"In The End of Power, award-winning columnist and former Foreign Policy editor Moisés Naím illuminates the struggle between once-dominant megaplayers and the new micropowers challenging them in every field of human endeavor. Drawing on provocative, original research, Naím shows …
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This volume examines the institutional foundations of coalition government in the ten post-communist democracies of Eastern and Central Europe, arguing that differences in the arrangement of political institutions systematically explain variations in patterns of multi-party gove…
This volume examines the institutional foundations of coalition government in the ten post-communist democracies of Eastern and Central Europe, arguing that differences in the arrangement of political institutions systematically explain variations in patterns of multi-party gove…
Makes a sharp distinction between primacy, denoting merely a form of material power, and hegemony, understood as a legitimate practice, and as giving rise to a form of social power. Adopting an English School approach, suggests hegemony be considered as one potential institution…
"Why has history so often turned the economic and political hierarchy of nations topsy turvy? This book examines the evidence of the last five hundred years to challenge the two dominant narratives on the answers to this question. It argues that the explanation lies neither in t…
In Society and Economy, Mark Granovetter sees the economy as one of many activities in "society"--A term that refers to everything people do with one another and how this adds up to a recognizable whole. Some economic action can be well understood as people rationally using mean…
In Society and Economy, Mark Granovetter sees the economy as one of many activities in "society"--A term that refers to everything people do with one another and how this adds up to a recognizable whole. Some economic action can be well understood as people rationally using mean…
"This book explores how civil society "thickens" by comparing two decades of rural citizens' struggles to hold the Mexican state accountable, exploring both change and continuity before, during, and after national electoral turning points. The book addresses how much power-shari…
"First primer in the emerging field of discard studies. It explores the way that social, economic, and political systems maintain themselves by discarding certain people, places, and things"--.