Political economy

Covers topical issues for Africa's development, economics and politics of climate change, water management, public service delivery, and delivering aid.

This volume Boundaries of Inclusion and Exclusion examines the many different and newly emerging ways in which citizenship refers to spatial, symbolic and social boundaries.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Staat, Recht und sozialistische Volkswirtschaft" verfügbar.

An examination of the link between the economic and political development of the Kurds in Turkey, and Turkey''s Kurdish question.

On Line Citizenship discusses the evolutionary trends of cities in terms of e-government in the present and future technological scenario.

This book is an extensive review of the current state of illegal immigration in Europe and North America whilst providing theoretical analysis.

Changes in technology and demand require firms to learn how to continuously reshape unique and non-imitable resources and competences.

International trade has, for decades, been central to economic growth and improved standards of living for nations and regions worldwide.

The International Labour Organization (ILO) is broadening its agenda and carving out a role as a key player in global economic policy-making, and this volume provides a succinct and comprehensive guide to this important organization.

This book explores how and why established parties undermine niche parties or use them against other mainstream opponents.

Latin America's New Insertion in the World Economy examines the contributions governments can make in order to stimulate efficient and export-orientated manufacturing production in small and medium-sized economies in Latin America in the coming years.

Peter Hall and David Soskice's Varieties of Capitalism has become a seminal text and reference point across the social sciences, generating debate and research around political-economic models.

The book discusses the nature of Marxist theory of crisis and applies it to the global financial crisis which began in 2007.

This book examines how increasing Africa-China relations in the fields of trade, development finance and investment have impacted productive capacities and structural economic transformation in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).

This monograph explores the economic consequences of the Cold War, a polarised world order which politicised technology and shaped industrial development.

Originally published in 1981, this book analyses how development aid works in practice.

The people of Colombia have, for the last fifty years, been subject to a specific form of violence: paramilitarism.

Comparing the experience of East Asia and Latin America since the mid-1970s, Elson identifies the key internal factors common to each region which have allowed East Asia to take advantage of the trade, financial, and technological impact of a more globalized economy to support its development, while Latin America has not.

The 'new sharing economy' is a growing phenomenon across the Global North.

Since the 1980s there has been a steady shift from West to East in the international system, economically, politically and culturally.

The first book in the Studies in Economic Transition series applies the theory of economic development to the economy of East Germany.

"e;David Hardwick and Leslie Marsh have assembled a contentious collection of independent thinkers on liberalism's identity and prospects.

This book is about preferences, principally as they figure in positive and normative economics.

"e;Economics of War and Peace: Economic, Legal, and Political Perspectives"e; brings together recent, cutting-edge research on economic factors affecting peace and war.

Local Government in West Africa (1964) examines colonial and independent local government in Nigeria, Ghana and Sierra Leone.

An authoritative assessment of the reform efforts in African economies during the 1980s and early 1990s, with the focus on economic liberalization in those socialist countries which began from a position of pervasive state intervention.

This book traces the patterns of capital accumulation and the changes in class and state formation emanating from it in Iran during the global neoliberal era.

First published in 1998, this volume analyses Brazil's strategy in the Uruguay Round, focusing on the issue of services.

How have US economic defence policies promoted its security since 1933?

Winner of the Rik Davidson/Studies in Political Economy 2022 Book PrizeA key text, Capitalist Political Economy: Thinkers and Theories analyses the field-forming theoretical contributions to political economy that have defined, debated, critiqued, and defended capitalism for more than three centuries.

What do we study when we study International Relations (IR)?

Against the background of increasing interest in the changing nature and quality of work, The Political Economy of Work offers a new and unique assessment of the theoretical analysis of work.

The Political Economy of Plea Bargaining provides the political, economic, and cultural context for understanding the evolution of plea bargaining as a juridical technology implemented to ensure the efficient administration of violations of criminal law.

City Life from Jakarta to Dakar focuses on the politics incumbent to this process - an "e;anticipatory politics"e; - that encompasses a wide range of practices, calculations and economies.

The concept of hyper-active Governance shows how politicians govern complex networks, in light of the politicisation of expertise.

In what are generally understood as unsettled times, this book explores the possibility and desirability of bringing integrated theory back into globalization research.

With the rise of President Trump, many are coming to question where the United States (U.

The last decade has been both traumatic and revolutionary for the U.

The first volume of edited papers from the Tenth World Congress of the Econometric Society 2010.

This book assesses the role of microfinance in the construction of livelihoods for poverty reduction in the Northern Savannah of Ghana, analysing the current microfinance landscape and financial services in the region.

Around the world, there are concerns that many tax codes are biased against women, and that contemporary tax reforms tend to increase the incidence of taxation on the poorest women while failing to generate enough revenue to fund the programs needed to improve these women's lives.

This volume brings together many of the leading international figures in development studies, such as Jose Antonio Ocampo, Paul Krugman, Dani Rodrik, Joseph Stiglitz, Daniel Cohen, Olivier Blanchard, Deepak Nayyar and John Williamson to reconsider and propose alternative development policies to the Washington Consensus.

This book investigates the role and the impacts of armies and military regimes in the Middle East.

This book investigates the relationship between politics and economics in rentier states, with a particular focus on the Kurdistan Region of Iraq from 2003 to 2020.

The extent to which citizens control government.

This book builds upon Foucauldian scholarship's compelling interrogations that have contributed to the changing conceptualization of the premises of the discipline of International Relations.

The economic growth in East Asia has been believed to be the model case of the triumph of capitalism.

The agenda of external actors often includes a number of objectives that do not necessarily and automatically go together.