A Political Economy of Development, Culture and Global Power
This work takes the reader from pre-modern times to the development of Japan within the Asia Pacific and the wider global political system, and finally to the current economic crisis in the region. It maps Japan's shift into the modern world within the wider dynamics of political-cultural and geo-economic change in the developing global system and ......
In the 1980s and 1990s, much of the developing world experienced transitions to democracy accompanied by economic liberalization and decentralization of power to subnational governmental bodies. The process of decentralization has been studied intensively, but little attention has been paid so far to the recentralization that has occurred in ......
Explores emerging issues in world politics in the 21st century By succinctly integrating power transition theory and national policy, this outstanding team of scholars explores key issues in current world politics, including proliferation and deterrence, the international political economy, regional hierarchies, and the role of alliances. Blending quantitative and traditional analyses, theory and practice, history and informed predictions, Power Transitions draws a map of the new world that will stimulate, provoke, and offer solutions.Authors include: Mark Abdollohian, Carole Alsharabati, Brian Efird, Jacek Kugler, Douglas Lemke, Allan C. Stam III, Ronald L. Tammen, and A.F.K Organski. 'This is a book that will be a must-read for all students of international relations and that should be read by a broad segment of the foreign policy decision-making community. It is an important gathering together and expansion of fifty years of theoretical and empirical insight'. Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Hoover Institution, Stanford University
In the 1980s and 1990s, much of the developing world experienced transitions to democracy accompanied by economic liberalization and decentralization of power to subnational governmental bodies. The process of decentralization has been studied intensively, but little attention has been paid so far to the recentralization that has occurred in ......
The failures of "free-market" capitalism are perhaps nowhere more evident than in the production and distribution of food. Although modern human societies have attained unprecedented levels of wealth, a significant amount of the world's population continues to suffer from hunger or food insecurity on a daily basis. In Agriculture and Food in ......
The culmination of 25 years of groundbreaking work, E.S Savas presents here a complete guide to privatization: the background, theory and practical reality. The book explains what, why, when and how to privatize, discussing in detail: the processes of contracting services; using franchises and vouchers; diverting government-owned business; privatizing infrastructure through public-private partnerships; reforming education; privatizing the welfare state; and overcoming opposition to privatization. Savas provides hundreds of examples from local, state, and federal government in the US and other countries. This is a successor volume to "Privatization: The Key to Better Government".
ISBN-13: 9781566430739
(Paperback)
Publisher: SAGE PUBLICATIONS Imprint: CHATHAM HOUSE PUBLISHERS INC.,U.S.
Regions, Nation, and the State in the Rise of Mexican Industrialism, 1920s-1940s
Traces conflicts in Mexico over regional authority and labor-employer relations between the state and competing industrialist and labor groups in Guadalajara, Mexico City, Monterrey, and Puebla from the 1920s to the 1950s.
