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  • Deliberation and Development

    Rethinking the Role of Voice and Collective Action in Unequal Societies

    Edited by Patrick Heller, Vijayendra Rao ...
    Series series Equity and development
    Rethinking Development through Deliberation and Collective Action This book explores the intersection of deliberative democracy and development studies, examining how group-based decision-making can address inequality and empower communities in developing countries. It questions the role of voice and collective action in unequal societies, offering new perspectives on participatory decision-making ... Read more

    $29.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • State Capture in South Africa

    How and why it happened

    by Mbongiseni Buthelezi, Peter Vale, Karl von Holdt, Robyn Foley, Ryan Brunette, Jonathan Klaaren, Cherese Thakur, Devi Pillay, Luke Spiropoulos0, Reg Rumney1, Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh2, Michael Marchant3, Hennie van Vuuren4, Patrick Heller5, Barney Pityana6 ...
    A multidisciplinary analysis of how state capture unfolded in South Africa and was contested within both civil society and the state itself. It presents a scholarly and empirical understanding of how things went awry, even with various regulating bodies in place, and how to prevent state capture from happening again in the future.The metaphor of ‘state capture’ has dominated South Africa’s ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Bootstrapping Democracy

    Transforming Local Governance and Civil Society in Brazil

    by Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Patrick Heller, Marcelo Silva ...
    Despite increasing interest in how involvement in local government can improve governance and lead to civic renewal, questions remain about participation's real impact. This book investigates participatory budgeting—a mainstay now of World Bank, UNDP, and USAID development programs—to ask whether its reforms truly make a difference in deepening democracy and empowering civil society. Looking ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Bootstrapping Democracy

    Transforming Local Governance and Civil Society in Brazil

    by Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Patrick Heller, Marcelo Silva ...
    Despite increasing interest in how involvement in local government can improve governance and lead to civic renewal, questions remain about participation's real impact. This book investigates participatory budgeting—a mainstay now of World Bank, UNDP, and USAID development programs—to ask whether its reforms truly make a difference in deepening democracy and empowering civil society. Looking ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • Deliberation and Development

    Rethinking the Role of Voice and Collective Action in Unequal Societies

    Edited by Patrick Heller, Vijayendra Rao ...
    Series series Equity and development
    Deliberation is the process by which a group of people, each with equal voice, can - via a process of discussion and debate - reach an agreement. Deliberation and Development attempts to do two things. First, it rethinks the role of deliberation in development and shows that it has potential well beyond a narrow focus on participatory projects. Deliberation, if properly instituted, has the ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Whatever Happened to Class?

    Reflections from South Asia

    by Christopher Candland, Leela Fernandes, John Harriss, Patrick Heller, Emmanuel Teitelbaum, Vivek Chibber ...
    Class explains much in the differentiation of life chances and political dynamics in South Asia; scholarship from the region contributed much to class analysis. Yet class has lost its previous centrality as a way of understanding the world and how it changes. This outcome is puzzling; new configurations of global economic forces and policy have widened gaps between classes and across sectors and ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

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  • Feminisms in Development

    Contradictions, Contestations and Challenges

    Edited by Andrea Cornwall, Elizabeth Harrison, Ann Whitehead ...
    This collection of essays by leading feminist thinkers from North and South constitutes a major new attempt to reposition feminism within development studies.Feminism's emphasis on social transformation makes it fundamental to development studies. Yet the relationship between the two disciplines has frequently been a troubled one. At present, the way in which many development institutions function ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Learning Disobedience

    Decolonizing Development Studies

    by Amber Murrey, Prof. Patricia Daley ...
    ‘This is a must-read for current struggles for dignity and pluriversal, decolonized solidarity. The authors invite us to abolish development, not as simple rejection, but as a life-affirming pathway into liberation and freedom beyond coloniality’ Rosalba Icaza, Professor, Erasmus University of Rotterdam‘Murrey and Daley take no prisoners in their sharp decolonial analysis’ Sabelo J. Ndlovu ... Read more

    $25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Power

    by Donald Savoie ...
    In this informative critique of contemporary leadership renowned political scientist Donald Savoie poses and answers the crucial questions: where is power located and who is in charge? In recent years it has become extremely difficult to pinpoint the location of political and economic power making it complicated to determine who is to blame for political and economic catastrophes and leading to ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Affirmative Action Around the World: An Empirical Study

    by Thomas Sowell ...
    This book moves the discussion of affirmative action beyond the United States to other countries that have had similar policies, often for a longer time than Americans have. It also moves the discussion beyond the theories, principles, and laws that have been so often debated to the actual empirical consequences of affirmative action in the United States and in India, Nigeria, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Public Administration

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Stella Z. Theodoulou, Ravi K. Roy ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Public administration ensures the development and delivery of the essential public services required for sustaining modern civilization. Covering areas from public safety and social welfare to transportation and education, the services provided through the public sector are inextricably part of our daily lives. However, mandatory budgetary cuts in recent years have caused public administrators to ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Intersectionality

    by Patricia Hill Collins, Sirma Bilge ...
    Series series Key Concepts
    The concept of intersectionality has become a central topic in academic and activist circles alike. But what exactly does it mean, and why has it emerged as such a vital lens through which to explore how social inequalities of race, class, gender, sexuality, age, ability, and ethnicity shape one another?In this fully revised and expanded second edition of their popular text, Patricia Hill Collins ... Read more

    $20.00 USD