Africa’s Political Economy in the Contemporary Era
in The Oxford Handbook of the Politics of Development
July 2018; p ublished online May 2016 .
Article. Subjects: Comparative Politics; Political Economy. 14622 words.
This article discusses Africa’s political economy in the contemporary era. It begins with an overview of various theories, models and debates that address African economic performance...
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Agency and Gender Norms in War Economies
in The Oxford Handbook of Gender and Conflict
February 2018; p ublished online December 2017 .
Article. Subjects: Comparative Politics; Political Economy. 5133 words.
This chapter describes shifts in gender roles and agency during times of conflict, noting that the changes men and women experience are interdependent and arguing that a conflict period may...
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Agroecological Intensification of Smallholder Farming
in The Oxford Handbook of Food, Politics, and Society
January 2015; p ublished online September 2013 .
Article. Subjects: Comparative Politics; Political Economy. 11699 words.
The smallholder farmers who cultivate many of the planet’s diverse production systems are faced with numerous challenges, including poverty, shrinking farm sizes, degrading natural...
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Albert O. Hirschman, Exit, Voice and Loyalty: Responses to Decline in Firms, Organizations, and States
in The Oxford Handbook of Classics in Public Policy and Administration
March 2015; p ublished online July 2016 .
Article. Subjects: Politics; Comparative Politics; Political Economy. 7700 words.
This chapter discusses Albert Hirschman’s Exit, Voice and Loyalty, a classic known for its relatively simple argument that has found many applications in fields ranging from personal...
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Alternative Paths to Food Security
in The Oxford Handbook of Food, Politics, and Society
January 2015; p ublished online January 2014 .
Article. Subjects: Political Economy; Comparative Politics. 12597 words.
This chapter examines an agroecological approach to agricultural development called the System of Rice Intensification (SRI). SRI can boost paddy yields by 50 to 100 percent using less...
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Ambiguous Transformations
in The Oxford Handbook of Transformations of the State
June 2015; p ublished online October 2014 .
Article. Subjects: Politics; Comparative Politics; Political Economy. 8019 words.
Over the past century, international financial crises have often helped transform the role of the state within domestic economies as well as the nature of economic relations between states....
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Anthony Downs, “Up and Down with Ecology: The ‘Issue-Attention’ Cycle”
in The Oxford Handbook of Classics in Public Policy and Administration
March 2015; p ublished online July 2016 .
Article. Subjects: Politics; Political Economy; Comparative Politics. 4447 words.
This chapter comments on Anthony Downs’s 1972 seminal paper “Up and Down with Ecology: The ‘Issue-Attention’ Cycle,” which tackles the concept of “public” or “issue” attention. Focusing on...
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Appointing Ideologues, Partisans, and Loyalists
in Ideologues, Partisans, and Loyalists
March 2016; p ublished online April 2016 .
Chapter. Subjects: Political Economy; Comparative Politics. 5761 words.
When and why should party leaders appoint ideologues and partisans over loyalists? This chapter develops a theory of ministerial appointments, which stresses the strategic nature of the...
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Authenticity and Sustainability in Responsible Tourism
in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics
Article. Subjects: Comparative Politics; Political Economy. 346 words.
This is an advance summary of a forthcoming article in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics. Please check back later for the full article.
Tourism is...
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Authoritarian Government
in The Oxford Handbook of Political Economy
June 2008; p ublished online September 2009 .
Article. Subjects: Political Economy; Comparative Politics. 7082 words.
This article discusses authoritarian government, and argues that the literature on authoritarianism can be integrated into a unified framework that explains variance in economic performance...
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Authoritarian Turnover and Change in Comparative Perspective
in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics
P ublished online February 2019 .
Article. Subjects: Comparative Politics; International Relations; Political Economy. 9370 words.
Most people in human history have lived under some kind of nondemocratic rule. Political scientists, on the other hand, have focused most efforts on democracies. The borders demarcating...
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Babies Hurt Development, Except When We’re Modern (Developing World 1980–Present)
in Nationalizing Sex
April 2019; p ublished online May 2019 .
Chapter. Subjects: Comparative Politics; Political Economy. 9094 words.
Chapter 10 traces the dramatic and sustained burst in anti-natalist activity within the developing world over the last forty years. Between 1976 and 2011 the number of least-developed...
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Babies Will Save Us
in Nationalizing Sex
April 2019; p ublished online May 2019 .
Chapter. Subjects: Comparative Politics; Political Economy. 10530 words.
Chapter 9 examines the transnationalization of the neo-mercantilist discourse among developed world states. Tracing its origins to developments in France and the Soviet Union, this chapter...
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The Bank of Italy
in The Oxford Handbook of Italian Politics
November 2015; p ublished online February 2016 .
Article. Subjects: Politics; Comparative Politics; Political Economy. 4974 words.
Government weakness and political fragmentation lie at the roots of the Bank’s importance in economic governance. The Bank maintained independence in appointments throughout the postwar...
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The Banking Union in Europe
in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics
P ublished online March 2019 .
Article. Subjects: Comparative Politics; International Relations; Political Economy. 8400 words.
The banking union is considered to be one of the main steps in economic integration in the European Union. Given the rather recent establishment of this policy, academic research on the...
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Biofuels
in The Oxford Handbook of Food, Politics, and Society
January 2015; p ublished online January 2014 .
Article. Subjects: Comparative Politics; Political Economy. 10153 words.
A rapidly growing world population and an even more rapidly growing consumption of fossil fuels are increasing demand for both food and biofuels, which will exaggerate both the food and...
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Britain: The First Modern Industrial Economy
in Racing to the Top
December 2018; p ublished online October 2018 .
Chapter. Subjects: Comparative Politics; Political Economy. 8178 words.
The British Industrial Revolution is one of the most famous economic growth stories. Once a peripheral economy, Britain later became the center of the world economy, occupying a position of...
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Cannon Fodder for the Crown (Europe 1600–1776)
in Nationalizing Sex
April 2019; p ublished online May 2019 .
Chapter. Subjects: Comparative Politics; Political Economy. 4489 words.
Chapter 2 explores the origins of natalist thought, tracing thinking on fertility to the scientific revolutions of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, in which modern forms of power...
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Capitalism and Democracy
in The Oxford Handbook of Political Science
July 2011; p ublished online September 2013 .
Article. Subjects: Politics; Comparative Politics; Political Economy. 11339 words.
This article discusses three different approaches to the study of democratic redistribution. It starts by considering the recent literature on capitalism as an economic system, and how the...
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Capitalism and Democracy
in The Oxford Handbook of Political Economy
June 2008; p ublished online September 2009 .
Article. Subjects: Comparative Politics; Political Economy. 11203 words.
This article discusses three different approaches to the study of democratic redistribution. It starts by considering the recent literature on capitalism as an economic system, and how the...
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