Politics, social theory, history of ideas

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Power Grab

Political Survival through Extractive Resource Nationalization

Paasha Mahdavi | University of California, Santa Barbara

Power Grab shows that controlling the means of production of oil and minerals determines the rise and fall of political leaders. Nationalizationseizing operations for the state - is a gamble: its immediate windfalls can fortify the foundations of enduring rule, or its operational costs can risk future prosperity and political survival.

Business and Public Policy

276pp 29 b/w illus. 16 tables

Mar. 2022 9781108748681 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99

Apr. 2020 9781108478892 Hardback GBP 78.99 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781108781350

Public Policy and Universities

The Interplay of Knowledge and Power

Andrew Gunn | Monash University, Victoria

This element explores the reconfiguration of interactions between universities and the state, while highlighting the role policy analysis can play in explaining these dynamics. This element reveals how universities, remain subject to a multifaceted form of nation state oversight as they continue to globalise in an uncertain world.

Elements in Public Policy

75pp

Jun. 2022 9781108703666 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781108645867

Streets in Motion

The Making of Infrastructure, Property, and Political Culture in Twentieth-century Calcutta

Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay

It develops an approach to urban history by theorizing and historicizing the ‘street’ as an apparatus of city-making and subject formation. It works at two registers – a local history of Calcutta in colonial and post-colonial periods, and a theorizing of the logistical and political-cultural centrality of the street within this rubric.

Metamorphoses of the Political: Multidisciplinary Approaches

320pp

Sep. 2022 9781009100113 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009109208

Subaltern Frontiers

Agrarian City-Making in Gurgaon

Thomas Cowan | University of Nottingham

It is the story of India’s urban transformation, examining how the post-liberalisation urban project has been shaped through subaltern histories, logics and subjects. The subaltern frontiers play a role in transferring commonlyowned agricultural land into legible property, and shaping cheap, exploitable migrant labour that the city depends on.

220pp

Sep. 2022 9781009100472 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009118859

The Cost of Doing Politics

How Partisanship and Public Opinion Shape

Corporate Influence

Jane L. Sumner | University of Minnesota

Using quantitative and qualitative evidence, Sumner shows that consumer boycotts can work to dissuade companies from donating money to politicians, but may also encourage them to attempt influence by less-visible means. This book is written for scholars and students interested in corporate political influence.

Business and Public Policy

200pp

May. 2022 9781009123259 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009128568

The Logic of Capital

An Introduction to Marxist Economic Theory

Deepankar Basu | University of Massachusetts, Amherst

The book presents the main economic argument developed by Marx in the three volumes of Capital in a coherent and comprehensive manner. It will appeal to readers who are interested in critical social sciences, economics, sociology, political science, anthropology in general and Marxism in particular.

436pp

Feb. 2022 9781108832007 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108937559

The Odds Revisited Political Economy of the Development of Bangladesh

K. A. S. Murshid

Provides a comprehensive multi-sectoral approach combining economics, politics, history and the role of individual actors to explain Bangladesh’s record of ‘outlier’ development. This book is an essential read for diplomats, students and scholars interested in the economic development of Bangladesh and South Asia.

South Asia in the Social Sciences

240pp

Sep. 2022 9781009123136 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781009128230

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The Political Regulation Wave

A Case of How Local Incentives Systematically Shape Air Quality in China

Shiran Victoria Shen | Stanford University, California

Why has there been uneven success in reducing air pollution even in the same locality over time? This book offers an innovative theorization of how local political incentives can systematically affect bureaucratic regulation and empirically examines the control of different air pollutants in China and –to a lesser extent – in Mexico.

Cambridge Studies on Environment, Energy and Natural Resources Governance 161pp

Oct. 2022 9781009107099 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

Mar. 2022 9781009100144 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009103664

Political theory

Adaptive Inventories

A Practical Guide for Applied Researchers

Jacob M. Montgomery | Washington University, St Louis

The goal of this Element is to provide a detailed introduction to adaptive inventories, an approach to making surveys adjust to respondents’ answers dynamically. This method can help survey researchers measure important latent traits or attitudes accurately while minimizing the number of questions respondents must answer.

Elements in Quantitative and Computational Methods for the Social Sciences

75pp

Jul. 2022 9781108797269 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781108862516

Creating Human Nature

The Political Challenges of Genetic Engineering

Benjamin Gregg | University of Texas, Austin

This book is addressed to the citizens of a liberal democratic political community confronted by the unprecedented challenges of deciding difficult and controversial issues generated by technical possibilities, flowing from rapid developments in biology, medicine, and biotechnology, for editing the human genome.

250pp

Oct. 2022 9781108789714 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99

Oct. 2022 9781108841160 Hardback GBP 79.99 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781108893138

Democratic Multiplicity

Perceiving, Enacting, and Integrating Democratic Diversity

James Tully | University of Victoria, British Columbia

with Sovereignty

American Indians and the Trouble

A Turn Toward Structural Self-Determination

Kouslaa T. Kessler-Mata | University of San Francisco

An examination of the concept and practice of contemporary tribal sovereignty which proposes that tribal self-determination might be better pursued within a federal framework. This fascinating study will be a key reference for researchers, graduate and undergraduate students in American political development, American law, and post-colonial studies.

151pp 1 table

Feb. 2022 9781108402446 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

Oct. 2017 9781108415866 Hardback GBP 82.99 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781108235334

Apocalypse without God

Apocalyptic Thought, Ideal Politics, and the Limits of Utopian Hope

Ben Jones | Pennsylvania State University

Despite often being dismissed as bizarre, apocalyptic thought has persistent appeal in political life. This book explains apocalyptic thought’s political appeal by examining it through the eyes of secular thinkers and makes original contributions to both the history of political thought and contemporary political philosophy.

200pp

Apr. 2022 9781316517055 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009037037

Textbook

Australian Politics in the Twenty-First Century

Old Institutions, New Challenges

Second edition

Stewart Jackson | University of Sydney

Australian Politics in the Twenty-first Century contextualises the Australian political landscape through an institutional lens and has been updated to reflect the application of political theories in today’s civic environment. Written in an accessible and engaging style, it is an invaluable introduction to the Australian political system.

376pp

Nov. 2022 9781009108232 Paperback GBP 66.99 / USD 86.99 eISBN 9781009103701

Our structures of democratic governance are often characterized by ‘dysfunctionality’, ‘hollowing out’, and ‘gridlock’. This volume proposes an approach grounded in five different modes of democratic praxis. In exploring various democratic traditions, it recognizes that addressing eco-social crises requires coordination and cooperation among them.

400pp

Aug. 2022 9781009178365 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99

Aug. 2022 9781009178389 Hardback GBP 79.99 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781009178372

Hanging Together

Role-Based Constitutional Fellowship and the Challenge of Difference and Disagreement

Eric W. Cheng | Waseda University, Japan

This book shows how, through ‘role-based constitutional fellowship,’ democratic trust can be cultivated without squashing difference and disagreement, and without stymying efforts to rectify undue social hierarchies (e.g., racial hierarchies). It is a response to the polarization and rise of autocratic forces which threaten democracy today.

250pp

Jul. 2022 9781009179287 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009179294

NEW IN PAPERBACK In the Name of Liberty

The Argument for Universal Unionization

Mark R. Reiff | University of California, Davis

This book illustrates how the argument from liberty, once properly understood, leads to the same place as the argument from equality, rather than conflicts with it as those on the right often argue. Reiff shows how this argument can be used to justify not only universal unionization, but also a wide variety of other progressive policies.

429pp

Jun. 2022 9781108818599 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

Apr. 2020 9781108495400 Hardback GBP 94.99 / USD 126.00 eISBN 9781108849784