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The Limits of Nationalism
This book discusses the justifications and limits of cultural nationalism from a liberal perspective. Chaim Gans presents a normative typology of...
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Political Topographies of the African State
This study brings Africa into the mainstream of studies of state-formation in agrarian societies. Territorial integration is the challenge:...
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Democracy and Redistribution
When do countries democratize? What facilitates the survival of authoritarian regimes? What determines the occurrence of revolutions, often leading...
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Democracy and the Rule of Law
This book addresses the question of why governments sometimes follow the law and other times choose to evade the law. The traditional answer of...
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The Politics of Social Risk
The book provides a systematic evaluation of the role played by business in the development of the modern welfare state. When and why have employers...
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Race and Regionalism in the Politics of Taxation in Brazil and South Africa
Nationally-specific definitions of citizenship proved decisive for the development of the Tax State in Brazil and South Africa in the twentieth...
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Deterrence Now
Patrick Morgan’s authoritative study revisits the place of deterrence after the Cold War. By assessing and questioning the state of modern...
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Humanitarian Intervention
The genocide in Rwanda showed us how terrible the consequences of inaction can be in the face of mass murder. But the conflict in Kosovo raised...
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Capitalism and Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe
This volume presents a shared effort to apply a general historical-institutionalist approach to the problem of assessing institutional change in the...
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Antitrust Law
This book is an effort to consolidate several different perspectives on antitrust law. First, Professor Hylton presents a detailed description of the...
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Economics and the Theory of Games
This textbook offers a systematic, self-contained account of the main contributions of modern game theory and its applications to economics. Starting...
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The Empire of Disorder
In The Empire of Disorder, Alain Joxe offers the first truly comprehensive analysis of the new world disorder of the twenty-first century. The...
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Framtida skuggor
Hur kommer mitt liv att gestalta sig? Kommer jag att vara frisk och stark? Kan jag göra något för att påverka ödet? Den moderna läkekonsten...
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Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors
Sontag wrote "Illness as Metaphor" in 1978, while suffering from breast cancer herself. In her study, she reveals that the metaphors and...
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Cultural Resistance
From the Diggers seizing St. George Hill in 1649 to Hacktivists staging virtual sit-ins in the 21st century, from the retributive fantasies of Robin...
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Livets och dödens politik
Den biomedicinska utvecklingen har utlöst kontroverser som angår det mänskliga livets grundvillkor. Fortplantningsmedicin,...
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Kulturens väv
Kulturens väv är en essäsamling om utbildning. Men den begränsar sig inte till utbildning i vanlig bemärkelse – den handlar inte bara om...
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Companions in Crime
Criminologists often allude to peer influence in explanations of crime and delinquency, but the meaning of that concept rarely receives careful...
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A Theory of the State
This book models the emergence of the state, and the forces that shape it. State creation is bound to protection needs. A specialized protector-ruler...
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Crony Capitalism
Why has the literature on Asian development not addressed the issue of money politics in Korea? How can we reconcile the view of an efficient...
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Globaliseringens ABC
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Var de gode, gamle dage virkelig så gode? Var fortiden virkelig så fantastisk? De tre forfattere gør op med den nationale selvopfattelse som en...
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Ras, nation, klass
Hur kan det komma sig att rasismen, ett halvsekel efter nazismens nederlag och fyrtio år efter avkolonialiseringens epok, fortfarande är ett...
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Medlemmen, facket och flexibiliteten
Fackföreningsrörelsen står inför betydande utmaningar. Andelen fackligt anslutna minskar, gränserna mellan olika fackförbund blir otydligare...
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Corporate Crime, Law, and Social Control
Why do corporations obey the law? When companies violate the law, what kinds of interventions are most apt to correct their behavior and return them...
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