This Element weaves together literatures on autochthony and belonging and on African urbanism to shed new light on the ability of the African state to undertake development interventions in some of the important urban centers on the continent. It fo...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 31-Jul-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009698375)
This Element weaves together literatures on autochthony and belonging and on African urbanism to shed new light on the ability of the African state to undertake development interventions in some of the important urban centers on the continent. It fo...Daugiau...
When will government elites prepare for natural hazards? Existing research posits that governments will respond to disasters, but rarely have incentives to prepare for them. This Element argues that disaster preparedness can, and does, occur in the c...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 06-Feb-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009635288)
When will government elites prepare for natural hazards? Existing research posits that governments will respond to disasters, but rarely have incentives to prepare for them. This Element argues that disaster preparedness can, and does, occur in the c...Daugiau...
Claim-making the everyday strategies through which citizens pursue rights fulfilment is often overlooked in studies of political behavior, which tend to focus on highly visible, pivotal moments: elections, mass protests, high court decisions, leg...Daugiau...
Janice K. Gallagher, Gabrielle Kruks-Wisner, Whitney K. Taylor
Serija: Elements in the Politics of Development
(Išleidimo metai: 14-Mar-2024, Hardback, Leidėjas: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009517812)
This Element focuses on everyday claim-making by drawing together bodies of research in and with different communities. The authors argue that claim-making is a form of citizenship practice, that is prevalent in uneven and unequal settings, and it is...Daugiau...
This Element scrutinizes the attempts by the Chinese party-state bureaucracy since the 2000s to advance innovation and technological upgrading. It examines insights from the developmental state debate the need for a bureaucracy to achieve internal...Daugiau...
This Element investigates the relationship between the narcotics industry and politics and assesses how it influences domestic political dynamics, including economic development prospects in Latin America. It argues that links between criminal organi...Daugiau...
Nationalism has long been a normatively and empirically contested concept, associated with democratic revolutions and public goods provision, but also with xenophobia, genocide, and wars. Moving beyond facile distinctions between good and bad nat...Daugiau...
This Element discusses the impacts of missionary work in sub-Saharan Africa. It illustrates inherently more political and context-dependent aspects of missionary behavior, such as local struggles for religious hegemony between Protestants and Catholi...Daugiau...
This Element argues that the low dynamism of low- to mid-income Arab economies is explained with a set of inter-connected factors constituting a segmented market economy. It explains how divisions between insiders and outsiders among firms and work...Daugiau...
Scholars and practitioners seek development solutions through the engineering and strengthening of state institutions. Yet, the state is not the only or the primary arena shaping how citizens, service providers and state officials engage in actions...Daugiau...
This Element studies the causes and the consequences of modern imperialism. The focus is on British and U.S. imperialism in the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries respectively. The dynamics of both formal and informal empires are analyzed. The a...Daugiau...
Outlines the source of disagreement about a resource curse, suggests strategies to address them, and shows how they produce insights about the politics of resource wealth....Daugiau...
This Element explores the association between political democracy and population health. It reviews the rise of scholarly interest in the association, evaluates alternative indicators of democracy and population health. This Element explores...Daugiau...
Drawing on a range of country examples, Undocumented Nationals: Between Statelessness and Citizenship calls attention to and analyses the plight of people who cannot exercise full citizenship due to evidentiary deficiencies....Daugiau...
Health is a defining feature of life and its politics vital. Governments and international organizations have promoted community participation in public health since the late 1970s. However, we lack comparative studies of these participatory institut...Daugiau...
Canonical theories of political economy struggle to explain patterns of distribution in authoritarian regimes. In this Element, Albertus, Fenner, and Slater challenge existing models and introduce an alternative, supply-side, and state-centered theor...Daugiau...
The concept of the developmental state emerged to explain the rapid growth of a number of countries in East Asia in the postwar period. Yet the developmental state literature also offered a theoretical approach to growth that was heterodox with respe...Daugiau...
