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Politics, social theory, history of ideas
Violence and Representation in the Arab Uprisings
Benoît Challand
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Examining the histories of citizenship in Tunisia and Yemen, Benoît Challand explains why violence is often connected to portrayals of the Arab Middle East, arguing that the 2011 Arab Uprisings should be considered a source for democratic theory.
The Global Middle East
304pp
Dec. 2022 9781108748261 Paperback GBP 18.99 / USD
31.99
Dec. 2022 9781108490184 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781108780421
Political economy
Accidental Gamblers
Risk and Vulnerability in Vidarbha Cotton
Sarthak Gaurav | Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
A study of how nineteenth century ‘accidents’ particularly in the form of colonial policies and the American Civil War ushered in institutional transformations that shaped the Vidarbha region’s cotton economy. By drawing insights from longitudinal study in villages of the region spanning 12 years, it presents the ‘gambles’ that farmers are part of.
260pp
Oct. 2022 9781108832298 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781108935814
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Youth Politics, Populism, and the Production of Sectarian Violence, 1920–1958
Dylan Baun | University of Alabama, Huntsville
Using unique sources to highlight the daily lives of the young men and women of Lebanon’s youth politics, this study traces the political and cultural history of a diverse set of youth-centric organizations from the 1920s to 1950s to reveal how their distinct type of politics and populism would play a role in the making of modern Lebanon.
Cambridge Middle East Studies
232pp
Oct. 2022 9781108798396 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99
Oct. 2020 9781108491525 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108863230
Women and the Islamic Republic
How Gendered Citizenship Conditions the Iranian State
Shirin Saeidi | University of Arkansas
Based on extensive interviews and oral histories as well as archival sources, this book challenges the dominant masculine theorizations of statemaking in post-revolutionary Iran. Offering a comprehensive study on citizenship formation, it reveals the centrality of non-elite women’s participation in the process of citizenship formation.
Cambridge Middle East Studies
288pp
Jan. 2022 9781316515761 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009026574
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Women, Religion, and the State in Contemporary Turkey
Chiara Maritato | Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy
Using the feminization of the Diyanet to understand the significance of a renewed presence of Islam in the Turkish public realm, this fascinating ethnography explores how the role of a female professional religious officer has penetrated and reshaped even secular spaces in Turkey.
331pp
Sep. 2022 9781108812504 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD
44.99
May. 2020 9781108836524 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108873833
China’s Contained Resource Curse
How Minerals Shape State-Capital-Labor Relations
Jing Vivian Zhan | The Chinese University of Hong Kong
This is the first monograph on the socioeconomic and political impacts of minerals on contemporary China, examining the distinctive effects of minerals on the state, capital and labour and their triangular relations. It provides a novel outlook on the resource curse and derives valuable policy implications for resource management.
330pp
Mar. 2022 9781316511268 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009049757
Coping with Global Institutional Change
A Tale of India’s Textile and Pharmaceutical Industries
Preet S. Aulakh | York University, Toronto
The book provides insights into how two important industries in India coped with the WTO initiated global institutional change. Its use of comparative and multi-level approaches to study institutions and institutional change and findings would appeal to the readers of public policy, management and political economy.
Elements in Current Archaeological Tools and Techniques
248pp
Aug. 2022 9781009176330 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009176347
Digital Technology, Politics, and Policy-Making
Fabrizio Gilardi
This element discusses how digital technology has shaped different domains, identifies areas of research consensus as well as unresolved questions, and argues that a key perspective involves issue definition, that is, how the nature of the problems raised by digital technology is subject to political contestation.
Elements in Public Policy
75pp
Jun. 2022 9781108744904 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781108887304
Disrupted Governance
Towards a New Policy Science
Kris Hartley
This Element explores the uncertain future of public policy practice and scholarship in an age of radical disruption. Building on foundational ideas in policy sciences, we argue that an anachronistic instrumental rationalism underlies contemporary policy logic and limits efforts to understand new policy challenges.
Elements in Public Policy
75pp
Mar. 2022 9781009125680 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781009127868
Frustrated Majorities
How Issue Intensity Enables Smaller Groups of Voters to Get What They Want
Seth J. Hill | University of California, San Diego
Introduces a theory of issue intensity to help explain political representation, special interest politics, elections, and voter behavior. It explains why politicians sometimes support policies opposed by electoral majorities and why some voters spend time and effort participating in politics while others do not.
Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions
200pp 12 b/w illus. 19 tables
Sep. 2022 9781009167673 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99
Sep. 2022 9781009167680 Hardback GBP 79.99 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781009167697
Garments without Guilt?
Global Labour Justice and Ethical Codes in Sri Lankan Apparels
Kanchana N. Ruwanpura | Göteborgs Universitet, Sweden
Uses an analytical framing informed by labour and feminist perspectives to explore how labour struggles in the post-1977 period in Sri Lanka provided important resistance to capitalist processes and continue to shape the industry both within and outside of the shop floor.
224pp
Jun. 2022 9781108832014 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108937573
Geography, Capacity, and Inequality
Spatial Inequality
Pablo Beramendi | Duke University, North Carolina
This Element investigates how economic geography, the distribution of subnational economic endowments within a nation, shapes long-run patterns of inequality through its impact on the development of fiscal capacity.
Elements in Political Economy
75pp
Jun. 2022 9781108828406 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781108908702
Government Transparency
State of the Art and New Perspectives
Gregory Porumbescu | Rutgers University, New Jersey
This Element proposes a multi-level approach to studying government transparency that integrates insights from various perspectives on transparency, while taking a multilayered perspective into account to develops new paths for future research.
Elements in Public Policy
75pp
Jul. 2022 9781108728997 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781108678568
Herding Scientists
A Story of Failed Reform at the CDC
Andrew B. Whitford | University of Georgia
This element helps us better understand how political motives, organizational theories, public problems, and scientific professionalism become entwined in public health.
Elements in Public Policy
75pp
May. 2022 9781108824101 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781108915175
One Road to Riches?
How State Building and Democratization Affect Economic Development
Haakon Gjerløw | Peace Research Institute Oslo
This Element analyses the value of effective state institutions before introducing democracy. To do so, it draws on an extensive global sample of about 180 countries, measured across 1789–2019 and leverage panel regressions, preparametric matching, and sequence analysis to test a number of observable implications.
Elements in Political Economy
75pp
Apr. 2022 9781009054553 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781009053693
Opening Up By Cracking Down
Labor Repression and Trade Liberalization in Democratic Developing Countries
Adam Dean | George Washington University, Washington DC
This book develops a novel theory of globalization in developing countries. The author argues that democratic governments used labor repression to overcome union opposition to trade liberalization. The book presents evidence from archival research on Argentina, Bolivia, Mexico, India, and Turkey, as well as cross-national quantitative analysis.
Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions
180pp
Oct. 2022 9781108478519 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108777964
Policy Feedback
How Policies Shape Politics
Daniel Béland | McGill University, Montréal
This element explores early and more recent contributions of the policy feedback literature to clarify the meaning of this concept and its contribution to both political science and policy studies. This element also discusses the practical implications of policy feedback research through a discussion of its potential impact on policy design.
Elements in Public Policy
75pp
Jun. 2022 9781108940542 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781108938914
