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The Oxford Handbook of Public PolicyPublic policy is the business end of political science. It is where theory meets practice in the pursuit of the public good. Political scientists approach public policy in myriad ways. Some approach the policy process descriptively, asking how the need for public intervention comes...
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Indian Suffragettes: Female Identities and Transnational NetworksPopular depictions of campaigns for women's suffrage in films and literature have invariably focused on Western suffrage movements. The fact that Indian women built up a vibrant suffrage movement in the twentieth century has been largely neglected. The Indian 'suffragettes' were not only actively...
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Not War, Not Peace?: Motivating Pakistan to Prevent Cross-Border TerrorismThe Mumbai blasts of 1993, the attack on the Indian Parliament in 2001, Mumbai 26/11- cross-border terrorism has continued unabated. What can India do to motivate Pakistan to do more to prevent such attacks? In the nuclear times that we live in, where a...
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The Urban Imperative Towards Competitive CitiesFor most of human history, people lived on the edge of survival. In the past two centuries, we have miraculously moved towards far greater prosperity through transformations, above all, in cities. Urbanization holds the potential of transforming the developing world. While the transition from...
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China-Pakistan Relations: A Historical AnalysisThis book examines the nature of the China-Pakistan relationship from the 1950s until April 2015, when the Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Pakistan. The author takes a historical approach and traces the growth of the alliance underpinned by domestic, regional, and international factors. The...
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Will Africa Feed China?Is China building a new empire in rural Africa? Over the past decade, China's meteoric rise on the continent has raised a drumbeat of alarm. China has 9 percent of the world's arable land, 6 percent of its water, and over 20 percent of...
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The Turbulent World of Middle East SoccerJames M. Dorsey introduces the reader to the world of Middle Eastern and North African football - an arena where struggles for political control, protest and resistance, self-respect and gender rights are played out. Politics was the midwife of soccer in the region, with...
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Klansville, U.S.A.: The Rise and Fall of the Civil Rights-Era Ku Klux KlanIn the 1960s, on the heels of the Brown vs. Board of Education decision and in the midst of the growing Civil Rights Movement, Ku Klux Klan activity boomed, reaching an intensity not seen since the 1920s, when the KKK boasted over 4 million...
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State Capitalism: How the Return of Statism Is Transforming the WorldThe end of the Cold War ushered in an age of American triumphalism best characterized by the "Washington Consensus: " the idea that free markets, democratic institutions, limitations on government involvement in the economy, and the rule of law were the foundations of prosperity...
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Ideas with Consequences: The Federalist Society and the Conservative CounterrevolutionThere are few intellectual movements in modern American political history more successful than the Federalist Society. Created in 1982 to counterbalance what its founders considered a liberal legal establishment, the organization gradually evolved into the conservative legal establishment, and membership is all but required...
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Dance in Chains: Political Imprisonment in the Modern WorldStates around the world imprison people for their beliefs or politically-motivated actions. Oppositional movements of all stripes celebrate their comrades behind bars. Yet they are more than symbols of repression and human rights. Dance in Chains examines the experiences of political prisoners themselves in...
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Private Governance: Creating Order in Economic and Social LifeFrom the first stock markets of Amsterdam, London, and New York to the billions of electronic commerce transactions today, privately produced and enforced economic regulations are more common, more effective, and more promising than commonly considered. In Private Governance, prominent economist Edward Stringham presents...
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From the Closet to the Altar: Courts, Backlash, and the Struggle for Same-Sex MarriageSame-sex marriage has become one of the most volatile issues in American politics. But if most young people support gay marriage, and if there are clear indicators that a substantial majority of the population will soon favor it, why has the outcry against it...
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Political Campaigns: Concepts, Context, and ConsequencesIn Political Campaigns: Concepts, Context, and Consequences, Costas Panagopoulos provides students with insight into the inner workings of contemporary campaign structures by combining findings drawn from vast amounts of scholarly research with an astute insider's perspective. The text focuses on three key elements of...
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The Politics of Fair Trade: Moving Beyond Free Trade and ProtectionThe Politics of Fair Trade argues that fair trade is more than just labels on specialty coffee products. Nor is fair trade just protectionism in disguise. Rather, fair trade is opposition to unrestricted trade based on sincere concerns about environmental and labor conditions abroad....
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National Colors: Racial Classification and the State in Latin AmericaThe era of official color-blindness in Latin America has come to an end. For the first time in decades, nearly every state in Latin America now asks their citizens to identify their race or ethnicity on the national census. Most observers approvingly highlight the...
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Storming the World Stage: The Story of Lashkar-E-TaibaLashkar-e-Taiba is among the most powerful militants groups in South Asia and increasingly viewed as a global terrorist threat on par with al-Qaeda. Considered Pakistan's most powerful proxy against India, the group gained public prominence after its deadly ten-person suicide assault on Mumbai in...
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Diplomatic Sites: A Critical EnquiryAlthough diplomacy increasingly takes place in non-traditional settings that are increasingly non-Western, our debates about diplomacy still focus on traditional points of contact such as the conference table, the ministerial office and the press conference. This book is framed as a discussion on whether...
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External Mission: The ANC in Exile, 1960-1990Nelson Mandela's release from prison in February 1990 was one of the most memorable moments of recent decades. It came a few days after the removal of the ban on the African National Congress; founded a century ago and outlawed in 1960, it had...
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Muslims in Indian Cities: Trajectories of MarginalisationAt more than 150 million people, Muslims are the largest Indian minority but are facing a significant decline in socio-economic as well as political terms--while waves of communal violence have affected them over the last twenty-five years. In India's cities, these developments find contrasting...
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