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  • Property and Political Order in Africa

    Land Rights and the Structure of Politics

    by Catherine Boone ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
    In sub-Saharan Africa, property relationships around land and access to natural resources vary across localities, districts and farming regions. These differences produce patterned variations in relationships between individuals, communities and the state. This book captures these patterns in an analysis of structure and variation in rural land tenure regimes. In most farming areas, state ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

  • Inequality and Political Cleavage in Africa

    Regionalism by Design

    by Catherine Boone ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
    This pathbreaking work integrates African countries into broader comparative theories of how spatial inequality shapes political competition over the construction of markets, states, and nations. Existing literature on African countries has found economic cleavages, institutions, and policy choices to be of low salience in national politics. This book inverts these arguments. Boone trains our ... Read more

    $34.49 USD

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  • The Political System of the European Union

    by Simon Hix, Bjørn Høyland ...
    Series series The European Union Series
    Starting from the observation that the European Union now possesses many of the attributes of modern political systems, Hix and Høyland take an innovative approach to analysing, researching and teaching the EU. Using the general theories of political science to understand how the EU works, this text covers each of the main processes in the EU political system - executive, legislative and judicial ... Read more

    $38.09 USD

  • Should We Change How We Vote?

    Evaluating Canada's Electoral System

    Edited by Andrew Potter, Peter Loewen, Daniel Weinstock ...
    During the 2015 federal election, the Liberal Party pledged that, if elected, they would end the “first past the post” electoral system, where whichever candidate receives the most votes wins a riding even if they have not received a majority of all votes cast. In early 2017, the Liberals reneged on their campaign promise, declaring that there was a lack of public consensus about how to reform the ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • The Politics of Immigration

    Contradictions of the Liberal State

    by James Hampshire ...
    Immigration is one of the most contested issues on the political agenda of liberal states across Europe and North America. While these states can be open and inclusive to newcomers, they are also often restrictive and exclusionary. The Politics of Immigration examines the sources of these apparently contradictory stances, locating answers in the nature of the liberal state itself.The book shows ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

  • Migration in West Africa

    IMISCOE Regional Reader

    Edited by Joseph Kofi Teye ...
    Series series IMISCOE Research Series
    This open access Regional Reader examines the dynamics and impacts of international migration within and from West Africa. The book presents key theoretical perspectives and empirical findings on historical trends, geographical patterns, drivers and socio-economic impacts of both voluntary and involuntary migration in West Africa, a region that is characterised by high level of mixed migration ... Read more

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  • Southern Africa's Responses to International HIV/AIDS Norms (1990-2005)

    The Politics os Assimilation

    by Marco Antonio Vieira ...
    The southern African region has the worst HIV/AIDS epidemic in the world. In some countries, HIV infection affects nearly 40% of the adult population. This work shows that, despite the formal commitment of the governments of the region to follow international guidelines to combat the epidemic and the technical and financial support of powerful donors, three countries - Botswana,Mozambique and ... Read more

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  • European Union Economic Diplomacy

    The Role of the EU in External Economic Relations

    by Stephen Woolcock ...
    Series series Global Finance
    The European Union is a key player in international economic relations, but its exact role and how it goes about making decisions and negotiating is often poorly understood within and especially outside the EU. When does the EU play a proactive role and when does it follow? When is the EU a distinct actor and when is it just one level in a multi- level process of negotiation in which the member ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • The Formation of National Party Systems

    Federalism and Party Competition in Canada, Great Britain, India, and the United States

    by Pradeep Chhibber, Kenneth Kollman ...
    Pradeep Chhibber and Ken Kollman rely on historical data spanning back to the eighteenth century from Canada, Great Britain, India, and the United States to revise our understanding of why a country's party system consists of national or regional parties. They demonstrate that the party systems in these four countries have been shaped by the authority granted to different levels of government. ... Read more

    $41.79 USD

  • White Backlash

    Immigration, Race, and American Politics

    by Marisa A. Abrajano, Zoltan Hajnal ...
    White Backlash provides an authoritative assessment of how immigration is reshaping the politics of the nation. Using an array of data and analysis, Marisa Abrajano and Zoltan Hajnal show that fears about immigration fundamentally influence white Americans' core political identities, policy preferences, and electoral choices, and that these concerns are at the heart of a large-scale defection of ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • Political Parties in Africa

    Ethnicity and Party Formation

    by Sebastian Elischer ...
    This book examines the effects of ethnicity on party politics in sub-Saharan Africa. Sebastian Elischer analyzes political parties in Ghana, Kenya and Namibia in detail, and provides a preliminary analysis of parties in seven other countries including Tanzania, Botswana, Senegal, Zambia, Malawi, Burkina Faso and Benin. Elischer finds that five party types exist: the mono-ethnic, the ethnic ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Sweet Talk

    Paternalism and Collective Action in North-South Trade Relations

    by J. P. Singh ...
    Series series Emerging Frontiers in the Global Economy
    Developed nations strive to create the impression that their hearts and pockets bleed for the developing world. Yet, the global North continues to offer unfavorable trade terms to the global South. Truly fair trade would make reciprocal concessions to developing countries while allowing them to better their own positions. However, five hundred years of colonial racism and post-colonial paternalism ... Read more

    $21.59 USD