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Comparative Governance Reform in Asia
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008; US$ 99.95Features chapters that analyze and compare the experiences of Asian countries in carrying out governance reforms. This book tackles such questions as: how common reform packages designed for developed countries are implemented in developing countries? Wha more...
Islamists and Secularists in Egypt
Taylor and Francis 2009; US$ 130.00In a detailed analysis of the continued survival of authoritarian governments in the Arab world, this book uses Egypt as a case study to address the timely and complex issue of democratization in the Middle East. This book examines how relations between different actors in the Egyptian opposition have contributed to the endurance of authoritarianism... more...
Civil Society, Public Sphere and Citizenship
SAGE India 2005; US$ 71.95The original essays brought together in this volume examine the relationship between state and society in India, discuss ideas of citizenship, and study the broad area known as public sphere. The eminent scholars who have contributed to this volume provide numerous fresh insights into issues that have been the subject of extensive debate in recent... more...
The Politics of Autonomy
SAGE India 2005; US$ 33.95This volume tells us that a critical inquiry into the idea of autonomy suggests that the politics of the future will be the politics of autonomies: an engagement that combines notions like self-government, women`s autonomy, devolution of power, the rights of minorities, greater popular access to resources, and legal pluralism, and where different autonomies... more...
Administrative Reforms
SAGE India 2005; US$ 29.95This volume analyses the impact of globalisation on governance, and specifically on public-sector reforms. Starting from the premise that adhocism and sectoralism are the main reasons why past attempts at administrative reforms in India have not succeeded, this book maintains that some of the basic tenets of mainstream approaches to administrative... more...
Decentralization, Democracy and Development
World Bank Publications 2009; US$ 9.99The question of whether political, fiscal, and administrative decentralization improves government effectiveness is hotly debated among researchers and policy makers. Decentralization, Democracy, and Development contributes to the empirical literature on decentralization and the debate on whether it is a viable and desirable state-building strategy... more...
Stable Outside, Fragile Inside?
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2010; US$ 114.95This timely volume analyzes the quality of statehood in the region by assessing the complex dynamics of Central Asian state-making and focusing on the simultaneous patterns of socialization and internalization in the region - thus bringing Central Asia into the mainstream of systematic interrogation. more...
Federalism in Asia
Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 123.00This book analyzes the successes and failures of various federal measures adopted in India, Pakistan and Malaysia for the political accommodation of diversity. Bhattacharyya then assesses their comparative significance for other countries in Asia. In particular, he examines growing tensions between nation and state-building in ethnically plural societies;... more...
A Dictionary of Australian Politics
Allen & Unwin 2010; US$ 27.26A comprehensive guide to Australia's unique and colourful political language. more...
Bureaucrats, Technocrats, Femocrats
Allen & Unwin 1990; US$ 19.95Theoretical essays in political sociology and Australian public administration by leading political theorist, Anna Yeatman more...









