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The Co-Opted State - How Politicians' Control Over Bureaucrats' Careers Threatens Governance

by Sarah (London School Of Economics And Political Science) Brierley

~~128,43€~~ 115,59€ 10% OFF

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 This book explores key topics such as meritocracy, corruption, and distributive politics, offering a theory that applies broadly across low- and middle-income countries. While Ghana serves as the primary case study, the book also includes shadow cases from India and Indonesia. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
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The Co-Opted State - How Politicians' Control Over Bureaucrats' Careers Threatens Governance

by Sarah (London School Of Economics And Political Science) Brierley

~~45,96€~~ 41,36€ 10% OFF

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 This book explores key topics such as meritocracy, corruption, and distributive politics, offering a theory that applies broadly across low- and middle-income countries. While Ghana serves as the primary case study, the book also includes shadow cases from India and Indonesia. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
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Dominance Through Division - Group-Based Clientelism In Japan

by Amy (New York University) Catalinac

~~41,90€~~ 37,71€ 10% OFF

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 Explains why the politics of Japan is dominated by a single party: the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). Amy Catalinac offers a new theory for how politicians competing under a particular set of institutions can cultivate clientelistic relationships with groups of voters, in which money is exchanged for votes.
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Agents Of Empire - English Imperial Governance And The Making Of American Political Institutions

by Sean Gailmard

~~35,76€~~ 32,18€ 10% OFF

 Provides a new strategic logic of English imperial government in North American colonies, and why the crown was ultimately unable to control them. It shows how strategic dynamics in colonial institutions structured American state building. For readers in comparative state formation, imperial legacies, political economy, and American politics.
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Hearings On The Hill - The Politics Of Informing Congress

by Hye Young (Princeton University, New Jersey) You, Ju Yeon (Ohio State University) Park e Pamela (University Of California, San Diego) Ban

~~101,39€~~ 91,25€ 10% OFF

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 Explains how legislators strategically use congressional committees and hearings to collect information from outside Congress. By examining witnesses who testify in front of Congress, we provide a picture of how partisan incentives determine how and from whom Congress seeks information.
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Hearings On The Hill - The Politics Of Informing Congress

by Hye Young (Princeton University, New Jersey) You, Ju Yeon (Ohio State University) Park e Pamela (University Of California, San Diego) Ban

~~32,43€~~ 29,19€ 10% OFF

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 Explains how legislators strategically use congressional committees and hearings to collect information from outside Congress. By examining witnesses who testify in front of Congress, we provide a picture of how partisan incentives determine how and from whom Congress seeks information.
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Opening Up By Cracking Down - Labor Repression And Trade Liberalization In Democratic Developing Countries

by Adam (George Washington University, Washington Dc) Dean

~~25,67€~~ 23,10€ 10% OFF

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 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.
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Agents Of Empire - English Imperial Governance And The Making Of American Political Institutions

by Sean (University Of California, Berkeley) Gailmard

~~36,49€~~ 32,84€ 10% OFF

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 Provides a new strategic logic of English imperial government in North American colonies, and why the crown was ultimately unable to control them. It shows how strategic dynamics in colonial institutions structured American state building. For readers in comparative state formation, imperial legacies, political economy, and American politics.
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Agents Of Empire - English Imperial Governance And The Making Of American Political Institutions

by Sean (University Of California, Berkeley) Gailmard

~~101,39€~~ 91,25€ 10% OFF

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 Provides a new strategic logic of English imperial government in North American colonies, and why the crown was ultimately unable to control them. It shows how strategic dynamics in colonial institutions structured American state building. For readers in comparative state formation, imperial legacies, political economy, and American politics.
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Propaganda In Autocracies - Institutions, Information, And The Politics Of Belief

by Brett L. Carter e Erin Baggott Carter

38,43€ + 10% CARD

 This book draws on the first global dataset of autocratic propaganda, encompassing eight million newspaper articles from 59 countries. It documents dramatic variation in propaganda across autocracies and explain why different autocrats employ different propaganda strategies. The book will interest anyone who cares about dictatorship and democracy.
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Economic Analysis Of Property Rights

by Douglas W. Allen e Yoram Barzel

31,80€ + 10% CARD

 This book is the first to lay out the detailed relationship between economic property rights, transaction costs, and information costs. It uses these concepts to develop a theory of economic property rights to explain why life is organized the way it is. Applications range from marriage and dueling to homesteading and ownership of wildlife.
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Shocking Contrasts - Political Responses To Exogenous Supply Shocks

by Ronald L. Rogowski

42,40€ + 10% CARD

 Students of history, politics, economic change, social hierarchy, and even Fascism will view this book as provocative and indispensable. It illuminates how plagues, blockades, migrations, and such world-changing innovations as the invention of printing precipitate political and social revolutions in some societies but peaceful adaptation in others.
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Conquests And Rents - A Political Economy Of Dictatorship And Violence In Muslim Societies

by Faisal Z. Ahmed

35,78€ + 10% CARD

 Why do many Muslim-majority societies exhibit dictatorship and violence? It is not due to Islam nor aspects of Muslim culture. Rather, this book argues the institutional legacy of the Muslim conquests and variation in nontax government revenues (rents) explain patterns of dictatorship and violence in many Muslim societies today.
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Constraining Dictatorship - From Personalized Rule To Institutionalized Regimes

by Anne Meng

33,13€ + 10% CARD

 By examining the emergence of constitutional rules and power-sharing in Africa, Meng explains how some dictatorships become institutionalized, rule-based systems. This book is of interest to scholars of African and comparative politics studying political economy, formal theory, democratization, comparative constitutions, and presidential power.
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Economic Analysis Of Property Rights

by Douglas W. (Simon Fraser University, British Columbia) Allen e Yoram (University Of Washington) Barzel

100,04€ + 10% CARD

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 This book is the first to lay out the detailed relationship between economic property rights, transaction costs, and information costs. It uses these concepts to develop a theory of economic property rights to explain why life is organized the way it is. Applications range from marriage and dueling to homesteading and ownership of wildlife.
ENGLISH

Economic Analysis Of Property Rights

by Douglas W. (Simon Fraser University, British Columbia) Allen e Yoram (University Of Washington) Barzel

32,45€ + 10% CARD

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 This book is the first to lay out the detailed relationship between economic property rights, transaction costs, and information costs. It uses these concepts to develop a theory of economic property rights to explain why life is organized the way it is. Applications range from marriage and dueling to homesteading and ownership of wildlife.
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Conquests And Rents - A Political Economy Of Dictatorship And Violence In Muslim Societies

by Faisal Z. (Princeton University, New Jersey) Ahmed

113,56€ + 10% CARD

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 Why do many Muslim-majority societies exhibit dictatorship and violence? It is not due to Islam nor aspects of Muslim culture. Rather, this book argues the institutional legacy of the Muslim conquests and variation in nontax government revenues (rents) explain patterns of dictatorship and violence in many Muslim societies today.
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Shocking Contrasts - Political Responses To Exogenous Supply Shocks

by Ronald L. (University Of California, Los Angeles) Rogowski

43,26€ + 10% CARD

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 Students of history, politics, economic change, social hierarchy, and even Fascism will view this book as provocative and indispensable. It illuminates how plagues, blockades, migrations, and such world-changing innovations as the invention of printing precipitate political and social revolutions in some societies but peaceful adaptation in others.
ENGLISH

Conquests And Rents - A Political Economy Of Dictatorship And Violence In Muslim Societies

by Faisal Z. (Princeton University, New Jersey) Ahmed

36,50€ + 10% CARD

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 Why do many Muslim-majority societies exhibit dictatorship and violence? It is not due to Islam nor aspects of Muslim culture. Rather, this book argues the institutional legacy of the Muslim conquests and variation in nontax government revenues (rents) explain patterns of dictatorship and violence in many Muslim societies today.
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After Authoritarianism - Transitional Justice And Democratic Stability

by Monika Nalepa

35,78€ + 10% CARD

 Does transitional justice â€" the practice of reckoning with members and collaborators of a former authoritarian regime â€"stabilize or destabilize new democracies? After Authoritarianism shows engaging with secret legacies authoritarian regimes to be critical for the success of new democracies, more so than purging old elites from the state apparatus.
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After Authoritarianism - Transitional Justice And Democratic Stability

by Monika Nalepa

35,78€ + 10% CARD

 Does transitional justice â€" the practice of reckoning with members and collaborators of a former authoritarian regime â€"stabilize or destabilize new democracies? After Authoritarianism shows engaging with secret legacies authoritarian regimes to be critical for the success of new democracies, more so than purging old elites from the state apparatus.
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Propaganda In Autocracies - Institutions, Information, And The Politics Of Belief

by Brett L. (University Of Southern California) Carter e Erin (University Of Southern California) Baggott Carter

106,80€ + 10% CARD

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 This book draws on the first global dataset of autocratic propaganda, encompassing eight million newspaper articles from 59 countries. It documents dramatic variation in propaganda across autocracies and explain why different autocrats employ different propaganda strategies. The book will interest anyone who cares about dictatorship and democracy.
ENGLISH

Propaganda In Autocracies - Institutions, Information, And The Politics Of Belief

by Brett L. (University Of Southern California) Carter e Erin (University Of Southern California) Baggott Carter

39,20€ + 10% CARD

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 This book draws on the first global dataset of autocratic propaganda, encompassing eight million newspaper articles from 59 countries. It documents dramatic variation in propaganda across autocracies and explain why different autocrats employ different propaganda strategies. The book will interest anyone who cares about dictatorship and democracy.
ENGLISH

Opening Up By Cracking Down - Labor Repression And Trade Liberalization In Democratic Developing Countries

by Adam Dean

26,50€ + 10% CARD

 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.
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