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  • Theorizing in Comparative Politics

    Democratization in Africa

    by Goran Hyden ...
    This book addresses a pertinent issue in comparative politics: how can the discipline do analytical justice to regions of the world that differ historically from the Western experience? For decades the West has served as a baseline against which all other regions are assessed, most recently in studies of democratization. Structural differences between regions have been ignored in favour of ... Read more

    $30.39 USD

  • Governing Kenya

    Public Policy in Theory and Practice

    Edited by Gedion Onyango, Goran Hyden ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book is authored by some of the renowned scholars in Africa who take on the task to understand how Kenya is governed in this century from a public policy perspective. The book’s public policy approach addresses three general and pertinent questions: (1) how are policies made in a political context where change is called for, but institutional legacies tend to stand in the way? (2) how are ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • Rethinking African Agriculture

    How Non-Agrarian Factors Shape Peasant Livelihoods

    Edited by Goran Hyden, Kazuhiko Sugimura, Tadasu Tsuruta ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Africa
    Rethinking African Agriculture argues that rural communities in Africa are still shaped by non-agrarian factors both in livelihood strategy and social formation.This volume renews and deepens the research on the African peasantry by offering a fresh perspective drawn from the hitherto largely unknown Japanese research on the subject. The ethnographic fieldwork focuses not only on the micro ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • African Politics in Comparative Perspective

    by Goran Hyden ...
    This revised and expanded second edition of African Politics in Comparative Perspective reviews fifty years of research on politics in Africa and addresses some issues in a new light, keeping in mind the changes in Africa since the first edition was written in 2004. The book synthesizes insights from different scholarly approaches and offers an original interpretation of the knowledge accumulated ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Development and Democracy

    What Have We Learned and How?

    Edited by Ole Elgström, Goran Hyden ...
    Series series Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science
    Development and Democracy confirms the robust relationship between levels of economic development and democracy, but suggests that globalization is a key variable in determining the tenuous nature of this relationship in the periphery of the world economy. It raises new questions about the role of social classes in democratization, and points to the importance of including the nature of the state ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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    by David Bartram, Maritsa Poros, Pierre Monforte ...
    Series series SAGE Key Concepts series
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  • Comparative Politics

    Edited by Mark Pennington, Judith Linda Bara ...
    ′Bara and Pennington′s edited volume successfully fills a huge void in the market for introductory textbooks to comparative politics which previously offered either descriptions of political processes and systems or overviews of the methodology of comparative analysis. By applying major political science theories to overviews of the core elements of political systems, the authors both enhance our ... Read more

    $93.59 USD

  • Making Middle-Class Multiculturalism

    Immigration Bureaucrats and Policymaking in Postwar Canada

    by Jennifer Elrick ...
    In the 1950s and 1960s, immigration bureaucrats in the Department of Citizenship and Immigration played an important yet unacknowledged role in transforming Canada’s immigration policy. In response to external economic and political pressures for change, high-level bureaucrats developed new admissions criteria gradually and experimentally while personally processing thousands of individual ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • The SAGE Handbook of Neoliberalism

    Edited by Damien Cahill, Melinda Cooper, Martijn Konings, David Primrose ...
    Over the last two decades, ‘neoliberalism’ has emerged as a key concept within a range of social science disciplines including sociology, political science, human geography, anthropology, political economy, and cultural studies.The SAGE Handbook of Neoliberalism showcases the cutting edge of contemporary scholarship in this field by bringing together a team of global experts. Across seven key ... Read more

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  • The Politics of Expertise

    Competing for Authority in Global Governance

    by Ole Jacob Sending ...
    Series series Configurations: Critical Studies Of World Politics
    Experts dominate all facets of global governance, from accounting practices and antitrust regulations to human rights law and environmental conservation. In this study, Ole Jacob Sending encourages a critical interrogation of the role and power of experts by unveiling the politics of the ongoing competition for authority in global governance.Drawing on insights from sociology, political science, ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Historical Institutionalism

    Edited by Orfeo Fioretos, Tulia G. Falleti, Adam Sheingate ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Historical Institutionalism offers an authoritative and accessible state-of-the-art analysis of the historical institutionalism research tradition in Political Science. Devoted to the study of how temporal processes and events influence the origin and transformation of institutions that govern political and economic relations, historical institutionalism has grown ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • Liberal Leviathan

    The Origins, Crisis, and Transformation of the American World Order

    by G. John Ikenberry ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in International History and Politics
    A new vision for the American world orderIn the second half of the twentieth century, the United States engaged in the most ambitious and far-reaching liberal order building the world had yet seen. This liberal international order has been one of the most successful in history in providing security and prosperity to more people. But in the last decade, the American-led order has been troubled. ... Read more

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