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When Crime Pays

Author : Milan Vaishnav

Publisher : Yale University Press

Page : 434 pages

File Size : 45,39 MB

Release : 2017-01-01

Category : Political Science

ISBN : 0300216203

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The first thorough study of the co-existence of crime and democratic processes in Indian politics In India, the world's largest democracy, the symbiotic relationship between crime and politics raises complex questions. For instance, how can free and fair democratic processes exist alongside rampant criminality? Why do political parties recruit candidates with reputations for wrongdoing? Why are one-third of state and national legislators elected--and often re-elected--in spite of criminal charges pending against them? In this eye-opening study, political scientist Milan Vaishnav mines a rich array of sources, including fieldwork on political campaigns and interviews with candidates, party workers, and voters, large surveys, and an original database on politicians' backgrounds to offer the first comprehensive study of an issue that has implications for the study of democracy both within and beyond India's borders.



Demanding Development

Author : Adam Michael Auerbach

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 331 pages

File Size : 25,71 MB

Release : 2019-10-31

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 1108491936

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Explains the uneven success of India's slum dwellers in demanding and securing essential public services from the state.



Andrew Carnegie

Author : Samuel Bostaph

Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield

Page : 175 pages

File Size : 24,48 MB

Release : 2017-10-01

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 1538106000

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Andrew Carnegie was a leading industrialist who used his fortune to create a legacy of philanthropy and peace advocacy. This biography examines his rise from a poverty-stricken childhood to a position of international leadership.



Secrets in Global Governance

Author : Allison Carnegie

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 363 pages

File Size : 44,43 MB

Release : 2020-06-18

Category : Political Science

ISBN : 1108809693

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Scholars have long argued that transparency makes international rule violations more visible and improves outcomes. Secrets in Global Governance revises this claim to show how equipping international organizations (IOs) with secrecy can be a critical tool for eliciting sensitive information and increasing cooperation. States are often deterred from disclosing information about violations of international rules by concerns of revealing commercially sensitive economic information or the sources and methods used to collect intelligence. IOs equipped with effective confidentiality systems can analyze and act on sensitive information while preventing its wide release. Carnegie and Carson use statistical analyses of new data, elite interviews, and archival research to test this argument in domains across international relations, including nuclear proliferation, international trade, justice for war crimes, and foreign direct investment. Secrets in Global Governance brings a groundbreaking new perspective to the literature of international relations.



Costs of Democracy

Author : Devesh Kapur

Publisher : Oxford University Press

Page : 383 pages

File Size : 33,91 MB

Release : 2018-06-13

Category : Political Science

ISBN : 019909313X

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One of the most troubling critiques of contemporary democracy is the inability of representative governments to regulate the deluge of money in politics. If it is impossible to conceive of democracies without elections, it is equally impractical to imagine elections without money. Costs of Democracy is an exhaustive, ground-breaking study of money in Indian politics that opens readers’ eyes to the opaque and enigmatic ways in which money flows through the political veins of the world’s largest democracy. Through original, in-depth investigation—drawing from extensive fieldwork on political campaigns, pioneering surveys, and innovative data analysis—the contributors in this volume uncover the institutional and regulatory contexts governing the torrent of money in politics; the sources of political finance; the reasons for such large spending; and how money flows, influences, and interacts with different tiers of government. The book raises uncomfortable questions about whether the flood of money risks washing away electoral democracy itself.



Paper Tigers and Minotaurs

Author : Moisés Naím

Publisher :

Page : 108 pages

File Size : 12,53 MB

Release : 1993

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN :

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This work recounts the recent evolution of the Venezuelan economy and details the consequences of new policies designed to tackle the nation's deepest economic crisis. It also explains the failed military coup in February 1992 that threatened Venezuela and analyzes why it occurred.



States and Markets

Author : Adam Przeworski

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 244 pages

File Size : 15,82 MB

Release : 2003-08-25

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 9780521535243

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The purpose of this book is to introduce the reader to the concepts and tools for studying relations between states and markets. The focus is methodological. Both the economy and the state are analyzed as networks of relations between principals and agents, occupying particular places in the institutional structure.Having introduced the principal-agent framework, the book analyzes systematically the effect of the organization of the state on the functioning of the economy. The central question is under what conditions government will do what they should be doing and not do what they should not.



Development Aid Confronts Politics

Author : Thomas Carothers

Publisher : Brookings Institution Press

Page : 362 pages

File Size : 50,59 MB

Release : 2013-04-01

Category : Political Science

ISBN : 0870034022

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A new lens on development is changing the world of international aid. The overdue recognition that development in all sectors is an inherently political process is driving aid providers to try to learn how to think and act politically. Major donors are pursuing explicitly political goals alongside their traditional socioeconomic aims and introducing more politically informed methods throughout their work. Yet these changes face an array of external and internal obstacles, from heightened sensitivity on the part of many aid-receiving governments about foreign political interventionism to inflexible aid delivery mechanisms and entrenched technocratic preferences within many aid organizations. This pathbreaking book assesses the progress and pitfalls of the attempted politics revolution in development aid and charts a constructive way forward. Contents: Introduction 1. The New Politics Agenda The Original Framework: 1960s-1980s 2. Apolitical Roots Breaking the Political Taboo: 1990s-2000s 3. The Door Opens to Politics 4. Advancing Political Goals 5. Toward Politically Informed Methods The Way Forward 6. Politically Smart Development Aid 7. The Unresolved Debate on Political Goals 8. The Integration Frontier Conclusion 9. The Long Road to Politics



Claiming the State

Author : Gabrielle Kruks-Wisner

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 341 pages

File Size : 45,40 MB

Release : 2018-08-16

Category : Political Science

ISBN : 1108187978

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Citizens around the world look to the state for social welfare provision, but often struggle to access essential services in health, education, and social security. This book investigates the everyday practices through which citizens of the world's largest democracy make claims on the state, asking whether, how, and why they engage public officials in the pursuit of social welfare. Drawing on extensive fieldwork in rural India, Kruks-Wisner demonstrates that claim-making is possible in settings (poor and remote) and among people (the lower classes and castes) where much democratic theory would be unlikely to predict it. Examining the conditions that foster and inhibit citizen action, she finds that greater social and spatial exposure - made possible when individuals traverse boundaries of caste, neighborhood, or village - builds citizens' political knowledge, expectations, and linkages to the state, and is associated with higher levels and broader repertoires of claim-making.



Rethinking Public Institutions in India

Author : Devesh Kapur

Publisher : Oxford University Press

Page : 435 pages

File Size : 15,62 MB

Release : 2018-02-16

Category : Political Science

ISBN : 0199091285

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While a growing private sector and a vibrant civil society can help compensate for the shortcomings of India’s public sector, the state is—and will remain—indispensable in delivering basic governance. In Rethinking Public Institutions in India, distinguished political and economic thinkers critically assess a diverse array of India’s core federal institutions, from the Supreme Court and Parliament to the Election Commission and the civil services. Relying on interdisciplinary approaches and decades of practitioner experience, this volume interrogates the capacity of India’s public sector to navigate the far-reaching transformations the country is experiencing. An insightful introduction to the functioning of Indian democracy, it offers a roadmap for carrying out fundamental reforms that will be necessary for India to build a reinvigorated state for the twenty-first century.