Overview :Students of comparative politics have long faced a vexing dilemma: how can social scientists draw broad, applicable principles of political ... Read More
Overview :As power and politics play a role in every society, rich or poor, Bates argues it is the reorganization of coercion--not its extinction--tha... Read More
Overview :Reassessing the developing world through the lens of Europe's pastToday's developing nations emerged from the rubble of the Second World War... Read More
Overview :Following independence, most countries in Africa sought to develop, but their governments pursued policies that actually undermined their ru... Read More
Overview :The essays in this volume represent a dialogue between theory and data. The theory is drawn from a branch of contemporary political economy ... Read More
Overview :Those studying development often address the impact of government policies, but rarely the politics that generate these policies. A culminat... Read More
Overview :Coffee is traded in one of the few international markets ever subject to effective political regulation. In Open-Economy Politics, Robert Ba... Read More
Overview :African Studies, contrary to some accounts, is not a separate continent in the world of American higher education. Its intellectual borders ... Read More
Overview :In the later decades of the twentieth century, Africa plunged into political chaos. States failed, governments became predators, and citizen... Read More