. De facto states hold elections, conduct censuses, control borders, and enact fiscal policies. Indeed, most maintain representative offices in sovereign states and are able to unofficially communicate with officials. Bryant and Hatay develop the concept of the aporetic stat

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Book SynopsisAnalysing social change has too often been characterized by parochialism, either a Eurocentrism that projects European experience outwards or a disciplinary narrowness that ignores insights from other academic disciplines. This book moves beyond these limits to develop a global perspective on social change. The book provincializes Europe in order to analyse European modernity as the product of global developments and brings together renowned scholars from international relations, history and sociology in the search for common understandings. In so doing, it provides a range of promising theoretical approaches, analytical takes and substantive research areas that offer new vistas for understanding change on a global scale.Table of ContentsIntroduction: World Society and Its Histories: The Sociology and Global History of Global Social Change ~ Mathias Albert and Tobias Werron Every Epoch, Time Frame or Date that Is Solid Melts into Air. Does It? The Entanglements of Global History and World Society ~ Mathias Albert Periodization in Global History: The Productive Power of Comparing ~ Angelika Epple Communication, Diff erentiation and the Evolution of World Society ~ Boris Holzer Field Theory and Global Transformations in the Long Twentieth Century ~ Julian Go Organization(s) of the World ~ Martin Koch Particularly Universal Encounters: Ethnographic Explorations into a Laboratory of World Society ~ Teresa Koloma Beck From the First Sino-Roman War (That Never Happened) to Modern International-cum-Imperial Relations: Observing International Politics from an Evolution Theory Perspective ~ Stephan Stetter Nationalism as a Global Institution. A Historical-Sociological View ~ Tobias Werron States and Markets: A Global Historical Sociology of Capitalist Governance ~ George Lawson The Impact of Communications in Global History ~ Heidi Tworek The ‘Long Twentieth Century’ and the Making of World Trade Law ~ James Stafford Third-Party Actors, Transparency and Global Military Affairs ~ Thomas Müller Technical Internationalism and Global Social Change: A Critical Look at the Historiography of the United Nations ~ Daniel Speich Chassé

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Book SynopsisAnalysing social change has too often been characterized by parochialism, either a Eurocentrism that projects European experience outwards or a disciplinary narrowness that ignores insights from other academic disciplines. This book moves beyond these limits to develop a global perspective on social change. The book provincializes Europe in order to analyse European modernity as the product of global developments and brings together renowned scholars from international relations, history and sociology in the search for common understandings. In so doing, it provides a range of promising theoretical approaches, analytical takes and substantive research areas that offer new vistas for understanding change on a global scale.Table of ContentsIntroduction: World Society and Its Histories: The Sociology and Global History of Global Social Change ~ Mathias Albert and Tobias Werron Every Epoch, Time Frame or Date that Is Solid Melts into Air. Does It? The Entanglements of Global History and World Society ~ Mathias Albert Periodization in Global History: The Productive Power of Comparing ~ Angelika Epple Communication, Diff erentiation and the Evolution of World Society ~ Boris Holzer Field Theory and Global Transformations in the Long Twentieth Century ~ Julian Go Organization(s) of the World ~ Martin Koch Particularly Universal Encounters: Ethnographic Explorations into a Laboratory of World Society ~ Teresa Koloma Beck From the First Sino-Roman War (That Never Happened) to Modern International-cum-Imperial Relations: Observing International Politics from an Evolution Theory Perspective ~ Stephan Stetter Nationalism as a Global Institution. A Historical-Sociological View ~ Tobias Werron States and Markets: A Global Historical Sociology of Capitalist Governance ~ George Lawson The Impact of Communications in Global History ~ Heidi Tworek The ‘Long Twentieth Century’ and the Making of World Trade Law ~ James Stafford Third-Party Actors, Transparency and Global Military Affairs ~ Thomas Müller Technical Internationalism and Global Social Change: A Critical Look at the Historiography of the United Nations ~ Daniel Speich Chassé

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Book SynopsisThe COVID-19 pandemic was not a great ‘equaliser’, but rather an event whose impact intersected with pre-existing inequalities affecting different people, places, and geographic scales. Nowhere is this more apparent than in housing. Written by an international group of experts, this book casts light on how the virus has impacted the experience of home and housing through the lens of wider urban processes around transportation, land use, planning policy, racism, and inequality. Case studies from around the world examine issues around gentrification, housing processes, design, systems, finance and policy. Offering crucial insights for reforming cities to be more resilient to future crises, this is an invaluable resource for scholars and policy makers alike.Table of ContentsIntroduction ~ Brian Doucet, Pierre Filion and Rianne Van Melik Part 1: Housing Markets, Systems, Design and Policies Is COVID-19 a Housing Disease? Housing, COVID-19 Risk and COVID-19 Harms in the UK ~ Becky Tunstall De-Gentrification or Disaster Gentrification? Debating the Impact of COVID-19 on Anglo-American Urban Gentrification ~ Derek Hyra and Loretta Lees ‘Living in a Glass Box’: The Intimate City in the Time of COVID-19 ~ Phil Hubbard Mardin Lockdown Experience: Strategies for a More Tolerant Urban Development ~ Zeynep Atas and Yuvacan Atmaca Towards the Post-Pandemic (Healthy) City: Barcelona’s Poblenou Superblock Challenges and Opportunities ~ Federico Camerin and Luca Maria Francesco Fabris Urban Crises and COVID-19 in Brazil: Poor People, Victims Again ~ Wescley Xavier Flexible Temporalities, Flexible Trajectories: Montreal’s Nursing Home Crisis as an Example of Temporary Workers’ Complicated Urban Labour Geographies ~ Lukas Stevens Part 2: Experiences of Housing and Home During the Pandemic Bold Words, a Hero or a Traitor? Fang Fang’s Diaries of the Wuhan Lockdown on Chinese Social Media ~ Liangni Sally Liu, Guanyu Jason Ran and Yu Wang The COVID-19 Lockdown and the Impact of Poor-Quality Housing on Occupants in the UK ~ Philip Brown, Rachel Armitage, Leanne Monchuk, Dillon Newton and Brian Robson Aging at Home: The Elderly in Gauteng, South Africa in the Context of COVID-19 ~ Alexandra Parker and Julia De Kadt COVID-19, Lockdown(s) and Housing Inequalities Amongst Families Who Have Children With Autism in London ~ Rosalie Warnock Detroit’s Work To Address the Pandemic for Older Adults: A City of Challenge, History and Resilience ~ Tam E. Perry, James McQuaid, Claudia Sanford and Dennis Archambault Ethnic Enclaves in a Time of Plague: A Comparative Analysis of New York City and Chicago ~ Amanda Furiasse and Sher Afgan Tareen Migration in the Times of Immobility: Geographies of Walking and Dispossession in India ~ Kamalika Banerjee and Samadrita Das Living Through a Pandemic in the Shadows of Gentrification and Displacement: Experiences of Marginalized Residents in Waterloo Region, Canada ~ William Turman, Brian Doucet and Faryal Diwan Cities Under Lockdown: Public Health, Urban Vulnerabilities and Neighbourhood Planning in Dublin ~ Carla Maria Kayanan, Niamh Moore-Cherry and Alma Clavin Conclusion ~ Brian Doucet, Pierre Filion and Rianne Van Melik

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Book SynopsisThe world has changed dramatically since the emergence of post-Marxism, and a reassessment is needed to determine its significance in the modern world. First published as a special issue of Global Discourse, this book explores the theoretical position of post-Marxism and investigates its significance in recent global political developments such as Brexit, Trump and the rise of the far right. With valuable insights from international contributors across a range of disciplines, the book puts forward a strong case for the continuing relevance of post-Marxism and, particularly, for Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe’s theory of radical democracy.Table of Contents1. New Introduction – Stuart Sim 2. Democracy beyond hegemony – Mark Purcell 3. Reply: Democracy without hegemony: a reply to Mark Purcell – Ronaldo Munck 4. The post-Marxist Gramsci – James Martin 5. Reply: The post-Marxist Gramsci: a reply to James Martin – Georges Van Den Abbeele 6. The limits of post-Marxism: the (dis)function of political theory in film and cultural studies – Paul Bowman 7. Reply: The limits of post-Marxism: the (dis)function of political theory in film and cultural studies: a reply to Paul Bowman – Andrew Rowcroft 8. Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe: the evolution of post-Marxism – Philip Goldstein 9. Reply: Laclau and Mouffe’s blind spots: a reply to Goldstein – Philippe Fournier 10. Enriching discourse theory: the discursive-material knot as a non-hierarchical ontology – Nico Carpentier 11. Reply: Enriching discourse theory: the discursive-material knot as a non- hierarchical ontology: a reply to Nico Carpentier – Mads Ejsing & Lars Tønder 12. From domination to emancipation and freedom: reading Ernesto Laclau’s post- Marxism in conjunction with Philip Pettit’s neo-republicanism – Gulshan Khan 13. Reply: From domination to emancipation and freedom: reading Ernesto Laclau’s post-Marxism in conjunction with Philip Pettit’s neo-republicanism: a reply to Gulshan Khan – Andreas Ottemo 14. Spectres of post-Marxism? Reassessing key post-Marxist texts – Stuart Sim 15. Reply: Spectres of post-Marxism? Reassessing key post-Marxist texts: a reply to Stuart Sim – Richard Howson 16. Forget populism! – Frank A. Stengel

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Book SynopsisThe 21st century has been characterized by great turbulence, climate change, a global pandemic, and democratic decay. Drawing on post-structural political theory, this book explores two dominant concepts used to make sense of our disturbed reality: the state and the network. The book explains how they are inextricably interwoven, while showing why they complicate the way we interpret our present. In seeking a better understanding of today’s world, this book argues that we need to pull apart the familiar lines of our maps. By looking beneath and across these lines, an ‘unmapping’ presents new insights and opportunities for a better future.Trade Review"Michelsen and Bolt’s argument casts a new light on our perception of politics and world order through time and space, and the book certainly deserves close attention." Aleksandra Spalińska, University of Warsaw, Poland for International AffairsTable of ContentsChapter 1: Taking the Lines off the Map Chapter 2: A Great Unmapping Chapter 3: Capitalism and Imperialism Chapter 4: Thinking Like a State Chapter 5: Bureaucracy and Power Chapter 6: The Battle Swarm Chapter 7: Information and the State Chapter 8: Romance of Networks Chapter 9: Borders and Impermanence Conclusion

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Book SynopsisIn a time of great gloom and doom internationally and of major global problems, this book offers an invaluable contribution to our understanding of alternative societies that could be better for humans and the environment. Bringing together a wide range of approaches and new strands of economic and social thinking from across the US, Mexico, Latin America, Europe, Asia, Middle East and Africa, Luke Martell critically assesses contemporary alternatives and shows the ways forward with a convincing argument of pluralist socialism. Presenting a much-needed introduction to the debate on alternatives to capitalism, this ambitious book is not about how things are but how they can be!Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Alternative Economies 2. Social Alternatives 3. Utopianism and its Critics 4. Socialism and its Critics 5. The Democratic Economy 6. Alternative Globalization Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThis insightful account demonstrates that capitalism in China has a history and a geography, and combines perspectives from both to demonstrate that regional economic restructuring in South China is far from an economic 'miracle's. Find out more information about the RGS-IBG journals by following the links below: AREA: http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=0004-0894 The Geographical Journal: http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=0016-7398 Transactions of the Insititute of British Geographers: http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=0020-2754Trade Review"Relying on a wide grounding in the historical literature as well as a specialist's sense of spatial history, [Cartier] offers nuanced, often fascinating portraits of South China's economic and cultural dynamism." Choice "The book has broken new ground in promoting the study and understanding of urban and regional development and also China study. With the meticulous evaluation of research materials under the contextualist approach, Globalizing South China exhibits a high standard of scholarship and intellectual sophistication." Journal of Oriental StudiesTable of ContentsList of Plates. List of Figures and Tables. List of Maps. Series Editors' Preface. Preface. Chapter 1 Negotiating Geographical Knowledges. Chapter 2 Region and Representation. Chapter 3 Maritime Frontier/Mercantile Region. Chapter 4 Open Ports and the Treaty System. Chapter 5 Revolution and Diaspora. Chapter 6 Gendered Industrialization. Chapter 7 Zone Fever. Chapter 8 Urban Triumphant. Epilogue. References. Index.

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Book SynopsisThis insightful account demonstrates that capitalism in China has a history and a geography, and combines perspectives from both to demonstrate that regional economic restructuring in South China is far from an economic 'miracle's. Find out more information about the RGS-IBG journals by following the links below: AREA: http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=0004-0894 The Geographical Journal: http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=0016-7398 Transactions of the Insititute of British Geographers: http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=0020-2754Trade Review"Relying on a wide grounding in the historical literature as well as a specialist's sense of spatial history, [Cartier] offers nuanced, often fascinating portraits of South China's economic and cultural dynamism." Choice "The book has broken new ground in promoting the study and understanding of urban and regional development and also China study. With the meticulous evaluation of research materials under the contextualist approach, Globalizing South China exhibits a high standard of scholarship and intellectual sophistication." Journal of Oriental StudiesTable of ContentsList of Plates. List of Figures and Tables. List of Maps. Series Editors' Preface. Preface. Chapter 1 Negotiating Geographical Knowledges. Chapter 2 Region and Representation. Chapter 3 Maritime Frontier/Mercantile Region. Chapter 4 Open Ports and the Treaty System. Chapter 5 Revolution and Diaspora. Chapter 6 Gendered Industrialization. Chapter 7 Zone Fever. Chapter 8 Urban Triumphant. Epilogue. References. Index.

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Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive work on globalization within the context of sustainable development initiatives in Africa. Few studies of globalization have analyzed its impact on African societies from the viewpoint of sustainable development. This volume answers that need. The essays here contribute to the store of knowledge about globalization in sub-Saharan Africa by documenting the affect of this global force on the continent's growth -- economic, political, and cultural. This interdisciplinary collection provides comprehensive analyses at the international, national, andlocal levels of the theoretical issues revolving around the complex process of globalization, while offering detailed examinations of new models of economic development that can be implemented in sub-Saharan Africa to enhance economic growth, self-sufficiency, and sustainable development. These models are accessible to politicians, public policy analysts, scholars, students, international organizations, nongovernmental actors, and members of the public atlarge. Finally, the essays here provide insightful case studies of African countries that already demonstrate creative, indigenous-based models of entrepreneurship and discuss efforts to achieve sustainable development and economic independence at the grassroots level. Contributors represent the disciplines of law, history, political science, economics, sociology, anthropology, business and management, African studies and art history, criminal justice, and education. Bessie House-Soremekun is the Public Scholar in African American Studies, Civic Engagement, and Entrepreneurship, Professor of Political Science and Professor of Africana Studies at Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis. Toyin Falola is the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities and University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin.Trade ReviewThe chapters are well written and topical, and they offer a good introduction to both current and traditional issues concerning African development. * CHOICE *

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Book SynopsisThe politics of the past must be rethought. They were designed for a world where the U.S. manufactured at home, and where portions of U.S.-based labor had traded social stability for high wages. In this thought-provoking work, David Ranney shows how our world has changed and offers a plan for remaking progressive politics to meet the crises brought about by what George H. W. Bush first termed "the new world order. "Drawing from his experiences in Chicago politics, first as a factory worker and later as an activist and academic, Ranney shows how the increasing mobility of capital, the easy availability of credit, and a changing government policies have reshaped the urban world where U.S. workers live their everyday lives. This is not the story of the interconnectedness of modern business, but rather the need for self-respecting people who bring home a weekly paycheck to see the common, global problems they face, and to work together to bring about meaningful change.Showing how globalization has led to specific local consequences for cities and the workers that inhabit them, David Ranney presents a means for taking stock of the effects of globalization; a look at these changes in labor markets; economic development politics; housing policy; and employment policies; and an organizing strategy for this new economic and social era.Trade Review"Global Decisions, Local Collisions is a solid, well-written, and well-substantiated argument with a number of case studies on topics of major interest. [It] adds new analysis that makes a real and important contribution."—Peter Marcuse, author of Globalizing Cities and Of States and Cities"Ranney's book should be of considerable interest and use to scholars working in the urban political economy and on the local impacts of the processes of global economic reorganization. His descriptions are lucid and well-argued. His most original contribution comes in deepening and advancing a sophisticated theoretical understanding of these processes through examination of the Chicago cases. This he does masterfully, and in doing so, makes what I believe will be a significant contribution to the debate."—Adolph Reed, Jr., Professor of Political Science, Graduate Faculty, New School for Social Research"This is an important book. The author brings to bear finely honed analytic skills and a command of the secondary literature combined with hands-on research and, crucially, a discussion of his own experiences as a worker in Chicago and as a political activist to understand the nature of the New World Order."—SAGE Race Relations Abastracts"[It] is a timely and important book. It resonates with contemporary debates and discussions in academia and beyond about the effect of global level changes on everyday life....it is an impressive and thoughtful addition to our understanding of the collusion of government policies and capital mobility in transforming people's lives."—Work and Occupations, February 2004"In his valuable recent book... Ranney provides a clear critique of investor-rights globalization, a lucid analysis of how it touches everyday lives, and offers sensible democratic alternatives to the specter of overwhelming corporate domination."—Z Magazine"This book contains some informative case studies."—The Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare"The significance of this book for globalization readers and activists is that the author does a superb job of linking the forces unleashed in a global world to struggles or collisions that one finds locally. The author's career is unique in that his perspective combines the insights of an academic with the instincts of one who has been engaged on the front line as a labor organizer and critic of global economic policy."—Policy Research Action Group (pdf)"...this book is an important study that should be of interest to scholars and professionals such as planners and economists working in the fields of political economy and community development. It makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of the impact of globalization on our communities."—Journal of the American Planning AssociationTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsTimeline1. Introduction2. Philosophical Perspectives3. The Evolution of a New World Order4. Manufacturing Collapses in Chicago5. The New World Order and Local Government: Chicago Politics and Economic Development6. Where Will Poor People Live?7. Jobs, Wages, and Trade in the New World Order8. Organizing to Combat the New World Order9. Implications and DirectionsNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisThe United States, the People's Republic of China, and Taiwan have danced on the knife's edge of war for more than seventy years. A work of sweeping historical vision, A World of Turmoil offers case studies of five critical moments: the end of World War II and the start of the Long Cold War; the almost-nuclear war over the Quemoy Islands in 1954-1955; the detente, deceptions, and denials surrounding the 1972 Shanghai Communique; the Taiwan Strait Crisis of 1995-1996; and the rise of postcolonial nationalism in contemporary Taiwan.Diagnosing the communication dispositions that structured these events reveals that leaders in all three nations have fallen back on crippling stereotypes and self-serving denials in their diplomacy. The first communication-based study of its kind, this book merges history, rhetorical criticism, and advocacy in a tour de force of international scholarship. By mapping the history of miscommunication between the United States, China, and Taiwan, this provocative study shows where and how our entwined relationships have gone wrong, clearing the way for renewed dialogue, enhanced trust, and new understandings.

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Book SynopsisDigital platforms are changing the rules of competition in the global economy. Until recently, it took Fortune 500 companies an average of 20 years to reach billion-dollar market valuations. Successful platforms now reach that milestone in an average of four years. In The Platform Paradox: How Digital Businesses Succeed in an Ever-Changing Global Marketplace, Wharton professor Mauro F. Guillén highlights a key incongruity in this new world. Most platforms considered to be successful have triumphed in only some, rather than all, parts of the world. There are very few truly global digital platforms. In more than three decades of studying multinational firms, Guillén has found they often misunderstand key aspects of what it takes to succeed globally, from culture and institutions to local competitive dynamics and pursuing markets in a logical sequence. Seeing multibillion-dollar companies like Amazon flounder in certain markets has led Guillén to research what it takes to create a successful global strategy. In The Platform Paradox, Guillén details: How the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated digitization and forced companies like Airbnb to pivot and adapt; How platforms like Tinder and Uber have used local advantages to grow rapidly in different countries; How traditional companies have transformed themselves into digital platforms, like Lego undertaking a digital revolution to emerge from bankruptcy and become the "Apple of toys"; and The possibilities and limits to global expansion, as illustrated by companies like Zoom and Skype. In The Platform Paradox, Guillén offers an integrated framework for these platforms to identify and implement a digital platform strategy on a truly global scale.Trade Review"Mauro Guillén's latest release, The Platform Paradox, offers a clear course of action for the digital age. As Guillén so effectively argues, digital platforms must understand network effects to be successful on a global basis—and the entire business community must transform to meet the demands of our increasingly digital economy." * William P. Lauder, Executive Chairman, The Estée Lauder Companies *

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Book SynopsisTennyson S. D. Joseph builds upon current research on the anticolonial and nationalist experience in the Caribbean. He explores the impact of global transformation upon the independent experience of St. Lucia and argues that the island's formal decolonization roughly coincided with the period of the rise of global neoliberalism hegemony. Consequently, the concept of ""limited sovereignty"" became the defining feature of St. Lucia's understanding of the possibilities of independence. Central to the analysis is the tension between the role of the state as a facilitator of domestic aspirations on one hand and a facilitator of global capital on the other. Joseph examines six critical phases in the St. Lucian experience. The first is 1940 to 1970, when the early nationalist movement gradually occupied state power within a framework of limited self-government. The second period is 1970 to 1982 during which formal independence was attained and an attempt at socialist-oriented radical nationalism was pursued by the St. Lucia Labor Party. The third distinctive period was the period of neoliberal hegemony, 1982-1990. The fourth period (1990-1997) witnessed a heightened process of neoliberal adjustment in global trade which destroyed the banana industry and transformed the domestic political economy. A later period (1997-2006) involved the SLP's return to political power, resulting in tensions between an earlier radicalism and a new and contradictory accommodation to global neoliberalism. The final period (2006-2010) coincides with the onset of a crisis in global neoliberalism during which a series of domestic conflicts reflected the contradictions of the dominant understanding of sovereignty in narrow, materialist terms at the expense of its wider antisystematic, progressive, and emancipator connotations.

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Book SynopsisThis edited book is the first full-length volume exclusively devoted to new research on the challenges and practices of teaching global issues. It addresses the ways that schools can and do address young people’s interest and activism in contemporary global issues facing the world. Many young people today are passionate about issues such as climate change, world poverty, and human rights but have few opportunities in schools to study such issues in depth. This book draws on new research to provide a deeper understanding and examples of how global issues are taught in schools.The book is organized in two sections: (1) contexts and policies in which global issues are taught and learned; and (2) case studies of teaching and learning global issues in schools. The central thesis is that global issues are an essential feature of democracy and social action in a world caught in the thrall of globalization. Schools can no longer afford to ignore teaching about issues impacting across the world if they intend to keep young people engaged in learning and want them to make their own communities—and the greater world—better places for all.

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Book SynopsisTo disrupt current polarization and tribalism, and meet the growing demands of globalization, organizations and communities must evolve. Such profound transformation begins with developing leaders who are prepared to create inclusion in boardrooms, classrooms, hospitals, communities, and beyond.Through the lens of her own story of immigrating from Iran to the United States and her experience leading diversity programs in health care and education, Dr. Helen Fagan presents a challenging discussion of the research along with a frank, intimate look at the very hard work leaders must do at an individual level to overcome personal obstacles to inclusion.Becoming Inclusive reveals the systemic problems of organizational bias and prejudice and shows university students, instructors, organizational and government leaders a path forward. This work seeks to fill the gap in the management, leadership and diversity field of work that focuses on the need to transform the mindsets of individual leaders from tribal to global, in order to address the big issues facing humanity.

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Book SynopsisTo disrupt current polarization and tribalism, and meet the growing demands of globalization, organizations and communities must evolve. Such profound transformation begins with developing leaders who are prepared to create inclusion in boardrooms, classrooms, hospitals, communities, and beyond.Through the lens of her own story of immigrating from Iran to the United States and her experience leading diversity programs in health care and education, Dr. Helen Fagan presents a challenging discussion of the research along with a frank, intimate look at the very hard work leaders must do at an individual level to overcome personal obstacles to inclusion.Becoming Inclusive reveals the systemic problems of organizational bias and prejudice and shows university students, instructors, organizational and government leaders a path forward. This work seeks to fill the gap in the management, leadership and diversity field of work that focuses on the need to transform the mindsets of individual leaders from tribal to global, in order to address the big issues facing humanity.

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Book SynopsisGlobalization and Education: Teaching, Learning and Leading in the World Schoolhouse explores the various ways educators' work is influenced by globalization. This book presents topics and contexts traditionally marginalized in mainstream education research discourses and shows how local and global education issues are intersecting and shaping the ways in which ideas and practices are shared around the world. Each chapter presents an educational issue in an understudied international context, such as Saudi Arabia, Guyana, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Indonesia, Brazil, and Nepal. Topics range from how the knowledge industry shapes education in schools to the impact of globalization on school leadership, teaching, and learning. We invite scholars and practitioners to join us in the world schoolhouse, a place where discussion about educational understanding and improvement is not bounded by national borders, school systems or language. This book will both challenge and expand thinking about the complexities of education during a time of globalization and change.

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Book SynopsisGlobalization and Education: Teaching, Learning and Leading in the World Schoolhouse explores the various ways educators' work is influenced by globalization. This book presents topics and contexts traditionally marginalized in mainstream education research discourses and shows how local and global education issues are intersecting and shaping the ways in which ideas and practices are shared around the world. Each chapter presents an educational issue in an understudied international context, such as Saudi Arabia, Guyana, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Indonesia, Brazil, and Nepal. Topics range from how the knowledge industry shapes education in schools to the impact of globalization on school leadership, teaching, and learning. We invite scholars and practitioners to join us in the world schoolhouse, a place where discussion about educational understanding and improvement is not bounded by national borders, school systems or language. This book will both challenge and expand thinking about the complexities of education during a time of globalization and change.

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Book SynopsisGlobalization is changing what citizens need to know and be able to do by interrupting the assumption that the actions of citizens only take place within national borders. If our neighborhoods and nations are affecting and being affected by the world, then our political consciousness must be worldminded. The outcomes of globalization have led educators to rethink what students need to learn and be able to do as citizens in a globally connected world.This volume focuses on research that examines how K-12 teachers and students are currently addressing the challenge of becoming citizens in a globally interconnected world. Although there is an extensive body of literature on citizenship education within national contexts and a growing literature on global education, this volume offers research on the work educators are doing across multiple countries to bring the two fields together to develop global citizens.

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Book SynopsisGlobalization is changing what citizens need to know and be able to do by interrupting the assumption that the actions of citizens only take place within national borders. If our neighborhoods and nations are affecting and being affected by the world, then our political consciousness must be worldminded. The outcomes of globalization have led educators to rethink what students need to learn and be able to do as citizens in a globally connected world.This volume focuses on research that examines how K-12 teachers and students are currently addressing the challenge of becoming citizens in a globally interconnected world. Although there is an extensive body of literature on citizenship education within national contexts and a growing literature on global education, this volume offers research on the work educators are doing across multiple countries to bring the two fields together to develop global citizens.

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Book SynopsisThe book examines the effects of education in creating global citizens who share a world culture. This occurs within an international system that still remains decentralized, composed of independent nation-states as major actors. Prof. Kamens argues that as globalization intensifies, this system of nation-states becomes more saturated and dense with structure. Intensified globalization has produced a world society, thanks to the spread of global capitalism, education, democracy and bureaucracy. The upshot is that world culture travels quickly and produces 'recipes' for the development of an 'imagined community' that has increasing commonalities across societies. The book examines the role of education in diffusing such attitudes and models, as global citizens confront national institutions.Table of ContentsDedication. Acknowledgments. Introduction. Chapter 1 The World Polity and Political Culture. Chapter 2 “Knowledge Societies,” Agency, and New Actors. Chapter 3 Individualism and its Institutional Consequences. Chapter 4 States Without Nations: Reconstructing Society. Chapter 5 Modernity and Changing Patterns of Intolerance. Chapter 6 New Models of Nationhood and Citizenship. Chapter 7 “Global Citizens” and National Institutions. Chapter 8 New Polities, New Standards for Political Elites. Chapter 9 The Construction of Public Opinion. Chapter 10 The Media: The Decline of Credibility and Elite Control. Chapter 11 The Future of Nationhood. Appendices. References. Beyond the Nation-State. Research in Sociology of Education. Research in Sociology of Education. Copyright page.

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Book SynopsisSince 1945 the UN has failed to prevent 162 wars and the proliferation of nuclear weapons, and there is talk of a Third World War involving the Middle East, the Baltic states and North Korea. Competing nation-states seem powerless to achieve world peace under the UN. Continuing a tradition that began with the 1945 atomic bombs, Nicholas Hagger follows Truman, Einstein, Churchill, Eisenhower, Gandhi, Russell, J.F. Kennedy and Gorbachev in calling for a democratic, partly-federal World State with sufficient authority to abolish war, enforce disarmament, combat famine, disease and poverty, and solve the world’s financial and environmental problems. In World State Hagger sets out the historical background and the failure of the current political order of nation-states. He presents the ideal World State - its seven federal goals, its structure and the benefits it would bring - and sets out a manifesto that would turn the UN General Assembly into an elected lower house of a democratic World State.

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Book SynopsisThis timely book presents practical applications of modern economic theories to trade, transaction costs and institutions within both business and governmental realms. Frank A.G. den Butter explains the importance and means of keeping transaction costs as low as possible. He illustrates how this transaction management can contribute to making firms and nations more competitive by exploiting gains from the division of labour and international fragmentation of production, and uses relevant case studies to illustrate how value is created by reducing transaction costs. Policy recommendations for strengthening the competitive position of trading nations and reducing implementation costs of government policy are presented, and management methods for creating value in organizing production on a global scale are prescribed. A wide-ranging audience encompassing economists in academia, government and business; managers in industry and government; and students of economics, business and globalization will find this book to be a crucial reference tool.Table of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Introduction 2. Specialization and Coordination 3. Empirics of the Hub Function of Transaction Economies 4. Transaction Cost Economics 5. The Transition from Production to Orchestration 6. Transaction Costs as Determinants of Trade Flows 7. Standards 8. Innovation through Transaction Management 9. Government Intervention and Transaction Management 10. Transaction Management and the Implementation of Government Policy 11. Conclusion References Index

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Book SynopsisThis comprehensive book provides a collection of the critical papers that have been published in the fast-growing field of the globalization of higher education. They include work by a variety of noted scholars, such as Altbach, Clark and Marginson, which cover key areas of theoretical and substantive interest. This volume, along with an original introduction, will be of relevance to academics, researchers and students undertaking higher education research, as well as to the wider social science and public policy communities.Trade Review‘Globalization represents one of the most compelling themes in modern higher education studies. This volume brings together a collection of the most thoughtful contributions over the last 15 years. Simon Marginson, himself the leading scholar in the field, provides a masterly introduction which will stand as a defining analysis of the importance of understanding its impact on higher education policies at all levels, local, national and international.’ Table of ContentsContents: Acknowledgements Introduction Simon Marginson on behalf of the editors 1. Philip G. Altbach (2004), ‘Globalisation and the University: Myths and Realities in an Unequal World’ 2. Philip G. Altbach (2003), ‘Centers and Peripheries in the Academic Profession: The Special Challenges of Developing Countries’ 3. Eric Beerkens and Marijk Derwende (2007), ‘The Paradox in International Cooperation: Institutionally Embedded Universities in a Global Environment’ 4. Burton R. Clark (1998), ‘The Entrepreneurial University; Demand and Response’ 5. Rosemary Deem (2001), ‘Globalisation, New Managerialism, Academic Capitalism and Entrepreneurialism in Universities: Is the Local Dimension Still Important?’] 6. David D. Dill and Maarja Soo (2005), ‘Academic Quality, League Tables, and Public Policy: A Cross-National Analysis of University Ranking Systems’ 7. Jürgen Enders and Egbert de Weert (2004), ‘Science, Training and Career: Changing Modes of Knowledge Production and Labour Markets’ 8. Ewan Ferlie, Christine Musselin and Gianluca Andresani (2008), ‘The Steering of Higher Education Systems: A Public Management Perspective’ 9. Ellen Hazelkorn (2008), ‘Learning to Live with League Tables and Ranking: The Experience of Institutional Leaders’ 10. Mary Henkel (2005), ‘Academic Identity and Autonomy in a Changing Policy Environment’ 11. Nia Cai Liu and Ying Cheng (2005), ‘The Academic Ranking of World Universities’ 12. Kathryn Mohrman, Wanhua Ma and David Baker (2008), ‘The Research University in Transition: The Emerging Global Model’ 13. Christine Musselin (2005), ‘European Academic Labor Markets in Transition’ 14. Roger Patrick King (2007), ‘Governance and Accountability in the Higher Education Regulatory State’ 15. Simon Marginson (2011), ‘Higher Education in East Asia and Singapore: Rise of the Confucian Model’ 16. Simon Marginson (2008), ‘Global Fields and Global Imagining: Bourdieu and Worldwide Higher Education’ 17. Simon Marginson (2007), ‘The Public/Private Divide in Higher Education: A Global Revision’ 18. Simon Marginson (2006), ‘Dynamics of National and Global Competition in Higher Education’ 19. Simon Marginson and Gary Rhoades (2002), ‘Beyond National States, Markets, and Systems of Higher Education: A Glonacal Agency Heuristic’ 20. Tristan McCowan (2007), ‘Expansion Without Equity: An Analysis of Current Policy on Access to Higher Education in Brazil’ 21. Rajani Naidoo (2010), ‘Global Learning in a NeoLiberal Age: Implications for Development’ 22. Rajani Naidoo (2004), ‘Fields and Institutional Strategy: Bourdieu on the Relationship Between Higher Education, Inequality and Society’ 23. Richard R. Nelson (2004), ‘The Market Economy, and the Scientific Commons’ 24. Susan L. Robertson (2010), ‘The EU, “Regulatory State Regionalism” and New Modes of Higher Education Governance’ 25. Peter Scott (1998), ‘Massification, Internationalization and Globalization’ 26. Amartya Sen (1999), ‘Global Justice: Beyond International Equity’ 27. Ravinder Sidhu (2009), ‘The “Brand Name” Research University goes Global’ 28. Mala Singh (2001), ‘Re-Inserting the “Public Good” into Higher Education Transformation’ 29. Joseph E. Stiglitz (1999), ‘Knowledge as a Global Public Good’ 30. Ulrich Teichler (2004), ‘The Changing Debate on the Internationalisation of Higher Education’ 31. Elaine Unterhalter (2006), ‘New Times and New Vocabularies: Theorising and Evaluating Gender Equality in Commonwealth Higher Education’ 32. J. Välimaa (2004), ‘Nationalisation, Localisation and Globalisation in Finnish Higher Education’ 33. Jussi Välimaa and Marcila Mollis (2004), ‘The Social Functions of Evaluation in Argentine and Finnish Higher Education’ 34. Frans van Vught (2008), ‘Mission Diversity and Reputation in Higher Education’ 35. Marijk van der Wende (2008), ‘Rankings and Classifications in Higher Education: A European Perspective’ 36. Susan Wright (2004), ‘Markets, Corporations, Consumers? New Landscapes of Higher Education’ 37. Qiang Zha (2009), ‘Diversification or Homogenization: How Governments and Markets have Combined to (Re) Shape Chinese Higher Education in its Recent Massification Process’

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Book SynopsisThis original book is a unique and original in-depth study on how, in the past decade, Chinese State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) have achieved technological innovation in the large infrastructure sectors. It reveals a “new world” of Chinese innovation, showing that SOEs are willing to innovate and are also more than capable of doing so.Based on findings from first-hand data and years of observations, this book shows how the innovation ecosystem perspective incentivises and facilitates Chinese SOEs’ innovation and highlights the entrepreneurial role of the government. Using the examples of UHV Power Transmission, mobile telecommunication standards, high-speed trains, and nuclear electric power, the book exhibits the complex determinants of SOEs’ success in radical technological innovations within the large infrastructure sector. Chapters also demonstrate the innovation process of SOEs, the unique innovation model of China, as well as its advantages and disadvantages.Catch-Up and Radical Innovation in Chinese State-Owned Enterprises will be a useful resource for academics in research disciplines such as development studies, innovation and entrepreneurship, and Chinese studies. It will also aid entrepreneurs, businesses and managers who intend to collaborate with Chinese SOEs, to better understand the trends of SOEs’ engagement in radical innovation and the potential opportunities for broadening their international collaborations.Trade Review‘This book provides a unique and insightful analysis of innovation in China’s state-owned enterprises. It is a must read for those who are interested in innovation in China’s state owned sector, an important player in the Chinese economy.’ -- - Xiaolan Fu, University of Oxford, UK‘Xielin Liu has written an important book that challenges head-on the popular wisdom about state-owned enterprises and innovation. Liu presents valuable new case study material to argue that state firms in China anchor an overall ecology of innovation, providing essential inputs and market support for innovative activity among many private and public firms. Anyone seriously concerned with innovation in China needs to consider his argument.’ -- - Barry Naughton, University of California, US‘Observers of China’s innovation capabilities commonly minimize the role of state owned enterprises (SOEs). In this intriguing new work, three seasoned scholars of innovation challenge this view. Based on case studies of four key infrastructure technologies, they demonstrate that an innovation system led by entrepreneurial state officials, with access to reformed research institutions, and faced with demanding national challenges, can produce an effective innovation ecosystem. The study is an important contribution to our understanding of China’s technological trajector.’ -- - Richard P. Suttmeier, Professor Emeritus, University of Oregon, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. State-owned enterprise, government, and the innovation ecosystem 2. Formation of the dual innovation systems in China 3. State Grid and user-driven innovation: the case of ultra-high voltage power transmission 4. TD-SCDMA, LTE-TDD, and China Mobile: catch-up and innovation in the Chinese telecommunications industry 5. China’s high-speed train dream: CSR Group and the state-led innovation ecosystem 6. The CGN and engineering innovation in nuclear power 7. Revisiting SOEs’ innovation in the large infrastructure sector Index

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Book SynopsisIn democracies, the attitudes and behaviour of citizens should influence future public policies. Yet in some instances the reverse of this is true, and public attitudes and behaviour are in fact the result of past policies. Staffan Kumlin and Isabelle Stadelmann-Steffen bring together political scientists and sociologists from different and frequently separated research communities to examine policy feedback in European welfare states. In doing so, they offer a rich menu of methodological approaches. The book demonstrates how long-term policy legacies and short-term policy changes affect the public, but also shows that such processes are contingent on individual characteristics and political context.This comprehensive study will appeal to academics interested in political behaviour and attitudes, or in welfare state policy and its consequences for national societies and economies. It will also be of value to policy intellectuals and activists involved in the politics of the welfare state.Trade Review‘Welfare states do indeed shape the democratic public, but they do it in highly contingent and contextually dependent ways. This is the main message from this meticulously researched and lucidly presented volume. By showing how and under what conditions policy feedback takes place it makes a major contribution to the welfare state literature. A must-read for any scholar in the field.’ -- Stefan Svallfors, Umeå University, Sweden‘Every chapter of this book is full of rigorous research and interesting results, and its contents should be carefully absorbed by any policy-maker contemplating a transition from means-tested to universal benefits.’ -- Citizens Income‘This crucial volume significantly advances the study of policy feedbacks. With contributions from many subfields and methodological approaches, it offers both sophisticated theorizing and new empirical examples that show how policies make politics in a variety of ways. Innovative research designs provide more convincing inference than ever. And the normative questions engaged about welfare performance, evaluation, participation, and accountability could not be more important or timely in this era of austerity and discord over the future of welfare states.’ -- Andrea Louise Campbell, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USTable of ContentsContents: PART I: INTRODUCTION 1. Citizens, Policy Feedback, and European Welfare States Staffan Kumlin and Isabelle Stadelmann-Steffen PART II: PARTICIPATION AND INVOLVEMENT 2. Empowering Cuts? Austerity Policies and Political Involvement in Spain Jordi Muñoz, Eva Anduiza and Guillem Rico 3. How Welfare States Shape Participatory Patterns Jennifer Shore 4. Varieties of Capitalism, Education and Inequalities in Political Participation Marius Busemeyer and Achim Goerres PART III: VOTING BEHAVIOUR AND ELECTIONS 5. Structuring the Vote: Welfare Institutions and Value Based Vote Choices Jane Gingrich 6. Labour Market Policies and Party Preferences of Fixed-term Workers Paul Marx and Georg Picot 7. The Electoral Consequences of Reforming a Bismarckian Welfare State Christoph Arndt 8. Waking up the Giant? Hospital Closures and Electoral Punishment in Sweden Anders Lindbom PART IV: ATTITUDES AND EVALUATIONS 9. Policy Feedback in Political Context: Unemployment Benefits, Elections Campaigns, and Democratic Satisfaction Staffan Kumlin 10. Social Policy, Legitimation and Diverging Regional Paths in Belgium Claire Dupuy and Virginie van Ingelgom 11. Raising the Retirement Age: Retrenchment, Feedback and Attitudes Elias Naumann 12. Popular Deservingness of the Unemployed in the Context of Welfare State Policies, Economic Conditions and Cultural Climate Wim van Oorschot and Bart Meuleman 13. How Proximate and Visible Policies Shape Self-interest, Satisfaction and Spending Support: The Case of Public Service Production Troels Fage Hedegaard and Christian Albrekt Larsen 14. Informed Performance Evaluation of the Welfare State? Experimental and Real-world Findings Staffan Kumlin PART V: CONCLUSIONS 15. How Welfare States Shape the Democratic Public: Borrowing Strength across Research Communities Staffan Kumlin and Isabelle Stadelmann-Steffen

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Book SynopsisResearch Handbook on the Globalization of Chinese Firms provides an eclectic collection of essays and articles on the state of affairs in the Asia Pacific, with special emphasis on China. It is an essential read for students of the Chinese economy and business environments, covering topics as diverse as industrial innovation, trade, FDI, productivity, value chain, international business, finance, human resources, accounting, information technology and governance. Chinese management leaders as well as researchers of international business can benefit from its insights.'- Ilan Alon, Rollins College and Harvard University, USThis comprehensive research Handbook encompasses an expansive range of perspectives on the globalization process of Chinese firms.Eminent global scholars provide contributions on a variety of topics, including:- industrial innovation- technological innovation and learning- the performance of Chinese international joint ventures- the global consumer- foreign direct investment (FDI) including barriers to FDI and FDI in China s hinterland areas- the globalization of Chinese business practices in Africa- the human resource management transfer process- corporate information disclosure in China's stock market- the home employment effect.In addition, regional economic integration, transportation costs and the national government's role in globalization are also explored.This innovative Handbook is perfect for scholars wishing to conduct research in China on some of the topics contained in the book, together with academics specializing in globalization or international management.Contributors: S.C. Berning, C. Cheng, D. Dahai, H.K. Hin, C.H. Hofmeister, D. Holtbrügge, L. Huiqun, Z. Jingqi, L. Jinyong, C.C. Julian, X. Junquin, X. Li, Y. Li, L. Lin, Q. Liu, G. Mapunda, D.N. McArthur, T. Meng, S. Moxi, T. Ran, Y. Rong, R.L.Schill, L. Tang, W. Wei, H. Xiaohong, T. Xiaowen, L. Yun, Y. Zhang, Y. ZhangTrade Review‘Research Handbook on the Globalization of Chinese Firms provides an eclectic collection of essays on the state of affairs in the Asia Pacific, with special emphasis on China. It is an essential read for students of the Chinese economy and business environments, covering topics as diverse as industrial innovation, trade, FDI, productivity, value chains, international business, finance, human resources, accounting, information technology and governance. Chinese management leaders as well as researchers of international business can benefit from its insights.’ -- Ilan Alon, Rollins College and Harvard University, USTable of ContentsContents: 1. Industrial Innovation in Chinese Firms Li Yu and Zhang Yanming 2. Transportation Costs as a Barrier to Globalization for Nine Asian Countries Including China Junqian Xu and Craig C. Julian 3. China’s Foreign Direct Investment across the U.S. Chen Cheng and Xiaohong He 4. Global Optimal Values of Enterprise Cluster Fitness for Chinese Firms Tang Linjia and Lin Li 5. Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) Productivity in China Xiaowen Tian, Moxi Song and Ran Tian 6. An African Perspective of the Globalization of Chinese Business Practices Gido Mapunda 7. The National Government’s Role in Chinese Outward Foreign Direct Investment Dirk Hotbrügge and Sue Claire Berning 8. Risk and Return of Mezzanine Debt Yun Li and Ho Kim Hin 9. The Consumer's Role in Globalization and Management Innovation Meng Tao, Dong Dahai and Zhang Yuan 10. HR strategy and practices in Chinese Multinational Companies Jingqi Zhu and William Wei 11. Economic Globalization and Regional Economic Integration in China Rong Yizhong 12. Corporate Information Disclosure Internalities in China's Stock Market Li Xiang and Liu Qijie 13. The Home-Country Employment Effect of Transnational Corporations Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in China Huiqun Liu and Jinyong Lu 14. The Empirical Link between Innovation, Learning and Performance in Chinese International Joint Ventures Craig C. Julian and Junqian Xu 15. Barriers to Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in China's Hinterland Areas Clemens H. Hofmeister 16. Reconciling Differing Models of the Business: A Key Step in the Transfer of Production Technology into China’s Export-Led Economy David N. Macarthur and Ronald L. Schill Index

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Book SynopsisGlobalization raises important questions about the governing capacity of domestic institutions. In Globalization and Governance, Jon Pierre studies the impact of international norms and prescriptions on domestic governance in Japan, Sweden and the United States.The empirical analysis is focused on economic governance, administrative reform and intergovernmental relationships. Drawing on survey data, documents and interviews, the analysis finds that domestic institutions still intrinsically shape domestic governance. International norms towards deregulation and market-based administrative reform confront domestic institutions with prescriptions for reform but the three countries provide only very few examples of unmitigated domestic implementation. What Jon Pierre calls 'the microfoundations of globalization'-the assessment, adoption or rejection of international norms and ideas in vogue-is a complex process where domestic institutions and path dependencies remain at the helm. The most important exception to this pattern is governance during financial crises where countries are dependent on conditioned support from transnational institutions.This insightful and informative book will appeal to researchers, academics, post-graduate, as well as undergraduate, students in governance, political economy and international relations.Contents: 1. Globalization and the State 2. Globalization and Domestic Governance 3. Still Governing the Economy? Economic Governance 4. Cities and Regions in a Globalized World: Inter-Governmental Relationships 5. Modernizing the State: Administrative Reform 6. Conclusions: Domestic Governance in a Globalizing World References IndexTrade Review‘To pun, Pierre brings globalization down to earth. After all the hype, he serves as an experienced and trustworthy guide to the key question of how far nation states are “forced” to follow global trends. His answers are nuanced, well-evidenced, and thought-provoking. This should find a place on many reading lists.’ -- Christopher Pollitt, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium'Jon Pierre's Globalization and Governance takes on perhaps the most significant question in international political economy: to what extent have nations governance structures been determined and shaped by the recent great forces of globalization? In an ingenious analytical tour de force, he looks at how three very different democracies, Japan, Sweden, and the U.S., have dealt with the economy, intergovernmental relationships, and administrative reform when confronted by globalization trends. His conclusion is a masterful, elegant and convincing argument that boils down to ''somewhat, but not as much as you (or many other theorists) might think''. This is an important, sophisticated and ground-breaking book about the interstices of international and domestic policymaking and political economy that challenges the conventional wisdom. Is there any better kind in the study of governance?' -- Ellis Krauss, University of California, San Diego'Globalization and Governance makes a compelling case that domestic political economies can cope creatively, distinctly, and effectively with exogenous pressures for change. However compelling and homogenizing global forces may appear to be, the book shows that Sweden, Japan and the United States continue to demonstrate an overwhelming resilience by entrenched domestic patterns plus powerful learning and adaptive capabilities. This book is a welcome addition to the ongoing debates about globalization; it is full of insights for specialists in both comparative politics and international relations.' -- T.J. Pempel, University of California, BerkeleyTable of ContentsContents: 1. Globalization and the State 2. Globalization and Domestic Governance 3. Still Governing the Economy? Economic Governance 4. Cities and Regions in a Globalized World: Inter-Governmental Relationships 5. Modernizing the State: Administrative Reform 6. Conclusions: Domestic Governance in a Globalizing World References Index

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Book SynopsisThis unique book compares the effects of globalization on two differing Latin American countries, Argentina and Chile, while utilizing both the historical lens of the late nineteenth century and the status of the modern economy to draw its conclusions.Focusing on these two eras of globalization, leading business historians based in Europe, Latin America, and the United States examine the impact of multinationals, the growth of business groups, and the conflicted relations between business and government. Specifically, this book provides a compelling new historical perspective on current economic and political crises in Argentina and Chile. The contributors offer a pioneering comparative study of the complex and non-linear impact of globalization, and the evolution of business systems in the two neighboring countries. They draw on literature which had previously only been available in Spanish, setting this book apart from its competitors.The Impact of Globalization on Argentina and Chile will be a valuable resource for economic and business historians, Latin Americanists, and management scholars who research and teach international business and globalization.Contributors: M.I. Barbero, M. Bucheli, G. Islas, G. Jones, N.S. Lanciotti, A. Lluch, A. López, R.M. Miller, O. Muñoz, J.V. OlivaresTrade Review‘This multidisciplinary collection of essays provides a comprehensive and vivid picture of the transformation of the business system in Argentina and Chile during the so-called globalisation waves in the nineteenth and twentieth century. It is indeed an important contribution to the business history literature.’ -- Beatriz Rodriguez-Satizabal, Business History'This book offers a new window to view and to understand the two waves of globalization that have swept the world in the last century and a half. By exploring the evolution and key role of business groups and multinationals in Argentina and Chile over the long haul, it helps to explain the changing strategies of entrepreneurs and companies required to navigate the challenges of deep shifts in Latin American politics and economics from the past to the present.' --Carlos Marichal, El Colegio de México'The authors of the chapters in Geoffrey Jones and Andrea Lluch's book make a unique contribution to the business history literature in their comparison of domestic and foreign business enterprises in two countries, Argentina and Chile. Their volume, which covers the period from the mid-19th century to the present, adds new riches to our understanding of how different types of businesses evolved within these neighboring nations. It prompts questions (and includes some answers) on why the differences. Students of the history of the world economy, Latin America, and Argentina and Chile will greatly enjoy this volume, finding much of interest and food for thought.' --Mira Wilkins, Florida International University, USTable of ContentsContents: Introduction Geoffrey Jones and Andrea Lluch 1. Business Groups in 19th and 20th Century Argentina Maria Inés Barbero 2. Corporate Governance and Ownership in Chile, 1854 -2012 Gonzalo Islas 3. Multinationals, Business Groups and Chile’s Energy Politics Marcelo Bucheli 4. Multinational Enterprises in Argentina: From Primary Commodity Exporter to the New Liberal Era Andrés López 5. Spanish Business in Argentina and Chile since 1880 Javier Vidal Olivares 6. Staffing and Management in British MNEs in Argentina and Chile, 1930-1970 Rory M. Miller 7. From a Guaranteeing State to an Entrepreneurial State: The Relationship between Argentina’s State and Urban Utility Companies, 1880-1955 Norma Silvana Lanciotti 8. Public-Private Relationships in Chile after 1990 Oscar Muñoz 9. Argentine and Chilean Business in the Second Global Economy Geoffrey Jones and Andrea Lluch Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisResearch Handbook on the Globalization of Chinese Firms provides an eclectic collection of essays and articles on the state of affairs in the Asia Pacific, with special emphasis on China. It is an essential read for students of the Chinese economy and business environments, covering topics as diverse as industrial innovation, trade, FDI, productivity, value chain, international business, finance, human resources, accounting, information technology and governance. Chinese management leaders as well as researchers of international business can benefit from its insights.'- Ilan Alon, Rollins College and Harvard University, USThis comprehensive research Handbook encompasses an expansive range of perspectives on the globalization process of Chinese firms.Eminent global scholars provide contributions on a variety of topics, including:- industrial innovation- technological innovation and learning- the performance of Chinese international joint ventures- the global consumer- foreign direct investment (FDI) including barriers to FDI and FDI in China s hinterland areas- the globalization of Chinese business practices in Africa- the human resource management transfer process- corporate information disclosure in China's stock market- the home employment effect.In addition, regional economic integration, transportation costs and the national government's role in globalization are also explored.This innovative Handbook is perfect for scholars wishing to conduct research in China on some of the topics contained in the book, together with academics specializing in globalization or international management.Contributors: S.C. Berning, C. Cheng, D. Dahai, H.K. Hin, C.H. Hofmeister, D. Holtbrügge, L. Huiqun, Z. Jingqi, L. Jinyong, C.C. Julian, X. Junquin, X. Li, Y. Li, L. Lin, Q. Liu, G. Mapunda, D.N. McArthur, T. Meng, S. Moxi, T. Ran, Y. Rong, R.L.Schill, L. Tang, W. Wei, H. Xiaohong, T. Xiaowen, L. Yun, Y. Zhang, Y. ZhangTrade Review‘Research Handbook on the Globalization of Chinese Firms provides an eclectic collection of essays on the state of affairs in the Asia Pacific, with special emphasis on China. It is an essential read for students of the Chinese economy and business environments, covering topics as diverse as industrial innovation, trade, FDI, productivity, value chains, international business, finance, human resources, accounting, information technology and governance. Chinese management leaders as well as researchers of international business can benefit from its insights.’ -- Ilan Alon, Rollins College and Harvard University, USTable of ContentsContents: 1. Industrial Innovation in Chinese Firms Li Yu and Zhang Yanming 2. Transportation Costs as a Barrier to Globalization for Nine Asian Countries Including China Junqian Xu and Craig C. Julian 3. China’s Foreign Direct Investment across the U.S. Chen Cheng and Xiaohong He 4. Global Optimal Values of Enterprise Cluster Fitness for Chinese Firms Tang Linjia and Lin Li 5. Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) Productivity in China Xiaowen Tian, Moxi Song and Ran Tian 6. An African Perspective of the Globalization of Chinese Business Practices Gido Mapunda 7. The National Government’s Role in Chinese Outward Foreign Direct Investment Dirk Hotbrügge and Sue Claire Berning 8. Risk and Return of Mezzanine Debt Yun Li and Ho Kim Hin 9. The Consumer's Role in Globalization and Management Innovation Meng Tao, Dong Dahai and Zhang Yuan 10. HR strategy and practices in Chinese Multinational Companies Jingqi Zhu and William Wei 11. Economic Globalization and Regional Economic Integration in China Rong Yizhong 12. Corporate Information Disclosure Internalities in China's Stock Market Li Xiang and Liu Qijie 13. The Home-Country Employment Effect of Transnational Corporations Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in China Huiqun Liu and Jinyong Lu 14. The Empirical Link between Innovation, Learning and Performance in Chinese International Joint Ventures Craig C. Julian and Junqian Xu 15. Barriers to Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in China's Hinterland Areas Clemens H. Hofmeister 16. Reconciling Differing Models of the Business: A Key Step in the Transfer of Production Technology into China’s Export-Led Economy David N. Macarthur and Ronald L. Schill Index

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Book SynopsisThere could hardly be a more appropriate time in world history to be revisiting the issues of globalisation and democracy. After almost two centuries of what might be regarded as globalisation in the current usage of the term, has fallen into disrepute. Voters have used the ballot box to reject both the concept of globalisation and the mainstream parties that promoted it. The UK voted to leave the EU, in the 2016 'Brexit' referendum, and the US elected Donald Trump as President. This three-volume collection brings together the key writings on globalisation and democracy exploring the progression of globalisation as well as themes such as employment, international trade, technology and the environment amongst other important issues. This collection provides both scholarly and lay readers an opportunity to analyze how globalisation has impacted the world we live in today.Trade Review‘This collection provides both scholarly and lay readers an opportunity to analyze how globalization has impacted the world we live in today.’ -- Development JournalTable of ContentsContents: Acknowledgements Research Review Jonathan Michie PART I WHERE ARE WE AND HOW DID WE GET HERE? 1. Ha-Joon Chang (2011), ‘Kicking Away The Ladder – Globalisation and Economic Development in Historical Perspective’, in Jonathan Michie (ed.), Handbook of Globalisation, Chapter 24, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 465–74 2. Joel Bakan (2015), ‘The Invisible Hand of Law: Private Regulation and the Rule of Law’, Cornell International Law Journal, 48 (2), Spring, 279–300 3. François Bourguignon and Christian Morrisson (2002), ‘Inequality Among World Citizens: 1820–1992’, American Economic Review, 92 (4), September, 727–44 4. Richard E. Baldwin and Philippe Martin (1999), ‘Two Waves of Globalisation: Superficial Similarities, Fundamental Differences’, National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series, W6904, 1–33 5. Bob Sutcliffe and Andrew Glyn (2011), ‘Measures of Globalisation and their Misinterpretation’ in Jonathan Michie (ed.), Handbook of Globalisation, Chapter 4, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 87–103 PART II GLOBALISATION, GROWTH AND EMPLOYMENT 6. John H. Dunning (1973), ‘The Determinants of International Production’, Oxford Economic Papers, 25 (3), November, 289–336 7. Luis A. Rivera–Batiz and Paul M. Romer (1991), ‘Economic Integration and Endogenous Growth’, Quarterly Journal of Economics , 106 (2), May, 531–55 8. Dani Rodrik (1997), ‘Has Globalization Gone Too Far?’, California Management Review, 39 (3), Spring, 29–53 9. Jeffrey Henderson, Peter Dicken, Martin Hess, Neil Coe and Henry Wai–Chung Yeung (2002), ‘Global Production Networks and the Analysis of Economic Development’, Review of International Political Economy, 9 (3), August, 436–64 10. Axel Dreher (2006), ‘Does Globalization Affect Growth? Evidence from a New Index of Globalization’, Applied Economics, 38 (10), 1091–110 11. Jonathan Michie, Christine Oughton and Antonello Zanfei (2002), ‘Globalization, Growth and Employment’, Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics, 13 (1–3), January, 1–11 12. Jonathan Michie, Christine Oughton and Matias Ramirez (2002), ‘Globalisation and Economic Performance’, Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics, 13 (1–3), January, 165–83 PART III TRANSNATIONAL CORPORATIONS 13. Gerald Epstein (2011), ‘The Role and Control of Multinational Corporations in the World Economy’, in Jonathan Michie (ed.), Handbook of Globalisation, Chapter 9, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 185–99 14. Elissa Braunstein (2011), ‘Foreign Direct Investment and Development from a Gender Perspective’, in Jonathan Michie (ed.), Handbook of Globalisation, Chapter 10, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 200–11 PART IV INTERNATIONAL TRADE 15. Raymond Vernon (1966), ‘International Investment and International Trade in the Product Cycle’, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 80 (2), May, 190–207 16. Paul R. Krugman (1979), ‘Increasing Returns, Monopolistic Competition and International Trade’, Journal of International Economics, 9 (4), November, 469–79 17. John Gerard Ruggie (1982), ‘International Regimes, Transactions, and Change: Embedded Liberalism in the Postwar Economic Order’, International Organization, 36 (2), Spring, 379–415 18. Michael Kitson and Jonathan Michie (1995), ‘Conflict, Cooperation and Change: The Political Economy of Trade and Trade Policy’, Review of International Political Economy, 2 (4), Autumn, 632–57 19. Jeffrey A. Frankel and David Romer (1999), ‘Does Trade Cause Growth?’, American Economic Review, 89 (3), June, 379–99 PART V GLOBALISATION AND TECHNOLOGY 20. Pari Patel and Keith Pavitt (1991), ‘Large Firms in the Production of the World’s Technology: An Important Case of “Non-Globalisation”’, Journal of International Business Studies, 22 (1), March, 1–21 21. Michael Storper (1992), ‘The Limits to Globalization: Technology Districts and International Trade’, Economic Geography, 68 (1), January, 60–93 22. Daniele Archibugi and Jonathan Michie (1995), ‘The Globalisation of Technology: A New Taxonomy’, Cambridge Journal of Economics, Special Issue: Technology and Innovation, 19 (1), February, 121–40 23. Pari Patel (1995), ‘Localised Production of Technology for Global Markets’, Cambridge Journal of Economics, Special Issue: Technology and Innovation, 19 (1), February, 141–53 24. John Cantwell (1995), ‘The Globalisation of Technology: What Remains of the Product Cycle Model?’, Cambridge Journal of Economics, Special Issue: Technology and Innovation, 19 (1), February, 155–74 25. Daniele Archibugi and Jonathan Michie (1997), ‘Technological Globalisation or National Systems of Innovation?’, Futures, 29 (2), March, 121–37 26. Jeremy Howells and Jonathan Michie (1998), ‘Technological Competitiveness in an International Arena’, International Journal of the Economics of Business, 5 (3), November, 279–93 27. Simona Iammarino and Jonathan Michie (1998), ‘The Scope of Technological Globalisation’, International Journal of the Economics of Business, 5 (3), November, 335–53 28. Pari Patel and Modesto Vega (1999), ‘Patterns of Internationalisation of Corporate Technology: Location vs. Home Country Advantages’, Research Policy, 28 (2–3), March, 145–55 29. Daniel Archibugi, Jeremy Howells and Jonathan Michie (1999), ‘Innovation Systems in a Global Economy’, Technology Analysis and Strategic Management, 11 (4), 527–39 Volume II Contents: Acknowledgements PART I GLOBALISATION AND DEVELOPMENT 1. Paul Krugman and Anthony J. Venables (1995), ‘Globalization and the Inequality of Nations’, Quarterly Journal of Economics, CX (4), November, 857–80 2. Rajneesh Narula and John H. Dunning (2000), ‘Industrial Development, Globalization and Multinational Enterprises: New Realities for Developing Countries’, Oxford Development Studies, 28 (2), 141–67 3. Guillermo A. Calvo and Enrique G. Mendoza (2000), ‘Rational Contagion and the Globalization of Securities Markets’, Journal of International Economics, 51 (1), June, 79–113 4. Raphael Kaplinsky (2000), ‘Globalisation and Unequalisation: What Can Be Learned from Value Chain Analysis?’, Journal of Development Studies, 37 (2), 117–46 5. Jonathan Michie (2002), ‘Foreign Direct Investment and Human Capital Enhancement in Developing Countries’, Competition and Change, 6 (4), December, 363–72 6. Allen J. Scott and Michael Storper (2003), ‘Regions, Globalization, Development’, Regional Studies, 37 (6–7), August/October, 579–93 7. David Dollar and Aart Kraay (2004), ‘Trade, Growth, and Poverty’, Economic Journal, 114 (493), February, F22–F49 8. Robert Hunter Wade (2004), ‘The Causes of Increasing World Poverty and Inequality: Why the Matthew Effect Prevails’, New Political Economy, 9 (2), June, 163–88 9. Helen V. Milner and Keiko Kubota (2005), ‘Why the Move to Free Trade? Democracy and Trade Policy in the Developing Countries’, International Organization, 59 (1), Winter, 107–43 10. Nita Rudra (2005), ‘Globalization and the Strengthening of Democracy in the Developing World’, American Journal of Political Science, 49 (4), October, 704–30 11. Eddy Lee and Marco Vivarelli (2006), ‘The Social Impact of Globalization in the Developing Countries’, International Labour Review, 145 (3), September, 167–84 12. Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg and Nina Pavcnik (2007), ‘Distributional Effects of Globalization in Developing Countries’, Journal of Economic Literature, XLV (1), March, 39–82 13. Margaret McMillan, Dani Rodrik and Íñigo Verduzco-Gallo (2014), ‘Globalization, Structural Change and Productivity Growth, with an Update on Africa’, World Development, 63, November, 11–32 PART II GLOBALISATION AND LABOUR STANDARDS 14. Ajit Singh and Ann Zammitt (2011), ‘Globalisation, Labour Standards and Economic Development’, in Jonathan Michie (ed.), Handbook of Globalisation, Chapter 12, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 230–56 15. Phillip Brown and Hugh Lauder (1996), ‘Education, Globalization and Economic Development’, Journal of Education Policy, 11 (1), 1–25 16. Eddy Lee (1997), ‘Globalization and Labour Standards: A Review of Issues’, International Labour Review, 136 (2), Summer, 173–89 17. Adrian Wood (1998), ‘Globalisation and the Rise in Labour Market Inequalities’, Economic Journal, 108 (450), September, 1463–82 PART III NATIONAL CASE STUDIES 18. Robert R. Kaufman and Alex Segura–Ubiergo (2001), ‘Globalization, Domestic Politics, and Social Spending in Latin America: A Time-Series Cross-Section Analysis, 1973–97’, World Politics, 53 (4), July, 553–87 19. Richard Florida (1997), ‘The Globalization of R&D: Results of a Survey of Foreign–Affiliated R&D Laboratories in the USA’, Research Policy, 26 (1), March, 85–103 20. Jonathan Michie and Vishnu Padayachee (1998), ‘Three Years after Apartheid: Growth, Employment and Redistribution?’, Cambridge Journal of Economics, 22 (5), September, 623–35 21. Gordon Redding and Antony Drew (2016), ‘Dealing with the Complexity of Causes of Societal Innovativeness: Social Enabling and Disabling Mechanisms and the Case of China’, Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics, 28 (2), 107–36 22. Bob Deacon (2000), ‘Eastern European Welfare States: The Impact of the Politics of Globalization’, Journal of European Social Policy, 10 (2), May, 146–61 PART IV INDUSTRY CASE STUDIES AND CORPORATE DIVERSITY 23. John Cantwell and Rajneesh Narula (2001), ‘The Eclectic Paradigm in the Global Economy’, International Journal of the Economics of Business, 8 (2), 155–72 24. Walter Kuemmerle (1999), ‘Foreign Direct Investment in Industrial Research in the Pharmaceutical and Electronics Industries – Results from a Survey of Multinational Firms’, Research Policy, 28 (2–3), March, 179–93 25. David Bailey, Alex de Ruyter, Jonathan Michie and Peter Tyler (2010), ‘Global Restructuring and the Auto Industry’, Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society: Global Restructuring and The Auto Industry, 3 (3), November, 311–8 26. Rhys Jenkins (2005), ‘Globalization, Corporate Social Responsibility and Poverty’, International Affairs, 81 (3), May, 525–40 27. Chris Rowley and Jonathan Michie (2014), ‘Differing Forms of Capital: Setting the Scene for Mutuality and Co-operation in the Asia Pacific Region’, Asia Pacific Business Review, 20 (3), 322–9 28 Jonathan Michie and Chris Rowley (2014), ‘Mutuality in the Asia Pacific Region’, Asia Pacific Business Review, 20 (3), 506–11 PART V GLOBALISATION AND THE ENVIRONMENT 29. Karen L. O’Brien and Robin M. Leichenko (2000), ‘Double Exposure: Assessing the Impacts of Climate Change Within the Context of Economic Globalization’, Global Environmental Change, 10 (3), October, 221–32 30. Clem Tisdell (2001), ‘Globalization and Sustainability: Environmental Kuznets Curve and the WTO’, Ecological Economics, 39 (2), November, 185–96 31. Petra Christmann and Glen Taylor (2001), ‘Globalization and the Environment: Determinants of Firm Self–Regulation in China’, Journal of International Business Studies, 32 (3), September, 439–58 32. Gene M. Grossman and Alan B. Krueger (1991), ‘Environmental Impacts of a North American Free Trade Agreement’, National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series, W3914, 1–55 33. Timothy J. Foxon, Jonathan Köhler, Jonathan Michie and Christine Oughton (2013), ‘Towards a New Complexity Economics for Sustainability’, Cambridge Journal of Economics, 37 (1), January, 187–208 Volume III Contents Acknowledgements PART I GLOBALISATION AND WELFARE 1. Duane Swank (1998), ‘Funding the Welfare State: Globalization and the Taxation of Business in Advanced Market Economies’, Political Studies, XLVI (4), September, 671–92 2. Elmar Rieger and Stephan Leibfried (1998), ‘Welfare State Limits to Globalization’, Politics and Society, 26 (3), September, 363–90 3. Torben Iversen and Thomas R. Cusack (2000), ‘The Causes of Welfare State Expansion: Deindustrialization or Globalization?’, World Politics, 52 (3), April, 313–49 4. Nita Rudra (2002), ‘Globalization and the Decline of the Welfare State in Less-Developed Countries’, International Organization, 56 (2), Spring, 411–45 5. Walter Korpi and Joakim Palme (2003), ‘New Politics and Class Politics in the Context of Austerity and Globalization: Welfare State Regress in 18 Countries, 1975–95’, American Political Science Review, 97 (3), August, 425–46 6. David Brady, Jason Beckfield and Martin Seeleib-Kaiser (2005), ‘Economic Globalization and the Welfare State in Affluent Democracies, 1975–2001’, American Sociological Review, 70 (6), December, 921–48 7. Reuven S. Avi-Yonah (2000), ‘Globalization, Tax Competition and the Fiscal Crisis of the Welfare State’, Harvard Law Review, 113 (7), May, 1573–676 PART II GLOBALISATION AND CULTURE 8. Jan Nederveen Pieterse (1994), ‘Globalisation as Hybridisation’, International Sociology, 9 (2), June, 161–84 9. Ronald Inglehart (2000), ‘Globalization and Postmodern Values’, Washington Quarterly, 23 (1), Winter, 215–28 10. David Harvey (2009), ‘The Art of Rent: Globalisation, Monopoly and the Commodification of Culture’, Socialist Register, 38, 93–110 PART III GLOBALISATION, DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE 11. Paul Hirst and Grahame Thompson (1992), ‘The Problem of ‘Globalization’: International Economic Relations, National Economic Management and the Formation of Trading Blocs’, Economy and Society, 21 (4), November, 357–96 12. Paul Hirst and Grahame Thompson (1994), ‘Globalization, Foreign Direct Investment and International Economic Governance’, Organization, 1 (2), October, 277–303 13. Dani Rodrik (1998), ‘Why do More Open Economies Have Bigger Governments?’, Journal of Political Economy, 106 (5), October, 997–1032 14. Peter Evans (1997), ‘The Eclipse of the State? Reflections on Stateness in an Era of Globalization’, World Politics, 50 (1), October, 62–87 15. Geoffrey Garrett (1996), ‘Global Markets and National Politics: Collision Course of Virtuous Circle?’, International Organization, 52 (4), Autumn, 787–824 16. Neil Brenner (1999), ‘Globalisation as Reterritorialisation: The Re-Scaling of Urban Governance in the European Union’, Urban Studies, 36 (3), March, 431–51 17. Donald F. Kettl (2000), ‘The Transformation of Governance: Globalization, Devolution and the Role of Government’, Public Administration Review, 60 (6), November/December, 488–97 18. Sidney Tarrow (2001), ‘Transnational Politics: Contention and Institutions in International Politics’, Annual Review of Political Science, 4 (1), June, 1–20 19. Quan Li and Rafael Reuveny (2003), ‘Economic Globalization and Democracy: An Empirical Analysis’, British Journal of Political Science, 33 (1), January, 29–54 and 54a–54c 20. Beth A. Simmons and Zachary Elkins (2004), ‘The Globalization of Liberalization: Policy Diffusion in the International Political Economy’, American Political Science Review, 98 (1), February, 171–89 21. Erik Swyngedouw (2004), ‘Globalisation or ‘Glocalisation’? Networks, Territories and Rescaling’, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 17 (1), April, 25–48 22. Francesco Giavazzi and Guido Tabellini (2005), ‘Economic and Political Liberalizations’, Journal of Monetary Economics, 52 (7), 1297–330 23. J. Ernesto López–Córdova and Christopher M. Meissner (2008), ‘The Impact of International Trade on Democracy: A Long-Run Perspective’, World Politics, 60 (4), July, 539–75 PART IV THE EUROPEAN UNION AND NAFTA 24. Philip Arestis and Malcolm Sawyer (2011), ‘European Integration and the ‘Euro Project’, in Jonathan Michie (ed.), Handbook of Globalisation, Chapter 15, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA; Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 313–23 25. Jim Stanford (2011), ‘The North American Free Trade Agreement: Context, Structure and Performance’, in Jonathan Michie (ed.), Handbook of Globalisation, Chapter 16, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA; Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 324–55 PART V THE FUTURE OF GLOBALISATION AND DEMOCRACY 26. Colin Hines (2011), ‘Time to Replace Globalisation with Localisation’, in Jonathan Michie (ed.), Handbook of Globalisation, Chapter 25, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 475–82 27. George DeMartino (2011), ‘Free Trade or Social Tariffs?’, in Jonathan Michie (ed.), Handbook of Globalisation, Chapter 26, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 483–94 28. Photis Lysandrou (2011), ‘Global Inequality and the Global Financial Crisis: The New Transmission Mechanism’, in Jonathan Michie (ed.), Handbook of Globalisation, Chapter 27, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 495–517 29. Geoffrey M. Hodgson (2011), ‘The Great Crash of 2008 and the Reform of Economics’, in Jonathan Michie (ed.), Handbook of Globalisation, Chapter 28, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, USA: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 518–37 Index

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Book SynopsisIn this important book, Kathy Pain and Gilles Van Hamme bring together a prestigious group of contributors to provide a systematic assessment of the dynamic, multi-scale network restructuring and spaces of flows associated with globalization that have shaped Europe's contemporary position in the world during the past decade.The book examines the changing relations of cities and regions in Europe in a global perspective both through its position in the international division of labour and in different types of networks and flows: trade of goods; advanced services and finance - stock exchange and office real estate investments; human; knowledge; and maritime - and considers how European territories are being unequally impacted by these trends. A distinctive feature of the research results presented is their specific empirical focus on the functional and economic relations of cities and regions in globalization and how these relate to territorial structures in a spatial context.Providing in-depth reflection on territorial policies in Europe in a global context and pointing to a basic contradiction between EU economic and spatial strategies to promote sustainable growth alongside socio-territorial equity, this volume will appeal to scholars, students and researchers with interests in urban and regional planning, spatial and economic development and globalization. It also has strong relevance for government policy makers at the state, regional and local levels, as well as professional practitioners in a wide variety of disciplines.Contributors: B. Derudder, C. Ducruet, M. Hoyler, O. Joly, V. Jurie, M. Le Cam, C. Lizieri, P. Medina Lockhart, A. Montanari, K. Pain, D. Pelckmans, Y. Richard, P. Roukova, M. Sainteville, B. Staniscia, P. Taylor, G. Van Hamme, S. Vinciguerra, P. Warda, I. WertzTable of ContentsContents: PART I: EXPLORING THE EUROPEAN SPACE IN A CHANGING GLOBAL CONTEXT 1. Theoretical and Methodological Challenges Kathy Pain and Gilles Van Hamme PART II: POSITIONING EUROPE IN THE WORLD 2. Europe as a Global Actor – Between Decline and Inconsistency Kathy Pain, Yann Richard and Gilles Van Hamme 3. European Countries and Regions in the International Division of Labour Pablo Medina-Lockhart, Poli Roukova, Gilles Van Hamme and Peter Warda 4. Europe and its Territories in Global Human Flows Armando Montanari and Barbara Staniscia PART III: ANALYZING EUROPE’S GLOBAL NETWORK RELATIONS 5. European Cities in Global Networks César Ducruet, Violaine Jurie, Marine Le Cam, Kathy Pain, Maude Sainteville, Sandra Vinciguerra, Gilles Van Hamme and Isaline Wertz 6. European Cities in Advanced Producer Services and Real Estate Capital Flows: A Dynamic Perspective Michael Hoyler, Colin Lizieri, Kathy Pain, Peter Taylor and Sandra Vinciguerra, Ben Derudder and Daan Pelckmans 7. European Stock Markets in the Arena of Financial Globalization Violaine Jurie and Maude Sainteville 8. Europe in Global Maritime Flows: Gateways, Forelands and Subnetworks César Ducruet, Olivier Joly and Marine Le Cam PART IV: FROM THE EUROPEAN SPACE OF FLOWS TO RESILIENT TERRITORIAL POLICY 9. Territorial Performance and Position in the Global Economy Kathy Pain, Gilles Van Hamme and Sandra Vinciguerra 10. Europe in the Global Economy – Policy at a Crossroads Kathy Pain and Gilles Van Hamme References

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