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  • When Things Fell Apart

    State Failure in Late-Century Africa

    af Robert H. Bates ...
    Serier serie Canto Classics
    In the later decades of the twentieth century, Africa plunged into political chaos. States failed, governments became predators, and citizens took up arms. In When Things Fell Apart, Robert H. Bates advances an exploration of state failure in Africa. In so doing, he not only plumbs the depths of the continent's late-century tragedy, but also the logic of political order, and the foundations of the ... Læs mere

    176,39 kr.

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  • Patterns of Democracy: Government Forms and Performance in Thirty-Six Countries

    af Arend Lijphart ...
    In this updated and expanded edition of his classic text, Arend Lijphart offers a broader and deeper analysis of worldwide democratic institutions than ever before. Examining thirty-six democracies during the period from 1945 to 2010, Lijphart arrives at important—and unexpected—conclusions about what type of democracy works best.Praise for the previous edition:"Magnificent. . . . The best ... Læs mere

    168,37 kr.

  • Unequal Democracy

    The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age - Second Edition

    af Larry M. Bartels ...
    Serier serie Russell Sage Foundation Co-pub
    An acclaimed examination of how the American political system favors the wealthy—now fully revised and expandedThe first edition of Unequal Democracy was an instant classic, shattering illusions about American democracy and spurring scholarly and popular interest in the political causes and consequences of escalating economic inequality. This revised, updated, and expanded second edition includes ... Læs mere

    286,24 kr.

  • Unholy Trinity

    The IMF, World Bank and WTO

    af Richard Peet ...
    Who really runs the global economy? Who benefits most from it?The answer is a triad of 'governance institutions' - The IMF, the World Bank and the WTO. Globalization massively increased the power of these institutions and they drastically affected the livelihoods of peoples across the world. Yet they operate undemocratically and aggressively promote a particular kind of neoliberal capitalism. ... Læs mere

    252,16 kr.

  • States and Power in Africa

    Comparative Lessons in Authority and Control - Second Edition

    af Jeffrey Herbst, Jeffrey Herbst ...
    Serier serie Princeton Studies in International History and Politics
    Theories of international relations, assumed to be universally applicable, have failed to explain the creation of states in Africa. There, the interaction of power and space is dramatically different from what occurred in Europe. In States and Power in Africa, Jeffrey Herbst places the African state-building process in a truly comparative perspective. Herbst's bold contention—that the conditions ... Læs mere

    851,99 kr.

  • Growing Apart

    Oil, Politics, and Economic Change in Indonesia and Nigeria

    af Peter Lewis ...
    Serier serie Interests, Identities, And Institutions In Comparative Politics
    "Growing Apart is an important and distinguished contribution to the literature on the political economy of development. Indonesia and Nigeria have long presented one of the most natural opportunities for comparative study. Peter Lewis, one of America's best scholars of Nigeria, has produced the definitive treatment of their divergent development paths. In the process, he tells us much ... Læs mere

    217,74 kr.

  • Property and Political Order in Africa

    Land Rights and the Structure of Politics

    af Catherine Boone ...
    Serier serie Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
    In sub-Saharan Africa, property relationships around land and access to natural resources vary across localities, districts and farming regions. These differences produce patterned variations in relationships between individuals, communities and the state. This book captures these patterns in an analysis of structure and variation in rural land tenure regimes. In most farming areas, state ... Læs mere

    344,76 kr.

  • Looting Africa

    The Economics of Exploitation

    af Patrick Bond ...
    Despite the rhetoric, the people of Sub-Saharan Africa are become poorer. From Tony Blair's Africa Commission and the Make Poverty History campaign to the Hong Kong WTO meeting, Africa's gains have been mainly limited to public relations. The central problems remain exploitative debt and financial relationships with the North, phantom aid, unfair trade, distorted investment and the continent's ... Læs mere

    273,81 kr.

  • Industrialization and Development in the Third World

    af Rajesh Chandra ...
    Serier serie Routledge Introductions to Development
    Developing countries have undergone significant industrialization in the last three decades. Yet industrial growth reveals marked spatial inequalities in terms of both country and location. The Newly Industrialised Countries have achieved spectacular growth in sharp contrast to many other countries of the South. Industrial structure has changed, moving away from labour intensive industries to more ... Læs mere

    473,45 kr.

  • Politics & the Struggle for Democracy in Ghana

    An Introduction to Political Science

    af Dr. Joseph K. Manboah-Rockson ...
    Politics & the Struggle for Democracy in Ghana is a pioneering attempt to describe the Ghanaian political system, define its parameters, its structures and analyze the ups and downs of democratic transitions and the struggles thereof. The book is a good fit for students pursuing courses in political science at the university level in Ghana or studying social science at Ghanaian Senior High Schools ... Læs mere

    36,25 kr.

  • The New Scramble for Africa

    af Padraig R. Carmody ...
    Once marginalized in the world economy, Africa today is a major global supplier of crucial raw materials like oil, uranium and coltan. China's part in this story has loomed particularly large in recent years, and the American military footprint on the continent has also expanded. But a new scramble for resources, markets and territory is now taking place in Africa involving not just state, but non ... Læs mere

    204,11 kr.

  • The Formation of National Party Systems

    Federalism and Party Competition in Canada, Great Britain, India, and the United States

    af Pradeep Chhibber, Kenneth Kollman ...
    Pradeep Chhibber and Ken Kollman rely on historical data spanning back to the eighteenth century from Canada, Great Britain, India, and the United States to revise our understanding of why a country's party system consists of national or regional parties. They demonstrate that the party systems in these four countries have been shaped by the authority granted to different levels of government. ... Læs mere

    395,36 kr.