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"An avowed republican investigates the unexpected durability and potential benefits of constitutional monarchies. When he was deposed in Egypt in 1952, King Farouk predicted that there would be five monarchs left at the end of the century- the kings of hearts, diamonds, clubs, spades, and of England. To date, his prediction has proved wrong, and while the twentieth century saw the collapse of monarchies across Europe, many democratic societies have remained monarchies. God Save the Queen is the first book to look at constitutional monarchies globally, and is particularly relevant given the pro-democracy movement in Thailand and recent scandals around the British and Spanish royal families. Is monarchy merely a feudal relic that should be abolished, or does the division between ceremonial and actual power act as a brake on authoritarian politicians? And what is the role of monarchy in the independent countries of the Commonwealth that have retained the Queen as head of state? This book suggests that monarchy deserves neither the adulation of the right nor the dismissal of the left. In an era of autocratic populism, does constitutional monarchy provide some safeguards against the megalomania of political leaders? Is a President Boris potentially more dangerous than a Prime Minister Boris?"--Publisher's description

"Oratory and Political Career in the Late Roman Republic is a pioneering investigation into political life in the late Roman Republic. It explores the nature and extent to which Roman politicians embraced oratorical performances as part of their political career and how such performances influenced the careers of individual orators such as Gaius Gracchus, Pompeius Magnus, and Julius Caesar. Through six case studies, this book presents a complex and multifaceted picture of how Roman politicians employed oratory to articulate their personal and political agendas, to present themselves to a public obsessed with individual achievement, and ultimately to promote their individual careers. By dealing specifically with orators other than Cicero, this study offers much-needed alternatives to our understanding of public oratory in Rome. Moreover, the assessment of the impact of public speeches on the development of political careers provides new perspectives on the hotly debated nature of republican political culture"--

"Seven decades ago, a new global order emerged. However, as the COVID-19 pandemic rages across the planet, those older ways of being are under unprecedented stress. Already, a new world order is taking shape--one that will put long-standing agenda items like trade, commerce and defence on the backburner. In a post-pandemic world, they will be edged out by issues like climate change, holistic healthcare, education for innovation and creativity, as well as the management of frontier technologies like artificial intelligence, robotics, blockchain and big data. Human dignity and human rights will be critical issues in this modern reality. To represent the changed actuality of the twenty-first century, global governance needs fresh ideas and novel institutions. More than five decades ago, Deen Dayal Upadhyay articulated a coherent economic philosophy, at the core of which was human-centric development. In the Hindutva Paradigm, author and thinker Ram Madhav provides clarifying insights into the reasoning of a philosopher who has remained an enigma through the decades. At the crossroads where we stand, this refreshing and stimulating philosophy could be the answer to managing the new world order."--Amazon.com

Introduction -- Chapter 1. Background to Rohingya's situation History -- Chapter 2. Burma pre-colonial history focussing on Arakan (Rakhine state) area -- Chapter 3. Archival research outcomes : new research outlining strong Rohingya claim to pre-colonial history -- Chapter 4. Burma/Myanmar's post-independence history impacting the Rohingya -- Identity -- Chapter 5. Fieldwork research with Rohingya (in Myanmar and diaspora) -- Chapter 6. Development of modern Rohingya identity; Who do the contemporary Rohingya say they are? -- Contemporary situation -- Chapter 7. Myanmar's transformation 2010-2015 -- Chapter 8. 2015-2019 period in Myanmar: Aung San Suu Kyi comes to office, online hate speech increases, 2017 military action in northern Rakhine state, and the Rohingya's forced migration -- Chapter 9. The Rohingya's future -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgements -- Index

Intro -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Acronyms -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Institutional Reforms, Governance, and Services Delivery in the Global South -- Introduction -- The Global South Context -- References -- Part I: Institutional Reforms and Policy Design -- Chapter 2: Governance and Policymaking in the Middle East and North Africa: Evidence from Using Inductive Thematic Coding -- Introduction -- Inductive Thematic Coding -- Results -- Participation in Policymaking: Who Makes Policy? -- Research Questions -- The Public -- Ruling Elites -- Transnational Actors -- Evidence-to-Policy Transfer -- Research Question: What Is the Extent of Research Evidence Use in Policymaking and What Are the Barriers and Facilitators? -- Policy Contexts: Governance, Socio-political Conditions, and Culture -- Research Questions: How Do Specific Contexts (Political, Socio-economic, and Cultural) Affect Policy Policymaking in MENA? -- Discussion and Conclusion -- Appendix -- References -- Chapter 3: Middle Class and Institutional Reform in Selected Arab Countries -- Introduction -- Middle Class Between Definitions and Measurement -- The Major Problem Is How to Define Who We Are Talking About -- Middle Class in Arab Countries: Regional Comparison -- Middle Class Size in the Selected Arab Countries -- Quick Glance at the Four Selected Countries' Income Distribution -- Data and Methodology -- Empirical Methodology -- Empirical Results -- Social and Political Outcomes and Economic Development -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: Deinstitutionalization and Alternative Care Systems: A Case Study of Children Without Parental Care in Egypt -- Introduction -- Methodology -- Guiding Frameworks -- Literature Review -- Theoretical Framework of the Study -- Data Collection Methods.

"In the early days of the United States, people voted for the president and vice president on the same ballot. In the presidential election of 1800, Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr received the same number of electoral votes. In this fictional blast to the past, Gaby, Zoe, and Will, members of Team Time Machine, witness the tie-breaking decision that led to the election of the third US president. Readers learn more about America's early political beginnings with humor and intrigue, while historical images and fact boxes provide them with the information they need to understand how the election process in the United States has changed since 1800"--

"In Biomedical Hegemony and Democracy in South Africa Ngambouk Vitalis Pemunta and Tabi Chama-James Tabenyang unpack the contentious South African government's post-apartheid policy framework of the ''return to tradition policy''. The conjuncture between deep sociopolitical crises, witchcraft, the ravaging HIV/AIDS pandemic and the government's initial reluctance to adopt antiretroviral therapy turned away desperate HIV/AIDS patients to traditional healers. Drawing on historical sources, policy documents and ethnographic interviews, Pemunta and Tabenyang convincingly demonstrate that despite biomedical hegemony, patients and members of their therapy seeking group often shuttle between modern and traditional medicine thereby making both systems of healthcare complementary rather than alternatives. They draw the attention of policy-makers to the need to be aware of ''subaltern health narratives'' in designing health policy"--

An Ethical Turn In Governance: The Call for a New Development Narrative invites a unique policy response to the pressing question of how can governance be improved in an age when people are profoundly disenchanted by the public policy solutions to mitigate the anguish of Caribbean development.

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- PART ONE -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Origins of Social Preferences -- 3 Culture Creates Structure: Explaining Cross-Societal Institutional Differences -- 4 Cultural Mechanisms of Political Change -- PART TWO -- Introduction to Part Two -- 5 Reining In American Social Security Expansion, 1983 -- 6 The Soviet Struggle Over Consumer Price Subsidies, 1987–1991 -- 7 German Reluctance to Shift the Trajectory of Pensions, 1989 -- 8 Half-Measures on Japanese Public Pensions, 1985 -- Conclusions -- References -- Index