Political Economy
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Global Markets and Government Regulation in Telecommunications
Kirsten Rodine-HardyCurrent price €93.59Original price €103.99In recent years, liberalization, privatization and deregulation have become commonplace in sectors once dominated by government-owned monopolies. I...
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Can Russia Modernise?: Sistema, Power Networks and Informal Governance
Alena V. LedenevaCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50In this original, bottom-up account of the evolution of contemporary Russia, Alena Ledeneva seeks to reveal how informal power operates. Concentrat...
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Multi-Ethnic Coalitions in Africa: Business Financing of Opposition Election Campaigns
Leonardo R. ArriolaCurrent price €28.79Original price €31.99Why are politicians able to form electoral coalitions that bridge ethnic divisions in some countries and not others? This book answers this questio...
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Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World''s Economy
Adam ToozeCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.50FINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2022 THE TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2021 'A complex story, which Tooze tells with clarity and ve...
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Chile and the Neoliberal Trap: The Post-Pinochet Era
Andres SolimanoCurrent price €71.09Original price €78.99This book analyzes Chile's political economy over the last 30 years and the country's attempt to build a market society in a highly inegalitarian s...
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Global Projects: Institutional and Political Challenges
Cambridge University PressCurrent price €39.59Original price €43.99As the world's population continues to grow, there is an ever increasing need for huge investment in basic infrastructure: water and sewage, energy...
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Food and Power: Regime Type, Agricultural Policy, and Political Stability
Henry ThomsonCurrent price €93.59Original price €103.99The relationship between development and democratization remains one of the most compelling topics of research in political science, yet many aspec...
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Boundaries, Communities and State-Making in West Africa: The Centrality of the Margins
Paul NugentCurrent price €41.39Original price €45.99Border regions are often considered to be the neglected margins. In this book, Paul Nugent argues that through a comparison of the Senegambia and t...
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The Politics of Inequality in Russia
Thomas F. RemingtonCurrent price €26.99Original price €29.99This book investigates the relationship between the character of political regimes in Russia's subnational regions and the structure of earnings an...
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Present at the Transition: An Inside Look at the Role of History, Politics, and Personalities in Post-Communist Countries
Oleh HavrylyshynCurrent price €35.09Original price €38.99Nearly thirty years after the fall of the Soviet Union, debates over paths to market liberalization have produced numerous studies across the socia...
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Poverty Narratives and Power Paradoxes in International Trade Negotiations and Beyond
Amrita NarlikarCurrent price €86.39Original price €95.99In this work, Amrita Narlikar argues that, contrary to common assumption, modern-day politics displays a surprising paradox: poverty - and the powe...
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Inequality, Marketization and the Majority Class: Why Did the European Middle Classes Accept Neo-Liberalism?
S. MauCurrent price €51.29Original price €56.99Why were the European middle classes ready to acquiesce in neo-liberalism? This book argues that upward mobility, the growth of individual and fami...
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Reciprocity and the Art of Behavioural Public Policy
Adam OliverCurrent price €30.59Original price €33.99What motivates human behaviour? Drawing on literatures from anthropology to zoology, Oliver examines how we are motivated to give and take, rather ...
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Intellectual Capital: Forty Years of the Nobel Prize in Economics
Tom KarierCurrent price €46.79Original price €51.99There is arguably no award more recognized in the academic and professional worlds than the Nobel Prize. The public pays attention to the prizes in...
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Perfecting Parliament: Constitutional Reform, Liberalism, and the Rise of Western Democracy
Roger D. CongletonCurrent price €53.09Original price €58.99This book explains why contemporary liberal democracies are based on historical templates rather than revolutionary reforms; why the transition in ...
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Globalization and Labour in China and India: Impacts and Responses
Palgrave MacmillanCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99Globalization has pushed China and India to the centre of the stage but what has been the impact on workers in these countries? This book demonstra...
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Big-Time Sports in American Universities
Charles T. ClotfelterCurrent price €24.23Original price €28.50For almost a century, big-time college athletics has been a wildly popular but consistently problematic part of American higher education. The chal...
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Making Social Spending Work
Peter H. LindertCurrent price €31.49Original price €34.99How does social spending relate to economic growth and which countries have got this right and wrong? Peter Lindert examines the experience of coun...
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The Roots of Revolt: A Political Economy of Egypt from Nasser to Mubarak
Angela JoyaCurrent price €93.59Original price €103.99A conceptually rich, historically informed, and interdisciplinary study of the contentious politics emerging out of decades of authoritarian neolib...
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A History of Big Recessions in the Long Twentieth Century
Andrés SolimanoCurrent price €98.09Original price €108.99This book examines the array of financial crises, slumps, depressions and recessions that happened around the globe during the twentieth and early ...
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Institutional and Organizational Analysis: Concepts and Applications
Bernardo MuellerCurrent price €88.19Original price €97.99What explains the great variability in economic growth and political development across countries? Institutional and organizational analysis has de...
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A History of Big Recessions in the Long Twentieth Century
Andrés SolimanoCurrent price €30.59Original price €33.99This book examines the array of financial crises, slumps, depressions and recessions that happened around the globe during the twentieth and early ...
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The Conservation Revolution: Radical Ideas for Saving Nature Beyond the Anthropocene
Bram BuscherCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99Conservation needs a revolution. This is the only way it can contribute to the drastic transformations needed to come to a truly sustainable model ...
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Building a Ruin: The Cold War Politics of Soviet Economic Reform
Yakov FeyginCurrent price €38.69Original price €42.99A masterful account of the global Cold Wars decisive influence on Soviet economic reform, and the national decay that followed.What brought down th...
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The Political Economy of Taxation in Latin America
Cambridge University PressCurrent price €93.59Original price €103.99Paying taxes is one of the least popular activities worldwide. Latin America in particular is notorious for having low direct taxes, weak complianc...
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Hyper-active Governance: How Governments Manage the Politics of Expertise
Matthew WoodCurrent price €93.59Original price €103.99Hyper-active Governance is a new way of thinking about governing that puts debates over expertise at the heart. Contemporary governing requires del...
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Dollars for Dixie: Business and the Transformation of Conservatism in the Twentieth Century
Katherine Rye JewellCurrent price €56.69Original price €62.99Organized in 1933, the Southern States Industrial Council's (SSIC) adherence to the South as a unique political and economic entity limited its mem...
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The Law of Political Economy: Transformation in the Function of Law
Cambridge University PressCurrent price €112.49Original price €124.99This book develops the law of political economy as a new field of scholarly enquiry. Bringing together an exceptional group of scholars, it provide...
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Class Actions and Government
Rachael MulheronCurrent price €128.69Original price €142.99The relationship between class actions and government makes for a nuanced and fascinating study. Government sets the scene by implementing and desi...
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Pioneers of Capitalism: The Netherlands 10001800
Jan Luiten van ZandenCurrent price €25.65Original price €28.50How medieval Dutch society laid the foundations for modern capitalismThe Netherlands was one of the pioneers of capitalism in the Middle Ages, givi...
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The Political Economy of Pension Policy Reversal in Post-Communist Countries
Sarah Wilson SokheyCurrent price €93.59Original price €103.99Why do governments backtrack on major policy reforms? Reversals of pension privatization provide insight into why governments abandon potentially p...
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African Women: A Political Economy
M. TurshenCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99This book will present three main themes of African women: African feminism, women and work, and women and politics, to inform readers of the curre...
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21st Century Keynesian Economics
Palgrave MacmillanCurrent price €92.69Original price €102.99The current global financial and economic crisis has called for the revival of Keynesian theory. This sixth volume in the International Papers in P...
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From Triumph to Crisis: Neoliberal Economic Reform in Postcommunist Countries
Hilary AppelCurrent price €32.85Original price €36.50The postcommunist countries were amongst the most fervent and committed adopters of neoliberal economic reforms. Not only did they manage to overco...
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The Institutions Curse: Natural Resources, Politics, and Development
Victor MenaldoCurrent price €35.99Original price €39.99The 'resource curse' is the view that countries with extensive natural resources tend to suffer from a host of undesirable outcomes, including the ...
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The Political Economy of the Kurds of Turkey: From the Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic
Veli YadirgiCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50In recent years, the persecution of the Kurds in the Middle East under ISIS in Iraq and Syria has drawn increasing attention from the international...
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