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System -- Development

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Decentralization and Popular Democracy

Governance from Below in Bolivia

By Jean-Paul Faguet
Subjects: Political Science, Political Economy, Economics, System -- Development, Latin American Studies

Faguet identifies the factors that determine the outcomes of national decentralization on the local level

Changing Paths

International Development and the New Politics of Inclusion

2nd Edition

Edited by Peter P. Houtzager & Michael Peter Moore
Subjects: Economics, System -- Development, Political Science, Political Economy, International Relations, Comparative Politics

Explores how the world's disadvantaged may be enabled to claim a greater share of material wealth

A Civil Economy

Transforming the Marketplace in the Twenty-First Century

By Severyn T. Bruyn
Subjects: Economics, System -- Development, Political Science, Political Economy, Sociology
Series: Evolving Values for a Capitalist World

An accessible overview of the concept of the civil economy and how it works

Changing Paths

International Development and the New Politics of Inclusion

Edited by Peter P. Houtzager & Michael Peter Moore
Subjects: Economics, System -- Development, Political Science, Political Economy, International Relations, Comparative Politics

Explores how the world's disadvantaged may be enabled to claim a greater share of material wealth

Social Science Knowledge and Economic Development

An Institutional Design Perspective

By Vernon W. Ruttan
Subjects: Economics, System -- Development, Political Science, Political Economy, Anthropology, Sociology
Series: Economics, Cognition, and Society

Synthesizes various strands of social science research and thought, including evolution of thought about development in anthropology, sociology, political science, and growth economics

Protest and the Politics of Blame

The Russian Response to Unpaid Wages

By Debra Lynn Javeline
Subjects: Political Science, Comparative Politics, European Studies, Eastern European Studies, Political Economy, Economics, System -- Development
Series: Interests, Identities, and Institutions in Comparative Politics

Explains the absence of wide-scale protest over unpaid wages in Russia

Democracy, Governance, and Growth

Edited by Stephen Knack
Subjects: Economics, System -- Development, Political Science, Political Economy, Law
Series: Economics, Cognition, and Society

Demonstrates the importance of governance and social institutions to economic performance

Reinventing the State

Economic Strategy and Institutional Change in Peru

By Carol Wise
Subjects: Economics, International Economics, System -- Development, Political Science, Political Economy, Latin American Studies
Series: Development and Inequality in the Market Economy

The first comprehensive political economic overview of Peru in over two decades

From Liberty to Democracy

The Transformation of American Government

By Randall G. Holcombe
Subjects: Economics, System -- Development, History of Economic Thought, History, American History, Political Science, Political Economy
Series: Economics, Cognition, and Society

An analysis of American political history using the economic framework of public choice theory

Managing "Modernity"

Work, Community, and Authority in Late-Industrializing Japan and Russia

By Rudra Sil
Subjects: Political Science, Comparative Politics, Political Economy, Economics, System -- Development
Series: Interests, Identities, and Institutions in Comparative Politics

Compares industrial management in two late-industrializers—Japan and Russia—as a basis for an original theory of institution-building

Economic Reforms in Chile

From Dictatorship to Democracy

By Ricardo Ffrench-Davis
Subjects: Economics, System -- Development, International Economics, Latin American Studies, Political Science, Political Economy
Series: Development and Inequality in the Market Economy

An analysis of the neoliberal reform in Chile during the last thirty years

The Evolution of Agrarian Institutions

A Comparative Study of Post-Socialist Hungary and Bulgaria

By Mieke E. Meurs
Subjects: Economics, System -- Development, International Economics, Political Science, Political Economy, European Studies, Eastern European Studies

An examination of why private farming in the transition economies of East-Central Europe has not grown as quickly as expected

Out of the Red

Building Capitalism and Democracy in Postcommunist Europe

By Mitchell Alexander Orenstein
Subjects: Economics, System -- Development, Political Science, Comparative Politics, Political Economy, European Studies, Eastern European Studies
Series: Development and Inequality in the Market Economy

A comprehensive parallel study of two critical East-Central European transition economies

Defusing Democracy

Central Bank Autonomy and the Transition from Authoritarian Rule

By Delia Margaret Boylan
Subjects: Political Science, Political Economy, Comparative Politics, Economics, System -- Development, Latin American Studies

A substantive focus on transitions to democracy combined with an analytical approach rooted in the political economy of institutions

Polycentric Games and Institutions

Readings from the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis

Edited by Michael Dean McGinnis
Subjects: Political Science, Political Economy, Economics, Economic Theory, System -- Development, Political Methodology

Uses game theory to model institutions

The Federal Future of Europe

From the European Community to the European Union

By Dusan Sidjanski
Subjects: Political Science, Comparative Politics, Political Economy, Economics, System -- Development, International Economics

The history, current state, and likely future of the European Union

Brokers and Bureaucrats

Building Market Institutions in Russia

By Timothy M. Frye
Subjects: Economics, System -- Development, Sociology, European Studies, Eastern European Studies, Political Science, Political Economy

Offers a new political explanation for the creation of market institutions as it investigates Russia's transition from a command economy

Distributive Justice and Economic Development

The Case of Chile and Developing Countries

Edited by Andres Solimano, Eduardo Aninat, and Nancy Birdsall
Subjects: Economics, International Economics, System -- Development, Political Science, Political Economy, Latin American Studies
Series: Development and Inequality in the Market Economy

Examines the growth-equity relationship in developing countries

Polycentricity and Local Public Economies

Readings from the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis

Edited by Michael Dean McGinnis
Subjects: Political Science, Political Economy, Economics, System -- Development

Theory and empirical work on the organization of metropolitan government

Polycentric Governance and Development

Readings from the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis

Edited by Michael Dean McGinnis
Subjects: Political Science, Political Economy, Economics, System -- Development, Comparative Politics

How communities transcend the tragedy of the commons

Constructing Cooperation

The Evolution of Institutions of Comanagement

By Sara Gail Singleton
Subjects: Political Science, American Politics, Political Economy, Economics, Micro Economics, System -- Development

Considers how cooperation between public and private groups brings about systems of balanced management of an important common pool resource

The Origins and Demise of South African Apartheid

A Public Choice Analysis

By Anton D. Lowenberg & William Hutchison Kaempfer
Subjects: Economics, Economic Theory, System -- Development, Political Science, Political Economy

Examines the economic interests that led to apartheid, the changes that led to its dismantling, and the prospects for postapartheid South African society

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