Political economy

Constructivist Theories of Ethnic Politics rebuilds theories of the relationship between ethnicity, politics and economics on a "e;constructivist"e; foundation, according to which ethnic identities can change over time, often in response to the very phenomena they are used to explain.

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Inequality stirs passions across the globe today, figures prominently in political discourse, generates fervid debate and popular protest, and is the theme of widely read scholarly publications.

This book provides a new understanding of the eurozone crisis across three of the worst hit cases: Greece, Portugal, and Ireland.

Techno-regions have generated most of the new jobs in the past decade and this technology is driving economic development; however, problems persist.

Before social unrest shook the region in the 1970s, Central America experienced more than a decade of rapid export growth by adding cotton and beef to the traditional coffee and bananas.

This book provides a political economy perspective on Chile's contemporary economic development, explaining the different stages of Chile's neoliberal pattern of economic integration into the global economy from 1973 to 2015.

This book describes the emergence of research policy as a key competence of the European Union (EU).

This book describes the rules governing international security decision-making and examines the different understandings of collective security in the post-Cold War world.

This volume introduces the reader to game-theoretic treatments of group formation.

Neoliberalism is a doctrine that adopts a free market policy in a deregulated political framework.

This book, originally published in 1985, examines the development of the car industry in Coventry within both its local context and the wider economic environment.

This book deals with the major problems that Japan and East Asian countries have faced during the turbulent years of their reconstruction and development from 1945 to the present time.

This book takes a Marxist approach to the study of media piracy - the production, distribution, and consumption of media texts in violation of intellectual property laws - to examine its place as an endemic feature of the cultural economy since the rise of the Internet.

This book presents a new intellectual history of neoliberalism through the exploration of the sovereign consumer.

The integration of the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States international financial system was arguably one of the most profound changes experienced by the world economy in the 1990s.

The Brazilian economy has long been defined by its enormous potential.

The scope for financial crime has widened with the expansion and increased integration of financial markets.

The shape of economic integration in the global and regional economies - and the extent to which goods, services and factors of production move more or less freely across borders - depends not only upon underlying economic conditions but also upon politics.

Foucault's thoughts on governmentality have made a significant impact on the studies of power and governance in modern societies.

Bridging foreign policy analysis and international political economy, this volume offers a new look at the problem of agency in comparative regional integration studies.

This book provides, in an easy-to-use format, an extensive collection of data and information on China's 31 provinces and its interprovincial economic linkages.

This book analyzes the effects of power generated by renewable energy sources, renewable energy production technologies, energy efficiency, and market regulation of carbon emissions.

An increasing number of rural and urban-based movements are realizing some political traction in their demands for democratization of food systems through food sovereignty.

Public Sector Industrial Relations (1992) concentrates on individual relations in the public sector, identifying the distinctive features of management organization, collective bargaining, strikes and dispute resolution.

The authors also offer practical advice to improve reform policies.

Energy is a key resource for transformational development globally.

Staging 21st Century Tragedies: Theatre, Politics, and Global Crisis is an international collection of essays by leading academics, artists, writers, and curators examining ways in which the global tragedies of our century are being negotiated in current theatre practice.

Over the last few decades behavioral economics has revolutionized the discipline.

The roots of the recent financial crisis can be found in the substantial changes which have affected British economy and society over the last three decades.

All of the GCC countries-Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates-are undergoing historic socio-economic transitions.

This book examines the influence of constitutional legal paradigms upon the political stability and viability of states.

Even after achieving the status of a developed economy, many economies face other challenges which may include economic stagnation and income inequality.

This study explores the dynamic relationship between science, numbers and politics.

Few concerns preoccupy contemporary progressive thought as much as the issue of how to achieve a sustainable human society.

This book argues that law has a vital role in shaping the electricity system to enable a more active role for consumers in liberalizsed electricity industries.

"e;This thought-provoking work examines how the relationships of organs, tissues, and cells transferred from one body to another through donation, sale, or gift are mediated by the state, market, and family.

Diese Studie untersucht die dynamische Beziehung zwischen Wissenschaft, Zahlen und Politik.

Concluding the Deutscher Memorial Prize winning trilogy on 'Modes of Foreign Relations and Political Economy', this is a magisterial historical sociology of International Relations theory.

Drawing on a range of disciplinary approaches, this text explores the drivers of urban development.

This book outlines the core concept of the theory of mixed oligopoly and presents recent results that have arisen in a mixed oligopolistic market.

This study of the United Nations in Southeast Asia and the South Pacific evaluates the organization's role and performance in Cambodia and over refugees; regarding human rights, development, environment and the needs of women; within regional cooperation; and as an instrument of state policy.

This book explores the links between European integration and globalisation, and examines the potential for social transformation in the context of the global economic crisis and the resulting EU reforms.