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Cambridge University Press Political Patronage in Asian Bureaucracies
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Cambridge University Press The Political Thought of the English Free State 16491653
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Cambridge University Press The Political Thought of the English Free State 16491653
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Cambridge University Press Rawlss A Theory of Justice at 50
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Cambridge University Press History in the Humanities and Social Sciences
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Cambridge University Press Structures of Governance in Song Dynasty China 9601279 CE
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Cambridge University Press A.V. Dicey and the Common Law Constitutional Tradition
Book SynopsisIn the common law world, Albert Venn Dicey (18351922) is known as the high priest of orthodox constitutional theory, as an ideological and nationalistic positivist. In his analytical coldness, his celebration of sovereign power, and his incessant drive to organize and codify legal rules separate from moral values or political realities, Dicey is an uncanny figure. This book challenges this received view of Dicey. Through a re-examination of his life and his 1885 book Law of the Constitution, the high priest Dicey is defrocked and a more human Dicey steps forward to offer alternative ways of reading his canonical text, who struggled to appreciate law as a form of reasoned discourse that integrates values of legality and authority through methods of ordinary legal interpretation. The result is a unique common law constitutional discourse through which assertions of sovereign power are conditioned by moral aspirations associated with the rule of law.Trade Review'In this highly engaging and elegantly written book, Mark Walters skilfully combines biography, history, constitutional law, jurisprudence and moral theory to give us a compelling account of Dicey and his thinking. He presents a major challenge to the orthodox picture of Dicey as a legal positivist writing in the shadow of John Austin. We find in these pages a more complex and sophisticated thinker, developing an understanding of law as a discourse of reason, closer to the work of his friends Henry Sidgwick and T. H. Green. Anyone interested in the nature of common law constitutionalism, as a distinctive account of the legal order, will be gripped by this very fine book. It enables us to see why, despite the frequently dismissive criticism, Dicey's work has rightly remained so interesting and influential. We can grasp the profound implications for human freedom of constitutional law being, in its common law conception, 'ordinary' law.' T. R. S. Allan, Professor of Jurisprudence and Public Law, University of Cambridge'The book is of immense importance for anyone with an interest in the Common Law or jurisprudence, especially within a United Kingdom context.' Javier García Oliva, Law and JusticeTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. The biggest legal mind we have; 3. Young Dicey in Oxford; 4. Dicey the common lawyer; 5. Dicey and the art and science of law; 6. Lectures introductory to the law of the constitution; 7. Dicey's legal constitution; 8. The law of parliamentary sovereignty; 9. The supremacy of ordinary law; 10. Sovereignty and the spirit of legality; 11. Dicey's administrative law blind spot; 12. Towards a discursive legalism; 13 The constitution in the common law tradition; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Founding of Modern States
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Cambridge University Press The Founding of Modern States
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Cambridge University Press Liberalism after the Revolution
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Cambridge University Press Making Bureaucracy Work
Book SynopsisThis book sheds new light on bureaucratic performance and education in developing countries. Through a multi-level comparative analysis of four Indian states, and over two years of ethnographic research, the book opens the 'black box' of Indian bureaucracy, revealing how bureaucratic norms interact with social inequalities to shape public services.Trade Review'In Making Bureaucracy Work, Mangla delves deeply into the local implementation of education policy in some of India's poorest states to ask when governments are able to deliver social services to their citizens and, ultimately, to improve social outcomes. His novel answer to this vitally important question focuses on how bureaucratic norms, which vary markedly across different localities, drive better implementation of government education policies. Paradoxically, a commitment to 'legalism,' which compels bureaucrats to strictly enforce rules and administrative hierarchies, can hinder school monitoring, among other tasks, reinforcing inequalities, whereas norms of 'deliberation' are more flexible, encouraging pragmatic responses to policy challenges. Based on deep ethnographic research, Mangla zooms into the local politics of service delivery in ways that few scholars have done, advancing our knowledge of how social outcomes actually improve - or fail to improve - on the ground.' Melani Cammett, Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs, Harvard University'For all that has been written about the Indian state, we have never really understood how the bureaucracy works. Until now. Mangla's book not only unpacks the Indian state, but through his empirically rich and rigorously crafted comparative analysis of the education bureaucracy in subnational states he shows us how and why bureaucracies can utterly fail and when they become agents of inclusive development.' Patrick Heller, Lyn Crost Professor of Social Sciences, Department of Sociology, Brown University'This meticulously researched book addresses one of the deepest puzzles about Indian development, the early neglect of basic education, and its later (partial) correction. Using a variety of empirical methods and sources, the book highlights the role of bureaucratic norms in policy implementation and outcomes and provides a novel and richly textured understanding of state capacity.' Devesh Kapur, Starr Foundation Professor of South Asian Studies, Johns Hopkins University'Social norms are the glue and grease of every organization, from families and communities to corporations and governments. Yet the origins, durability and effects of social norms are remarkably understudied. In this path-breaking book, Akshay Mangla documents the decisive role that implementation systems characterized by legalistic and deliberative social norms play in shaping the wide variation in learning outcomes across primary schools in north India. Mangla takes us on an engaging and instructive journey across different interacting layers of carefully matched locations to tease out where, how and when social norms create or shrink space for problem-solving and innovation. The implications of his findings are of first-order importance not only for Indian policymakers seeking to enhance learning outcomes for millions of students, but for all those forging new ways to build state capability for policy implementation.' Michael Woolcock, World Bank and Harvard University, Co-author of Building State CapabilityTable of ContentsPart I. Introduction, Puzzles and Theory: 1. Introduction: bureaucracy and the politics of implementing primary education; 2. Bureaucratic norms: a theory of implementation; 3. The state and primary education in India; Part II. Implementing Primary Education in Northern India: 4. How legalistic bureaucracy generates uneven implementation; 5. How deliberative bureaucracy facilitates adaptive implementation; 6. Norm persistence: exit, voice and bureaucratic inertia; 7. Norm change: conflict and commitment on the front lines of reform; Part III. Comparative Extensions and Implications: 8. The argument in comparative perspective; 9. Conclusion: reimagining bureaucracy for inclusive development; Appendix: researching bureaucracy and frontline public services.
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Cambridge University Press Indias Bangladesh Problem
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Cambridge University Press When the People Rule
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Cambridge University Press When the People Rule
Book SynopsisThis volume re-examines popular sovereignty, a vital principle of modern politics jeopardized by deepening polarization and the global rise of authoritarian populism. Eighteen cutting-edge contributions from scholars and practitioners engage with the dilemmas of popular sovereignty through interdisciplinary approaches and perspectives.
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Cambridge University Press Contested Representation
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Cambridge University Press Contested Representation
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Cambridge University Press Seeing Matters
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Cambridge University Press Political Plasticity
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Cambridge University Press Time History and Political Thought
Book SynopsisExplores the multiple ways in which different conceptions of time and history have been used to understand politics since late antiquity, showing that no conception of politics has dispensed altogether with time, and many have explicitly sought legitimacy in association with forms of history.
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Cambridge University Press Time History and Political Thought
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Handbook of Privatization
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Cambridge University Press Interpreting Adam Smith
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Cambridge University Press Machiavellis Effectual Truth
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Cambridge University Press Stanley Cavells Democratic Perfectionism
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Cambridge University Press Stanley Cavells Democratic Perfectionism
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Cambridge University Press Reclaiming the Public
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Cambridge University Press Public Nuisance
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Cambridge University Press Sovereign Anxiety
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Cambridge University Press Can Democracy Recover
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Cambridge University Press Quality Control
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Cambridge University Press Staël Romanticism and Revolution
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Cambridge University Press The Third Sword
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Cambridge University Press The Third Sword
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Cambridge University Press Social Anarchism and the Rejection of Moral Tyranny
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Cambridge University Press The Rebirth of Territory
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Cambridge University Press Democracy and Empire
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Cambridge University Press Democracy and Empire
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Cambridge University Press Constitutional Symmetry
Book SynopsisAddressing the intense political debates surrounding constitutional law and the Supreme Court, this book urges judges to resist politicization and make decisions that benefit both conservatives and progressives. A must-read for anyone seeking to understand the sources and implications of constitutional disagreements in contemporary America.
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Cambridge University Press Constitutional Symmetry
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Cambridge University Press New Public Governance as a Hybrid
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Cambridge University Press Cold War Liberalism
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Cambridge University Press New Public Governance as a Hybrid
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Cambridge University Press Maimonides and Jewish Theocracy
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Cambridge University Press The Political Dynamics of Partisan Polarization
Book SynopsisThis is a study of the dynamics of partisan polarization in the United States. It has three objectives: (1) to identify and explain why some Republicans and Democrats ? but not others ? have polarized, particularly over the last twenty years; (2) to demonstrate that they have done so not on this or that issue but systematically, programmatically ? domain versus issue sorting; and (3) to bring into the open profound asymmetries in polarization between the two parties, not least that Republicans polarized early and thoroughly on issues of race, while Democrats in the largest number stayed neutral or even conservative until only recently. Emerging from the reasoning and results is a revised theory of party identification that specifies the conditions under which ordinary Republicans and Democrats can become ideological partisans ? real-life conservatives and liberals in their behavior ? in the choices they make on candidates, policies, and parties.
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Cambridge University Press The Political Dynamics of Partisan Polarization
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Cambridge University Press Deciphering the Genome of Constitutionalism
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Cambridge University Press Making Sense of Knowledge
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Cambridge University Press Public Inquiries and Policy Design
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