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Political Science

Quality of Government Corruption, Social Trust, and Inequality in International Perspective

Rothstein Bo

ISBN: PB: 9780226729572, ISBN: HB: 9780226729565, University of Chicago Press, September 2011
304 pp., 23x15 cm, 14 tables, 14 halftones, 2 line illus.

The relationship between government, virtue, and wealth has held a special fascination since Aristotle, and the importance of each frames policy debates today in both developed and developing countries. While it's clear that low-quality government in...

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Political Science

Children of Light and the Children of Darkness A Vindication of Democracy and a Critique of Its Traditional Defense

Niebuhr Reinhold

ISBN: PB: 9780226584003, University of Chicago Press, September 2011
224 pp., 20.5x13 cm

"The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness", first published in 1944, is considered one of the most profound and relevant works by the influential theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, and certainly the fullest statement of his political philosophy....

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Criminology

Political Science

Policing Economic Crime in Russia From Soviet Planned Economy to Privatisation

Favarel-Garrigues Gilles

ISBN: HB: 9781849040655, Hurst Publishers, September 2011
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! In analysing how economic crime was managed in Russia, from the Brezhnev era to the Yeltsin years, this book reveals the historical roots of the 'criminal problem' that has marked Russian politics since the late 1980s. During t...

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Political Science

Local Redistribution and Local Democracy Interest Groups and the Courts

Gillette Clayton P.

ISBN: PB: 9780300125658, Yale University Press, July 2011
256 pp., 24.1x16.5 cm

The traditional theory of urban finance argues against local redistribution of wealth on the assumption that such action is likely to chase away the relatively wealthy, leaving only the impoverished behind. Nevertheless, Clayton Gillette observes, lo...

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Political Science

Middle East

Mobilizing the Faithful Militant Islamist Groups and Their Constituencies

Malthaner Stefan

ISBN: PB: 9783593394121, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, July 2011
260 pp., 22x14 cm

One of the keys to dealing with militant Islamic groups is understanding how they work with, relate to, and motivate their constituencies".Mobilizing the Faithful" offers a pair of detailed case studies – of the Egyptian groups al-Jamaa al-Islamiyya...

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Political Science

Metropolitan Governance Different Paths in Contrasting Contexts: Germany and Israel

Heinelt Hubert, Razin Eran, Zimmermann Karsten

ISBN: PB: 9783593394015, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, July 2011
350 pp., 22x14 cm

As urban areas have grown and sprawl has spread in recent decades, metropolitan governments around the world have begun to look beyond city borders, establishing regional partnerships to help them deal with issues of transit, resource use, and more"....

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Political Science

Middle East

Arab Revolution Ten Lessons from the Democratic Uprising

Filiu Jean-Pierre

ISBN: PB: 9781849041591, Hurst Publishers, July 2011
160 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The democratic uprising throughout the Arab world is proving how wrong were the hitherto accepted political alternatives, either dictatorship or Islamism. Yet more lessons are already being learnt from this grass-root process,...

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Political Science

Many Reasons to Intervene French and British Approaches to Humanitarian Action

Blanchet Karl, Martin Boris

ISBN: PB: 9781849041423, Hurst Publishers, July 2011
176 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! In the humanitarian field those we rather mockingly call 'French doctors' seem always to be in the vanguard, the first to arrive in any critical situation. If they hold such a position in modern humanitarian intervention it is...

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Political Science

Inglorious Disarray Europe, Israel and the Palestinians since 1967

Miller Rory

ISBN: HB: 9781849041164, Hurst Publishers, July 2011
244 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Since that fateful week of war in June 1967, when Israel's speedy military victory over the Arab states redrew the map of the Middle East, Europe – at least in terms of its influence in this crucial region – has been a cause lo...

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Political Science

Middle East

Red Star Over Iraq Iraqi Communism Before Saddam

Franzén Johan

ISBN: HB: 9781849041010, Hurst Publishers, July 2011
264 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Recent outbursts of sectarian and ethnic violence in Iraq have made many observers question the viability of the state itself. It is said that due to the artificiality of the state and a lack of deep-seated political institutio...

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