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  • Electoral Reform and National Security in Japan

    From Pork to Foreign Policy

    by Amy Catalinac ...
    Japan is the third-largest economy in the world and a key ally of the United States. Yet the determinants of Japanese security policy are not well understood. The question of why Japan never sought the independent military capabilities that would be commensurate with its economic power has puzzled scholars of international relations for decades. Applying new tools for the quantitative analysis of ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Dominance Through Division

    Group-Based Clientelism in Japan

    by Amy Catalinac ...
    Series series Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions
    The governance of Japan presents a puzzle: it is a democracy yet is dominated by a single party that wins almost all elections. Stanger still, the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and its policies are not particularly popular with voters. How has this situation arisen, and how is it sustained? Amy Catalinac argues that when politicians compete in electoral districts with discernible voter groups, ... Read more

    $34.49 USD

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  • The Limits of Party

    Congress and Lawmaking in a Polarized Era

    by James M. Curry, Frances E. Lee ...
    Series series Chicago Studies in American Politics
    To many observers, Congress has become a deeply partisan institution where ideologically-distinct political parties do little more than engage in legislative trench warfare. A zero-sum, winner-take-all approach to congressional politics has replaced the bipartisan comity of past eras. If the parties cannot get everything they want in national policymaking, then they prefer gridlock and stalemate ... Read more

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  • Obama on the Home Front

    Domestic Policy Triumphs and Setbacks

    by John D. Graham ...
    Series series Encounters: Explorations in Folklore and Ethnomusicology
    "The best comprehensive review of the Obama administration's policies available," by the author of Bush on the Home Front (Daniel P. Franklin, author of Pitiful Giants: Presidents in their Final Term).Barack Obama came into office as the economy was careening into the worst downturn since the Great Depression. On the political front, he would be challenged by the same intense congressional ... Read more

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  • Economic Development And Multilateral Trade Cooperation

    by Evenett Simon J. ; Hoekman Bernard M. ...
    This is a critical period for the WTO and for realizing the potential of trade as a driver of growth and poverty reduction. It is time for good intentions to be translated into solid multilateral agreements that promote development, and it is high time that the rich countries tore down their barriers. But trade agreements by themselves cannot guarantee growth and poverty reduction: aid for trade ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Agricultural Trade Reform And The Doha Development Agenda

    by Anderson Kym; Martin Will ...
    Agricultural trade reform is critical to a favorable development outcome from the Doha Development Agenda. But agricultural policies and the policy reforms being contemplated are fiendishly complicated, and the devil is in the details. Agricultural Trade Reform and the Doha Development Agenda builds up from the essential detail of the tariffs and other protection measures, and uses this ... Read more

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  • Revolving Door Lobbying

    Public Service, Private Influence, and the Unequal Representation of Interests

    by Timothy M. LaPira, Herschel F. Thomas III ...
    In recent decades Washington has seen an alarming rise in the number of “revolving door lobbyists”—politicians and officials cashing in on their government experience to become influence peddlers on K Street. These lobbyists, popular wisdom suggests, sell access to the highest bidder. Revolving Door Lobbying tells a different, more nuanced story. As an insider interviewed in the book observes, ... Read more

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  • Remedy and Reaction

    by Paul Starr ...

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  • The World Trade System

    Trends and Challenges

    Edited by Jagdish N. Bhagwati, Pravin Krishna, Arvind Panagariya ...
    Leading trade esperts examine the world trading system today, from the multilateralism of the WTO to explosive bilateralism and the mega-regionals TPP and TTIP.When the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) metamorphosed into the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 1994, it seemed that the third pillar of the international economic superstructure was finally in place. And yet with the ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Polarized America, second edition

    The Dance of Ideology and Unequal Riches

    by Nolan McCarty, Keith T. Poole, Howard Rosenthal ...
    Series series Walras-Pareto Lectures
    Updated analysis of how the increasing polarization of American politics has been accompanied and accelerated by greater income inequality.The idea of America as politically polarized—that there is an unbridgeable divide between right and left, red and blue states—has become a cliché. What commentators miss, however, is that increasing polarization has been closely accompanied by fundamental ... Read more

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  • Developing Countries and the Doha Development Agenda of the WTO

    Edited by Pitou van Dijck, Gerrit Faber ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy
    The Doha Development Agenda held the promise of substantial gains for developing countries. However, the realization of these gains is far from obvious: the interests of various groups of countries differ greatly and technical complexities have hampered further progress since the very start of the negotiations.Against the background of the agenda of the present trade negotiations of the World ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Can the Euro be Saved?

    by Malcolm Sawyer ...
    Series series The Future of Capitalism
    The economies of the eurozone countries are plagued by multiple crises, which cast major doubts over the future of the euro. In this engaging new book, leading economist Malcolm Sawyer argues that the entire policy framework of the eurozone was fundamentally flawed from its foundation. He shows how these ‘design faults’ intensified the crisis and are now locking in perpetual self-defeating ... Read more

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