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This article examines the water distribution systems in Johannesburg and Mumbai to argue that the political and institutional contexts of service delivery shape people's access to the state and its resources, and also mediation between citizens and government institutions by councillors. Through ethnographies of water supply and distribution systems in Mumbai and Johannesburg, I explain how the organizational structure of the water utility, institutional arrangements of service delivery, regulatory systems, councillors' proximity to decision makers and their relationship with municipal officials, civil servants and party members variously influence councillors' mediation capacities and their ability to fulfil the claims of their constituencies for piped water supply and connections.

This text explores God's use of violence as depicted in the Hebrew Bible. Ophir shows how the Bible's varied formations of divine violence anticipate the main outlines of the modern European state. A critique of the modern state, the book argues, must begin in unpacking its mostly repressed theological dimension.

Note on transcription and names . ix Acknowledgments. x Introduction . 1 State of the art . 8 Theoretical approach. 23 Sources . 33 1 Forced migration, settlement, and the emergence of "abandoned property" in Ottoman times . 41 1.1 Property and forced migration . 42 1.2 Migration and refugee settlement in the 19th century . 55 1.3 Migrations from the North Caucasus. 58 1.4 The Balkan Wars . 67 1.5 The expulsions of 1913–14 . 74 1.6 The Armenian Genocide and abandoned property . 83 1.7 The regulation for Greek property . 104 1.8 Custodian accounts . 109 1.9 The deportees' return: 1918–20 . 112 1.10 Conclusion: From empty land to "national" property . 118 2 Making sense of ethnic cleansing and genocide: Parliamentary debates concerning "abandoned property", 1921–22 . 123 2.1 Historical background: The War of Independence . 124 2.2 Abandoned property in parliament . 139 2.3 The legal background . 145 2.4 The first draft: Who were "the disappeared"? . 147 2.5 The question of proxies . 154 2.6 The question of legality . 161 2.7 "Fugitive", "Disappeared" or "Deported"? . 169 2.8 The state as universal custodian? . 173 2.9 Conclusion . 177 vi 3 Self-help, corruption, or theft? Debating practices of property appropriation in İzmir and western Anatolia, 1922–24 . 181 3.1 İzmir, September 1922: destruction, death and exile . 181 3.2 The fate of "abandoned property" in Smyrna/İzmir . 188 3.3 İzmir's looted wealth in parliament . 195 3.4 Who took part in the looting? . 201 3.5 The identity of squatters . 204 3.6 Conclusion . 208 4 International agreements, national legislation, and the implemention in Turkey, 1923–45 . 211 4.1 Negotiations in Lausanne . 211 4.2 The Mixed Commission and follow-up negotiations . 219 4.3 Preparations in Turkey, 1923-1924 . 224 4.4 Squatting and resistance to exchangee settlement . 231 4.5 Transport and settlement . 238 4.6 Laws for property compensation: 1924 – 45 . 239 5 The politics of property compensation in İzmir: 1924–34 . 249 5.1 Property allocation (tefviz) from 1924 onwards . 252 5.2 ...

AbstractUK in a Changing Europe (UKICE) is a comparative newcomer among think tanks and it has produced a wide‐ranging report on the state of the UK economy. It asks whether the UK economy is caught in a 'doom loop' where performance is bad, but policy options are constrained by the fiscal position. Unlike some SWOT analyses it looks as strengths as well as weaknesses, but these may favour the more prosperous parts of the UK. The ideas presented could help prevent the UK falling into the doom loop, but politicians tend to favour solutions which have a short‐term payback. We need long‐term thinking.

Employing an inter-disciplinary approach, this book develops a theory of the modern state based on the concept of trust. It is valuable to readers interested in Administrative and Constitutional Law, the history of the Early Republic or the Progressive Era, positive political theory, and experimental social science methods.