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Introduction -- Historical Overview of Political Regimes in Pre-1974 Ethiopia -- The Rise and Fall of the Military Regime and the Emergence of the Tigray People's Liberation Front-Led-Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front -- A Review of the Contemporary Literature on Authoritarian Survival and Ethnic Federalism -- The Strategic Elite and Institutional Designs in Ethiopia: Question of Rights -- Ethiopia's Ethnic Federalism: Institutional Frameworks as Mechanisms for Authoritarian Survival -- Ethnic Federalism and the EPRDF's Systemic Co-Optation Mechanisms for Survival -- Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front, Ethnic Federalism, and the Anatomy of a Party-State's Economy -- Critical Junctures in the Rise and Decline of the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front -- A Defunct Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front, the Emergence of the Prosperity Party, and the Fall of the Tigray People's Liberation Front -- Conclusion.

Malaysia will hold its 14th general election before August 2018, bringing renewed focus on the nature of political competition in the country. This paper provides a systematic overview of the electoral process and an assessment of how it shapes the country's political environment. Political competition in Malaysia is extensively manipulated to provide the incumbent government substantial advantages in elections. Most of the manipulations are a result of institutional bias during the pre-election phase. They create a fundamentally uneven playing field that has entrenched the political dominance of the UMNO-led coalition. Electoral manipulations impose numerous costs. These include direct costs like the inefficient allocation of resources, as well as indirect costs like the exacerbating of ethnic divisions. Both channels hinder Malaysia's efforts to reach further developmental milestones. The high degree of electoral manipulation in Malaysia, juxtaposed against its successful developmental record and relative social stability, makes the country an important case for the growing body of research on electoral integrity and malpractice.

Examines the politics of Islam and the state in Indonesia over recent decades, during which time there has been a notable resurgence of Islamic political movements. Australian author from Australian National University.

Introduction, Ali Gheissari. Part One: Economy. 1. The Oil Wealth and Economic Growth in Iran, Djavad Salehi-Isfahani. 2. The Urban Provincial Periphery in Iran: Revolution and War in Ramhormoz, Kaveh Ehsani. 3. Nimble Fingers No Longer! Women's Employment in Iran, Roksana Bahramitash and Hadi Salehi Esfahani. Part Two: Society. 4. Religion, Women, and Political Agency in Iran, Shahla Haeri. 5. Who Will Catch Me if I Fall? Health and the Infrastructure of Risk for Urban Young Iranians, Pardis Mahdavi. 6. From Punishment to Harm Reduction: Resecularization of Addiction in Contemporary Iran, Ami

The Government Taketh Away: The Politics of Pain in the United
States and Canada., Leslie A. Pal and R. Kent Weaver, eds.,
Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2003, pp. xii, 340.Compiling edited collections is notoriously difficult because editors
and contributors frequently work from a different script. The result is
that instead of producing a coherent volume which addresses a particular
theme, readers are often left with a collection of scholarly papers that
share little in common. What may have started as a project with a single
goal and focus can quickly disintegrate into a patchwork quilt. This major
problem has been avoided in Leslie Pal and Kent Weaver's edited book,
The Government Taketh Away: The Politics of Pain in the United States
and Canada, a sophisticated and richly detailed analysis of how
decision-makers in the two countries attempt to introduce policies that
may adversely affect the economic, social and political interests of
various groups while trying to minimize political fallout. As the title of
this book suggests, the editors are not concerned about why policy makers
reward certain sectors and groups in society. After all, common sense
dictates that politicians need votes and attempt to acquire them by
appealing to the broadest segment of the population. In this book, the
focus is on how policy makers, when faced with potential opposition from
different groups, make strategic decisions that result in the imposition
of losses. Although the editors do not offer a concrete definition of
loss, examples include policy decisions that result in the de-indexation
of old age pensions, the closure of military bases and the retraction of
tax benefits. This book is not an indictment of government—the
editors acknowledge that in democracies politicians must often make
difficult choices that will help some and hurt others. Rather, it is a
thorough exploration of how decision makers make these decisions and how
various groups and sectors react.

In this sweeping look at American politics from the Depression to the present, Doug McAdam and Karina Kloos argue that party politics alone is not responsible for the mess we find ourselves in. Instead, it was the ongoing interaction of social movements and parties that, over time, pushed Democrats and Republicans toward their ideological margins, undermining the post-war consensus in the process ... In Deeply Divided, McAdam and Kloos depart from established explanations of the conservative turn in the United States and trace the roots of political polarization and economic inequality back to the shifting racial geography of American politics in the 1960s