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Book SynopsisThis important book focuses on how newly emerging institutions for future generations can contribute to tackling large scale global environmental problems, such as threats to biodiversity and climate change. It is especially timely given the new global impetus for decarbonisation, as well as the huge growth of climate litigation and climate protest movements, often led by young people.Global environmental crises and reactions against short-term thinking have spawned new institutions aimed at giving a voice to future generations in policy-making, such as dedicated commissioners. This book looks at why we need such institutions using approaches from ethics, human rights, sustainable development, intergenerational justice and administrative law. How to design such institutions to maximise their effectiveness, operating principles for such institutions, and case studies from around the world are canvassed. A range of reform proposals are also explored, including mainstreaming future generations’ voices in parliamentary processes, commissioners for future generations, human rights-based bodies and deliberative assemblies.This collection brings together philosophers, political and social scientists, lawyers and practitioners. It provides both an introduction to the field and a scholarly in-depth set of studies. It will appeal to academics, policymakers and civil society.Trade Review‘Short-termism in policymaking is usually lamented as inexorable. We prioritize short-term policy outcomes, we often hear, because future generations are powerless. Giving Future Generations a Voice shows that it need not be so. Gathering specialists from various fields, it explores a range of institutions, from ombudspersons to citizens’ assemblies to sustainable development institutions, to better reflect future interests in present policies. It is an indispensable collection for anyone wishing to learn what grounds such institutions and how to make them work.’ -- Iñigo González Ricoy, University of Barcelona, Spain

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Book SynopsisThe Handbook on Governmentality discusses the development of an interdisciplinary field of research, focusing on Michel Foucault’s post-foundationalist concept of governmentality and the ways it has been used to write genealogies of modern states, the governance of societal problems and the governance of the self.Bringing together an international group of contributors, the Handbook examines major developments in debates on governmentality, as well as encouraging further research in areas such as climate change, decolonial politics, logistics, and populism. Chapters explore how governmentality reshapes policy analysis as political practice, the relationship between Foucault’s ideas of government and postcolonial experiences, and how governmentality can illuminate discourse on the green economy and biopolitics. Analysing how contemporary socio-political issues including feminist politics, migration, and racialized medicine are interwoven with the concept of governmentality, this Handbook sheds light on the modern-day uses of Foucault’s work.Providing a comprehensive overview of research on governmentality, this Handbook will be essential reading for students and scholars of development studies, geopolitics, political economy, organizational studies, political geography, postcolonial theory, and public policy. It will also be a key resource for policy makers in the field looking for a deeper theoretical understanding of the topic.Trade Review‘Nearly forty years after his death, governmentality remains Michel Foucault’s most elusive and productive theoretical concept; especially in generating interdisciplinary empirical scholarship. Now with its revelatory introductory chapter and powerhouse collection of leading contemporary scholars, Walters and Tazzioli's Handbook on Governmentality has demystified the topic and opened governmentality to a new generation of critical researchers across the social sciences and humanities.’ -- Jonathan Simon, University of California, Berkeley, US‘Governmentality has become a ubiquitous term in social and political theory. Stemming from Foucault, the concept has been stretched and even squeezed over the last years. This impressive Handbook lays the basis for a new season in governmentality studies, exploring new geographical and conceptual frontiers. An amazing achievement!’ -- Sandro Mezzadra, University of Bologna, ItalyTable of ContentsContents: Introduction to the Handbook on governmentality 1 William Walters and Martina Tazzioli PART I GOVERNMENTALITY: GENESIS, ENCOUNTER, TRANSFORMATION 1 Foucault, governmentality, and the techniques of the self 22 Daniele Lorenzini 2 The yoke of law and the lustre of glory: Foucault and Dumézil on sovereignty 38 Stuart Elden 3 Governmentalizing ‘policy studies’ 54 Carol Bacchi 4 Governmentality and international relations: critiques, challenges, genealogies 72 Hans-Martin Jaeger 5 Towards a postcolonial theory of crisis, neoliberal government, and biopolitics from below 94 Ranabir Samaddar PART II TALKING GOVERNMENTALITY 6 Governmentality: a conversation with Wendy Brown, Partha Chatterjee and Nikolas Rose 113 Wendy Brown, Partha Chatterjee, Nikolas Rose, Martina Tazzioli and William Walters 7 Governmentality and beyond: an interview with Colin Gordon 136 Colin Gordon, Martina Tazzioli and William Walters 8 Governmentality in translation: an interview with Graham Burchell 156 Graham Burchell, Martina Tazzioli and William Walters PART III GOVERNMENT AND ITS PROBLEMS 9 The neoliberal welfare state 174 Ian Alexander Lovering, Sahil Jai Dutta and Samuel Knafo 10 Governmentality and security: governing life-in-motion 187 Jef Huysmans 11 Secrecy beyond the state: governmentality, security and truth effects 208 Susanne Krasmann 12 Governmentality and the subject of rights 221 Ben Golder 13 Algorithmic governmentality: questions of method 235 Claudia Aradau 14 Logistical power 251 Brett Neilson 15 Governmentality and political ecology 266 Emanuele Leonardi and Luigi Pellizzoni PART IV GOVERNMENTALITY ACROSS NATIONS AND OTHER POLITICAL FORMATIONS 16 Diminishing life: racialized medicine, neoliberalism, and precarity in the United States 287 Jonathan Xavier Inda 17 French humanitarianism: governmentality and its limits 304 Miriam Ticktin 18 EUrope’s border ensemble and the disorder of migrant multiplicities 320 Maurice Stierl 19 Hukou and suzhi as technologies of governing citizenship and migration in China 335 Chenchen Zhang PART V GOVERNMENTALITY AND CONTESTATION 20 Feminist politics and neoliberal governmentality: from co-option to counter-conduct 353 Srila Roy 21 The practice of parrhēsia and the transformation of managerial governmentality 369 Richard Weiskopf 22 Countering governmentality: enacting diverging territorialities by former enslaved people in Cauca, Colombia (1849–1886) 389 Cristina Rojas 23 Insurgent politics: refugees, sans-papiers and deportees under asylum and migration laws 405 Clara Lecadet Index

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Book SynopsisThis innovative book proposes a new institutional arrangement for government to fulfil the needs of its citizens as well as possible. Existing aspects of federalism and direct democracy in Europe are strengthened, and as a result future developments arising in the region are coped with better.In this book Bruno Frey and Reiner Eichenberger propose a new model of federalism which includes new types of governmental units established by citizens from below. These units are called functional, overlapping and competing jurisdictions as they extend over task-specific areas and therefore overlap. They also provide competitive governance via direct and representative democratic institutions, and as jurisdictions they have independent power over taxation policy. This new model is more responsive to citizens' preferences and adjusts more dynamically to provide public services efficiently. The authors suggest that this new system should be allowed to develop in Europe to safeguard diversity and ensure that decentralization emerges effectively. It would also allow for the flexible integration of East European transition economies into the European Union and may also combine with traditional modes of government in developing countries.This book will be warmly welcomed by economists, political scientists and sociologists interested in the future of the European Union, by all those studying federal systems of government, and by those interested in the prospects for improving democratic institutions throughout the world.Trade Review'. . . this is a stimulating pioneer work. They should extend it and the rest of us should act as missionaries.' -- Gordon Tullock, Public Choice'. . . the authors not only provide an implicit discussion of the problems of the nation-state, but they also outline an alternative, with a defence of why and how it would work effectively. . . the book provokes thought and debate. It is a welcome creative addition to an already rich literature.' -- Journal of International Law and PoliticsTable of ContentsContents: Part I: The Idea 1. Functional, Overlapping and Competing Jurisdictions (FOCJ) 2. The Advantages of FOCJ 3. FOCJ Implemented 4. FOCJ Compared 5. Bastard FOCJ Part II: FOCJ for Europe 6. Federalism in Today’s Europe 7. FOCJ in Europe Part III: Beyond Europe 8. Europe and the World 9. FOCJ and Developing Countries 10. Conclusions

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Book SynopsisIn Nationhood and Political Theory, Margaret Canovan argues that universalist political theories unconsciously rely upon the collective power generated by national solidarity. By focusing on nationhood as a source of power, Dr Canovan's book obliges political theorists to face the dilemmas involved in reconciling particularist power bases with universal principles.Trade Review'The puzzle of national identity is explored illuminatingly by Margaret Canovan. . . . Political theorists have recently begun to take such issues seriously and this book is a welcome addition to the literature.'Table of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction 2. The Case Against Nationalism 3. Democratic Theory: Government by the People 4. Social Justice: Looking After our People 5. Liberal Universalism: A National Heritage? 6. What is a Nation? 7. Power from the People: Nationhood and Political Community 8. Nationhood, Patriotism and Universalism 9. Nationalism Versus Liberal Democracy 10. Nationhood and Political Theory Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThis new edition covers each of the current issues concerning the development of the EU - for example, enlargement, EMU, security and defence policy, the Treaty of Nice, the European Charter of Fundamental Rights, Justice and Home Affairs and relations with countries outside Europe. Jargon-free and accessible, this substantial textbook opens with an introduction to the historical and theoretical perspectives on European integration. The book then examines the EUs institutional machinery and policy processes. The final section provides a wide-ranging review of the main EU policies, seeking to enhance understanding of the main issues and controversies surrounding development of the EU.Intended for students undertaking courses in European integration and as a supplementary book for other courses, this textbook is useful for anyone seeking a concise yet authoritative introduction to the institutions and policies of the EU. Robert Jones has drawn on his wide teaching experience to produce a text which students will find both accessible and stimulating.Trade Review'Robert Jones' teaching experience. . . is reflected in this book which offers undergraduate students a concise yet accessible introduction to the European Union.' -- European AccessAcclaim for the first edition:'Jones has provided us with a clear and detailed book that represents an excellent first choice for those wishing to learn about and understand integration.' -- Political Geography'Jones manages to get a great deal into his 300 pages. . . The writing style is clear and concise, and complex questions like neofunctionalism and intergovernmentalism are rescued from the tortuous overtheorizing so often found in the field and presented simply as competing explanations. . . for a concise overview of the field, this book can be recommended highly.' -- Journal of European Integration/Revue d'integration Europeenne'This is an excellent basic introduction to the politics and economics of the European Union.' -- - Dennis Swann, Loughborough University, UK'This extensive and concise textbook is certain to become a staple and valuable reference source - particularly given its well organised bibliographical section - for students of European integration and those wishing to gain a detailed insight into the complexities of the present-day EU.' -- Adrian Reilly, Local Government Studies'Written in a direct accessible style, the book aims to provide students with an up-to-date introductory text to the European Union.' -- European AccessAcclaim for the second edition:'This is a superb and comprehensive textbook on the EU, an ideal introduction. It is a huge improvement on the first edition, which was already an outstanding text. Congratulations to Robert Jones and the publisher.' -- Simon Sweeney, York St John College, UKTable of ContentsContents: Part I: Perspectives on the European Union’s Development 1. The Origins and Development of the European Union 2. Theoretical Perspectives 3. The Treaty on European Union 4. The Treaties of Amsterdam and Nice Part II: Institutions, Policy Processes and the Budget 5. Institutions and Policy Processes 6. The Budget Part III: The Policies of the European Union 7. The Common Agricultural and Fisheries Policies 8. Regional Policy 9. Social Policy 10. Strategies for Economic Regeneration: From the Single Market to ‘e-Europe’ 11. Economic and Monetary Union 12. Competition, Industrial and Research and Technological Development Policies 13. Trans-European Networks 14. Environmental Policy 15. A ‘People’s Europe’ 16. Justice and Home Affairs Policy 17. The EU in the Global Economy 18. Development Policy 19. The Common Foreign and Security Policy 20. The Enlargement of the EU Bibliography and Internet Sources Index

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Book SynopsisThis new edition covers each of the current issues concerning the development of the EU - for example, enlargement, EMU, security and defence policy, the Treaty of Nice, the European Charter of Fundamental Rights, Justice and Home Affairs and relations with countries outside Europe. Jargon-free and accessible, this substantial textbook opens with an introduction to the historical and theoretical perspectives on European integration. The book then examines the EUs institutional machinery and policy processes. The final section provides a wide-ranging review of the main EU policies, seeking to enhance understanding of the main issues and controversies surrounding development of the EU.Intended for students undertaking courses in European integration and as a supplementary book for other courses, this textbook is useful for anyone seeking a concise yet authoritative introduction to the institutions and policies of the EU. Robert Jones has drawn on his wide teaching experience to produce a text which students will find both accessible and stimulating.Trade Review'Robert Jones' teaching experience. . . is reflected in this book which offers undergraduate students a concise yet accessible introduction to the European Union.' -- European AccessAcclaim for the first edition:'Jones has provided us with a clear and detailed book that represents an excellent first choice for those wishing to learn about and understand integration.' -- Political Geography'Jones manages to get a great deal into his 300 pages. . . The writing style is clear and concise, and complex questions like neofunctionalism and intergovernmentalism are rescued from the tortuous overtheorizing so often found in the field and presented simply as competing explanations. . . for a concise overview of the field, this book can be recommended highly.' -- Journal of European Integration/Revue d'integration Europeenne'This is an excellent basic introduction to the politics and economics of the European Union.' -- - Dennis Swann, Loughborough University, UK'This extensive and concise textbook is certain to become a staple and valuable reference source - particularly given its well organised bibliographical section - for students of European integration and those wishing to gain a detailed insight into the complexities of the present-day EU.' -- Adrian Reilly, Local Government Studies'Written in a direct accessible style, the book aims to provide students with an up-to-date introductory text to the European Union.' -- European AccessAcclaim for the second edition:'This is a superb and comprehensive textbook on the EU, an ideal introduction. It is a huge improvement on the first edition, which was already an outstanding text. Congratulations to Robert Jones and the publisher.' -- Simon Sweeney, York St John College, UKTable of ContentsContents: Part I: Perspectives on the European Union’s Development 1. The Origins and Development of the European Union 2. Theoretical Perspectives 3. The Treaty on European Union 4. The Treaties of Amsterdam and Nice Part II: Institutions, Policy Processes and the Budget 5. Institutions and Policy Processes 6. The Budget Part III: The Policies of the European Union 7. The Common Agricultural and Fisheries Policies 8. Regional Policy 9. Social Policy 10. Strategies for Economic Regeneration: From the Single Market to ‘e-Europe’ 11. Economic and Monetary Union 12. Competition, Industrial and Research and Technological Development Policies 13. Trans-European Networks 14. Environmental Policy 15. A ‘People’s Europe’ 16. Justice and Home Affairs Policy 17. The EU in the Global Economy 18. Development Policy 19. The Common Foreign and Security Policy 20. The Enlargement of the EU Bibliography and Internet Sources Index

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Book SynopsisWhat is the relationship between changes in modern states and the current practice of public administration, on the one hand, and recent developments in the sciences of administration on the other? The contributors to this unique book address this fundamental question by surveying the origins, evolution and the contemporary state-of-the-art of administrative sciences in Europe and the United States.A distinguished group of international authors presents the historical development of the study of administration in their respective countries and an analysis of how particular national approaches to the study of administration or 'the way of thinking' influences and are influenced by various national institutions. The authors make comparisons between each country and more generally between Europe and United States Public Administration. This book will introduce American audiences to the various European approaches to administrative sciences and vice versa, and Europeans to contemporary American public administration theory. For many American as well as European students in the field, this volume offers a unique comparison between the large, established field of research in the United States and more recent, less well known European administrative sciences.The Modern State and Its Study will be of great interest to scholars of public administration throughout the world. Practicing public administrators as well as new students of this field will find this volume to be a helpful survey of the current vast and rapidly growing body of public administration research on both Europe and the United States.Trade Review'. . . the highlight of the collection is a contribution by Stillman that connects the American study of public administration to an antistatist tradition. It is learned, lucid and provides a set of ideas that clarify the hotchpotch of the literature.' -- Grant Jordan, Public Administration and Development'Works that one can consult to learn about modern systems of public administration are not lacking, but none compare, in breadth and depth, with this collection of studies. Thus it is an unrivalled source of information for anyone seeking to learn about modern systems of public administration.' -- From the foreword by Dwight Waldo, Syracuse University, USTable of ContentsContents: Foreword: Modern Public Administration as Model and Portent Part I: Introduction 1. Introduction 2. The Waxing and Waning of the State and its Study: Changes and Challenges in the Study of Public Administration Part II: The United States 3. Public Administration in the United States Part III: Large European Countries 4. Public Administration in Etatist France 5. Administrative Science as Reform: German Public Administration 6. Public Administration in the United Kingdom: Living with an Identity Crisis? 7. Public Administration and Administrative Science in Spain Part IV: Smaller Continental European Countries 8. Expansion and Diversification of Public Administration in the Postwar Welfare State: The Case of the Netherlands 9. Between Anglo-Saxon Behavioralism and Continental Law: Scandinavian Public Administration 10. Switzerland: Emerging Administrative Sciences within Federalism and Direct Democracy Part V: Central and Eastern European Countries 11. Transitions in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland: Autonomy and Community among Nation States Part VI: Conclusion 12. American versus European Public Administration: Does Public Administration make the Modern State, or does the State make Public Administration? Index

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Book SynopsisApproaches focusing on ideological and cognitive factors to analyse public policy have moved to centre-stage in political science. This book presents the great variety of theoretical and empirical research on the role of ideas which has emerged in recent years.How can you quantify ideas? Ideas are objective entities, not conducive to empirical research. The appeal of this book lies in the juxtaposition of a careful exploration and discussion of the theories behind the role of ideas in policy making and policy areas, and their detailed contextualisation. Through carefully researched contemporary examples offering single country studies, comparative studies and examples from the European Union, these 'ideas' show themselves to be a double-edged sword. Ideas are revealed as both a societal and political resource, crucial to both promoting and inhibiting policy change.A clear understanding of the impact and influences of ideas on the crucial process of policy is essential to all political scientists and analysts of public policy, as well as individuals interested in the effects on policy decisions.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction Part I: A Theoretical Overview 1. Interests or Ideas? 2. From ‘Hooks’ to ‘Focal Points’ 3. The Power of Ideas in Policy Research Part II: Empirical Evidence 4. Replacing the Policy Paradigm 5. The Formation of the New Entrepreneurial State and Growth of Modern Management Consultancy 6. The Power of the Policy Narratives in the European Union 7. Ideas as Catalytic Elements for Policy Change 8. When Ideas Get in the Way of Reform 9. The Durability of Ideas in Health–Policy–Making 10. Negotiated Policy Change 11. A Reassessment of Public Policy and Political Ideas Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis outstanding collection spanning three decades comprises a superb selection of Charles R. Plott's work in experimental economics. Market Institutions and Price Discovery contains papers which define problems, create laboratory methodology and produce the first results in many areas of experimental economics.Primarily, the volume attempts to explain what is learned from applications of experimental methods, using examples taken from the first stages of the early experimental literature. It goes on to include the first applications of newly developed laboratory methods to matters of national policy, and progresses to examine institutions such as the posted price and to other more complex institutions including opportunities for conspiracy.The focus then shifts to explore the process through which markets find a price, and then discusses the double auction which has enabled experiments to be used to study more complex environments than the single market experiments that existed formerly. The principles of stability are then used in an attempt to learn more about the dynamics of how markets adjust.This pathbreaking volume will be of enormous interest to academics, scholars and researchers involved in experimental economics, the methodology of economics, political theory, and political economy.Trade Review'Charles R. Plott has a formidable armoury of experience backed up with an inquiring and rigorous intellect: an economist interested in getting clear answers to important questions. Before effectively becoming a full-time experimental economist, he enjoyed a fine reputation as a theorist in the area between political science and economics. By 1986 Plott had acquired a reputation as an insightful experimentalist - inspired and encouraged by Vernon Smith with whom he worked for a period before establishing his own experimental laboratory. Plott's contributions to the field of experimental economics are impressive. From 1981, since the Social Science Citation Index records begin, he has a total of 44 publications listed in this and related fields, many with co-authors who themselves are now established experimentalists. He has clearly stimulated a whole generation of economists into doing high quality experimental research. Many of these 44 papers are classics of their kind. The skill, energy and efficiency with which he operates is impressive.' -- John Hey, University of York, UK and University of Bari, ItalyTable of ContentsContents: Acknowledgements Introduction Part I: Introduction and Overviews Part II: Market Institutions, Facilitating Practices and Industrial Organization Part III: Nature of Equilibrium: Price Discovery, Expectations and Stability Index

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Book SynopsisInformation, Finance and General Equilibrium brings together the seminal papers on which Charles R. Plott has founded our understanding of experimental economics and political science.These works reflect the broad and overlapping nature of economics, public economics, public choice and political science. They examine the fundamental problem encountered in of all these subject areas - understanding the nature of allocation under conditions of limited resources and how decision processes, institutions and procedures shape these allocations.In particular, this volume contains papers placed at the two extremes of economic phenomena: the largest system and the smallest system - multiple markets and the individual. It contains the first evidence that multiple market systems can equilibrate to the general competitive equilibrium while allocating risk bearing and information. It is here that the experimental foundations for rational expectations models are discovered and developed. A challenging paradox results, which leads Plott to question why the behaviour of a system so complex as a multiple market system can be modelled so well when individuals can exhibit behaviours that are so at odds with the theory.This fascinating work, from a writer at the forefront of experimental economics, will be warmly welcomed by academics, scholars and researchers involved in experimental economics, the methodology of economics, political theory, and political economy.Trade Review'Charles R. Plott has a formidable armoury of experience backed up with an inquiring and rigorous intellect: an economist interested in getting clear answers to important questions. Before effectively becoming a full-time experimental economist, he enjoyed a fine reputation as a theorist in the area between political science and economics. By 1986 Plott had acquired a reputation as an insightful experimentalist - inspired and encouraged by Vernon Smith with whom he worked for a period before establishing his own experimental laboratory. Plott's contributions to the field of experimental economics are impressive. From 1981, since the Social Science Citation Index records begin, he has a total of 44 publications listed in this and related fields, many with co-authors who themselves are now established experimentalists. He has clearly stimulated a whole generation of economists into doing high quality experimental research. Many of these 44 papers are classics of their kind. The skill, energy and efficiency with which he operates is impressive.' -- John Hey, University of York, UK and University of Bari, ItalyTable of ContentsContents: Acknowledgements Introduction Part I: Introduction Part II: Information and Assets Part III: General Equilibrium Part IV: Individual Behavior in Systems Index

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Book SynopsisThis two-volume anthology contains many of the classic articles from the public choice/rational politics field and includes a new introduction prepared by the editor.Volume I is divided into four parts: The Nature of Democratic Government, Majority Rule, Other Voting Rules and Clubs and Local Politics. Volume II is divided into the following four parts: Representative Democracy, Bureaucracy, Political Business Cycles, and Democratic Dilemmas. Included are excerpts from such classic pieces as Buchanan and Tullock's Calculus of Consent, Downs's Economic Theory of Democracy, Olson's Logic of Collective Action and Niskanen's Bureaucracy and Representative Government, as well as articles by Coase, May, Black, McKelvey, Groves, Ledyard, Vernon Smith, Tiebout, Breton, Stigler, Romer, Rosenthal, Arrow, Sen, Satterthwaite, Gibbard and many more.Trade Review'. . . this new Elgar's collection of writings on public choice is a great monument to this new scientific area of economics. In addition, what makes it very useful is that the framework followed by Dennis Mueller reflects very closely the way he organised the contents of his volume on public choice, which makes these volumes a good complement to his landmark on the subject.' -- Domenico da Empoli, Journal of Public Finance and Public ChoiceTable of ContentsContents: Volume I Acknowledgements Introduction Dennis C. Mueller PART I THE NATURE OF DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT 1. Knut Wicksell (1896/1967), ‘The Principle of (Approximate) Unanimity and Voluntary Consent in Taxation’ 2. James M. Buchanan and Gordon Tullock (1962), ‘The Organization of Human Activity’ 3. James M. Buchanan (1975), ‘Constitutional Contract: The Theory of Law’ 4. James M. Buchanan (1954), ‘Individual Choice in Voting and the Market’ 5. James M. Buchanan (1965), ‘Ethical Rules, Expected Values, and Large Numbers’ 6. Mancur Olson, Jr. (1965/71), ‘A Theory of Groups and Organizations’ 7. Ronald Coase (1960), ‘The Problem of Social Cost’ 8. Carl J. Dahlman (1979), ‘The Problem of Externality’ PART II MAJORITY RULE 9. Kenneth O. May (1952), ‘A Set of Independent Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Simple Majority Decision’ 10. Douglas W. Rae (1969), ‘Decision-Rules and Individual Values in Constitutional Choice’ 11. Duncan Black (1948), ‘On the Rationale of Group Decision-Making’ 12. H.P. Young (1988), ‘Condorcet’s Theory of Voting’ 13. David Austen-Smith and Jeffrey S. Banks (1996), ‘Information Aggregation, Rationality, and the Condorcet Jury Theorem’ 14. Otto A. Davis, Morris H. DeGroot and Melvin J. Hinich (1972), ‘Social Preference Orderings and Majority Rule’ 15. Ted C. Bergstrom (1979), ‘When Does Majority Rule Supply Public Goods Efficiently?’ 16. Theodore C. Bergstrom and Robert P. Goodman (1973), ‘Private Demands for Public Goods’ 17. Gerald H. Kramer (1973), ‘On a Class of Equilibrium Conditions for Majority Rule’ 18. Peter Bernholz (1973), ‘Logrolling, Arrow Paradox and Cyclical Majorities’ 19. Thomas Stratmann (1992), ‘The Effects of Logrolling on Congressional Voting’ 20. Richard D. McKelvey (1976), ‘Intransitivities in Multidimensional Voting Models and Some Implications for Agenda Control’ PART III OTHER VOTING RULES 21. H.P. Young (1974), ‘An Axiomatization of Borda’s Rule’ 22. Steven J. Brams and Peter C. Fishburn (1978), ‘Approval Voting’ 23. E.A. Thompson (1966), ‘A Pareto Optimal Group Decision Process’ 24. Theodore Groves and John Ledyard (1977), ‘Optimal Allocation of Public Goods: A Solution to the "Free Rider" Problem’ 25. Vernon L. Smith (1977), ‘The Principle of Unanimity and Voluntary Consent in Social Choice’ 26. T. Nicolaus Tideman and Gordon Tullock (1976), ‘A New and Superior Process for Making Social Choices’ 27. Dennis C. Mueller (1978), ‘Voting by Veto’ 28. Hervé Moulin (1981), ‘Prudence versus Sophistication in Voting Strategy’ PART IV CLUBS AND LOCAL POLITICS 29. Charles M. Tiebout (1956), ‘A Pure Theory of Local Expenditures’ 30. Frank Flatters, Vernon Henderson and Peter Mieszkowski (1974), ‘Public Goods, Efficiency, and Regional Fiscal Equalization’ 31. Wallace E. Oates (1969), ‘The Effects of Property Taxes and Local Public Spending on Property Values: An Empirical Study of Tax Capitalization and the Tiebout Hypothesis’ 32. Wallace E. Oates and Robert M. Schwab (1988), ‘Economic Competition Among Jurisdictions: Efficiency Enhancing or Distortion Inducing?’ 33. James M. Buchanan (1965), ‘An Economic Theory of Clubs’ 34. Martin McGuire (1974), ‘Group Segregation and Optimal Jurisdictions’ 35. Mancur Olson, Jr. and Richard Zeckhauser (1966), ‘An Economic Theory of Alliances’ Name Index Volume II Acknowledgements An introduction by the editor to both volumes appears in Volume I PART I REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY 1. Anthony Downs (1957), ‘The Statics and Dynamics of Party Ideologies’ 2. Otto A. Davis, Melvin J. Hinich and Peter C. Ordeshook (1970), ‘An Expository Development of a Mathematical Model of the Electoral Process’ 3. Nicholas R. Miller (1980), ‘A New Solution Set for Tournaments and Majority Voting: Further Graph-Theoretical Approaches to the Theory of Voting’ 4. Nicholas R. Miller (1983), ‘The Covering Relation in Tournaments: Two Corrections’ 5. Peter Coughlin and Shmuel Nitzan (1981), ‘Electoral Outcomes with Probabilistic Voting and Nash Social Welfare Maxima’ 6. John O. Ledyard (1984), ‘The Pure Theory of Large Two-Candidate Elections’ 7. Albert Breton and Gianluigi Galeotti (1985), ‘Is Proportional Representation Always the Best Electoral Rule?’ 8. Norman Schofield (1987), ‘Stability of Coalition Governments in Western Europe: 1945–86’ PART II BUREAUCRACY 9. William A. Niskanen, Jr. (1971), ‘Budget and Output Behaviour’ 10. Jean-Luc Migué and Gérard Bélanger (1974), ‘Toward a General Theory of Managerial Discretion’ 11. Gary J. Miller and Terry M. Moe (1983), ‘Bureaucrats, Legislators, and the Size of Government’ 12. Thomas Romer and Howard Rosenthal (1979), ‘Bureaucrats Versus Voters: On the Political Economy of Resource Allocation by Direct Democracy’ 13. Barry R. Weingast and William J. Marshall (1988), ‘The Industrial Organization of Congress; or, Why Legislatures, Like Firms, Are Not Organized as Markets’ PART III POLITICAL BUSINESS CYCLES 14. Gerald H. Kramer (1971), ‘Short-Term Fluctuations in U.S. Voting Behavior, 1896–1964’ 15. George J. Stigler (1973), ‘General Economic Conditions and National Elections’ 16. William D. Nordhaus (1975), ‘The Political Business Cycle’ 17. Bennett T. McCallum (1978), ‘The Political Business Cycle: An Empirical Test’ 18. Bruno S. Frey and Friedrich Schneider (1978), ‘A Politico-Economic Model of the United Kingdom’ 19. Douglas A. Hibbs, Jr. (1982), ‘On the Demand for Economic Outcomes: Macroeconomic Performance and Mass Political Support in the United States, Great Britain, and Germany’ 20. Alberto Alesina (1987), ‘Macroeconomic Policy in a Two-Party System as a Repeated Game’ 21. Alberto Alesina and Nouriel Roubini (1992), ‘Political Cycles in OECD Economies’ PART IV DEMOCRATIC DILEMMAS 22. Kenneth J. Arrow (1950), ‘A Difficulty in the Concept of Social Welfare’ 23. James M. Buchanan (1954), ‘Social Choice, Democracy, and Free Markets’ 24. Mark Allen Satterthwaite (1975), ‘Strategy-Proofness and Arrow’s Conditions: Existence and Correspondence Theorems for Voting Procedures and Social Welfare Functions’ 25. Allan Gibbard (1973), ‘Manipulation of Voting Schemes: A General Result’ 26. Murray C. Kemp and Yew-Kwang Ng (1976), ‘On the Existence of Social Welfare Functions, Social Orderings and Social Decision Functions’ 27. Robert P. Parks (1976), ‘An Impossibility Theorem for Fixed Preferences: A Dictatorial Bergson-Samuelson Welfare Function’ 28. Amartya Sen (1970), ‘The Impossibility of a Paretian Liberal’ 29. Wulf Gaertner, Prasanta K. Pattanaik and Kotaro Suzumura (1992), ‘Individual Rights Revisited’ 30. Dennis C. Mueller (1974), ‘Achieving the Just Polity’ Name Index

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Book SynopsisFew social scientific concepts have gathered so much attention and so many followers in such a short period of time as the concept of social capital. The purpose of this authoritative volume is to review the foundations for this fast growing field.The selected articles embed the concept in core theoretical work in economics, political science, sociology, development theory, and philosophy. Topics include: contemporary conceptual and philosophical foundations; forms of social capital; and the relation of social capital to both development and democracy.This collection will provide an insightful reference source to students and researchers alike.Trade Review'Ostrom and Ahn do us the great service of bringing together a varied, rich array of central works on social capital, many of which have been relatively inaccessible. The idea of social capital is still very much a work in progress, as these contributions from a broad array of disciplines demonstrate. Having this collection available will help focus further development of that idea.' -- Russell Hardin, New York University and Stanford University, US'As theoretical paradigms develop, there comes a time when they need careful synthesis, deep reflection and wise criticism. It is now that time for the arguments regarding social capital. Political scientists are fortunate that a scholar as pre-eminent as Elinor Ostrom, and her able student T.K. Ahn, have taken the lead in undertaking this task. They have pulled together a fine collection of essays and added an insightful and pedagogically sound overview. The collection is likely to find its place in the book bags of all scholars concerned with the contributions of this literature to our discipline.' -- Joe Oppenheimer, University of Maryland, College Park, USTable of ContentsContents: Acknowledgements Introduction Elinor Ostrom and T.K. Ahn PART I FORERUNNERS 1. Alexis de Tocqueville ([1840] 1945), ‘Of the Use Which the Americans Make of Public Associations in Civil Life’, ‘Of the Relation between Public Associations and the Newspapers’, ‘Relation of Civil to Political Associations’, and ‘How the Americans Combat Individualism by the Principle of Self-Interest Rightly Understood’ 2. Lyda Judson Hanifan (1920), ‘Social Capital – Its Development and Use’ 3. Theodore W. Schultz (1961), ‘Investment in Human Capital’ 4. Jane Jacobs (1961), ‘The Uses of City Neighborhoods’ PART II CONTEMPORARY CONCEPTUAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATIONS 5. Mark S. Granovetter (1973), ‘The Strength of Weak Ties’ 6. Mark Granovetter (1985), ‘Economic Action and Social Structure: The Problem of Embeddedness’ 7. James S. Coleman (1987), ‘Norms as Social Capital’ 8. James S. Coleman (1988), ‘Social Capital in the Creation of Human Capital’ 9. Vincent Ostrom (1980), ‘Artisanship and Artifact’ PART III FORMS OF SOCIAL CAPITAL 10. Ronald S. Burt (1992), excerpt from ‘The Social Structure of Competition’ 11. Robert D. Putnam, Robert Leonardi and Raffaella Y. Nanetti (1993), ‘Social Capital and Institutional Success’ 12. Elinor Ostrom (1992), ‘Institutions as Rules-in-Use’ 13. Diego Gambetta (2000), ‘Can We Trust Trust?’ 14. Francis Fukuyama (2000), Social Capital and Civil Society 15. Partha Dasgupta (2002), ‘Social Capital and Economic Performance: Analytics’ [Revised and abridged version of: Partha Dasgupta (2000), ‘Economic Progress and the Idea of Social Capital’ PART IV SOCIAL CAPITAL AND DEVELOPMENT 16. Michael Woolcock (1998), ‘Social Capital and Economic Development: Toward a Theoretical Synthesis and Policy Framework’ 17. Francis Fukuyama (1995), ‘Social Capital and the Global Economy’ 18. Michael Woolcock and Deepa Narayan (2000), ‘Social Capital: Implications for Development Theory, Research, and Policy’ 19. Paul Collier and Jan Willem Gunning (1999), ‘Explaining African Economic Performance’ 20. Stephen Knack and Philip Keefer (1997), ‘Does Social Capital Have an Economic Payoff? A Cross-Country Investigation’ PART V SOCIAL CAPITAL AND DEMOCRACY 21. Robert D. Putnam (1993), ‘The Prosperous Community: Social Capital and Public Life’ 22. Robert D. Putnam (1995), ‘Tuning In, Tuning Out: The Strange Disappearance of Social Capital in America’ 23. John Brehm and Wendy Rahn (1997), ‘Individual-Level Evidence for the Causes and Consequences of Social Capital’ Name Index

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Book SynopsisDevelopments in Organizational Politics presents a comprehensive analysis of organizational politics and its meaning and application for employees and managers in modern worksites. Eran Vigoda suggests an integrative model that tries to explain how politics, and especially perceptions of politics, emerges, transforms and affects employees' performance and other work related outcomes in organizations. The analysis is based on empirical data collected over almost a decade of field studies. This data uses a variety of scientific methods to demonstrate how internal politics may be related to job attitudes, behavioral intentions as well as actual behaviors of employees. Special attention is given to non-profit organizations but analysis of businesses and private firms is also included.The book will be essential reading for academics and researchers from the fields of organizational behavior, human resource management and is also useful for practitioners who struggle through the barriers of power, influence and politics in the workplace.Trade Review'This book sheds light on the causes and consequences of political behavior conducted by civil servants in the public sector, as revealed by the author's series of studies. The book is quite exceptional by virtue of its fascinating topic, the population under consideration, and the multiplicity of research projects. Eran Vigoda contributes to our body of knowledge an integrative, empirically based, and theoretically framed account of organizational power and politics.' -- Yitzhak Samuel, University of Haifa, Israel'A most impressive book offering a comprehensive conceptual framework as well as a broad and thorough coverage of the organization politics literature to date combined with a detailed presentation of the author's own research work. Dr Vigoda insightfully clarifies the nature of organizational politics, its antecedents and outcomes, and presents a fresh and thorough discussion of the relations between organization politics and other organizational attitudes and behaviors. This is a highly recommended book for every student and scholar of organization behavior.' -- Amos Drory, Ben Gurion University, Israel'. . . The latest work from one of the emerging best and brightest. . .' -- Robert T. Golembiewski, The University of Georgia, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface Introduction to the Study of Organizational Politics 1. Political Behavior in Organizations: Between Perceptions and Implementations 2. Organizational Politics, Job Attitudes, and Work Outcomes 3. Organizational Politics, In-role Performance, and Organizational Citizenship Behavior 4. Organizational Politics and Job Distress 5. Cross-Cultural Perspectives of Organizational Politics 6. Organizational Politics in Virtual Work Sites and in a Global World 7. Summary and Implications: Interdisciplinary Reflections and New Directions Appendix 1: Measures Used in the Studies Appendix 2: Measuring Organizational Politics by the Perceptions of Organizational Politics Scale (POPS) Appendix 3: Measuring Organizational Politics by Influence Tactics Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA major contribution to the history of Parliament, to medieval English history, and to the study of the English constitution. ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW The rolls of parliament were the official records of the meetings of the English parliament from the reign of Edward I (1272-1307) until the reign of Henry VII (1485-1509), after which they were superseded by the journals of thelords, and, somewhat later, the commons. The nine parliaments held during the reign of Henry IV (1399-1413) witnessed some of the most dramatic encounters between king and commons of the middle ages, especially those of the first seven years of the reign. Principles which were to become staples of parliamentary debate, such as the demand for redress of grievances before grant of supply, insistence on the accountability to parliament of royal ministers, and the right of those who granted taxes to determine how they should be used (appropriation of supply) were openly demanded and to some extent conceded by the king. These demands reached a climax in the Long Parliament of 1406,which lasted for nine months, twice as long as any previous English parliament, and witnessed a prolonged stand-off between king and commons. The second half of the reign saw more docile parliaments, although the struggle betweenthe king and his son, the future Henry V, for control of the executive produced some dramatic parliamentary moments such as an attempt to force the king to abdicate. These early fifteenth-century parliaments also witnessed the passing of some extremely interesting social and religious legislation on matters such as heresy, law and order and the regulation of labour. The rolls from the period are reproduced in their entirely, complented by a full translation of all the texts from the three languages used by the medieval clerks (Latin, Anglo-Norman and Middle English). Chris Given-Wilson is Professor of Late Medieval History, University of St Andrews.

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Book SynopsisA major contribution to the history of Parliament, to medieval English history, and to the study of the English constitution. ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW The rolls of parliament were the official records of the meetings of the English parliament from the reign of Edward I (1272-1307) until the reign of Henry VII (1485-1509), after which they were superseded by the journals of thelords, and, somewhat later, the commons. This volume contains the only parliament of Richard III - an essential source for his accession in 1483 and for his response to the subsequent rebellion. Henry VII's assertion of his title in 1485 is strikingly different, as is his long act of resumption (a roll in itself) that reveals not only which Yorkist grants he was prepared to continue but also which early grants of his own he was willing to abandon. The1487 parliament shows the new regime continuing to try and establish itself in the face of continuing opposition. The rolls from the period are reproduced in their entirely, complemented by a full translation of all the texts from the three languages used by the medieval clerks (Latin, Anglo-Norman and Middle English). Dr Rosemary Horrox is Fellow and Director of Studies in History, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge.

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Book SynopsisFirst in-depth account of the role played by the Crown Agents in the growth of the colonies. The Crown Agents Office played a crucial role in colonial development. Acting in the United Kingdom as the commercial and financial agent for the crown colonies, the Agency supplied all non-locally manufactured stores required bycolonial governments, issued their London loans, managed their UK investments, and supervised the construction of their railways, harbours and other public works. In addition, the Office supervised the award of colonial land and mineral concessions, monitored the colonial banking and currency system, and performed a personnel role, paying colonial service salaries and pensions, recruiting technical officers, and arranging the transport of officers, troopsand Indian indentured labour. In this important book, the first in-depth investigation of the Agency, David Sunderland examines each of these services in turn, determining in each case whether the Crown Agents' performance benefited their clients, the UK economy or themselves. His book is thus both an account of a remarkable and unique organisation and a fascinating examination of the "nuts and bolts" of nineteenth-century development. David Sunderland is Reader in Business History, Greenwich University.Trade ReviewBased on a detailed reading of difficult archival material [this book] provides the first major account of the role and development of the Crown Agents. [It] makes a valuable addition to the historical literature in many different fields. These range from commercial, financial and business history to imperial, administrative and political history. As such it should be welcomed. * ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW *A great read. * THE OVERSEAS PENSIONER *Table of ContentsIntroduction The Office of the Crown Agents Supply monopoly and the purchase of goods Service provision: costs, delay, quality The department system of infrastructure construction Construction by contractor, private sector and public works Public loan issue The external finance safety net; monitoring the Crown Agents External finance, the remittance of funds and colonial investments after 1899 Concessions, currency and stamps The Crown Agents and personnel The enquiries of 1901 and 1908

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Book SynopsisShaykh Yusuf Yassin (18921962) marked the contemporary history of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in his capacity as a favorite advisor who was the founder monarchs confidential secretary, relentless envoy and chief foreign policy consultant. Born in Latakiyyah, Syria, Yassin earned the confidence of King Abdul Aziz bin Abdul Rahman Al Saud, and moved to Riyadh even before the Third Saudi Kingdom was inaugurated in 1932. After obtaining citizenship he participated in critical decisions reached by the ruler as regional and international actors honed in on the wealth of the Arabian Peninsula. Over the course of several decades Yusuf Yassin met with and negotiated on behalf of three monarchs, Abdul Aziz and his two successors, Saud and Faysal, with Arab and global leaders. He was present at the creation of the country and suggested that al-Saudiyyah be added to its very nameAl-Mamlakah al-Arabiyyah al-Saudiyyahwhich reflected his personality and political outlook as an Arab nationalist who cherished the founder. Joseph Kechichian has written the first political biography of the statesman, based on original documents [the Yassin Papers] as well as Western diplomatic correspondence. Kechichian provides insights into the Nationalist Al Saud Advisor who left his mark on Saudi Arabia. The volume provides essential background on a man who rose from humble origins in Syria to espouse Arabian values, and walks the reader through nearly five decades of Arab history, including the repercussions of the infamous 1916 SykesPicot Agreement, the creation of the League of Arab States, and various Arab crises. These events, experienced and engaged with by Shaykh Yusuf Yassin at the highest political and diplomatic levels, set the stage that empowered Saudi Arabia, along with other Arab States, with the wherewithal to succeed for their respective peoples.

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Book SynopsisBeyond Conventional Economics presents new original work from leading scholars on the interface between the individual and political and social institutions. The book offers a critique of the inadequacies of the conventional economic approach to politics and a state-of-the-art view of new paradigms challenging the dominant economic notion of the individual. A number of chapters also explore the limits of individually rational behaviour in political decision making - some by challenging the orthodox content of the idea of rationality, others by providing fresh views on the operation of political processes.This book is a must-read for anyone interested in understanding individual behaviour under limited rationality. Thought-provoking and enlightening, this is a unique book documenting a meaningful debate on the limits of rational behaviour inside public choice circles and will appeal to a wide audience of economists, political scientists and public choice scholars.Trade Review‘Beyond Conventional Economics is a diverse collection of eight essays written in honor of public choice legend Geoffrey Brennan. . . There is something here for everyone. . . Eusepi and Hamlin begin this diverse volume with a well-written, informative, and concise introduction. For readers who prefer to pick and choose, Eusepi and Hamlin provide all the guidance you will need.' -- Bryan Caplan, Public Choice'. . . our intent in this volume is to give an account of the theoretical endeavours of those who seek to construct an approach to the analysis of political decision making that derives largely from economic theory but also recognises and incorporates other areas of inquiry such as philosophy, more traditional political theory and psychology. This volume presents a critical examination of themes relevant to both human behaviour and economics and political institutions. . . it also offers a state of-the-art tour of new paradigms challenging the dominant economic notion of the individual.' -- From the introduction by the editorsTable of ContentsContents: Introduction Giuseppe Eusepi and Alan Hamlin Part I: Building Democracy: Aspects of Voting and Vigilance 1. Political Dispositions and Dispositional Politics Alan Hamlin 2. Expressive Voting: How Special Interests Enlist their Victims as Political Allies J.R. Clark and Dwight R. Lee 3. Who Shall Keep the Keepers Themselves? On the Moral Foundations of the Separation of Powers Giuseppe Eusepi 4. A Bouquet of Democracies Gordon Tullock Part II: Searching for Stability in Democracy 5. Subjective Evaluation of Alternatives in Individual Voting Choice James M. Buchanan and Yong J. Yoon 6. Truth Justice and Democracy Robert E. Goodin 7. Error-Dependent Norms Philip Pettit 8. The World is a Table. Economic Philosophy Stated Flatly in Terms of Rows, Columns and Cells Hartmut Kliemt Appendix: List of Major Works by Geoffrey Brennan Index

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Book SynopsisThis book provides critical, up-to-date reviews on the field of ethics and integrity of governance, along with fresh future perspectives. Focusing on Europe and the US, it addresses the key dimensions of public service values, the integrity and rationality of governance, ethics management, and the ethics of governance politics. In each of these four areas, leading international scholars tackle the main issues and controversies facing the world today. The final chapter synthesizes these views and provides an ambitious and critical outline for future work in the field of ethics and integrity of governance. Emanating from the much heralded 'transatlantic dialogue', this study integrates both the European and American perspectives into a common voice for action.Ethics and Integrity of Governance will appeal to academics, researchers and practitioners in the areas of leadership and organisation, public policy and public administration, and public values and ethics.Trade Review'The book is a welcome contribution to the literature on ethics as it provides a broader horizon of investigation than most familiar works in recent years.' -- Jamil E. Jreisat, International Journal of Public AdministrationTable of ContentsContents: Foreword John A. Rohr 1. Introduction Leo W.J.C. Huberts, Jeroen Maesschalck and Carole L. Jurkiewicz PART I: PUBLIC SERVICE ETHOS, VALUES AND INTEGRITY 2. The Evolution of the British Public Service Ethos: A Historical Institutional Approach to Explaining Continuity and Change Wouter Vandenabeele and Sylvia Horton 3. A Revolution in Organizational Values: Change and Recalibration Carole L. Jurkiewicz and Robert A. Giacalone 4. Ethical Norms in Public Service: A Framework for Analysis Carol W. Lewis 5. Judging a Public Official’s Integrity Frédérique E. Six and Leo W.J.C. Huberts PART II: THE INTEGRITY, RATIONALITY AND EFFECTIVENESS OF GOVERNANCE 6. Ethical Leadership and Administrative Evil: The Distorting Effects of Technical Rationality Guy B. Adams and Danny L. Balfour 7. The Swiss Federal Administration in the Context of Downsizing: Public Servants’ Perception about their Work Environment and Ethical Issues Yves Emery and Carole Wyser PART III: ETHICS AND INTEGRITY MANAGEMENT AND INSTRUMENTS 8. Ethical Governance in Local Government in England: A Regulator’s View Gillian Fawcett and Mark Wardman 9. A Paradigmatic Shift in Ethics and Integrity Management within the Dutch Public Sector? Beyond Compliance – A Practitioner’s View Alain Hoekstra, Alex Belling and Eli van der Heide 10. How to Encourage Ethical Behaviour: The Impact of Police Leadership on Police Officers Taking Gratuities Terry Lamboo, Karin Lasthuizen and Leo W.J.C. Huberts PART IV: ETHICS AND INTEGRITY AND THE POLITICS OF GOVERNANCE 11. Removing Employee Protections: A ‘See no Evil’ Approach to Civil Service Reform James S. Bowman and Jonathan P. West 12. In Defence of Politicking: Private, Personal and Public Interests Robert P. Kaye 13. Perceptions of Corruption as Distrust? Cause and Effect in Attitudes Towards Government Steven Van de Walle PART V: CONCLUSION 14. Global Perspectives on Good Governance Policies and Research Leo W.J.C. Huberts, Jeroen Maesschalck and Carole L. Jurkiewicz Index

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Book SynopsisThis Handbook provides a detailed overview of various issues related to intergenerational justice. Comprising articles written by a distinguished group of scholars from the international scientific community, the Handbook is divided into two main thematic sections - foundations and definitions of intergenerational justice and institutionalization of intergenerational justice.The first part clarifies basic terms and traces back the origins of the idea of intergenerational justice. It also focuses on the problem of intergenerational buck-passing in the ecological context; for example in relation to nuclear waste and the greenhouse effect. At the same time, it also sheds light on the relationship between intergenerational justice and economics, addressing issues such as public debt and financial sustainability. The innovative second part of the volume highlights how posterity can be institutionally protected, such as by inserting relevant clauses into national constitutions. Reading this volume is the best way to gain an overall knowledge of intergenerational justice - an extremely salient and topical issue of our time.The Handbook is an important contribution to the literature and will be of great interest to academics and graduate students as well as readers interested in wider human rights issues.Trade Review'The contributors to this volume undertake to establish the foundations and definitions of "intergenerational justice" and to explore its capacity to guide us in policy and public opinion judgments we must make to face unprecedented issues. . . We are changing the biosphere and using resources to an extent never contemplated in the history of ethics. Deterioration of our oceans, loss of topsoil, insecurity about potable water supplies, the ozone hole, global warming, and the question about how to handle high-level nuclear waste which remains lethal perhaps 400,000 years from now, are some examples whose consequences reach far beyond inherited principles and policies of responsibility to others. This Handbook works to open a path for debate, extension of our tradition and invention of new thinking on these issues.' -- Craig Walton, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, US'More than a Handbook, this collection is a landmark work showing the way to a new ethics of intergenerational responsibility. It raises, in the most comprehensive way, the overarching ethical questions of our time, "What are the rights of future generations?" and "How might present generations establish a philosophical foundation for its responsibilities to generations to come?".' -- Peter Blaze Corcoran, Center for Environmental and Sustainability Education, Florida Gulf Coast University, US'This important book provides a rich menu of history, current theory, and future directions in constitutional law, philosophy of rights and justice, and the relations of economics and politics to time, institutions, and the common good. It is enlivened by back-and-forth discussions among the authors (including some disagreements), as well as by applications to important contemporary issues such as climate change, nuclear waste, and public debt. Theoretic considerations are nicely balanced with examples of the means adopted in a number of countries to establish a legal foundation for protection of the quality of life for future generations.' -- Neva Goodwin, Tufts University, US'Do we owe the future anything? If so, what - and why? Our capacity to affect the lives of future generations is greater than ever before, but what principles should regulate our relationship with people who don't yet exist? This Handbook offers a comprehensive survey of the key debates and pathbreaking accounts of potential ways forward - both ethical and institutional.' -- Andrew Dobson, The Open University, UKTable of ContentsContents: Introduction PART I: FOUNDATIONS AND DEFINITIONS OF GENERATIONAL JUSTICE 1. Responsibility for Future Generations – Scope and Limits Dieter Birnbacher 2. Principles of Generational Justice Christoph Lumer 3. The Impossibility of a Theory of Intergenerational Justice Wilfred Beckerman 4. John Rawls on the Rights of Future Generations Claus Dierksmeier 5. Justice Between Generations: The Limits of Procedural Justice Michael Wallack 6. Rule Change and Intergenerational Justice Axel Gosseries and Mathias Hungerbühler 7. The Economic Sustainability Indicator Peer Ederer, Philipp Schuller and Stephan Willms 8. Protecting Future Generations: Intergenerational Buck-passing, Theoretical Ineptitude and a Brief for a Global Core Precautionary Principle Stephen M. Gardiner 9. Institutional Determinants of Public Debt: A Political Economy Perspective Bernd Süssmuth and Robert K. von Weizsäcker PART II: INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF GENERATIONAL JUSTICE 10. Establishing Intergenerational Justice in National Constitutions Joerg Chet Tremmel 11. A Constitutional Law for Future Generations – The ‘Other’ Form of the Social Contract: The Generation Contract Peter Häberle 12. The French Constitutional Charter for the Environment: An Effective Instrument? Dominique Bourg 13. Commission for Future Generations in the Knesset: Lessons Learnt Shlomo Shoham and Nira Lamay 14. Institutional Protection of Succeeding Generations – Ombudsman for Future Generations in Hungary Benedek Jávor 15. The Role of CPB in Dutch Economic Policy Rocus van Opstal and Jacqueline Timmerhuis 16. Intergenerational Justice Emmanuel Agius Information About the Foundation for the Rights of Future Generations Index

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Book SynopsisThis book is about the global environmental and economic crisis. It challenges the whole global economic system and its underlying beliefs, assumptions and values. We need a complete system transformation, a paradigm shift. This requires holistic and whole system thinking. It is a thoroughly hopeful book. The focus is on the possibility of a better world, a more fulfilling way of life, rather than what's wrong or what we have to give up. Could this book be the best one on the global environmental and economic crisis? The central argument is that we, ordinary people - 6.7 billion of us - need to use our people power to bring about a sustainable, fairer and non-violent world. This means putting our governments under constant pressure to do more and represent citizens' interests and not those of big business. There are many books about the global crisis. But few, aimed at empowering ordinary people, take a holistic approach. It is for those many people who are concerned, open minded and ready to act.Trade ReviewWe are in a place we have never been before. We are facing a series of interconnected systemic crises that put both humanity and the planet in serious peril. This book not only clearly describes the problem but, most importantly, points to the solution. The 'rules of the game' need to be radically changed and this will only happen if enough people, speaking with a clear enough voice, demand such a change. This book is not, therefore, a 'worthy' text on economics, but a vital handbook for our survival! (Stewart Wallis, Executive Director, New Economics Foundation) We have to take our power and demand that our governments act boldly to tackle the environmental crisis; create a global economy that serves everyone; create truly inclusive democracy at all levels; and stop wasting lives and money on war. This book will inspire, challenge you and make sense of how the system works. It's your handbook for a bottom up revolution. Read it and play your part. (Baroness Helena Kennedy QC)

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Book SynopsisExplores how the conception of Africa and its history has changed over time and narrates the story of this vast continent over the past 10,000 years. Africa is a huge continent, as large as the more habitable areas of Europe and Asia put together. It has a history immensely long, yet the study of that history as an academic discipline in its own right is little more than fiftyyears old. Since then the subject has grown enormously, but the question of what this history is and how it has been approached still needs to be asked, not least to answer the question of why should we study it. This book takes as its subject the last 10,000 years of African history, and traces the way in which human society on the continent has evolved from communities of hunters and gatherers to the complex populations of today. Approaching that history through its various dimensions: archaeological, ethnographic, written, scriptural, European and contemporary, it looks at how the history of such a vast region over such a length of time has been conceived and presented, and how it is to be investigated. The problem itself is historical, and an integral part of the history with which it is concerned, beginning with the changing awareness over the centuries of what Africa might be. MichaelBrett thus traces the history of Africa not only on the ground, but also in the mind, in order to make his own historical contribution to the debate. Michael Brett is Emeritus Reader in the History of North Africa at SOAS.Trade ReviewA monumental undertaking [that] adds valuable perspective to our understanding of African history as a whole. * HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY *A very readable narrative [that] perfectly fulfils what it promises. * THE MAGHREB REVIEW *I recommend it strongly not only to all those who are just beginning to come to grips with the depth, beauty, and complexity of African history, but also to the more specialized scholars who might want to broaden their perspective on their home field of African history. * INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF AFRICAN HISTORICAL STUDIES *A major study.lucid and very accessible. * TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT *Table of ContentsPART I The Problem of African History The Problem of Definition Solving the Problem: the Search for Information Solving the Problem: the Writing of African History PART II The Making of African Society A: The Archaeological Dimension From Hunting and Gathering to Herding and Farming From Herding and Farming to Cities and States The Peopling of the South B: The Ethnographic Dimension Men and Women From Kinship to Kingship The Mind of Africa The Empires of the South PART III Africa in the World C: The Written Dimension Ancient, Mediaeval and Modern Ancient Egypt and Nubia The World of Greece and Rome Rome beyond the Imperial Frontiers D: The Scriptural Dimension Christianity and the World of Late Antiquity The Arabs and Islam Islam, the Sahara and the Land of the Blacks Islam and Christianity in the East Ibn Battuta and Ibn Khaldun PART IV The Unification of Africa E: The European Dimension The Age of Empire An Islamic Africa Between the Americas and the Indies F: The European Invasion A History in Change After Napoleon The Reconfiguration of Africa The Reorganisation of Africa The Reaction of Africa PART V The Arrival of African History G:The Present Dimension The Resurgence of Africa Africa in Contemporary History The Approach to African History

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Book SynopsisAnalyses the ZANU-PF in Zimbabwe, SWAPO in Namibia and the ANC in South Africa and to what extent their promises of democracy have been effected in government. The liberation movements of Southern Africa arose to combat racism, colonialism and settler capitalism and engaged in armed struggle to establish democracy. After victory over colonial and white minority regimes, they moved into government embodying the hopes and aspirations of their mass of supporters and of widespread international solidarity movements. Even with the difficult legacies they inherited, their performance in power has been deeply disappointing. Roger Southall tracks the experiences in government of ZANU-PF, SWAPO and the ANC, arguing that such movements are characterised by paradoxical qualities, both emancipatory and authoritarian. Analysis is offered of their evolution into political machines through comparative review of their electoral performance, their relation to state and society, their policies regarding economic transformation, and their evolution as vehicles of class formation andpredatory behaviour. The author concludes that, while they will survive organizationally, their essence as progressive forces is dying, and that hopes of a genuine liberation throughout the region will depend upon political realignments alongside moral and intellectual regeneration. ANC South Africa SWAPO Namibia Zanu-PF Zimbabwe Roger Southall is Professor Emeritus in Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand and a Research Associate of the Society, Work and Development Institute.Trade Review[I]t is only through transparent and thorough research that politically sensitive history can be unravelled and this is precisely what the author has achieved with his Liberation Movements in Power: Party and State in Southern Africa. * ITINERARIO *An important comparative study ... essential reading for anyone interested in this topic. * STRATEGIC REVIEW FOR SOUTHERN AFRICA *Comparative in its approach, research-rich, even-handed and a sobering read. * POLITIKON *An important achievement in particular for its synthetic vision and persuasive overall argument. * AFRICA SPECTRUM *A welcome addition to the literature [which] should be viewed as required reading for anyone wanting to get to grips with the topic. * COMMONWEALTH & COMPARATIVE POLITICS *A theoretically rich and empirically grounded account of an important subset of African political regimes. . This highly recommended book is essential reading. * INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF AFRICAN HISTORICAL STUDIES *Encyclopaedic in detail and scope, elegantly written and carefully analysed, and makes a convincing and nuanced argument for the degeneration of NLMs. ... [This] important volume should become essential reading to anyone hoping to unpick the failures of liberation in southern Africa. * REVIEW OF AFRICAN POLITICAL ECONOMY *A mine of information for researchers and those wanting to pick over the wide literature on the topic. * AFRICAN ARGUMENTS *With meticulous detail and extensive documentation, Southall analyses the theoretical and political environment of Southern Africa and the growth of the liberation movements. . Highly recommended. * CHOICE, February 2014 *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Analysing Liberation Movements as Governments Settler Colonialism in Southern Africa The Evolution of the Liberation Movements The War for Southern Africa Contradictions of Victory Liberation Movements and Elections Liberation Movements and the State Liberation Movements and Society Liberation Movements and Economic Transformation The Party State, Class Formation and the Decline of Ideology Fueling the Party Machines The Mafia State? The ANC under Jacob Zuma Conclusion: The Slow Death of the Liberation Movements

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Book SynopsisA lively historical account of the rise of Ethiopia's student movement by one of those involved, its role in overthrowing the imperial regime, and its impact on the shaping of the country's future. In the second half of the 1960s and the early 1970s, the Ethiopian student movement emerged from rather innocuous beginnings to become the major opposition force against the imperial regime in Ethiopia, contributing perhaps more than any other factor to the eruption of the 1974 revolution, a revolution that brought about not only the end of the long reign of Emperor Haile Sellassie, but also a dynasty of exceptional longevity. The student movement would beof fundamental importance in the shaping of the future Ethiopia, instrumental in both its political and social development. Bahru Zewde, himself one of the students involved in the uprising, draws on interviews with former student leaders and activists, as well as documentary sources, to describe the steady radicalisation of the movement, characterised particularly after 1965 by annual demonstrations against the regime and culminating in the ascendancy of Marxism-Leninism by the early 1970s. Almost in tandem with the global student movement, the year 1969 marked the climax of student opposition to the imperial regime, both at home and abroad. It was also in that year that students broached what came to be famously known as the "national question", ultimately resulting in the adoption in 1971of the Leninist/Stalinist principle of self-determination up to and including secession. On the eve of the revolution, the student movement abroad split into two rival factions; a split that was ultimately to lead to the liquidation of both and the consolidation of military dictatorship as well as the emergence of the ethno-nationalist agenda as the only viable alternative to the military regime. Bahru Zewde is Emeritus Professor of History at Addis Ababa University and Vice President of the Ethiopian Academy of Sciences. He has authored many books and articles, notably A History of Modern Ethiopia, 1855-1974 and Pioneers of Change in Ethiopia: The Reformist Intellectuals of the Early Twentieth Century. Finalist for the Bethwell A. Ogot Book Prize to the author of the best book on East African Studies, 2015. Ethiopia: Addis Ababa University Press (paperback)Trade ReviewAt long last an historical event that seems to have had some significance in the political development of Ethiopia has been successfully and fairly treated in this monograph by an author who personally experienced at least part of the process. * AETHIOPICA *The present work is a major contribution to the modern intellectual and political history of Ethiopia. . . . Bahru Zewde has produced a masterful and nuanced account of the origins, personalities, organizations, internecine debates, and tragic fates of the young intellectuals and activists who organized and led student opposition to the imperial regime. * INT'L JOURNAL OF AFRICAN HISTORICAL STUDIES *[A] masterful, long awaited, and authentic account. ... A remarkable, painstakingly researched, and insightful analysis. * AFRICA REVIEW OF BOOKS *Bahru Zewde's book provides a rich, nuanced history, analysis, and interpretation of this most radical student movement in Africa in the twentieth century. It is a remarkably well-crafted book; elegant, readable, engrossing, and comprehensive. * AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW *Must become the definitive account of the Ethiopian student movement. * ANGLO-ETHIOPIAN NEWS FILE *Impeccable. ... An impressive and comprehensive piece of scholarly work. * AFRICAN STUDIES QUARTERLY *Table of ContentsYouth in Revolt The Political and Cultural Context Early Beginnings: 'That Will be the Day, When...' The Process of Radicalisation 1969: Prelude to Revolution Championing the Cause of the Marginalised: the National Question and the Woman Question Fusion and Fission: From Student Unions to Leftist Political Organisations Conclusion: The Legacy

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Book SynopsisProposes a dynamic new approach to the production of knowledge on Africa, one that is global, multiple and heterogeneous, elucidating this through both discursive theoretical chapters and case histories. Knowledge production is a highly political and politicized practice. This book questions the way in which knowledge of and about Africa is produced and how this influences development policy and practice. Rebutting both Euro-and Afrocentric production of knowledge, this collection proposes a multiple, global and dynamic Africa-centredness in which scholars use whatever concepts and research tools are most appropriate to the different African contextsin which they work. In the first part of the book key conceptual themes are raised and the epistemological foundations are laid through questions of gender, literature and popular music. Contributors in the second part apply andtest these tools and concepts, examining the pressures on doctoral students in a South African university, the crisis in knowledge about declining marine fish populations, perplexities around why certain ICT provisions fail, or how some Zimbabwean students, despite being beset by poverty, succeed. The light thrown on the mechanics of how knowledge comes into being, and in whose interests, illuminates one of the key issues in African Studies. Brenda Cooper is an Honorary Research Associate at the University of Manchester. She was for many years the Director of the Centre for African Studies and a Professor in the English department at the University of Cape Town, where she is now Emeritus Professor. Robert Morrell is Coordinator of the Programme for the Enhancement of Research Capacity at the University of Cape Town.Trade ReviewHighlights the need for syncretic knowledge systems which include knowledges, knowledge producers, and the intelligensia of the southern regions to be accepted as equals with those of the North. * AFRICAN AFFAIRS *[This volume] should point the way for equity and inclusion in the context of seeing Africa-centered research and products on equal footing with Euro-centric and Afro-centric paradigms. * AFRICAN & ASIAN STUDIES *The book thus contains a huge diversity of subject matter, which is drawn together by a common interrogation of dominant ways of knowing and a quest for holding open alternatives. . . . It is a book to be recommended to any reader interested in moving beyond the tired binaries of 'western' versus 'indigenous' knowledge. * AFRICAN STUDIES QUARTERLY *Contains a rich assembly of ideas and observations. * ANTIPODE *The book contains many valuable thoughts and quotable statements, including a note that Hegel believed that the great historical dialectic bypassed Africa altogether, as well as insights about the relation between epistemology and method, the freeing and inhibiting qualities of classification systems, and the potential danger of knowing. * ANTHROPOLOGY REVIEW DATABASE *highlights the need for syncretic knowledge systems which include knowledges, knowledge producers, and the intelligensia of the southern regions to be accepted as equals wiht those of the North. * AFRICAN AFFAIRS *Table of ContentsIntroduction: the possibility of Africa-centred knowledges - PART ONE Epistemology: struggles over meaning-making Validated knowledge: confronting myths about Africa by Lansana Keita Re-theorizing the indigenous knowledge debate by Lesley Green Battlefields of knowledge: conceptions of gender in development discourse by Signe Arnfred Knowing time: temporal epistemology in the African novel by Bill Ashcroft Black boxes and glass jars: classification in the hunt for Africa-centred knowledge by Brenda Cooper 'This is a robbers' system': popular musicians' readings of the Kenyan state by Mbugua wa-Mungai - PART TWO Policy and practice: applying the knowledge Science, fishers' knowledge and Namibia's fishing industry by Barbara Paterson, Marieke Norton, Astrid Jarre and Lesley Green ICT for development: extending computing design concepts by Ulrike Rivett, Gary Marsden and Edwin Blake 'Good houses make good people': making knowledge about health and environment in Cape Town by Warren Smit, Ariane de Lannoy, Robert VH Dover, Estelle V Lambert, Naomi Levitt and Vanessa Watson Men of God and gendered knowledge by Akosua Adomako Ampofo and Michael PK Okyerefo Retrieving the traces of knowledge-making while editing a book on postgraduate writing by Linda Cooper and Lucia Thesen Hunhuism (personhood) and academic success in a Zimbabwean secondary school by Leadus Madzima

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Book SynopsisAnalyses the ZANU-PF in Zimbabwe, SWAPO in Namibia and the ANC in South Africa and to what extent their promises of democracy have been effected in government. The liberation movements of Southern Africa arose to combat racism, colonialism and settler capitalism and engaged in armed struggle to establish democracy. After victory over colonial and white minority regimes, they moved into government embodying the hopes and aspirations of their mass of supporters and of widespread international solidarity movements. Even with the difficult legacies they inherited, their performance in power has been deeply disappointing. Roger Southall tracks the experiences in government of ZANU-PF, SWAPO and the ANC, arguing that such movements are characterised by paradoxical qualities, both emancipatory and authoritarian. Analysis is offered of their evolution into political machines through comparative review of their electoral performance, their relation to state and society, their policies regarding economic transformation, and their evolution as vehicles of class formation andpredatory behaviour. The author concludes that, while they will survive organizationally, their essence as progressive forces is dying, and that hopes of a genuine liberation throughout the region will depend upon political realignments alongside moral and intellectual regeneration. ANC South Africa SWAPO Namibia Zanu-PF Zimbabwe Roger Southall is Professor Emeritus in Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand and a Research Associate of the Society, Work and Development Institute.Trade ReviewAn important achievement in particular for its synthetic vision and persuasive overall argument. * AFRICA SPECTRUM *A welcome addition to the literature [which] should be viewed as required reading for anyone wanting to get to grips with the topic. * COMMONWEALTH & COMPARATIVE POLITICS *A theoretically rich and empirically grounded account of an important subset of African political regimes. . This highly recommended book is essential reading. * INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF AFRICAN HISTORICAL STUDIES *Encyclopaedic in detail and scope, elegantly written and carefully analysed, and makes a convincing and nuanced argument for the degeneration of NLMs. ... [This] important volume should become essential reading to anyone hoping to unpick the failures of liberation in southern Africa. * REVIEW OF AFRICAN POLITICAL ECONOMY *A mine of information for researchers and those wanting to pick over the wide literature on the topic. * AFRICAN ARGUMENTS *With meticulous detail and extensive documentation, Southall analyses the theoretical and political environment of Southern Africa and the growth of the liberation movements. . . Highly recommended. * CHOICE *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Analysing Liberation Movements as Governments - Roger Southall Settler Colonialism in Southern Africa - Roger Southall The Evolution of the Liberation Movements - Roger Southall The War for Southern Africa - Roger Southall Contradictions of Victory - Roger Southall Liberation Movements and Elections - Roger Southall Liberation Movements and the State - Roger Southall Liberation Movements and Society - Roger Southall Liberation Movements and Economic Transformation - Roger Southall The Party State, Class Formation and the Decline of Ideology - Roger Southall Fueling the Party Machines - Roger Southall The Mafia State? The ANC under Jacob Zuma - Roger Southall Conclusion: The Slow Death of the Liberation Movements - Roger Southall

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Book SynopsisA new history of the 1976 Soweto Uprising and the events leading to it in the preceding decade, that will transform our understanding of the historical evolution of the struggle against apartheid. This revisionary account of the Soweto Uprising of June 1976 and the decade preceding it transforms our understanding of what led to this crucial flashpoint of South Africa's history. Brown argues that far from there being "quiescence" following the Sharpeville Massacre and the suppression of African opposition movements, during which they went underground, this period was marked by experiments in resistance and attempts to develop new forms of politics that prepared the ground for the Uprising. Students at South Africa's segregated universities began to re-organise themselves as a political force; new ideas about race reinvigorated political thought; debates around confrontation shaped the development of new forms of protest. The protest then began to move off university campuses and onto the streets: through the independent actions of workers in Durban, and attempts by students to link their struggles with a broader agenda. These actions made protest public once again, and helped establish the patterns of popular action and state response that would come to shape the events in Soweto on 16 June 1976. Julian Brown is a Lecturer in the Department of Political Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Southern Africa (South Africa, Namibia, Lesotho, Swaziland & Botswana): Jacana 'throws new light on the background to the Soweto Uprising, providing insight into white and black student politics, worker protest and broader dissent' - William Beinart, University of Oxford 'an extremely important contribution to the historiography on protest in South Africa. It links black and white student protests (too often studied in isolation from one another) to workers' movements by looking at the changing forms of protest during the 1960s and 1970s, and the apartheid government's changing responses.' - Anne Heffernan, University of the Witwatersrand 'By showing how the Soweto Uprising served as a precursor for later historical and political events, the author convincingly shows the continuity from one from one protest and decade to the next.' - Dawne Curry, University of Nebraska-LincolnTrade ReviewJulian Brown's analysis of the pre-history of the Soweto uprising seeks to break new ground. * ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW *Julian Brown's thoughtful book is chock-full of insights while still under 200 pages of text. Important in its own right, a study on student and mass protest in South Africa could not be timelier. On the fortieth anniversary of the legendary Uprising, yet again South Africa finds itself bitterly divided over a student protest movement exploding onto the scene. Brown's book deserves receives wide readership for these reasons and more. * SOUTH AFRICAN HISTORICAL JOURNAL *The strength of Brown's book is that it encapsulates the long build-up of unrest in the black community. He carefully describes the range of events that led to a growing sense of frustration and anger...Situating the uprising in this context is a powerful corrective to previous attempts to consider it in relative isolation. * TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT *The Road to Soweto is an important, moving, and encouraging book, which revises our understanding of crucial decades of South African history, and puts forward an argument that both emerges from and explains that story. -- African Studies QuarterlyTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Road to Soweto White Student Activism in the 1960s: 'The Choice Between Silence and Protest' The Formation of the South African Students' Organisation: 'Carving Out their Own Destiny' Confrontation, Resistance and Reaction: 'The Minister... Cannot Ban Ideas from Men's Minds' The Durban Strikes: 'Souls of their Own' Reimagining Resistance in the Face of Violence: 'Cast off the Students-only Attitude' The Pro-Frelimo Rallies of 1974: 'Stand up and be Counted' Event and Aftermath: The Soweto Uprising Conclusion: Consequences

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Book SynopsisProvides the most comprehensive account since the early 1960s of South Africa's "black middle class". 2016 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title The "rise of the black middle class" is one of the most visible aspects of post-apartheid society in South Africa. Yet while it has been a major actor in the country's democratic reshaping, analysis of its role has been all but lacking. Rather, the image presented by the media has been of "black diamonds", consumers of the products of advanced industrial economies, and of corrupt "tenderpreneurs" who use their political connections to obtain contracts. This book seeks to complicate that picture with a much-needed analysis that recounts its historical development in colonial society prior to 1994, before examining the size, shape andstructure of the new black middle class in contemporary South Africa and its relation to its counterparts in the Global South. Roger Southall is Professor Emeritus in Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand. Southern Africa (South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Lesotho, Zimbabwe and Swaziland): JacanaTrade Review2016 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title * . *Suggesting that the role of the black middle in class in shaping South African democracy has been largely overlooked, Southall details the development of this segment of society both before and after the end of apartheid in 1994. He seeks to challenge prevailing depictions of middle-class blacks as, at best, too narrow. * SURVIVAL GLOBAL POLITICS AND STRATEGY *This is a very important and timely study that will help make sense of perhaps the key social actors in contemporary South African society. * AUSTRALASIAN REVIEW OF AFRICAN STUDIES *Southall has brought together a rapidly growing volume of disparate studies of South Africa's black middle class and provided an incisive overview with scholarly objectivity. He succeeds admirably in his aim of enabling us to assess better both the social character of the black middle class and its potential as political actor, and deserves congratulation for providing a landmark study. * THE ROUND TABLE *An insightful and engaging read for those who seek to learn more about social stratification and mobility in South Africa. * AFRICA SPECTRUM *This book, without question, will become the standard work on its topic...The South African middle classes have been relatively neglected in contemporary studies... this careful overview fills a crucial gap. * CHOICE *Roger Southall's book delivers an insightful contribution to our understanding of South African society. His assessment of the structures of power that shape the lives of millions of South Africans is historically embedded, yet contextualized in the latest events, including the 2015 student protests. * AFRICAN AFFAIRS *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Why Study the Black Middle Class? The Middle Class: Problems and Controversies The Black Middle Class in South Africa 1910-1994 The Black Middle Class in Post-Apartheid South Africa: Size, Shape and Structure Black Class Formation under the ANC Education and Black Upward Social Mobility The Black Middle Class at Work The Social World of the Black Middle Class The Politics of the Black Middle Class Afterword: South Africa's Black Middle Class in an African Context

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Book SynopsisA lively historical account of the rise of Ethiopia's student movement by one of those involved, its role in overthrowing the imperial regime, and its impact on the shaping of the country's future. Finalist for the Bethwell A. Ogot Book Prize to the author of the best book on East African Studies, 2015. In the second half of the 1960s and the early 1970s, the Ethiopian student movement became the major oppositionforce against the imperial regime in Ethiopia, ultimately playing a fundamental role in the shaping of the country's future political and social development. Bahru Zewde, one of the students involved in the uprising, draws on interviews with former student leaders and activists, as well as documentary sources, to describe the steady radicalisation of the movement, characterised particularly after 1965 by annual demonstrations against the regime and culminating in the ascendancy of Marxism-Leninism by the early 1970s. In 1969, the students broached what came to be famously known as the "national question", ultimately resulting in the adoption of the Leninist/Stalinist principle of self-determination up to and including secession. On the eve of the revolution, the student movement abroad split into two rival factions - a split that would ultimately lead to the liquidation of both and the consolidation of military dictatorship. Bahru Zewde is Emeritus Professor of History at Addis Ababa University and founding Fellow and Vice President of the Ethiopian Academy of Sciences. He has authored many books and articles, notably A History of Modern Ethiopia, 1855-1974 and Pioneers of Change in Ethiopia: The Reformist Intellectuals of the Early Twentieth Century. Ethiopia: Addis Ababa University PressTrade ReviewThe present work is a major contribution to the modern intellectual and political history of Ethiopia. . . . Bahru Zewde has produced a masterful and nuanced account of the origins, personalities, organizations, internecine debates, and tragic fates of the young intellectuals and activists who organized and led student opposition to the imperial regime. * INT'L JOURNAL OF AFRICAN HISTORICAL STUDIES *[A] masterful, long awaited, and authentic account. ... A remarkable, painstakingly researched, and insightful analysis. * AFRICA REVIEW OF BOOKS *Bahru Zewde's book provides a rich, nuanced history, analysis, and interpretation of this most radical student movement in Africa in the twentieth century. It is a remarkably well-crafted book; elegant, readable, engrossing, and comprehensive. * AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW *Must become the definitive account of the Ethiopian student movement. * ANGLO-ETHIOPIAN NEWS FILE *Impeccable. ... An impressive and comprehensive piece of scholarly work. * AFRICAN STUDIES QUARTERLY *Table of ContentsIntroduction Youth in Revolt The Political and Cultural Context In the Beginning: 'That Will be the Day, When...' The Process of Radicalization 1969: Prelude to Revolution Championing the Cause of the Marginalized: The National Question and the Woman Question Fusion and Fission: From Student Unions to Leftist Political Organizations Conclusion: The Legacy

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Book SynopsisUnpacks the histories, actors and geopolitics of India's soft power and evolving engagements with Africa. Since independence India has deployed its soft power in Africa, with educational aid and capacity-building at the heart of its Africa policy. However, following economic liberalisation and in a quest for greater global influence, India's geopolitics have changed. The country's discourse on Africa has shifted from the mantras of post-colonial solidarity and South-South Cooperation, and there is now a growing sense of Indian exceptionalism, as the country reimagines its past and future against the growing influence of the political right. In this book scholars from India, Africa, Europe and North America show how India's soft power has been implemented by the diaspora, government and private sector. Research documents how India's 'aid' has been re-thought in major schemes such as e-global education and health, Gandhi statuary and Covid-19 diplomacy in Africa.Trade ReviewIndia's Development and Soft Power Diplomacy in Africa is a remarkable effort. The merits of the book are many. The volume brings together scholars from several disciplines...Each contribution is crisp and well researched -- Vineet Thakur * Africa *This slim, affordable volume achieves what edited books often do not-consistent high quality and connective arguments across chapters that make important contributions to a growing field. * African Studies Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction: India-Africa Now: Changing Imaginaries and Knowledge Paradigms Meera Venkatachalam and Kenneth King PART 1: The Geopolitical Imaginary and Soft Power 1. India's Soft Power in East Africa: Opportunities and Challenges Muhidin J. Shangwe 2. Between Business and Balance: India-Japan in Africa vis-à-vis China Mrittika Guha Sarkar and Jagannath Panda PART 2: The Indian Political Right and the Reconfiguration of Soft Power in Africa 3. The Indian Political Right, Soft Power, and the Reimagination of Africa Meera Venkatachalam 4. Modi and the Mahatma - The Politics of Statues and the Saffronisation of India-Africa relations Simona Vittorini PART 3: Capacity building: Shifting Modalities and New Knowledgescapes 5. India's Changing Human Resource Diplomacy with Africa, and Africa's Responses Kenneth King 6. A Shining Example: Modelling Growth in India's Pan-African e-Network Vincent Duclos 7. Partnership in Times of Pandemic: India's Covid Diplomacy with a Lens on Africa Supriya Roychoudhury and Emma Mawdsley PART 4: Skilling, Knowledge Transfer, and Indo-African Interactions 8. Precarious Partnerships: Tanzanian Entrepreneurs of Asian and African Descent Jacqueline Halima Mgumia and Chambi Chachage 9. The Trumpets and Travails of South-South Cooperation: African Students in India since the 1940s Gerard McCann Conclusion: Reflections on India-Africa Studies, Development Cooperation, and Soft Power Kenneth King and Meera Venkatachalam

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Book SynopsisKey book in Whiteness Studies that engages with the different ways in which the last white minority in Africa to give way to majority rule has adjusted to the arrival of democracy and the different modes of transition from "settlers" to "citizens". How have whites adjusted to, contributed to and detracted from democracy in South Africa since 1994? Engaging with the literature on 'whiteness' and the current trope that the democratic settlement has failed, this book provides a study of how whites in the last bastion of 'white minority rule' in Africa have adapted to the sweeping political changes they have encountered. It examines the historical context of white supremacy and minority rule, in the past, and the white withdrawal from elsewhere on the African continent. Drawing on focus groups held across the country, Southall explores the difficult issue of 'memory', how whites seek to grapple with the history of apartheid, and how this shapes their reactions to political equality. He argues that whites cannot be regarded as a homogeneous political grouping concluding that while the overwhelming majority of white South Africans feared the coming of democracy during the years of late apartheid, they recognised its inevitability. Many of their fears were, in effect, to be recognised by the Constitution, which embedded individual rights, including those to property and private schooling, alongside the important principle of proportionality of political representation. While a small minority of whites chose to emigrate, the large majority had little choice but to adjust to the democratic settlement which, on the whole, they have done - and in different ways. It was only a small right wing which sought to actively resist; others have sought to withdraw from democracy into social enclaves; but others have embraced democracy actively, either enthusiastically welcoming its freedoms or engaging with its realities in defence of 'minority rights'. Whites may have been reluctant to accept democracy, but democrats - of a sort - they have become, and notwithstanding a significant racialisation of politics in post-apartheid South Africa, they remain an important segment of the "rainbow", although dangers lurk in the future unless present inequalities of both race and class are challenged head on. African Sun Media: South AfricaTrade ReviewI commend Southall on his integrity, bravery, diligence and balance in tackling such a hot-potato topic. -- John Fraser * Business Live *Southall's latest work adds significant insights to a newly critical literature on studies of whiteness, which seeks fresh pathways out of the destructive conundrum created by race and racism. -- Christi van der Westhuizen * The Conversation *A splendid book of wide interest to anyone concerned with South African politics, past, present and future ... anyone interested in the way our democracy is evolving, and the reasons why it is evolving as it is, should read this book. -- Chris Saunders, University of Cape Town * Bulletin of the National Library of South Africa *Whites and Democracy in South Africa is more than a well-informed and skilful academic argument, it is also a call for white people to take responsibility for their part in building a democratic and non-racial future, and it also offers some clear direction on what needs to be done. -- Laurence Piper * Commonwealth and Comparative Politics *The importance of this volume extends beyond South Africa and critiques the writing of history from a perspective of whiteness oblivious to the impacts of global capitalism and the (under)development of large parts of the world. * CHOICE *Table of ContentsIntroduction PART ONE: FROM SETTLERS TO DEMOCRACY 1. The Politics of White Rule 2. Putting the Liberal into Democracy 3. Securing the Transition? Whites and the TRC 4. Looking Back: Whites and the TRC Today PART TWO: WHITES AS DEMOCRATS 5. White Hopes, Fears and Fate after 1994 6. Disillusion and Dystopia 7. Staying Put and Getting on with Life 8. Political Liberalism after Apartheid: The Democratic Alliance 9. Afrikaner Politics after Apartheid 10. Whites as Citizens PART THREE: CONCLUSION: BEYOND RACE? 11. Is there White in the Rainbow?

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Book SynopsisExamines the history of post-colonial Kenya's and Zambia's relations with the People's Republic of China from ideological, political, economic and social perspectives. Africa has become a major platform from which to analyse and understand China's growing influence in the global South. Yet, the impact of their historical relationship has been largely overlooked. Through the triangulation of the global Cold War, African history, and Chinese history, this study provides a detailed analysis of China-Africa relations in the second half of the 20th century. Examining the encounters, conflicts, and dynamics of China-Kenya/Zambia relations from the 1950s until the present, as well as the basis on which historical narratives have been constructed, the book presents two contrasting state perspectives underlining the concept of 'African agency'. Driven by a class-based analysis of world revolution, Communist China's foreign policy did not distinguish significantly between Kenya and Zambia. Both countries sought ideological and material support from China in the years after their independence. The Kenya African National Union under both Jomo Kenyatta and Daniel Moi pursued a consistently pragmatic foreign agenda, and despite political tensions and ideological rifts with China since the mid-1960s, Sino-Kenyan trade has continued to grow steadily. In contrast, China-Zambia relations under Kenneth Kaunda were cordial despite their political differences. Zambian leaders maintained a relatively high consensus that any alleged Chinese Communist threat would not be allowed to fuel power struggles within their United National Independence Party. Challenging both the widely accepted role of China-Africa's historical lineage, as well as the tendency to assume uniformity in China's relationships across the continent, the author explains the development of these relationships and sheds light on the historical underpinnings - or lack thereof - on contemporary China-Africa relations.Trade ReviewSun's book marks an important and exciting contribution to China-Africa studies. The research presented here is deeply nuanced and feels somehow personal. As a reader, this is a compelling combination, one that really draws me into the narrative in an engaging way. -- Ruodi Duan * H-NET *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Decolonisation, the Cold War and Afro-Asian Solidarity: China, Kenya and Zambia at a Crossroads, 1949-1964 2. Caught in-between: Kenya's Foreign Policy and its Relations with China, 1964-1975 3. 'All-Weather Friendship'?: Zambia's Foreign policy and its Relations with China, 1965-1974 4. Political Transition and Multifaceted Engagements: China, Zambia and Kenya in the late 1970s and 1980s 5. China's 'Return' to Africa and the Past in the Present, 1989-2019 Conclusion

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Book SynopsisScholarship of multi-level governance has developed into one of the most innovative themes of research in political science and public policy. This accessible Handbook presents a thorough review of the wide-ranging literature, encompassing various theoretical and conceptual approaches to multi-level governance and their application to policy-making in domestic, regional and global contexts. The importance of multi-level governance in specific policy areas is highlighted, and the contributors - an international group of highly renowned scholars - report on the ways in which their field of specialization is or may be affected by multi-level governance and how developments could affect its conceptualization. European integration is considered from its unique standpoint as the key catalyst in the development of multi-level approaches, and the use of multi-level governance in other parts of the world, at both domestic and regional levels, is also considered in detail before focus is shifted towards global governance. The Handbook concludes with a presentation of six policy fields and instruments affected by multi-level governance, including: social policy, environmental policy, economic policy, international taxation, standard-setting and policing.This comprehensive Handbook takes stock of the vast array of multi-level governance theory and research developed in subfields of political science and public policy, and as such will provide an invaluable reference tool for scholars, researchers and students with a special interest in public policy, regulation and governance.Contributors: M.W. Bauer, M. Beisheim, A. Benz, T.A. Börzel, D. Braun, T. Büthe, S. Campe, S. Clarkson, H. Enderlein, B. Geys, A. Graser, T.N. Hale, M. Hallerberg, A. Hassel, E. Herschinger, S. Hix, L. Hooghe, C. Humrich, M. Jachtenfuchs, C. Jeffery, I. Kaul, K.A. Konrad, C. Kraft-Kasack, S. Kuhnle, G. Marks, W. Mattli, F.W. Mayer, A. Obydenkova, B. Rittberger, T. Rixen, A. Sbragia, M. Schäferhoff, F.W. Scharpf, J.A. Scholte, M.A. Schreurs, A.-M. Slaughter, M.B. Stein, W. Swenden, L. Turkewitsch, S. Wälti, B. Zangl, M. ZürnTrade Review’The editors have produced an authoritative and comprehensive guide to multi-level governance. The book ranges across the domestic context, supraregionalism and global governance - all filtered through a sophisticated analytical framework and attention to policy detail. There is no better place to go than this book for a guide to the topic. An outstanding accomplishment.’ -- David Held, London School of Economics, UK’The handbook provides an authoritative overview of the MLG literature. . . it has the potential to be widely used as a source of reference. The book is systematically structured, and most chapters are of high quality.’ -- Achim Hurrelmann, Environment and Planning C’This volume brings together scholars with a wide range of scholarly backgrounds to re?ect on the value of MLG in different contexts, with sections on analytical approaches: MLG in the domestic context; the EU as a multi-level system; MLG and comparative regionalism; global governance; and policy areas. . . This is a valuable contribution to a debate that is not about to go away.’ -- Ian Bache, Political StudiesTable of ContentsContents: Introduction Michael Zürn, Sonia Wälti and Henrik Enderlein PART I: ANALYTICAL APPROACHES 1. Types of Multi-level Governance Liesbet Hooghe and Gary Marks 2. Federalism and Optimal Allocation Across Levels of Governance Benny Geys and Kai A. Konrad 3. Multi-level Games Frederick W. Mayer 4. Multi-level Europe – The Case for Multiple Concepts Fritz W. Scharpf 5. Global Governance as Multi-level Governance Michael Zürn PART II: MULTI-LEVEL GOVERNANCE IN THE DOMESTIC CONTEXT 6. Subnational Participation in National Decisions: The Role of Second Chambers Wilfried Swenden 7. Multi-level Governance, Decentralization and Fiscal Federalism Mark Hallerberg 8. Multi-level Party Competition in Federal and Regional States Charlie Jeffery 9. Multi-level Governance and Organized Interests Anke Hassel 10. Multi-level Governance in Germany and Switzerland Dietmar Braun 11. Multi-level Governance in Canadian and American Intergovernmental Relations Michael B. Stein and Lisa Turkewitsch PART III: THE EU AS A MULTI-LEVEL SYSTEM 12. The Institutional Framework of the European Union Markus Jachtenfuchs 13. The European Union as a Loosely Coupled Multi-level System Arthur Benz 14. Party Politics in the European Union Simon Hix 15. Multi-level Governance and Parliaments in the European Union Berthold Rittberger 16. Regions and the European Union Michael W. Bauer and Tanja A. Börzel PART IV: MULTI-LEVEL GOVERNANCE AND COMPARATIVE REGIONALISM 17. Multi-level Governance and Comparative Regionalism Alberta Sbragia 18. Multi-modal Governance in North America Stephen Clarkson 19. Multi-level Governance in Post-Soviet Eurasia: Problems and Promises Anastassia Obydenkova 20. Multi-level Governance the ASEAN Way Miranda A. Schreurs PART V: GLOBAL GOVERNANCE 21. The Changing Role of the United Nations: Lessons for Multi-level Governance Inge Kaul 22. Global Governance through Legislation Christoph Humrich and Bernhard Zangl 23. Transgovernmental Networks and Multi-level Governance Anne-Marie Slaughter and Thomas N. Hale 24. Global Governance through Public–Private Partnerships Marianne Beisheim, Sabine Campe and Marco Schäferhoff 25. Civil Society in Multi-level Governance Jan Aart Scholte PART VI: POLICY AREAS 26. Social Policy and Multi-level Governance Alexander Graser and Stein Kuhnle 27. Multi-level Environmental Governance Sonia Wälti 28. Economic Policy-making and Multi-level Governance Henrik Enderlein 29. International Taxation and Multi-level Governance Thomas Rixen 30. Standards for Global Markets: Domestic and International Institutions Tim Büthe and Walter Mattli 31. International Policing: Embedding the State Monopoly of Force Eva Herschinger, Markus Jachtenfuchs and Christiane Kraft-Kasack Index

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Book SynopsisPublic choice theory sheds light on many aspects of legislation, regulation, and constitutional law and is critical to a sophisticated understanding of public policy. The editors of this landmark addition to the law and economics literature have organized the Handbook into four main areas of inquiry: foundations, constitutional law and democracy, administrative design and action, and specific statutory schemes. The original contributions, authored by top scholars in the field, provide helpful introductions to important topics in public choice and public law while also exploring the institutional complexity of American democracy. Beginning with a critical introduction to the core tenets of public choice theory and concluding with comprehensive analyses of drug safety, energy regulation, and environmental law, the Handbook provides differing points of view on the foundations of these and a range of related subjects, including: direct democracy and its financial implications, the functioning of electoral processes, judicial behavior, and the structural differences between presidential and parliamentary systems. The Handbook's knowledgeable contributors offer a rich, realistic view of how public policy is made that is accessible to a broad range of readers. Summarizing much of the key literature in a range of major topics and framing that literature for open debates and further research, the Handbook is ideal for students and scholars of law, political science, and economics. Contributors: D. Carpenter, S. Croley, D.A. Farber, E. Garrett, J.E. Gersen, T. Ginsburg, R.M. Hills, Jr, S. Issacharoff, T. Jacobi, J. Mashaw, L. Miller, A.J. O'Connell, B.D. Richman, J. Rossi, C.H. Schroeder, M.L. Stearns, M.C. Stephenson, J.B. WienerTrade Review'[T]his volume offers valuable insights into theories of public choice and their application to public law. . . one of the benefits that the Handbook offers environmental lawyers is the opportunity to engage in an interdisciplinary scholarly exchange: to challenge and confirm claims about environmental law and environmental regulatory processes as set out in public choice theory.' --Sanja Bogojevic, Climate LawTable of ContentsContents: Introduction: A Brief Trajectory of Public Choice and Public Law Daniel A. Farber and Anne Joseph O’Connell PART I: FOUNDATIONS 1. Public Law and Public Choice: Critique and Rapprochement Jerry Mashaw 2. Interest Groups and Public Choice Steven Croley 3. An Introduction to Social Choice Maxwell L. Stearns PART II: CONSTITUTIONAL LAW 4. Direct Democracy Elizabeth Garrett 5. Democracy and Electoral Processes Samuel Issacharoff and Laura Miller 6. Federalism and Public Choice Roderick M. Hills, Jr 7. The Judiciary Tonja Jacobi 8. Public Choice and Constitutional Design Tom Ginsburg PART III: AGENCY DESIGN AND ACTION 9. Statutory Interpretation by Agencies Matthew C. Stephenson 10. Designing Agencies Jacob E. Gersen 11. Mechanism Choice Jonathan B. Wiener and Barak D. Richman PART IV: SPECIFIC STATUTORY SCHEMES 12. Reputation, Information and Confidence: The Political Economy of Pharmaceutical Regulation Daniel Carpenter 13. Public Choice, Energy Regulation and Deregulation Jim Rossi 14. Public Choice and Environmental Policy Christopher H. Schroeder Index

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Book SynopsisHuman trafficking is widely considered to be the fastest growing branch of trafficking. As this important book reveals, it has moved rapidly up the agenda of states and international organisations since the early-1990s, not only because of this growth, but also as its implications for security and human rights have become clearer. This fascinating study by international experts provides original research findings on human trafficking, with particular reference to Europe, South-East Asia and Australia. A major focus is on why and how many states and organisations act in ways that undermine trafficked victims' rights, as part of 'quadruple victimisation'. It compares and contrasts policies and suggests which seem to work best and why. The contributors also advocate radical new approaches that most states and other formal organisations appear loath to introduce, for reasons that are explored in this unique book. This must-read book will appeal to policymakers as well as advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students in the fields of criminology, human rights law, gender studies, political science and international studies.Contributors: J. Debeljak, L. Holmes, S. Kneebone, Z. Lasocik, K. Leong, S. Milivojevic, S. Schwandner-Sievers, M. Segrave, O. Simic, S. YeaTrade ReviewTrafficking and Human Rights makes an important contribution to the ongoing debate about key issues in the global and national response to trafficking in persons.' --Benjamin Perrin, Asian Criminology'This well researched volume not only makes valuable contributions to the literature on human trafficking, but also clearly states its own limitations, such as a heavy emphasis on the trafficking of women and limited geographical coverage. Nevertheless, it deserves to be widely read among academics, scholars, students and policy makers interested in issues of human security, international studies, criminology and gender studies. I look forward to the publication of future work by Holmes and the other brilliant contributors to this volume.' --South East Asia ResearchTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Introduction: The Issue of Human Trafficking Leslie Holmes 2. Human Trafficking: A Challenge for the European Union and its Member States (with particular reference to Poland) Zbigniew Lasocik 3. Responses to Sex Trafficking: Gender, Borders and ‘Home’ Sanja Milivojevic and Marie Segrave 4. People Smuggling and Human Trafficking Within, from and through Central and Eastern Europe Leslie Holmes 5. ‘Boys will be Boys’: Human Trafficking and UN Peacekeeping in Bosnia and Kosovo Olivera Simić 6. Between Social Opprobrium and Repeat Trafficking: Chances and Choices of Albanian Women Deported from the UK Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers 7. Trafficking in Human Beings for Sexual Purposes: Sweden’s Anti-trafficking Regime and the Lessons for Australia Kevin Leong 8. Combating Transnational Crime in the Greater Mekong Subregion: The Cases of Laos and Cambodia Susan Kneebone and Julie Debeljak 9. Exit, Rehabilitation and Returning to Prostitution: Experiences of Domestic Trafficking Victims in the Philippines Sallie Yea 10. Conclusions: Quadruple Victimisation? Leslie Holmes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA Republic of Europeans looks at the changing routes and conditions of the European polity from a liberal republican angle, proposing an innovative regulative ideal for Europe's future. The book assesses the prospects for uniting diverse publics into a composite polity with its own sense of 'demos-hood'. It also places Europe's normative evolution in the wider context of an ordered global plurality made up of highly interrelated actors. In examining whether the European Union has reached a point which might be telling of an end state, the book offers a depiction of the whole as an 'organized synarchy' of entwined sovereignties, arguing that the envisaged transition from a synarchy of co-sovereigns to a self-identifying citizenry requires the constitution of a 'Republic of Europeans'. A polity which, corresponding to the liberal republican vision of 'many peoples, one demos', regulates contemporary forms of pluralism, which the authors approach as instances of a 'civic polyculturalism'. Offering new understandings on Europe's normative evolution, this book will appeal to undergraduate and postgraduate students in politics, Government, European studies, international relations, international organization and political theory. Doctoral students, postdoctoral and advanced researchers, as well as policy makers in government and international organizations, will also find much to interest them in this book. Contents: Preface; 1. The Global Plurality; 2. Retheorizing Europe; 3. 'One Great Republic'?; 4. Reflective Projections; 5. Postscript: Directions; References; IndexTrade Review'A Republic of Europeans builds on an analysis of the European Union as part of the more general process of globalizing governance, but what is distinctive about the book is its imaginative defence of a liberal form of republicanism as the normative answer to the EU's legitimacy deficit. Lavdas' and Chryssochoou's republicanism is pragmatic in its analysis of the EU's institutional structure and political conditions, but civic in inspiration. It assumes that the EU is still a collection of demoi, but it suggests that a European demos can be built and sustained through democratic politics and a republican culture based on civic engagement and the principle of non-domination. This is a new and insightful addition to the growing republican literature on the EU.' - Dario Castiglione, University of Exeter, UK 'This book is an essential read for anyone concerned about relationships between individuals and authority in the evolving European Union. It is full of insight and persuasively original, and brilliantly relates developments in the European polity to those at the global level.' - Paul Taylor, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK 'A Republic of Europeans looks at the institutions of the European Union in the search for an image that is fit to regulate the aspirations of member states and member subjects. It grounds this search in an informed account of how those institutions actually operate and it relies on the framework of ideas deriving from the European republican tradition to provide guidance for the project. The book gives us a regulative ideal for the development of the Union that ought to command the attention of citizens and policymakers alike.' --- Philip Pettit, Princeton University, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. The Global Plurality 2. Retheorizing Europe 3. ‘One Great Republic’? 4. Reflective Projections 5. Postscript: Directions References Index

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Book SynopsisThis thoroughly revised and updated second edition of Civil Service Systems in Western Europe presents a comprehensive overview of the important issues in modern bureaucracies and provides a comparative analysis of the civil service systems of various Western European nations. Country-specific case studies ? based on neo-institutional frameworks and underpinned by extensive empirical research ? are presented by the expert contributors. The specific nature and development of civil service systems is emphasized, and special attention is paid to the current features of each national civil service. Each chapter has been reworked to include new material and topics, and new chapters on Denmark, France and the United Kingdom have been included. Combining both theoretical and empirical studies, this book will prove to be invaluable to scholars and students of public administration, political science and international affairs, as well as to civil servants, politicians and policymakers.Table of ContentsContents: 1. Civil Service Systems in Western Europe: An Introduction Frits M. van der Meer 2. The British Civil Service System Scott L. Greer and Holly Jarman 3. The Development and Current Features of the German Civil Service System Klaus H. Goetz 4. The Development and Current Features of the Norwegian Civil Service System Tom Christensen 5. The Development and Current Features of the Danish Civil Service System Morten Balle Hansen 6. The National Civil Service in Belgium Annie Hondeghem 7. The Civil Service System of the Netherlands Frits M. van der Meer and Gerrit S.A. Dijkstra 8. The Development and Current Features of the French Civil Service System Philippe Bezes and Gilles Jeannot 9. The Italian Civil Service System Rodolfo Lewanski and Federico Toth 10. The Development and Current Features of the Spanish Civil Service System Salvador Parrado Díez 11. Civil Service Systems in West Europe: Variations and Similarities Frits M. van der Meer and Gerrit S.A. Dijkstra Index

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Book SynopsisThis up-to-date book takes a fresh look at regulation and risk and argues that the allure of regulation lies in its capacity to reduce risk while preserving the benefits of trade, travel and commerce. Regulation appears as a politically attractive, targeted and effective way to ensure that disasters of the past are not repeated. Diverse challenges are tackled through regulatory means - including the industrial, financial and terrorist-related hazards analyzed in this book. Fiona Haines' empirical work shows, however, that regulation attempts to reduce risks beyond their stated remit of preventing future disaster. Her analysis reveals a complex nexus between risk and regulation where fulfilment of regulatory potential depends on managing three fundamentally different types of risk: actuarial, socio-cultural and political. This complex risk management task affects both reform and compliance efforts, generating tension and paradoxical outcomes. Nonetheless, Haines argues, enhancing political legitimacy and public reassurance are central, not peripheral, to successful regulation. This insightful book will appeal to academics, researchers and postgraduate researchers working in regulation across law, politics, sociology, criminology and public management. Masters of public management, MBA students, public administrators and regulators, as well as political commentators, will also find this book invaluable.Trade Review'The Paradox of Regulation is a tour de force of regulatory scholarship that successfully contextualizes the regulatory project as an effort to reduce multiple forms of risk. Three case studies of regulatory reforms, fascinating in their own right, when read together forcefully demonstrate why context matters to the actuarial assessments, political realities, and possibilities for insuring safety, security and integrity. Haines' penetrating analysis presents no simple answers to what works and why. The Paradox of Regulation nimbly demonstrates that the strengths and limits of a particular regulatory reform must be understood as a complicated response to a dynamic constellation of actuarial, political, and socio-cultural risks.' - Nancy Reichman, University of Denver, US 'This new book by Fiona Haines is an elegant but sophisticated analysis of the three risks (technical, social and political) that regulation must address if it is to be effective. This analysis is original and fresh bringing together critiques of risk based regulation with empirical literature on compliance and effectiveness evaluation. This is exactly the sort of book we need more of to develop and deepen empirical and theoretical research in regulatory scholarship: - it helpfully melds together different literatures and theoretical approaches with her own empirical work on regulatory reforms to build a multi-layered theoretical analysis that really pushes forward our understanding of regulation, why it happens and how it fails and succeeds.' - Christine Parker, Monash University, Australia 'This is an insightful and nuanced analysis of the strengths and limitations of regulation. Through a close grained analysis of three recent disasters, Haines demonstrates that regulation is not just a technical but also a political and a social project and how a failure to recognise its multiple dimensions can lead to regulatory failure. This book is a major contribution that enriches our understanding of the challenges of risk management and of how best to address them.' - Neil Gunningham, Australian National University, Canberra 'Fiona Haines shows us that regulatory policy is complex and paradoxical in ways that should require us to attend to the substance and the politics of specific regulatory regimes. This book is a major contribution to the reconceptualisation of risk and regulation. It is a perceptive treatment of the role of crisis by one of the best scholars of regulation we have.' --- John Braithwaite, Australian National University, CanberraTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction 2. The Regulatory Paradox 3. Risk and the Task of Regulation 4. Making Sense of the Events 5. Regulatory Reform in the Shadow of Disaster 6. The Challenge of Compliance – Major Hazard Risk 7. The Challenge of Security at Air and Seaports 8. Finance, Compliance and the Ambiguity of Actuarial Risk 9. Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisPublic choice theory sheds light on many aspects of legislation, regulation, and constitutional law and is critical to a sophisticated understanding of public policy. The editors of this landmark addition to the law and economics literature have organized the Handbook into four main areas of inquiry: foundations, constitutional law and democracy, administrative design and action, and specific statutory schemes. The original contributions, authored by top scholars in the field, provide helpful introductions to important topics in public choice and public law while also exploring the institutional complexity of American democracy. Beginning with a critical introduction to the core tenets of public choice theory and concluding with comprehensive analyses of drug safety, energy regulation, and environmental law, the Handbook provides differing points of view on the foundations of these and a range of related subjects, including: direct democracy and its financial implications, the functioning of electoral processes, judicial behavior, and the structural differences between presidential and parliamentary systems. The Handbook's knowledgeable contributors offer a rich, realistic view of how public policy is made that is accessible to a broad range of readers. Summarizing much of the key literature in a range of major topics and framing that literature for open debates and further research, the Handbook is ideal for students and scholars of law, political science, and economics. Contributors: D. Carpenter, S. Croley, D.A. Farber, E. Garrett, J.E. Gersen, T. Ginsburg, R.M. Hills, Jr, S. Issacharoff, T. Jacobi, J. Mashaw, L. Miller, A.J. O'Connell, B.D. Richman, J. Rossi, C.H. Schroeder, M.L. Stearns, M.C. Stephenson, J.B. WienerTrade Review'[T]his volume offers valuable insights into theories of public choice and their application to public law. . . one of the benefits that the Handbook offers environmental lawyers is the opportunity to engage in an interdisciplinary scholarly exchange: to challenge and confirm claims about environmental law and environmental regulatory processes as set out in public choice theory.' --Sanja Bogojevic, Climate LawTable of ContentsContents: Introduction: A Brief Trajectory of Public Choice and Public Law Daniel A. Farber and Anne Joseph O’Connell PART I: FOUNDATIONS 1. Public Law and Public Choice: Critique and Rapprochement Jerry Mashaw 2. Interest Groups and Public Choice Steven Croley 3. An Introduction to Social Choice Maxwell L. Stearns PART II: CONSTITUTIONAL LAW 4. Direct Democracy Elizabeth Garrett 5. Democracy and Electoral Processes Samuel Issacharoff and Laura Miller 6. Federalism and Public Choice Roderick M. Hills, Jr 7. The Judiciary Tonja Jacobi 8. Public Choice and Constitutional Design Tom Ginsburg PART III: AGENCY DESIGN AND ACTION 9. Statutory Interpretation by Agencies Matthew C. Stephenson 10. Designing Agencies Jacob E. Gersen 11. Mechanism Choice Jonathan B. Wiener and Barak D. Richman PART IV: SPECIFIC STATUTORY SCHEMES 12. Reputation, Information and Confidence: The Political Economy of Pharmaceutical Regulation Daniel Carpenter 13. Public Choice, Energy Regulation and Deregulation Jim Rossi 14. Public Choice and Environmental Policy Christopher H. Schroeder Index

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Book SynopsisComparative Law and Society, part of the Research Handbooks in Comparative Law series, is a pioneering volume that comprises 19 original essays written by expert authors from across the world. This innovative handbook offers both a history of the field of comparative law and society and a thorough exploration of its methods, disciplines, and major issues, presenting the most comprehensive look into this contemporary field to date. In Part I, Methods and Disciplines, contributors approach critical issues in comparative law and society from a variety of academic fields, including sociology, criminology, anthropology, economics, political science, and psychology. This multidisciplinary approach highlights the importance of addressing the variance of perspectives inherent to the field. In Part II, Core Issues, chapters offer an exploration of major legal institutions, processes, professionals, and cultures associated with particular legal subjects. Since authors utilize the perspective of at least two different legal systems, this book offers a truly thorough and wide-ranging focus. The general reader, as well as students and scholars, will find this handbook useful in their continuing explorations into the interaction between law and society. Practitioners such as lawyers and judges with an interest in global perspectives of law will also find much to admire in this innovative volume. Contributors: M. Adler, N. Brewer, D.S. Clark, R. Cotterrell, B.L. Cutler, T. Ginsburg, M. Goodale, C. Guarnieri, R. Horry, B. Luppi, S.C. McCaffrey, E. Mertz, D. Nelken, F. Pakes, M.A. Palmer, F. Parisi, J.T. Polk, J.C. Reitz, R.E. Salcido, S. Stendahl, J.C. Suk, G.A. Tarr, S.C. Thaman, K. van Aeken, H.J. WiardaTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. History of Comparative Law and Society David S. Clark PART I: METHODS AND DISCIPLINES 2. Comparative Sociology of Law Roger Cotterrell 3. Comparative Criminology Francis Pakes 4. Comparative Anthropology of Law Elizabeth Mertz and Mark Goodale 5. Comparative Law and Economics: Accounting for Social Norms Francesco Parisi and Barbara Luppi 6. Comparative Law and Political Economy John C. Reitz 7. Comparative Legal Psychology: Eyewitness Identification Ruth Horry, Matthew A. Palmer, Neil Brewer and Brian L. Cutler PART II: CORE ISSUES 8. Separation of Legislative and Executive Governmental Powers Howard J. Wiarda and Jonathan T. Polk 9. Federalism and Subnational Legal Systems: The Canadian Example of Provincial Constitutionalism G. Alan Tarr 10. Judges, their Careers, and Independence Carlo Guarnieri 11. Civil Court Litigation and Alternative Dispute Resolution Koen van Aeken 12. Criminal Courts and Procedure Stephen C. Thaman 13. Administrative Law, Agencies and Redress Mechanisms in the United Kingdom and Sweden Michael Adler and Sara Stendahl 14. Constitutional Law and Courts Tom Ginsburg 15. Legal Cultures David Nelken 16. Legal Education David S. Clark 17. Legal Professions and Law Firms David S. Clark 18. Legal Protection of the Environment Stephen C. McCaffrey and Rachael E. Salcido 19. Preventive Health at Work Julie C. Suk Index

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Book SynopsisScholarship of multi-level governance has developed into one of the most innovative themes of research in political science and public policy. This accessible Handbook presents a thorough review of the wide-ranging literature, encompassing various theoretical and conceptual approaches to multi-level governance and their application to policy-making in domestic, regional and global contexts. The importance of multi-level governance in specific policy areas is highlighted, and the contributors - an international group of highly renowned scholars - report on the ways in which their field of specialization is or may be affected by multi-level governance and how developments could affect its conceptualization. European integration is considered from its unique standpoint as the key catalyst in the development of multi-level approaches, and the use of multi-level governance in other parts of the world, at both domestic and regional levels, is also considered in detail before focus is shifted towards global governance. The Handbook concludes with a presentation of six policy fields and instruments affected by multi-level governance, including: social policy, environmental policy, economic policy, international taxation, standard-setting and policing.This comprehensive Handbook takes stock of the vast array of multi-level governance theory and research developed in subfields of political science and public policy, and as such will provide an invaluable reference tool for scholars, researchers and students with a special interest in public policy, regulation and governance.Contributors: M.W. Bauer, M. Beisheim, A. Benz, T.A. Börzel, D. Braun, T. Büthe, S. Campe, S. Clarkson, H. Enderlein, B. Geys, A. Graser, T.N. Hale, M. Hallerberg, A. Hassel, E. Herschinger, S. Hix, L. Hooghe, C. Humrich, M. Jachtenfuchs, C. Jeffery, I. Kaul, K.A. Konrad, C. Kraft-Kasack, S. Kuhnle, G. Marks, W. Mattli, F.W. Mayer, A. Obydenkova, B. Rittberger, T. Rixen, A. Sbragia, M. Schäferhoff, F.W. Scharpf, J.A. Scholte, M.A. Schreurs, A.-M. Slaughter, M.B. Stein, W. Swenden, L. Turkewitsch, S. Wälti, B. Zangl, M. ZürnTrade Review’The editors have produced an authoritative and comprehensive guide to multi-level governance. The book ranges across the domestic context, supraregionalism and global governance - all filtered through a sophisticated analytical framework and attention to policy detail. There is no better place to go than this book for a guide to the topic. An outstanding accomplishment.’ -- David Held, London School of Economics, UK’The handbook provides an authoritative overview of the MLG literature. . . it has the potential to be widely used as a source of reference. The book is systematically structured, and most chapters are of high quality.’ -- Achim Hurrelmann, Environment and Planning C’This volume brings together scholars with a wide range of scholarly backgrounds to re?ect on the value of MLG in different contexts, with sections on analytical approaches: MLG in the domestic context; the EU as a multi-level system; MLG and comparative regionalism; global governance; and policy areas. . . This is a valuable contribution to a debate that is not about to go away.’ -- Ian Bache, Political StudiesTable of ContentsContents: Introduction Michael Zürn, Sonia Wälti and Henrik Enderlein PART I: ANALYTICAL APPROACHES 1. Types of Multi-level Governance Liesbet Hooghe and Gary Marks 2. Federalism and Optimal Allocation Across Levels of Governance Benny Geys and Kai A. Konrad 3. Multi-level Games Frederick W. Mayer 4. Multi-level Europe – The Case for Multiple Concepts Fritz W. Scharpf 5. Global Governance as Multi-level Governance Michael Zürn PART II: MULTI-LEVEL GOVERNANCE IN THE DOMESTIC CONTEXT 6. Subnational Participation in National Decisions: The Role of Second Chambers Wilfried Swenden 7. Multi-level Governance, Decentralization and Fiscal Federalism Mark Hallerberg 8. Multi-level Party Competition in Federal and Regional States Charlie Jeffery 9. Multi-level Governance and Organized Interests Anke Hassel 10. Multi-level Governance in Germany and Switzerland Dietmar Braun 11. Multi-level Governance in Canadian and American Intergovernmental Relations Michael B. Stein and Lisa Turkewitsch PART III: THE EU AS A MULTI-LEVEL SYSTEM 12. The Institutional Framework of the European Union Markus Jachtenfuchs 13. The European Union as a Loosely Coupled Multi-level System Arthur Benz 14. Party Politics in the European Union Simon Hix 15. Multi-level Governance and Parliaments in the European Union Berthold Rittberger 16. Regions and the European Union Michael W. Bauer and Tanja A. Börzel PART IV: MULTI-LEVEL GOVERNANCE AND COMPARATIVE REGIONALISM 17. Multi-level Governance and Comparative Regionalism Alberta Sbragia 18. Multi-modal Governance in North America Stephen Clarkson 19. Multi-level Governance in Post-Soviet Eurasia: Problems and Promises Anastassia Obydenkova 20. Multi-level Governance the ASEAN Way Miranda A. Schreurs PART V: GLOBAL GOVERNANCE 21. The Changing Role of the United Nations: Lessons for Multi-level Governance Inge Kaul 22. Global Governance through Legislation Christoph Humrich and Bernhard Zangl 23. Transgovernmental Networks and Multi-level Governance Anne-Marie Slaughter and Thomas N. Hale 24. Global Governance through Public–Private Partnerships Marianne Beisheim, Sabine Campe and Marco Schäferhoff 25. Civil Society in Multi-level Governance Jan Aart Scholte PART VI: POLICY AREAS 26. Social Policy and Multi-level Governance Alexander Graser and Stein Kuhnle 27. Multi-level Environmental Governance Sonia Wälti 28. Economic Policy-making and Multi-level Governance Henrik Enderlein 29. International Taxation and Multi-level Governance Thomas Rixen 30. Standards for Global Markets: Domestic and International Institutions Tim Büthe and Walter Mattli 31. International Policing: Embedding the State Monopoly of Force Eva Herschinger, Markus Jachtenfuchs and Christiane Kraft-Kasack Index

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Book SynopsisThis illuminating title applies rational choice theory to the power debate, demonstrating the fallacious arguments of all sides. Power is analysed as a bargaining game where the power of actors is assessed in terms of the resources to which they have access. By distinguishing luck from power it shows that many groups widely regarded as powerful are merely lucky, albeit as a result of systematic features of society. This is one of the first conceptual books on power directly to engage both classical and modern empirical debates on the power structure at both the local and national level.Trade Review'This engaging book breathes new life into the rather sterile debate about power through the use of the tools of rational choice theory. In a refreshing shift of emphasis, Keith Dowding also challenges the standard antagonistic relationship between rational choice and structuralism by indicating how rationality can lie at the heart of structural theory. . . . a very interesting and important contribution to current debates both about power and the uses of rational choice theory.'Table of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction 2. Rational Choice and a Theory of Action 3. Preferences and Objective Interests 4. Political Power and Bargaining Theory 5. Collective Action and Dimensions of Power 6. State Power Structures 7. Preference Formation, Social Location and Ideology 8. Conclusions

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Book SynopsisA just society guarantees its members rights to basic civil liberties protecting the political liberties associated with democratic governance, while ensuring state accountability and responsiveness to citizens. Despite broad agreement on these abstract requirements, the conditions that foster justice, thus understood, are a matter of long-standing controversy in political theory.This important collection addresses these controversies with over fifty articles on basic political institutions such as the rule of law, judicial review, federalism, separation of powers, freedom of speech, elections and parties, direct democracy, organized social groups, and administrative agencies.Trade Review'Contemporary political theorists and political scientists have good reasons to compliment Cohen and Fung on compiling this extremely useful and thought provoking set of volumes.'Table of ContentsContents: Volume I: Acknowledgements Part I: The Rule of Law Part II: Protecting Rights Through Judical Review Part III: Federalism and The Separation of Powers Index • Volume II: Acknowledgements Part I: Freedom of Speech as an Instrument of Democracy Part II: Voting, Parties, and Popular Control of Government Index • Volume III: Acknowledgements Part I: Direct Democracy Part II: Group Politics and Democratic Governance Index • Volume IV: Acknowledgements Part I: Democracy, and Administrative Power Part II: Constitutionalism, Democracy and War Powers Part III: Beyond the State Index

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Book SynopsisThe Economics of Restructuring and Intervention carries forward the work of Marx, Kalecki, Keynes and Kaldor in analysing questions of growth, distribution and government intervention. It will be essential reading for all those wishing to understand the massive economic and political shifts as we enter the 1990s - the globalization of markets and production, continued growth of the Third World and East European debt, the emerging digital economy. Political debates thrown up by these economic, industrial and technological developments are subject to rigorous scrutiny and critique - from the employment effects of wage cuts to the calls for ‘supply side socialism’.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction Part I: The Global Economy 1. The Modern Dialectic: Ideology and Economic Reality (John Kenneth Galbraith) 2. The Economic Instability of the 1980s (Ferdinando Targetti) 3. East European Debt: A Comparative Perspective (Hans van Zon) Part II: Kalecki and Kaldor 4. Kalecki and Kaldor on Development Finance (Laurence Harris) 5. Kaldor's Vision of the Growth and Development Process (A.P. Thirlwall) 6. Analysing the Operation of Market Economies in the Spirit of Kaldor and Kalecki (Malcolm C. Sawyer) Part III: Wages and Prices 7. The Search for a 'Stylised Fact' of Cyclical Wages (Jonathan Michie) 8. Efficiency Wages: Mark-up Pricing and Effective Demand (Peter Skott) 9. The Economic of Shortage: A Post-Kaleckian Approach (Malcolm C. Sawyer) Part IV: Supply Side Socialism 10. Industrial Restructuring and Public Intervention (Nicholas Costello, Jonathan Michie and Seumas Milne) 11. Supply Side Socialism in the UK: A Post-Keynesian Perspective (Philip Arestis)

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Book SynopsisThis valauble book presents fresh perspectives on constitutional change in modern Britain. Each contributor - a leading authority in his particular field - focuses on an institution or aspect of the constitution and asks what has changed, why has it changed and what is likely to happen in the future. In conclusion, Philip Norton challenges the growing pressure for a new constitutional settlement. The British system of government, he argues, is under threat from a fragmentation of power: it needs to be protected not weakened. A new constitution offers the prospect of political inertia and failed expectations.The book will be essential and stimulating reading for both students and practitioners of British politics.Trade Review'It is an ideal volume to stimulate discussion among students of British government, central and local.' -- G.W. Jones, Local Government Studies'. . . this book contains a good deal that is informative. It achieves its goal of avoiding a rehash of the constitutional debate familiar from other sources. And although focusing on some of the less common themes, still contributes to current discussion of future developments in the British system.' -- Jorgen Rasmussen, British Politics Group NewsletterTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction (Philip Norton) 2. How Much Room at the Top? Margaret Thatcher, the Cabinet and Power Sharing (Peter Hennessy) 3. Judicial Independence in Britain: Challenges Real and Threats Imagined (Gavin Drewry) 4. The Changing Face of Parliament – Lobbying and its Consequences (Philip Norton) 5. Now Nobody Understands the System: The Changing Face of Local Government (R.A.W. Rhodes) 6. The Community and Britain: The Changing Relationship Between London and Brussels (Lord Clinton-Davis) 7. Parliamentary Sovereignty in the 1990s (J. Enoch Powell) 8. In Defence of the Constitution – A Riposte to the Radicals (Philip Norton)

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Book SynopsisThis major two volume reference work focuses on the works of contemporary Marxism which take as their inspiration the classical Marxian political economy, especially that of Marx, Engels, Lenin, Luxemburg and Gramsci. The authors reprinted here are engaged in the common enterprise of attempting to understand the world in a manner that might facilitate its transformation for the better, or at least help prevent the worst outcomes from predictable and inevitable changes. Committed to the critical, scientific and explanatory project of Marxism, the authors represented in these volumes tend to be structuralist and determinist but they also acknowledge the role of voluntarism, chance or untheorized circumstance. All have borrowed from the philosophical, political, and most importantly, political economic strands of the classical Marxist legacy to create a new and contemporary Marxian political economy. These authoritative volumes will be an essential reference point for an analysis of one of the most influential political ideologies of the 20th century.Table of ContentsContents: Volume I: Introduction Part I: The Marxist Theory of History of Development' G.A. Cohen (1988), 'Forces and Relations of Production' Immanuel Wallerstein (1974), 'The Rise and Future Demise of the World Capitalists System: Concepts for Comparative Analysis' Robert Brenner (1986), 'The Social Basis of Economic Development' G.A. Cohen (1988), 'Reconsidering Historic Materialism' Alan Carling (1990), 'Marx, Cohen and Brenner: Functionalism Versus Rational Choice in the Marxist Theory of History' Part II: Hegemony and Consent; Jerome Karabel (1976), 'Revolutionary Contradictions: Antonio Gramsci and the Problems of Intellectuals' Joshua Cohen and Joel Rogers (1983), 'Structure' James Scott (1977), 'Hegemony and the Peasantry' Frances Fox Piven (1976), 'The Social Structuring of Political Protest' Part III: The State in History Michael Mann (1977), 'States, Ancient and Modern' Michael Hechter and William Brustein (1980), 'Regional Modes of Production and Patterns of State Formation in Western Europe' Isaac Deutscher (1969), 'Roots of Bureaucracy' Margaret Levi (1981), 'The Predatory Theory of Rule' Part IV: Approaches to Marxism: Culture, Structure and Rational Choice E.P. Thompson (1965), 'The Peculiarities of the English' Erklin Olin Wright (1989), 'What is Analytical Marxism?' Adam Przeworski (1985), 'Marxism and Rational Choice' Volume II: Introduction Part I: Classes and the State in Capitalism Aristide R. Zolberg (1986), 'How Many Exceptionalisms?' David Abraham (1977), 'State and Classes in Weimar Germany' Fred Block (1977), 'The Ruling Class does not Rule: Notes on the Marxist Theory of the State' Guillermo O'Donnell (1978), 'Reflections on the Patterns of Change in the Bureaucratic—Authoritarian State' Part II: Class Conflict in Capitalist Democracies John R. Bowman (1985), 'When Workers Organize Capitalists: The Case of the Bituminous Coal Industry' Claus Offe (1983), 'Competitive Party Democracy and the Keynesian Welfare State: Factors of Stability and Disorganization' Adam Przeworski and Michael Wallerstein (1982), 'The Structure of Class Conflict in Democratic Capitalist Societies' Ira Katznelson (1979), 'Community, Capitalist Development and the Emergence of Class' Part III: Racial and Ethical Conflict Harold Wolpe (1972), 'Capitalism and Cheap Labour-Power in South Africa: From Segregation to Apartheid' Constance Lever-Tray (1983), 'Immigrant Workers and Postwar Capitalism: In Reserve or Core Troops in the Front Line?' William Brustien (1983), 'French Political Regionalism: 1849-1978' Part IV: Gender Conflict Carole Pateman (1988), 'Wives, Slaves, and Wage Slaves' Frances Fox Piven (1985), 'Women and the State: Ideology, Power, and the Welfare State' Ruth Milkman (1982), 'Redfining "Women's Work": The Sexual Division of Labor in the Auto Industry During World War II' Maxine Molyneux (1985), 'Mobilization Without Emancipation? Women's Interests, the State, and Revolution in Nicaragua' Part V: Contemporary Socialism in Eastern Europe Ivan Szelenyi and Bill Martin (1988), 'The Three Waves of New Class Theories' Michael Burawoy (1989), 'Reflections on the Class Consciousness of Hungarian Steelworkers' Michael Burawoy (1990), 'Marxism is Dead, Long Live Marxism!'

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