Trading Spaces

Sonal S Pandya

• Paperback | Engels | Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions
• This book is the first comprehensive study of foreign direct investment (FDI) liberalization. Political economy FDI research has long focused on how h... Lees meer

The Efficient Secret

Gary W Cox

• Paperback | Engels | Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions
• The Efficient Secret is an analysis of the institutional changes in parliamentary government in nineteenth-century England, concentrating on the years... Lees meer

Making a Market

Jean Ensminger

• Paperback | Engels | Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions
• In Making a Market, Jean Ensminger analyzes the process by which the market was introduced into the economy of a group of Kenyan pastoralists. Profess... Lees meer

Modern Political Economy

• Paperback | Engels | Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions
• Political economy has been an essential realm of inquiry and has attracted myriad intellectual adherents for much of the period of modern scholarship,... Lees meer

The Fruits of Revolution

Jean-Laurent Rosenthal

• Hardcover | Engels | Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions
• In The Fruits of Revolution Jean-Laurent Rosenthal investigates two central issues in French economic history: to what extent did institutions hold ba... Lees meer

Consent, Dissent, and Patriotism

Margaret Levi

• Paperback | Engels | Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions
• This book explains why citizens sometimes comply with and sometimes disobey the demands of democratic governments. It argues that citizens are more li... Lees meer

Social Choice and Legitimacy

John W Patty, Elizabeth Maggie Penn

• Hardcover | Engels | Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions
• Governing requires choices, and hence trade-offs between conflicting goals or criteria. This book asserts that legitimate governance requires explanat... Lees meer

Exposed to Innumerable Delusions

John Waterbury

• Hardcover | Engels | Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions
• The states of Egypt, India, Mexico, and Turkey have all developed extensive public enterprise sectors and have sought to regulate most economic activi... Lees meer

The Political Economy of Public Administration

Murray J Horn

• Paperback | Engels | Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions
• This book uses a transactions cost approach to explain the key institutional characteristics across the public sector. It defines the distinctive gove... Lees meer

Delegation and Agency in International Organizations

• Hardcover | Engels | Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions
• Why do states delegate certain tasks and responsibilities to international organizations rather than acting unilaterally or cooperating directly? Furt... Lees meer

The Politics of Constitutional Review in Germany

Georg Vanberg, Vanberg Georg

• Paperback | Engels | Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions
• Constitutional courts have emerged as central institutions in many advanced democracies. This book investigates the sources and the limits of judicial... Lees meer

Election Timing

Alastair Smith

• Hardcover | Engels | Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions
• Most parliamentary systems have endogenous election timing, where the Prime Minister is free to call for elections when he or she thinks it's appropri... Lees meer

Political Institutions and Party-Directed Corruption in South America

Daniel W Gingerich

• Hardcover | Engels | Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions
• An important question for the health and longevity of democratic governance is how institutions may be fashioned to prevent electoral victors from dra... Lees meer

Marketing Sovereign Promises

Gary W Cox

• Hardcover | Engels | Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions
• How did England, once a minor regional power, become a global hegemon between 1689 and 1815? Why, over the same period, did she become the world's fir... Lees meer

Exposed to Innumerable Delusions

John Waterbury

• Paperback | Engels | Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions
• The states of Egypt, India, Mexico, and Turkey have all developed extensive public enterprise sectors and have sought to regulate most economic activi... Lees meer

Ideology and Strategy

• Paperback | Engels | Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions
• This book empirically analyzes how a minority can succeed in having its way in a modern democracy. The author applies modern rational choice theory to... Lees meer

Public Debt and the Birth of the Democratic State

David Stasavage

• Hardcover | Engels | Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions
• Does establishing representative democracy increase commitment to repaying public debt? This book develops a new theory about the link between debt an... Lees meer

Spending to Win

Stephanie J Rickard

• Hardcover | Engels | Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions
• Governments in some democracies target economic policies, like industrial subsidies, to small groups at the expense of many. Why do some governments r... Lees meer

African Economies and the Politics of Permanent Crisis, 1979-1999

Nicolas Van de Walle

• Paperback | Engels | Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions
• This book explains why African countries have remained mired in a disastrous economic crisis since the late 1970s. It shows that dynamics internal to ... Lees meer

Managerial Dilemmas

Gary J Miller

• Paperback | Engels | Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions
• In organization theory a schism has developed between the traditional organizational behavior literature, based in psychology, sociology and political... Lees meer

Southern Paternalism and the American Welfare State

Lee J Alston, Joseph P Ferrie

• Hardcover | Engels | Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions
• Combining insights from economics, political science, and history, Professors Alston and Ferrie show how the timing and extent of the growth of the Am... Lees meer

Shocking Contrasts

Ronald L Rogowski

• Hardcover | Engels | Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions
• In the fourteenth century, the Black Death killed as much as two thirds of Europe's population; in the fifteenth, the introduction of moveable-type pr... Lees meer

Beyond the Miracle of the Market

Robert H Bates

• Hardcover | Engels | Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions
• As capitalism defeated socialism in Eastern Europe, the market displaced the state in the developing world. Robert Bates focuses on Kenya, a country t... Lees meer

Architects of Political Change

Norman Schofield

• Hardcover | Engels | Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions
• This work offers a set of extended interpretations of Madison's argument in Federalist X of 1787, using ideas from social choice theory and from the w... Lees meer