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Patchwork States argues that patterns of political violence in South Asia are rooted in state-building during and after colonial rule.
Author : Adnan Naseemullah
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 50,18 MB
Release : 2022-06-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1009158422
Patchwork States argues that patterns of political violence in South Asia are rooted in state-building during and after colonial rule.
Author : Barbara Bannister
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 13,55 MB
Release : 1976-06-01
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 0486232433
50 quilt blocks for the 50 states from "Hearth & Home" Magazine.
Author : Erin Metz McDonnell
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 13,72 MB
Release : 2020-03-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0691197369
Corruption and ineffectiveness are often expected of public servants in developing countries. However, some groups within these states are distinctly more effective and public oriented than the rest. Why? Patchwork Leviathan explains how a few spectacularly effective state organizations manage to thrive amid general institutional weakness and succeed against impressive odds. Drawing on the Hobbesian image of the state as Leviathan, Erin Metz McDonnell argues that many seemingly weak states actually have a wide range of administrative capacities. Such states are in fact patchworks sewn loosely together from scarce resources into the semblance of unity. McDonnell demonstrates that when the human, cognitive, and material resources of bureaucracy are rare, it is critically important how they are distributed. Too often, scarce bureaucratic resources are scattered throughout the state, yielding little effect. McDonnell reveals how a sufficient concentration of resources clustered within particular pockets of a state can be transformative, enabling distinctively effective organizations to emerge from a sea of ineffectiveness. Patchwork Leviathan offers a comprehensive analysis of successful statecraft in institutionally challenging environments, drawing on cases from contemporary Ghana and Nigeria, mid-twentieth-century Kenya and Brazil, and China in the early twentieth century. Based on nearly two years of pioneering fieldwork in West Africa, this incisive book explains how these highly effective pockets differ from the Western bureaucracies on which so much state and organizational theory is based, providing a fresh answer to why well-funded global capacity-building reforms fail—and how they can do better.
Author : Adnan Naseemullah
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 49,38 MB
Release : 2022-06-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1009178032
Patchwork States argues that the subnational politics of conflict and competition in South Asian countries have roots in the history of uneven state formation under colonial rule. Colonial India contained a complex landscape of different governance arrangements and state-society relations. After independence, postcolonial governments revised colonial governance institutions, but only with partial success. The book argues that contemporary India and Pakistan can be usefully understood as patchwork states, with enduring differences in state capacity and state-society relations within their national territories. The complex nature of territorial governance in these countries shapes patterns of political violence, including riots and rebellions, as well as variations in electoral competition and development across the political geography of the Indian subcontinent. By bridging past and present, this book can transform our understanding of both the legacies of colonial rule and the historical roots of violent politics, in South Asia and beyond.
Author : Dante Chinni
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,81 MB
Release : 2011-10-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 159240670X
A provocative counterargument to the blue/red divide that illuminates our country's multidimensional political spectrum. In a climate of culture wars and economic uncertainty, the media have often reduced America to a simplistic schism between red and blue states. In response to that oversimplification, journalist Dante Chinni teamed up with political geographer James Gimpel, using on-the-ground reporting and statistical analysis to get past generalizations and probe American communities in depth. Looking at the data, they recognized that the country breaks into twelve distinct types of communities, whose differences and specific concerns shed light on the subtle distinctions in how Americans vote, shop, and otherwise behave. Showcasing personal interviews, combined with facts and statistics, Our Patchwork Nation offers a brilliant new way to examine the issues that matter most to our communities, and to our nation.
Author : Valerie Flournoy
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 20,91 MB
Release : 1985-03-29
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0803700970
Twenty years ago Valerie Flournoy and Jerry Pinkney created a warmhearted intergenerational story that became an award-winning perennial. Since then children from all sorts of family situations and configurations continue to be drawn to its portrait of those bonds that create the fabric of family life.
Author : Barbara Bannister
Publisher :
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 50,81 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN :
Author : Judy Hopkins
Publisher : Martingale
Page : 599 pages
File Size : 25,29 MB
Release : 2011-04-12
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 1604686316
Brimming with exciting projects--50 in all--this collection provides extraordinary value. Choose from decorative crib quilts, lap quilts, and bed-sized quilts in a variety of fabric combinations. Create everything from two-fabric designs to scrappy multiple-fabric quilts. Featuring traditional patchwork and fast cutting and piecing techniques, these quilts have broad appeal--as one would expect from such a well-loved designer!
Author : Carol Schmidt
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 21,90 MB
Release : 2013-06-19
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 0486499642
Fifty nifty full-page designs re-create one of the most popular quilt series ever, Hearth & Home's States-of-the-Union series. Each ready-to-color patchwork quilt design celebrates one of the 50 states, from Alabama to Wyoming. In addition to the full-page quilt illustrations, each block is shown individually for reference.
Author : Ellen Banda-Aaku
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,49 MB
Release : 2024-02-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1803288868
Winner of the 2010 Penguin Prize for African Writing. In this coming-of-age novel, acclaimed author Ellen Banda-Aaku offers a profound exploration into the effects of stigma, class, and family dynamics in 1970s Zambia. Pumpkin is a nine-year-old girl pulled between two vastly different worlds – that of her father, the wealthy and power-hungry Joseph Sakavungo, and her mother, his unstable mistress. As Pumpkin attempts to come to terms with her own identity, she struggles to fashion a future for herself out of the torn patchwork of her parents' lives. Beautifully constructed, Banda-Aaku has crafted a story that is in equal parts uplifting and bittersweet.