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Nationalist Mobilization and the Collapse of the Soviet State
Av Mark R. Beissinger, Peter Lange m. fl.
Häftad, 2002
653 kr
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This 2002 study examines the process by which the seemingly impossible in 1987 - the disintegration of the Soviet state - became the seemingly inevitable by 1991, providing an original interpretation not only of the Soviet collapse, but also of the phenomenon of nationalism more generally. Probing …
Inside Rebellion
The Politics of Insurgent Violence
Häftad, 2006
520 kr
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Some rebel groups abuse noncombatant populations, while others exhibit restraint. Insurgent leaders in some countries transform local structures of government, while others simply extract resources for their own benefit. In some contexts, groups kill their victims selectively, while in other …
The Logic of Violence in Civil War
Häftad, 2006
542 kr
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By analytically decoupling war and violence, this book explores the causes and dynamics of violence in civil war. Against the prevailing view that such violence is an instance of impenetrable madness, the book demonstrates that there is logic to it and that it has much less to do with collective …
The Politics of Authoritarian Rule
Häftad, 2012
390 kr
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What drives politics in dictatorships? Milan W. Svolik argues authoritarian regimes must resolve two fundamental conflicts. Dictators face threats from the masses over which they rule - the problem of authoritarian control. Secondly from the elites with whom dictators rule - the problem of …
Policy, Office, or Votes?
How Political Parties in Western Europe Make Hard Decisions
Av Wolfgang C. Müller, Kaare Strøm
Häftad, 1999
487 kr
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Leaders of political parties often have to choose between conflicting objectives, such as influence on policy, control of the government, and support among the voters. This book examines the behaviour of political parties in situations where they experience conflict between two or more important …
From Pews to Politics
Religious Sermons and Political Participation in Africa
Av Gwyneth H. McClendon, Rachel Beatty Riedl
Inbunden, 2019
634 kr
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Does religion influence political participation? This book takes up this pressing debate using Christianity in sub-Saharan Africa as its empirical base to demonstrate that religious teachings communicated in sermons can influence both the degree and the form of citizens' political participation. …
Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy
Häftad, 2017
392 kr
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How do democracies form and what makes them die? Daniel Ziblatt revisits this timely and classic question in a wide-ranging historical narrative that traces the evolution of modern political democracy in Europe from its modest beginnings in 1830s Britain to Adolf Hitler's 1933 seizure of power in …
Brokers, Voters, and Clientelism
The Puzzle of Distributive Politics
Av Susan C. Stokes, Thad Dunning m. fl.
Häftad, 2013
569 kr
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Brokers, Voters, and Clientelism addresses major questions in distributive politics. Why is it acceptable for parties to try to win elections by promising to make certain groups of people better off, but unacceptable - and illegal - to pay people for their votes? Why do parties often lavish …
Why Bother?
Rethinking Participation in Elections and Protests
Av S. Erdem Aytaç, Susan C. Stokes
Häftad, 2019
422 kr
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Why do vote-suppression efforts sometimes fail? Why does police repression of demonstrators sometimes turn localized protests into massive, national movements? How do politicians and activists manipulate people's emotions to get them involved? The authors of Why Bother? offer a new theory of why …
The European Parliament and Supranational Party System
A Study in Institutional Development
Av Amie Kreppel, Peter Lange m. fl.
Häftad, 2001
468 kr
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This book examines the impact of increased legislative power and political authority on the internal development of the European Parliament and the supranational party group system. This is done through an analysis of changes in the hierarchical structures that regulate the internal organization of …
Global Capital, Political Institutions, and Policy Change in Developed Welfare States
Av Duane Swank
Häftad, 2002
569 kr
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This book argues that the post-1970 rise in international capital mobility has not contributed to the retrenchment of developed welfare states. Nor has globalization reduced the revenue-raising capacities of governments and undercut the political institutions that support the welfare state. Rather, …
Redeeming the Communist Past
The Regeneration of Communist Parties in East Central Europe
Av Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Peter Lange m. fl.
Häftad, 2002
557 kr
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This major study examines one of the most surprising developments in East Central European politics after the democratic transitions of 1989: the completely unexpected regeneration of the former communist parties. After the collapse of the communist regimes in 1989, these ruling communist parties …
Unemployment in the New Europe
Av Nancy Bermeo
Häftad, 2001
670 kr
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The movement for European integration has yielded a European Union of fifteen states with a unified monetary system that will eventually embrace over 370 million people. If current trends continue, an average of one in ten of these people will be unemployed. Not surprisingly, the European public …
Crony Capitalism
Corruption and Development in South Korea and the Philippines
Av David C. Kang, Peter Lange m. fl.
Häftad, 2002
459 kr
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Why has the literature on Asian development not addressed the issue of money politics in Korea? How can we reconcile the view of an efficient developmental state in Korea before 1997 with reports of massive corruption and inefficiency in that same country in 1998 and 1999? Politics is central to …
Macroeconomic Policies of Developed Democracies
Av Robert J. Franzese, Jr, Peter Lange
Häftad, 2002
569 kr
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This book synthesizes and extends modern political-economic theory to explain the postwar evolution of macroeconomic policy in developed democracies. Chapters 2-4 study transfers, debt, and monetary/wage policy-making and outcomes, stressing that participation enhances transfer-policy …
Understanding Ethnic Violence
Fear, Hatred, and Resentment in Twentieth-Century Eastern Europe
Av Roger D. Petersen, Peter Lange m. fl.
Häftad, 2002
475 kr
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This 2002 book seeks to identify the motivations of individual perpetrators of ethnic violence. The work develops four models, labeled Fear, Hatred, Resentment, and Rage, gleaned from existing social science literatures. The empirical chapters apply these four models to important events of ethnic …
Why Women Protest
Women's Movements in Chile
Av Lisa Baldez, Peter Lange m. fl.
Häftad, 2002
455 kr
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Why do women protest? Under what conditions do women protest on the basis of their gender identity? Professor Baldez answers in terms of tipping, timing and framing. She relies on the concept of tipping to identify the point at which diverse organizations converge to form a women's movement. She …
Insurgent Collective Action and Civil War in El Salvador
Häftad, 2003
422 kr
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Widespread support among rural people for the leftist insurgency during the civil war in El Salvador challenges conventional interpretations of collective action. Those who supplied tortillas, information, and other aid to guerillas took mortal risks and yet stood to gain no more than those who did …
Comparative Historical Analysis in the Social Sciences
Av James Mahoney, Dietrich Rueschemeyer
Häftad, 2003
569 kr
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This book systematically investigates the past accomplishments and future agendas of contemporary comparative-historical analysis. Its core essays explore three major issues: the accumulation of knowledge in the field over the past three decades, the analytic tools used to study temporal process …
Sustaining Abundance
Environmental Performance in Industrial Democracies
Av Lyle Scruggs
Häftad, 2003
468 kr
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The ultimate goal of environmental policy is reducing pollution. Attention to environmental problems in the social sciences has brought some bold generalizations about causes of good results, but almost no systematic cross-national studies that flesh out major theoretical arguments and test those …
Race and Regionalism in the Politics of Taxation in Brazil and South Africa
Häftad, 2003
553 kr
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Nationally-specific definitions of citizenship proved decisive for the development of the Tax State in Brazil and South Africa in the twentieth century. Although both countries had been divided along racial and regional lines in the late nineteenth century, watershed constitutions addressed these …
Social Movements, Political Violence, and the State
A Comparative Analysis of Italy and Germany
Av Donatella della Porta, Peter Lange m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
422 kr
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This book presents empirical research on the nature and structure of political violence. While most studies of social movements focus on single - nations, Donatella della Porta uses a comparative research design to analyse movements in two countries - Italy and Germany - from the 1960s to the …
Merchant Capital and the Roots of State Power in Senegal
1930-1985
Häftad, 2006
586 kr
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In most post-colonial regimes in sub-Saharan Africa, state power has been used to structure economic production in ways that have tended to produce economic stagnation rather than growth. In this 1993 book, Catherine Boone examines the ways in which the exercise of state power has inhibited …
Uncertain Boundaries
The Social and Political Construction of European Economies
Av Marino Regini, Peter Lange m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
586 kr
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During the post-World War II period, a pattern emerged in several European countries: the concentrated and centralized political regulation of the economy, based on the adoption of Keynesian policies, the development of the welfare state and moderately successful attempts at tripartite integration. …
The Puzzle of Strikes
Class and State Strategies in Postwar Italy
Häftad, 2006
787 kr
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This book is an attempt to explain the temporal movement of postwar Italian strikes: why and when strikes go up or down and what the strategies of the main actors involved are. In many ways, the book is unique in the social sciences. First, it takes an inductive approach. Rather than start with …
Traditional Politics and Regime Change in Brazil
Av Frances Hagopian, Peter Lange m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
569 kr
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This 1996 book is about politics in Brazil during the military regime of 1964-85 and the transition to democracy. Unlike most books about contemporary Brazilian politics that focus on promising signs of change, this book seeks to explain remarkable political continuity in the Brazilian political …
Money, Markets, and the State
Social Democratic Economic Policies since 1918
Häftad, 2007
586 kr
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Money, Markets, and the State, first published in 2000, provides in-depth explanations behind the various successes and failures of the economic policies of social democratic governments in five Western European countries: Germany, Great Britain, Sweden, Norway and the Netherlands. Dr Notermans …
Language Repertoires and State Construction in Africa
Av David D. Laitin, Peter Lange
Häftad, 2007
569 kr
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Most African countries have a population composed of a multitude of language groups and most African citizens have a varied repertoire allowing them to rely on different languages for use in the home, at school, in the market, at work and in communicating with political authorities. Language …
The Political Mobilization of the European Left, 1860-1980
The Class Cleavage
Av Stefano Bartolini, Peter Lange m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
871 kr
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In an in-depth comparative analysis, Stefano Bartolini studies the history of socialism and working-class politics in Western Europe. While examining the social contexts, organizational structures and political developments of thirteen socialist experiences from the 1880s to the 1980s, he …
Stuffing the Ballot Box
Fraud, Electoral Reform, and Democratization in Costa Rica
Av Fabrice E. Lehoucq, Ivan Molina
Häftad, 2006
574 kr
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Stuffing the Ballot Box is a pioneering study of electoral fraud and reform. It focuses on Costa Rica, a country where parties gradually transformed a fraud-ridden political system into one renowned for its stability and fair elections by the mid-twentieth century. Lehoucq and Molina draw upon a …
