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"In this book, I present an alternative view of party development in America's first century. During the Gilded Age, "electoral capitalism" became constitutive of the party system, a process that I explore through an investigation of New York and its role in national politics. Political commodification fueled individual ambitions, factional negotiation, and partisan combat. To be sure, a host of burning issues was paramount in the public's eye. Generations of historians have admirably documented how everything from Reconstruction, nativism, and the tariff to labor relations and monetary policy reflected deep social divisions that cleaved parties. My own concern is less about any particular issue like the "bloody shirt" or epochal ideology like Jeffersonianism. Instead, I seek to reevaluate the systemwide elements of political behavior that made this period distinctive"--

Philip Manow is Professor of Comparative Political Economy, University of Bremen. His research interests include comparative welfare state research, the German political system, European integration and Political Theory. Publications include In the King's Shadow. The Political Anatomy of Democratic Representation (Polity Press, 2010) and Religion, Class Coalitions and Welfare States, Cambridge Studies on Social Theory, Religion and Politics (co-authored with Kees van Kersbergen, CUP, 2009). Bruno Palier is CNRS Research Director at Sciences Po, Centre d'etudes europeennes. He is studying welfare reforms in Europe. He is co-director of LIEPP (Laboratory for interdisciplinary Evaluation of Public Policies)

Socialism, Capitalism, Transformation reveals the mind of an academic who was not afraid to turn politician when the opportunity arose. In it, Leszek Balcerowicz, leader of the largest opposition party in Poland, former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, summarizes some twenty years of research into the connections between economic and political institutions and human behaviour, institutional change, and the way such change occurs. Part I provides a comparative analysis of capitalist and socialist regimes, examining in particular the compatibility of different economic and political institutions and policies. In Part II Balcerowicz discusses institutional change, focusing on the post-communist transition in Central and Eastern Europe since the late 1980s. He deals with political and economic developments and looks at the interplay between them. Here he blends academic knowledge with the insight gained while holding a position of major government responsibility during Poland's period of 'extraordinary politics'. Part III contains writings on Poland's own economic transformation and related political developments. The final chapter consists of personal recollection of Poland's reforms - an insider's view of a pivotal phase in that country's history

"China's contemporary political economy features an emboldened role for the state as owner and regulator, and with markets expected to act in the service of party-state goals. How has the relationship between the state and different types of firms evolved? This Element situates China's reform-era political economy in comparative analytic perspective with attention to adaptations of its model over time. Just as other types of economies have generated internal dynamics and external reactions that undermine initial arrangements, so too has China's political economy. While China's state has always played a core role in development, over time prioritization of growth has shifted to a variant of state capitalism best described as, "party-state capitalism," which emphasizes risk management and leadership by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Rather than reflecting long-held intentions of the CCP, the transition to party-state capitalism emerged from reactions to perceived threats and problems, some domestic and some external. These adaptations are refracted in the contemporary crises of global capitalism."

Machine generated contents note: 1. Development is not a dinner party -- 2. Rich Wang's village: marketing the dairy economy -- 3. Buying out collectives and farms -- 4.`We never forcibly evict anybody, except those who refuse to move' -- 5.`May god bless our injured land ... ' -- 6. Water wallies -- 7.`The miracle of creation' -- 8. Ethnicity, poverty, migration -- 9. Development is the irrefutable fact

Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 General Introduction -- 1.1 Capitalism and Freedom in Africa -- 1.2 African Political Philosophy -- 1.3 Content Introduction -- References -- 2 Theoretical Conceptualization of Capitalism and Freedom -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Capitalism and the Marxist-Conflict Perspective -- 2.3 Capitalism and the Weberian-Rational Perspective -- 2.4 Capitalism and the Liberal Perspective -- 2.5 African Conceptualization -- 2.6 Conclusion -- References -- 3 Capitalism and Freedom in African Communitarianism -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Communitarianism -- 3.3 Monarchism and Democratic Governance -- 3.4 Mercantile Capitalism -- 3.5 Private Property -- 3.6 Conceptualizing Freedom -- 3.7 Conclusion -- References -- 4 Capitalism and Freedom in the Colonial Period -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Colonialism -- 4.3 Development of Colonial Capitalism -- 4.4 The African Proletarian Revolution -- 4.5 Conclusion -- References -- 5 Capitalism and Freedom in One-Party Politics -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 One-Party Political System -- 5.3 One-Party System and Freedom -- 5.4 One-Party System: Capitalism, Wealth, and Power -- 5.5 Conclusion -- References -- 6 Capitalist Multiparty Democracy Reforms -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Concept of Democracy and Freedom -- 6.3 Multiparty Democracy and the Capitalist Agenda -- 6.4 Multiparty Reforms in Malawian -- 6.5 Conclusion -- References -- 7 Capitalist Economic Reforms in Africa -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Keynesian Reform and the African Condition -- 7.3 Capitalist Economic Reform -- 7.4 Capitalist Economic Transformation in Sub-Saharan Africa -- 7.5 Conclusion -- References -- 8 Economic Freedom Conflict -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Economic Dependence or Independence? -- 8.3 Private Property Conflict: Land Alienation.

"Tina Landis is an organizer in the environmental and social justice movements. She works in air quality regulation and climate protection, and holds a certificate in Sustainable Management from the University of California, Berkeley. She is a member of the Party for Socialism and Liberation and writes for Liberation News."--Publisher's description

First Published in 1926, Towards Socialism or Capitalism? considers how the socialised economy of Soviet Russia, isolated in a capitalist world after Lenin's death, faced acute dangers. Trotsky and the Left Opposition alone fought the Stalinist degeneration of the state and party apparatus which threatened to open the door to capitalist restoration. The three articles in this book, written between 1925 and 1932, discuss the fundamental problems of the Soviet economy from the New Economic Policy to forced collectivization. Published here in one volume, they are indispensable steps i.

The Government Party traces the evolution of the party structure with special emphasis on organization both during and between elections, the relationship of the party organization to the parliamentary leadership, and the connections between the party and corporate capitalism through the mechanisms of party finance

This book synthesizes psychoanalytic and Marxist techniques in order to illuminate the resistance to a socialization of the American economy, the protectionist discourses of anomalous American capitalism, and the suppression of the capitalist welfare state. After the Second World War, Democrats and Republicans effectively eliminated the communist and socialist parties from the American political spectrum and suppressed their allied labor movements. The right-wing shift of both parties fabricated a false opposition of left and right that does not correspond to political oppositions in the industrialized democracies. Marxist perspectives can account for the massive inequality of the political economy, but they are insufficient for illuminating its preservation. Psychoanalysis is necessary in order to explain why Americans continue to vote within a two-party system that neglects the lower classes, and why the working class tends to vote against its own interests. The psychoanalytic techniques employed include doubling, repetition, displacement, condensation, inversion, denial, fetishizing, and cognitive repression. In examining the fixation upon the proxy binary of Democrat vs. Republican, which suppresses the true opposition of left vs. right and neutralizes alternatives, the work analyses numerous contemporary political issues through applications of Marxist psychoanalytic theory.