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“konrad buczkowski”

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  • Criminality and Criminal Justice in Contemporary Poland

    Sociopolitical Perspectives

    by Konrad Buczkowski, Beata Czarnecka-Dzialuk, Witold Klaus, Anna Kossowska, Dobrochna Wójcik, Irena Rzeplińska, Dagmara Woźniakowska-Fajst ...
    Criminality has accompanied social life from the outset. It has appeared at every stage of the development of every community, regardless of organisation, form of government or period in history. This work presents the views of criminologists from Central Europe on the phenomenon of criminality as a component of social and political reality. Despite the far advanced homogenisation of culture and ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Mobilities, Social Change and Crime

    Lessons from Poland

    by Konrad Buczkowski, Paulina Wiktorska ...
    This book presents a synthesis of selected trends in the dynamics and structure of crime in Poland over the past 30 years, in the context of ongoing social transformations in the wider region. The book explores the impact of the deep systemic transformation of the late 1980s and early 1990s on the phenomenon of crime, its structure and dynamics, and the policy of its control in the following ... Read more

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    Why Materialist Utopias Fail

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    Why has the United Kingdom, historically one of the strongest democracies in the world, become so unstable? What changed? This book demonstrates that a major part of the answer lies in the transformation of its state. It shows how Britain championed radical economic liberalisation only to weaken and ultimately break its own governing institutions. The crisis of democracy in rich countries has ... Read more

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  • The Collapse of Global Liberalism

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    by Philip Pilkington ...
    In the 1990s, a vision emerged of a frictionless world of globalization in which the West would become ever richer on the basis of a tech-based service economy, all underpinned by a rules-based liberal international order. It became the basis for the mainstream politics of centre-left and right.Philip Pilkington argues that this vision was always delusional and is now dying. It is based on a ... Read more

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  • The World Under Capitalism

    Observations on Economics, Politics, History, and Culture

    by Branko Milanovic ...
    Branko Milanovic is best known as one of the world’s leading experts on global inequality. But he is also an unusually wide-ranging and penetrating commentator on subjects across economics and beyond, in politics, history, and culture. This book brings together his most searching, provocative, and entertaining articles of recent years, providing an abundance of vital insights into the evolution ... Read more

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  • Popular Dictatorships

    Crises, Mass Opinion, and the Rise of Electoral Authoritarianism

    by Aleksandar Matovski ...
    Electoral autocracies – regimes that adopt democratic institutions but subvert them to rule as dictatorships – have become the most widespread, resilient and malignant non-democracies today. They have consistently ruled over a third of the countries in the world, including geopolitically significant states like Russia, Turkey, Venezuela, Egypt, Indonesia, Nigeria and Pakistan. Challenging ... Read more

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  • From Communists to Foreign Capitalists

    The Social Foundations of Foreign Direct Investment in Postsocialist Europe

    by Nina Bandelj ...
    From Communists to Foreign Capitalists explores the intersections of two momentous changes in the late twentieth century: the fall of Communism and the rise of globalization. Delving into the economic change that accompanied these shifts in central and Eastern Europe, Nina Bandelj presents a pioneering sociological treatment of the process of foreign direct investment (FDI). She demonstrates how ... Read more

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  • Violent Entrepreneurs

    The Use of Force in the Making of Russian Capitalism

    by Vadim Volkov ...
    Entering the shady world of what he calls "violent entrepreneurship," Vadim Volkov explores the economic uses of violence and coercion in Russia in the 1990s. Violence has played, he shows, a crucial role in creating the institutions of a new market economy. The core of his work is competition among so-called violence-managing agencies—criminal groups, private security services, private protection ... Read more

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  • The Russian People and Foreign Policy

    Russian Elite and Mass Perspectives, 1993-2000

    by William Zimmerman ...
    Since the fall of communism, public opinion in Russia, including that of a now more diverse elite, has become a substantial factor in that country's policymaking process. What this opinion might be and how it responds to American actions is the subject of this study. William Zimmerman offers important and sometimes disturbing insight into the thinking of citizens in America's former Cold War ... Read more

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  • Secret Leviathan

    Secrecy and State Capacity under Soviet Communism

    by Mark Harrison ...
    Series series Stanford–Hoover Series on Authoritarianism
    The Soviet Union was one of the most secretive states that ever existed. Defended by a complex apparatus of rules and checks administered by the secret police, the Soviet state had seemingly unprecedented capabilities based on its near monopoly of productive capital, monolithic authority, and secretive decision making. But behind the scenes, Soviet secrecy was double-edged: it raised transaction ... Read more

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  • Rotten States?

    Corruption, Post-Communism, and Neoliberalism

    by Leslie Holmes ...
    Official corruption has become increasingly prevalent around the world since the early 1990s. The situation appears to be particularly acute in the post-communist states. Corruption—be it real or perceived—is a major problem with concrete implications, including a lowered likelihood of foreign investment. In Rotten States? Leslie Holmes analyzes corruption in post-communist countries, paying ... Read more

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  • Global Inequalities in World-Systems Perspective

    Theoretical Debates and Methodological Innovations

    Edited by Manuela Boatca, Andrea Komlosy, Hans-Heinrich Nolte ...
    Series series Political Economy of the World-System Annuals
    During its 500-year history, the modern world-system has seen several shifts in hegemony. Yet, since the decline of the U.S. in the 1970s, no single core power has attained a hegemonic position in an increasingly polarized world. As income inequalities have become more pronounced in core countries, especially in the U.S. and the U.K., global inequalities emerged as a "new" topic of social ... Read more

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