Political Economy

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Politicized Property

Network Ties and Renationalization in Serbia

By Miloš Resimić
Subjects: Political Science, Political Economy, Economics, Business, European Studies, Eastern European Studies

How ownership shapes the trajectory of capitalism on Europe’s periphery

Disease and Diplomacy

Weaponizing Medical Aid to Syrian Refugees in Jordan

By Sigrid Marie Lupieri
Subjects: Political Science, International Relations, Human Rights, Political Economy, Middle and Near Eastern Studies

What happens to refugees when politics come first?

The Great Separation

The Chinese Cultural Revolution and the Political Origins of Ordoeconomism

By Xiaohong Xu
Edited by Roi Livne, Robert S. Jansen, and Yang Zhang
Foreword by Ho-fung Hung
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, History, Chinese History, Economics, Economic Theory, Sociology, Political Science, Political Economy
Series: China Understandings Today

Upending the understandings of the Chinese Cultural Revolution and the market reforms that followed

Domestic Choices, International Markets

Dismantling National Barriers and Liberalizing Securities Markets

By Andrew C. Sobel
Subjects: Political Science, Political Economy, Economics, International Economics

Economics and Politics

The Calculus of Support

Edited by Helmut Norpoth, Jean-Dominique Lafay, and Michael S. Lewis-Beck
Subjects: Political Science, Political Methodology, Comparative Politics, Political Economy

In Pursuit of Prosperity

Industrial Policy and the Politics of Economic Upgrading

By Charles R Hankla
Subjects: Political Science, Political Economy, Comparative Politics

When is economic upgrading successful and when does it fail?

The Homeowner Ideology

Economic (F)Utility of Real Property Rights in Four African Cities

By Singumbe Muyeba
Subjects: African Studies, Political Science, Political Economy, Economics, Development, Public Policy and Governance
Series: African Perspectives

Confronts neoclassical economic conventions on homeownership in sub-Saharan African cities

Climate Games

Experiments on How People Prevent Disaster

By Talbot M. Andrews, Andrew W. Delton, and Reuben Kline
Subjects: Nature/Environment, Environmental Studies, Political Science, Political Economy

Experiments reveal people can work together to prevent climate change

The Medieval Constitution of Liberty

Political Foundations of Liberalism in the West

By Alexander William Salter & Andrew T. Young
Subjects: Political Science, Political Economy

Locating the roots of western liberal democracy in the late medieval period rather than the Age of Enlightenment

Where FDI Goes in Decentralized Authoritarian Countries

The Politics of Taiwanese Site Selection for Investment in Mainland China

By Kelan Lu
Subjects: Political Science, Political Economy, Asian Studies, China, Political Theory

Explores the conditional effect of fiscal decentralization on FDI inflows at county level in China and explores whether FDI sourced from adversarial states is more dependent upon local government fiscal autonomy than those sourced from the non-adversarial states

While Waiting for Rain

Community, Economy, and Law in a Time of Change

By John Henry Schlegel
Subjects: Political Science, Political Economy

How innovation will save the United States—and Buffalo—from economic decline

The Politics of Bad Governance in Contemporary Russia

By Vladimir Gel'man
Subjects: Political Science, Political Economy

Human history is in reality a history of corrupt governments

The Repoliticization of the Welfare State

By Ian P McManus
Subjects: Political Science, Political Economy, Economics, International Economics

How the Great Recession changed welfare

The Dictator's Dilemma at the Ballot Box

Electoral Manipulation, Economic Maneuvering, and Political Order in Autocracies

By Masaaki Higashijima
Subjects: Political Science, Comparative Politics, Political Economy
Series: Emerging Democracies

Dictators don't dance

The Dictator's Dilemma at the Ballot Box

Electoral Manipulation, Economic Maneuvering, and Political Order in Autocracies

By Masaaki Higashijima
Subjects: Political Science, Comparative Politics, Political Economy
Series: Emerging Democracies

Dictators don't dance

Compound Containment

A Reigning Power's Military-Economic Countermeasures against a Challenging Power

By Dong Jung Kim
Subjects: Political Science, Political Economy, International Relations

Using military and economic measures to contain rising threats in great power relationships

Capital Choices

Sectoral Politics and the Variation of Sovereign Wealth

Revised Edition

By Juergen Braunstein
Subjects: Political Science, Political Economy, Comparative Politics

Demystifies the process of sovereign wealth fund creation and examines the policy and economic issues surrounding them, updated for a post-Covid world

The Future of Digital Surveillance

Why Digital Monitoring Will Never Lose Its Appeal in a World of Algorithm-Driven AI

By Yong Jin Park
Subjects: Political Science, Political Economy, Sociology, Psychology

We are willing participants in our own surveillance

Fragmenting Globalization

The Politics of Preferential Trade Liberalization in China and the United States

By Ka Zeng & Xiaojun Li
Subjects: Political Science, International Relations, Political Economy
Series: Michigan Studies in International Political Economy

Firms compete when their supply chains are global vs. domestic

Competitiveness and Death

Trade and Politics in Cars, Beef, and Drugs

By Gary Winslett
Subjects: Political Science, Political Economy

Activists and money in the global marketplace

Labor and the Chinese Revolution

Class Strategies and Contradictions of Chinese Communism, 1928–1948

By S. Bernard Thomas & S. Bernard Thomas
Subjects: Political Science, Political Economy, Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

A definitive chronological study of labor’s role in the revolution, drawing upon a wide range of Chinese and Western sources

The Dangerous Class

The Concept of the Lumpenproletariat

By Clyde W. Barrow
Subjects: Political Science, Political Theory, Political Economy, Economics, Economic Theory

The lumpenstate dystopia of the Trump/Brexit era

Investing in the Homeland

Migration, Social Ties, and Foreign Firms

By Benjamin A. T. Graham
Subjects: Political Science, Political Economy, Economics, Development, European Studies, Asian Studies, Diaspora Studies
Series: Michigan Studies in International Political Economy

Diaspora-affiliated firms that invest in the homeland are more successful than other foreign firms, but are equally socially irresponsible.

Geopolitical Economy

The South Korean FTA Strategy

By Jonathan Krieckhaus
Subjects: Political Science, Political Economy, Asian Studies, Korea

How geopolitics influence free trade agreements in South Korea

In the Red

The Politics of Public Debt Accumulation in Developed Countries

By Zsofia Barta
Subjects: Political Science, Political Economy

Insightful study that identifies the underlying factors contributing to countries continually accumulating immense debt

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