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Colonial legacy and the post-independence period -- Political regimes and democratic stability -- Guerrillas and revolutions -- US-Latin American relations -- Latin American presidentialism -- Legislatures in Latin America -- Elections and electoral rules -- The judiciary -- Political culture -- Corruption -- Civil liberties and press freedom -- Income inequality, poverty, and the gender gap.

The silent souls -- Ignored instinct : citizenship and governance in a conservative setting -- Framing empowerment : the dynamics of gender mainstreaming -- In the battle : women's crusade to enter into electoral politics -- Floating against the tide : women in local government functioning -- Let there be light : elected representatives and empowerment of the wider womenfolk -- Epilogue: Resource, agency and achievement holding public offices.

Looks at the general role of money in English mercantilist writing in the 1660s, when Locke wrote his first paper on interest, showing how contemporary problems led the thinkers of the time to ascribe a privileged role to money in their analyses. Describes Locke's handling of these common assumptions in the early writings; considers his objectives in writing the Treatises and how the theory of property fits in with the general structure of this argument. Shows how the conception of money in the early writings contributes to the understanding of the scattered references to money in the chapter on property. (DCL)

Scholars have long regarded 'Bread, Politics and Political Economy in the Reign of Louis XV' (1976) as marking an important moment in the study of the social, political and cultural history of eighteenth-century France. 'The Stakes of Regulation' is the companion volume to a new edition of this landmark study, revealing how Kaplan's thinking has evolved in reaction both to the changing intellectual, epistemological, historiographical and socio-political environment, and to the significant scholarship that has been accomplished during the past forty years. Kaplan remains faithful to his original premise: that the subsistence question is at the core of eighteenth century history, and that the issues joined by the struggle over liberalization continue to shape our destiny today through the bristling tension between liberty and equality, and the debate over the necessity, legitimacy and character of regulation

AbstractAccording to partisan theory, variations in policy choices and outputs originate from the party composition of the government studied. In this study, we take a novel approach to address such assumptions by linking changes in municipal taxes with local government changes. We also add a baseline scenario in which we examine whether the composition of the local government affects tax levels. Drawing on a dataset that contains official Swedish statistics from 1994 to 2018, we find convincing support for the partisan effect. Tax levels are higher under left-wing rule, and more specifically, tax cuts particularly occur when left-wing governments are replaced by right-wing ones. These results do not vanish when controls are accounted for, while it can be particularly noticed that the condition of the municipal economy influences partisan ambitions. These findings thereby contradict prior theoretical assumptions that the local arena is free from ideological battles.

Refugee camps are typically perceived as militarized and patriarchal spaces, and yet the Sahrawi refugee camps and their inhabitants have consistently been represented as ideal in nature: uniquely secular and democratic spaces, and characterized by gender equality. Drawing on extensive research with and about Sahrawi refugees in Algeria, Cuba, Spain, South Africa, and Syria, Fiddian-Qasmiyeh explores how, why, and to what effect such idealized depictions have been projected onto the international arena. In The Ideal Refugees, the author argues that secularism and the empowerment of Sahrawi refugee women have been strategically invoked to secure the humanitarian and political support of Western state and non-state actors who ensure the continued survival of the camps and their inhabitants. This book challenges the reader to reflect critically on who benefits from assertions of good, bad, and ideal refugees, and whose interests are advanced by interwoven discourses about the empowerment of women and secularism in contexts of war and peace.--Publisher description

AbstractChurch construction was one of the most challenging, and most political, tasks undertaken by medieval cities. Comparing examples from across Europe reveals profound differences, however, in both the architecture of politics and the politics of architecture; that is, how building projects were administered and how their administration shaped their socio-political significance. Although ranging across the continent, this article is centered on construction in two representative cities: Vienna and London. While the former had a small number of churches, all under the direct control of the mayor and council, the latter had over a hundred, each overseen by locally appointed officers. In Vienna, church construction was, thus, an important field of activity for the city government, which oversaw the work and celebrated its own leadership of the project; in London, it lay outside civic control and offered local opportunities for domination by wealthy families. This difference can be found across the continent, separating the large, old cities of England, northern France, Spain, and the Low Countries, which could have numerous churches, from smaller towns and cities both in these places and across the rest of central, northern, and southern Europe, which typically had a single, major parish church and only a few subordinate ones. This article considers the implications of these two contrasting models—centralized and decentralized, civic and parochial, high government and local politics—on how architectural production functioned as a field of political activity and how church building shaped local distributions and articulations of power in medieval Europe.

The interaction between politics and administration has generally been ignored by students of bureaucracy. Ezra N. Suleiman, however, views the French bureaucracy as a dynamic and integral part of the French political system. Using survey data as well as historical and contemporary sources, he concentrates on the highest officials and examines their relationships with both the political sector and the society. After identifying the place of the state in French society the author deals with the recruitment of higher civil servants, using comparative data to explain why the high social origins of French civil servants have remained constant. His investigation of the important institutional mechanisms of the central administration stresses that even a centralized and powerful bureaucracy must be seen as a complex of institutions rather than as a monolithic organization. Finally the author deals with the relations of the higher civil servants with other groups in society and with the regime of the Fifth Republic. Originally published in 1974. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Chapter 1. Introduction: The Electoral terrain in Zimbabwean politics -- Section A: Electoral environment in Zimbabwean politics -- Chapter 2. Electoral bickering: Reforms, transparency and credibility of Zimbabwean elections -- Chapter 3. Cordoning off the debris of Electoral Violence and Generative Hegemony in Zimbabwean Politics: Spying on the 2023 Harmonised Elections -- Chapter 4. The semiotics of political schisms and prospects of nation-rebuilding: "Varakashi 4ED" and the "Terrorists" -- Chapter 5. Voting: bliss or blisters? The Zimbabwean experience -- Chapter 6. Shifting the Voting Burden to Others: Abstainers and Turn Outers in Zimbabwean Elections. -- Section B: Language, politics and elections in Zimbabwe -- Chapter 7. The interaction of language and politics: Polysemanticism in the aphorism 'we died for this country, so we will rule Zimbabwe forever.' -- Chapter 8. Stoking the Flames of Hate language and Conflict ahead of Zimbabwe's 2023 Polls -- Chapter 9. Hate Speech and the Electoral Processes in Zimbabwe -- Chapter 10. The "New Old Dispensation": A Sociolinguistic Analysis of Selected ZANU (PF) Leadership Speeches in Post-Mugabe Era and Implications on Zimbabwe`s Electoral Process -- Chapter 11.ChiShona language, a tool in winning political support during campaigning: A case of Buhera South in Zimbabwe -- Chapter 12. Political poetic/ theatrical campaigning pieces in indigenous languages in rural communities: The case of Bikita district in Masvingo, Zimbabwe -- Section C: Electoral institutions and human rights in Zimbabwean politics -- Chapter 13. Adjudication of presidential election disputes in Zimbabwe: The case of Chamisa v Mnangagwa -- Chapter 14. The judiciary and electoral disputes in Zimbabwe's contemporary political landscape -- Chapter 15. Political dialectics and the role of Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) in elections: Friend or Foe?.-Chapter 16. Electoral laws, reforms, media transparency and the credibility of elections in Zimbabwe.