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Stability and change in the American polity -- Partisan identities -- Party organization and social groupings -- Region : once primary, now secondary -- Income : slight, steady, and increasing difference -- Urbanization : shifting effects -- Education : incremental reversal -- Religion : important and in flux -- Ethnicity : dwindling whites -- Ideology : partisan cause or partisan effect? -- Reviewing the survey data -- Baneful effects -- Donald Trump's last hurrah.

A landmark comparative history of Europe and China that examines why the Industrial Revolution emerged in the WestThe Great Divergence sheds light on one of the great questions of history: Why did sustained industrial growth begin in Northwest Europe? Historian Kenneth Pomeranz shows that as recently as 1750, life expectancy, consumption, and product and factor markets were comparable in Europe and East Asia. Moreover, key regions in China and Japan were no worse off ecologically than those in Western Europe, with each region facing corresponding shortages of land-intensive products. Pomeranz's comparative lens reveals the two critical factors resulting in Europe's nineteenth-century divergence--the fortunate location of coal and access to trade with the New World. As East Asia's economy stagnated, Europe narrowly escaped the same fate largely due to favorable resource stocks from underground and overseas. This Princeton Classics edition includes a preface from the author and makes a powerful historical work available to new readers

Introduction. -- Chapter 1. Africa Rising? Exploring the Governance, Security and Development Nexus -- Chapter 2. Africa Rising: Looking Back to African Antecedents to Look Ahead Re-Imagining Africa -- Chapter 3. Interrogating the Political Economy of Africa Rising: Who are the "African Tigers"? -- Chapter 4. Africa - EU Relations and the Politics of International Development -- Chapter 5. Africa - US Relations: The Politics of Trade, Investment and Security -- Chapter 6. The Political Economy of Africa's Relations with China -- Chapter 7. Foreign Direct Investments and Africa Rising: A Critical Assessment -- Chapter 8. Regional Trade and Security Cooperation in Africa: A Study of ECOWAS -- Chapter 9. Trade and Security Cooperation in the SADC Region -- Chapter 10. Managing Regional Trade and Security in the Maghreb Union after the Arab Spring -- Chapter 11. The African Union and Politics of Regional Integration. -- Chapter 12. Placing Ethiopia's Economic Growth in the Context of the Africa Rising Debate -- Chapter 13. Negotiating the Tension between Democracy and Development -- Chapter 14: Assessing the Implications of Security – Development Nexus on State -- Conclusion.

Intro -- Foreword -- Preface -- Praise for The Failure and Feasibility of Capitalism in Africa -- Contents -- About the Author -- Abbreviations -- List of Boxes -- List of Tables -- 1 Capitalism and the African Context -- 1.1 Introduction: The Capitalist Political Economy -- 1.2 Capitalism in the African Context: A Historical Perspective -- 1.3 Indigenous Capitalism, Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, and the First Scramble for Africa -- 1.4 Frontier Capitalism of Colonial Africa: The Second Scramble for Africa -- References -- 2 The Postcolonial State: From Frontier Capitalism to Neocolonial Capitalism -- 2.1 Political Decolonization and Neocolonial Capitalism -- 2.2 The Convoluted Legacies of Colonialism and the Economies of the Postcolonial States -- 2.3 Explanations for the Rise of the Asian Economies and the African Context -- 2.4 The Counternarrative about Failed Capitalism in Africa -- References -- 3 The "French-Africa Connection" and the Refusal to Decolonize -- 3.1 Contextualising the "Connection" -- 3.2 Independence Without Monetary Sovereignty -- 3.3 Vociferous Narratives About the French-Africa Connection -- References -- 4 Natural Resources and Rentier Capitalism -- 4.1 The Hope of Prosperity -- 4.2 Resource Curse -- 4.3 Resource Rents and Rentier State -- 4.4 Rentier Stakes and Stakeholders: A New Conceptual Explanation -- 4.5 Stakeholder Politics and Accumulation in Rentier Capitalism -- References -- 5 Dysfunctional Versions of Capitalism and the Political Economy of "Eating" -- 5.1 The Institutional and Policy Framework -- 5.2 The Dysfunctioning Process -- 5.3 Versions of Dysfunctional Capitalism in Africa -- 5.3.1 Oligarchic Capitalism -- 5.3.2 Major Variants of Oligarchic Capitalism in Africa -- 5.3.3 Crony Capitalism -- 5.3.4 Hostage Capitalism -- 5.3.5 Predatory Capitalism -- 5.4 A Postscript on Dysfunctional Capitalism.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1973.

This book is designed for a one-semester course in international economics, primarily targeting non-economics majors and programs in business, international relations, public policy, and development studies. It has been written to make international economics accessible to both students and professionals. Assuming a minimal background in economics and mathematics, the textbook goes beyond the usual trade-finance dichotomy to address international trade, international production, and international finance; and takes a practitioner point of view rather than a standard academic one, introducing students to the material needed to become effective analysts in international economic policy. This new edition features such additional topics as global production and global capital flows, migration, the Ricardian model, and international organizations like the IMF. Examples have been updated to include recent developments (Brexit, for example) and all charts include the latest data.

In this revealing look at the history of assassinations, Kenneth Baker examines over a hundred political and religious murders or attempted murders, ranging from Julius Caesar to President Kennedy to Osama bin Laden. 0Assassins hope to change the world, but rarely succeed: Baker concludes that the assassination of Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo in June 1914 was the only one that changed the history of the world. Other assassinations, whether of monarchs, politicians, dissidents, clerics, journalists or others at best give only a glancing blow at history. The author concludes that, in Macbeth's words, an assassination `is a poisoned chalice.' 0Kenneth Baker also reveals that since 1945 there have been fewer individual assassins working alone; now assassinations are more likely to be carried out by political and religious terrorists, or by the security services of certain states to eliminate dissidents. Not only Russia and Israel, but the USA, the UK and others have resorted to targeted killings when they consider their security is under threat. On Assassinations shows how we have moved from the era of individual assassinations, through to terror groups' murders and now onto state-sponsored targeted killings

Foundations -- Introduction to the Enduring Democracy -- The Founding and the Constitution -- Federalism -- Civil Liberties -- Civil Rights, Equality, and Social Movements -- Institutions -- Congress -- The Presidency -- The Federal Bureaucracy -- The Judiciary -- Political Behavior -- Public Opinion -- Interest Groups -- The Media and American Politics -- Political Parties and Voting -- Campaigns and Elections -- Public Policy -- American Public Policy.

Although it is usually assumed that only the federal government can confer citizenship, localities often give residents who are noncitizens at the federal level the benefits of local citizenship: access to medical care, education, housing, security, labor and consumer markets, and even voting rights. In this work, Kenneth A. Stahl demonstrates that while the existence of these 'noncitizen citizens' has helped to reconcile competing commitments within liberal democracy to equality and community, the advance of globalization and the rise of nationalist political leaders like Donald Trump has caused local and federal citizenship to clash. For nationalists, localities' flexible approach to citizenship is a Trojan horse undermining state sovereignty from within, while liberals see local citizenship as the antidote to a reactionary ethnic nationalism. This book should be read by anyone who wants to understand why citizenship has become one of the most important issues in national politics today.