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African Successes Human Capital

Edwards Sebastian, Johnson Simon, Weil David N.

ISBN: HB: 9780226316055, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, September 2016
480 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 35 line drawings, 115 tables

Studies of African economic development frequently focus on the daunting challenges the continent faces. From recurrent crises to ethnic conflicts and long-standing corruption, a raft of deep-rooted problems has led many to regard the continent as fa...

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Business & Economics

African Successes Government and Institutions

Edwards Sebastian, Johnson Simon, Weil David N.

ISBN: HB: 9780226316222, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, September 2016
640 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 53 line drawings, 121 tables

Studies of African economic development frequently focus on the daunting challenges the continent faces. From recurrent crises to ethnic conflicts and long-standing corruption, a raft of deep-rooted problems has led many to regard the continent as fa...

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Asia

Political Science

Caretaking Democratization The Military and Political Change in Myanmar

Egreteau Renaud

ISBN: HB: 9781849046589, Hurst Publishers, June 2016
192 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! This book examines the political landscape that took shape in Myanmar after the 2010 elections and the subsequent transition from direct military rule to a quasi-civilian 'hybrid' regime. Striking political, social, and economi...

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Political Science

Europe isn't Working

Elliott Larry, Atkinson Dan

ISBN: HB: 9780300221923, Yale University Press, May 2016
320 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 12 black&white illus.

Europe's center-left is rapidly falling out of love with the European single currency. Fifteen years after its creation, British journalists Larry Elliott and Dan Atkinson assess its performance to show why. Looking at a range of key indicators the a...

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Political Science

Reconstructing the Commercial Republic Constitutional Design after Madison

Elkin Stephen L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226324012, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
432 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

James Madison is the thinker most responsible for laying the groundwork of the American commercial republic. But he did not anticipate that the propertied class on which he relied would become extraordinarily politically powerful at the same time as...

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Political Science

Parties Versus the People How to Turn Republicans and Democrats into Americans

Edwards Mickey

ISBN: PB: 9780300198218, Yale University Press, September 2013
240 pp., 21x14 cm

America's political system is dysfunctional. While this is a widely held view, it is a problem that – so far – has proved intractable. After every election voters discover yet again that political "leaders" aren't leading. Instead they are simply qua...

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Political Science

Birth of Territory

Elden Stuart

ISBN: PB: 9780226202570, ISBN: HB: 9780226202563, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
512 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones, 6 line drawings

Territory is one of the central political concepts of the modern world and, indeed, functions as the primary way the world is divided and controlled politically. Yet territory has not received the critical attention afforded to other crucial concepts...

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Business & Economics

Political Science

Good Italy, Bad Italy Why Italy Must Conquer Its Demons to Face the Future

Emmott Bill

ISBN: PB: 9780300197167, Yale University Press, April 2013
304 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

Once Italy was Europe's own emerging economy, a society that blended dynamism and super-fast growth with a lifestyle that was the envy of all. Now it is a major threat to the future of the Euro, and of the European Union as a whole, as a political sy...

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Political Science

Timeline of Presidential Elections How Campaigns Do (and Do Not) Matter

Erikson Robert S., Wlezien Christopher

ISBN: PB: 9780226922157, ISBN: HB: 9780226922140, University of Chicago Press, October 2012
224 pp., 23x15 cm, 27 tables, 55 line illus.

With the 2012 presidential election upon us, will voters cast their ballots for the candidates whose platform and positions best match their own? Or will the race for the next president of the United States come down largely to who runs the most effe...

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Military

Ending Wars Well Order, Justice and Conciliation in Contemporary Post-Conflict

Eric D. Patterson

ISBN: HB: 9780300171136, Yale University Press, June 2012
192 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Though scholars of political science and moral philosophy have long analyzed the justifications for and against waging war as well as the ethics of warfare itself, the problem of ending wars has received less attention. In the first book to apply jus...

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