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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “jasmin lorch”
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  • Civil Society and Mirror Images of Weak States

    Bangladesh and the Philippines

    by Jasmin Lorch ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book investigates theoretically and empirically whether and (if so) how state weakness influences the way in which national civil societies constitute themselves, using Bangladesh and the Philippines as case studies. A vibrant civil society is usually perceived as an important ingredient of democracy, but does this hold for civil society in weak states as well? What does civil society look ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

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    The Rise of Modern India

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  • The Political Economy of Microfinance

    Financializing Poverty

    by Philip Mader ...
    Series series Studies in the Political Economy of Public Policy
    According to the author, rather than alleviating poverty, microfinance financialises poverty. By indebting poor people in the Global South, it drives financial expansion and opens new lands of opportunity for the crisis-ridden global capital markets. This book raises fundamental concerns about this widely-celebrated tool for social development. ... Read more

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  • Auditing Good Government in Africa

    Public Sector Reform, Professional Norms and the Development Discourse

    by M. Gustavson ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book gives a comprehensive overview of the literature on development in Sub-Saharan Africa, and challenges the notions of African public officials presented there. It focuses on public audit institutions and offers rich empirical research results, which contradicts many assumptions made in the literature on development in Sub-Saharan Africa. ... Read more

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  • Presidents, Assemblies and Policy-making in Asia

    Edited by Y. Kasuya ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    The authors assess the constitutional and partisan powers of Asian presidents, and analyse how they are used in actual policy-making processes. Country case studies on Afghanistan, Indonesia, the Philippines, South Korea, Sri Lanka, and Taiwan analyze how their constitutional and partisan powers are used in actual policy-making processes. ... Read more

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  • Strengthening Local Governance in Bangladesh

    Reforms, Participation and Accountability

    by Shuvra Chowdhury, Pranab Kumar Panday ...
    Series Book 8 - Public Administration, Governance and Globalization
    This book explores the impact of Bangladesh's Local Government Act of 2009 on the functioning of the local governments or Union Parishads (UP), with a particular emphasis on people’s participation and accountability. Throughout the chapters, the authors review the existing legal framework of UP and its relation to social accountability, examine how much of the social participation is spontaneous ... Read more

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  • Global, Regional and Local Dimensions of Western Sahara’s Protracted Decolonization

    When a Conflict Gets Old

    Edited by Raquel Ojeda-Garcia, Irene Fernández-Molina, Victoria Veguilla ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book explores the traces of the passage of time on the protracted and intractable conflict of Western Sahara. The authors offer a multilevel analysis of recent developments from the global to the local scenes, including the collapse of the architecture of the UN-led conflict resolution process, the advent of the War on Terror to the the Sahara-Sahel area and the impact of the ‘Arab Spring’ ... Read more

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  • China's Hukou System

    Markets, Migrants and Institutional Change

    by Jason Young ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    By 2010, 260 million citizens were living outside of their permanent hukou location, a major challenge to the constrictive Mao-era system of migration and settlement planning. Jason Young shows how these new forces have been received by the state and documents the process of change and the importance of China's hukou system. ... Read more

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  • Politics and Policies in Upper Guinea Coast Societies

    Change and Continuity

    Edited by Christian K. Højbjerg, Jacqueline Knörr, William P. Murphy ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book examines the radical changes in social and political landscape of the Upper Guinea Coast region over the past 30 years as a result of civil wars, post-war interventions by international, humanitarian agencies and peacekeeping missions, as well as a regional public health crisis (Ebola epidemic). The emphasis on ‘crises’ in this book draws attention to the intense socio-transformations in ... Read more

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  • Governing Cotton

    Globalization and Poverty in Africa

    by A. Sneyd ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book traces the historic relationships between cotton production, the international cotton trade and poverty south of the Sahara, and assesses various approaches to corporate social responsibility and nongovernmental policy advocacy in this area. ... Read more

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  • HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa

    Politics, Aid and Globalization

    by A. Flint ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book explains how issues of governance lie at the heart of understanding and combating the HIV/AIDS crisis in Africa. It reviews the debates surrounding the root causes of the pandemic and its continuing proliferation and examines the local and global socio-political forces that have contributed to the spread and impact of the disease. ... Read more

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  • Urban Planning in the Global South

    Conflicting Rationalities in Contested Urban Space

    by Richard de Satgé, Vanessa Watson ...
    This book addresses the on-going crisis of informality in rapidly growing cities of the global South. The authors offer a Southern perspective on planning theory, explaining how the concept of conflicting rationalities complements and expands upon a theoretical tradition which still primarily speaks to global ‘Northern’ audiences. De Satgé and Watson posit that a significant change is needed in ... Read more

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