Political theory

Globalizing Patient Capital

The Political Economy of Chinese Finance in the Americas Stephen B. Kaplan This book is for scholars and practitioners examining the costs and benefits of China’s economic expansion into the Western Hemisphere. It assesses how China’s state-led capitalism, a form of ‘patient capital’ characterized by long-term risk tolerance and a lack of policy conditionality, affects national-level governance across the Americas. • Compares Chinese and Western approaches to finance and development • Examines US–China economic relations through their Western hemispheric ties • Includes interviews with high-ranking government officials and bankers

300pp 7. 2021 9781107182318 Hardback GBP 64.99 / USD 84.99 7. 2021 9781316632048 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99 eISBN 9781316856369

Integrating Logics in the Governance of Emerging Technologies

The Case of Nanotechnology Derrick Mason Anderson | Arizona State University This Element will integrate competing views of governance through the lens of the emerging technology of nanotechnology. The governance of these technologies represents one of the most promising and exciting areas for future research on policy governance processes generally.

Elements in Public Policy

75pp 6. 2021 9781108461474 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781108592024

International Economic Dispute Settlement

Demise or Transformation? Manfred Elsig | Universität Bern, Switzerland The book brings together leading junior and senior researchers from law and political science to explore the current challenges of international economic dispute settlement. Focusing on trade and investment disputes, the book showcases state-ofthe-art empirical work to help understand the current crises and to inform reform discussions. • Provides an assessment of how trade and investment dispute systems work • Examines both short- and long-term challenges and opportunities for international economic dispute settlement • Brings together leading scholars, both junior and senior, in international law and international relations

366pp 7. 2021 9781108832830 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 125.00 eISBN 9781108966122

Land Acquisition and Resource Development in Contemporary India

Shashi Ratnaker Singh | University of Cambridge It highlights the reasons for large scale land conflicts in India, scale of stalled investments, social movements, evolution of land acquisition and mining laws, and what led to the amendments of Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition Resettlement and Rehabilitation Act 2013 and Mining and Mineral Act 2015. • Selectively merges theoretical perspectives on land and natural resource governance • Explains the compensation arguments at two levels: between the project developers and the local project affected community and between the central and provincial governments over the issue of ‘fair’ resource revenue sharing • Advances the argument that the land acquisition drive in India is mired in the politics of two contradictory developmental claims

188pp 4. 2021 9781108486927 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108764872

Land, the State, and War

Property Institutions and Political Order in Afghanistan Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili | University of Pittsburgh This book explains how people define and enforce property rights when they cannot rely on the government to do so, why governments are unable or unwilling to recognize property rights, and why legal titling is unable to improve economic livelihoods in fragile states. • Introduces a common theoretical framework for studying property rights in developing and developed countries • Applies insights from new institutional economics to the Islamic world • Explores whether legal titling is a realistic way to bring political order to a fragile state

Cambridge Studies in Economics, Choice, and Society

380pp 9. 2021 9781108493413 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108642217

Medical Innovation and Disease Burden

Conflicting Priorities and the Social Divide in India Sobin George Drawing from recent concepts and data, the book carefully examines responsiveness of drug, vaccine and medical device innovations to public health priorities in India. It also emphasises the need for a responsible and responsive health innovation framework in which interests of all stakeholders are taken care of. • Critically appraises the new structure and organization of Indian pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical industry • Offers a discussion on the priority areas of future R&D in drug discovery based on public health concerns • Offers a framework for responsive and responsible medical innovation

226pp 6. 2021 9781108832304 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108935838

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28 Mobility as Capability

Women in the Indian Informal Economy Nikhila Menon Provides valuable insights on the dynamics of women’s mobility, autonomy and agency in India’s informal labour market. It illustrates mixed methods research and challenges the current discourse on gender and paid work using Capability Approach. • Provides insights on lived experiences of hard to reach community of informal women workers • Challenges the myth of exalted status of women in the Kerala model of development • In-depth analysis of the complex patriarchal structures of State, markets and work places which stifle women’s agency

300pp 9. 2021 9781108836425 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108870924

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On Feeding the Masses

An Anatomy of Regulatory Failure in China John K. Yasuda | Indiana University The book examines the politics of regulatory policymaking, supply chain management, and standards setting in the world’s largest food production system. By understanding China’s scale problem in governance, scholars, policymakers, and business leaders will be able to identify the root causes of and potential solutions to China’s food safety crisis. • Assesses China’s food safety problems in comparative context • Utilizes interviews with government officials, internal food safety documents, and policy experimentation sites • Provides in-depth case studies drawing from extensive fieldwork

278pp 10 b/w illus. 14 tables 1. 2021 9781316648971 Paperback GBP 21.99 / USD 29.99 7. 2019 9781107199644 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108185851

Public Governance as Co-creation

A Strategy for Revitalizing the Public Sector and Rejuvenating Democracy Christopher Ansell | University of California, Berkeley This book shows what we might achieve from recasting the public sector as a platform and arena for co-creation. It provides a theoretical and practical account of what it takes for politicians, public managers and social entrepreneurs to use co-creation as a tool for producing innovative public value outcomes. • Takes the idea of co-creation from product and service design and examines how it would benefit public governance • Provides a detailed account of the co-creation process and its outcomes • Offers practical recommendations as well as the theoretical framework

Cambridge Studies in Comparative Public Policy

250pp 6. 2021 9781108487047 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781108765381

The Cycle of Coalition

How Parties and Voters Interact under Coalition Governance David Fortunato | School of Global Policy and Strategy at the University of California, San Diego The first book on the interaction of parties and voters throughout the legislative period in multiparty democracies. Combining behavioral and institutional analysis of parliamentary systems, Fortunato explains how coalition governance shapes voters’ perceptions of the policymaking process and how this, in turn, shapes parties’ incentives. • Presents an interdisciplinary analysis of party and voter behaviors in multiparty parliamentary systems • Combines case study of recent events with cross-national quantitative analyses • Details cases in Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, with a special focus on the United Kingdom • Uses simple language to explain analyses of election results, experiments, legislative procedure, media reports, speeches, and surveys • Layouts a detailed framework for future research

Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions

225pp 6. 2021 9781108834803 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108877053

The Dragon, the Eagle, and the Private Sector

Public-Private Collaboration in China and the United States Karen Eggleston | Stanford University, California This comparative study explores the similarities and differences between the United States and China in an important arena of overlapping concern: how best to harness public–private collaboration to accomplish some of each society’s most vital collective purposes. • Examines the evolution of public-private collaboration in the United

States and China across five policy domains • Provides a multi-disciplinary analytical framework for guiding publicprivate collaboration • Offers frameworks and insights that will stay valid beyond immediate changes and events

200pp 6 b/w illus. 8 tables 2. 2021 9781108837071 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 2. 2021 9781108940078 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781108938167

The Dravidian Model

Interpreting the Political Economy of Tamil Nadu Kalaiyarasan A. Maps the politics and processes contributing to the distinct developmental trajectory of Tamil Nadu, southern India. Drawing upon fresh data, literature, policy documents and primary fieldwork, it seeks to explain the social and economic development of the state in terms of populist mobilization against caste based inequalities. • Contributes to conceptualization of social justice within caste society • Shows how addressing status-based inequality can generate social and economic development in the global South • Utilises fresh secondary data and literature to establish the links between policy processes and outcomes in Tamil Nadu

220pp 9. 2021 9781108844130 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781108933506