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Why Labor Should Savour Its Greens: rebuilding a fractured alliance
Scribe Publications 2013; US$ 18.99Australia is suffering from a crisis of confidence. Globalisation, deregulation, and privatisation have delivered economic growth and enhanced consumption for the past twenty years, but the effects of the 2007?08 financial crisis, rising inequality, job insecurity, and increased corporate power over voters and employees are all eroding our sense of... more...
Eine sowjetische Nation
Campus Verlag 2012; US$ 40.21Inhaltsverzeichnis Inhalt Einleitung............................................................................................9 >Nation Dissidenz Forschungsperspektiven auf das sowjetische Vielvölkerreich..........13 Fragen, Untersuchungsfelder, Probleme ........................................26 Heuristische Begriffe: Repräsentation und Hybridität... more...
Accountability Without Democracy
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 27.00How citizens get government officials to provide them with public services in rural China. more...
Electoral Processes and Governance in South Asia
SAGE India 2007; US$ 69.00Most South Asian countriesfollowing independence from British rule in the. late nineteen forties, and in the case of Nepal, liberation from the autocracy. of one family group in 1950have enjoyed democratic systems of governance. at least at some time or the other, often for extended periods of time, and, in. a few cases, over the course... more...
The Transformation of the Japanese Left
Taylor and Francis 2009; US$ 140.00This book examines the transition within the Japanese party system that has seen the demise of ?the old socialists?, the Japan Socialist Party, and in its place, the emergence of the Democratic Party of Japan as the leading opposition party. Sarah Hyde has produced an original book which looks at the intra-left (non-communist) opposition party manoeuvrings during... more...
Turkish Politics and the Rise of the AKP
Taylor and Francis 2009; US$ 138.00The Justice and Development Party (AKP) has been in power since 2002. This book is the first book-length analysis to chart the rise and development of the party from its Islamist roots through to government, analysing in particular its internal organisation and dynamics. Since its foundation in 2001, the AKP seems to have been more successful than... more...
Patron-Client Politics and Elections in Hong Kong
Taylor and Francis 2009; US$ 145.00The study of patron-client politics is new to the study of Hong Kong political science. This book examines whether patron-client relations are critical to the electoral victory of candidates; how the political elites cultivate support from clients in order to obtain more votes during local elections; and tests the extent to which whether patron-client... more...
The Rise of Japanese NGOs
Taylor and Francis 2009; US$ 138.00Over the past two decades, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have exploded in number and emerged as a new force in international and transnational politics. Why, however, do some countries nonetheless have more active NGO sectors than others? Using the case of Japan, this book uncovers patterns of convergence and divergence in levels of... more...
Modernization, Democracy, and Islam
ABC-CLIO 2005; US$ 161.00The Islamic world has a poor record in terms of modernization and democracy. However, the source of this situation is not religion, but factors including colonialism, international economic and trading systems, and the role of the military, among others. Recognizing these themes allows the consideration of possible remedies for change in the Muslim... more...
East Asia?s New Democracies
Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 49.95This collection brings us up-to-date on the contemporary situations in the new democracies of East Asia, and debates on the prospect of introducing liberal democracy to this part of the world. The chapters cover a wide range of cases, including in-depth examination of China, Korea, Taiwan, the Philippines, Thailand, and broad comparisons of Malaysia,... more...









