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The Homeowner Ideology

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

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

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

The Repoliticization of the Welfare State

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

How the Great Recession changed welfare

A Study of Crisis

with a new Preface

By Michael Brecher & Jonathan Wilkenfeld
Subjects: Political Science, International Relations, Economics, International Economics, Latin American Studies, Digital Projects

A comprehensive study of the causes and consequences of war in the twentieth century

Aid Imperium

United States Foreign Policy and Human Rights in Post-Cold War Southeast Asia

By Salvador Santino Fulo Regilme
Subjects: Political Science, International Relations, Economics, Development
Series: Emerging Democracies

How US foreign policy affects state repression

Governing and Ruling

The Political Logic of Taxation in China

By Changdong Zhang
Subjects: Political Science, Asian Studies, China, Economics
Series: China Understandings Today

Studies how the Chinese Communist Party uses and reforms its taxation institution to promote economic growth and governance quality while limits the emerging capitalists' political demand

Liberating Economics, Second Edition

Feminist Perspectives on Families, Work, and Globalization

2nd Edition

By Drucilla Barker, Suzanne Bergeron, and Susan F. Feiner
Subjects: Economics, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Political Science, Sociology

Creating Gender Equality from the Ashes of Neoliberalism

The Dangerous Class

The Concept of the Lumpenproletariat

By Clyde Barrow
Subjects: Political Science, Political Theory, Political Economy, Economics, Economic Theory, Class Studies

The lumpenstate dystopia of the Trump/Brexit era

China’s Allocation of Fixed Capital Investment, 1952–1957

By Chu-yuan Cheng
Subjects: Economics, International Economics, Political Science, Political Economy, Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

The Political Influence of Business in the European Union

By Andreas Dur, David Marshall, and Patrick Bernhagen
Subjects: Political Science, Comparative Politics, Governance, Economics
Series: New Comparative Politics

Counters the notion that business interests control EU policy by showing how information controls lobbying

Greening China

By Ka Zeng & Joshua Eastin
Subjects: Political Science, International Relations, Economics, International Economics
Series: Michigan Studies in International Political Economy

Trade and foreign direct investment can have a positive effect on the environment

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.

Surrender

How the Clinton Administration Completed the Reagan Revolution

By Michael Allen Meeropol
Subjects: Political Science, Economics, Macro Economics

Illuminates recent national economic policy and warns against the single-minded commitment to balance the federal budget. The paperback edition features a new preface and afterword

Governance and Foreign Investment in China, India, and Taiwan

Credibility, Flexibility, and International Business

By Yu Zheng
Subjects: Political Science, International Relations, Economics, International Economics, Comparative Politics, Asian Studies
Series: Michigan Studies in International Political Economy

The type of government and the interplay of macro- and microlevel political institutions affect a country’s ability to attract foreign investment

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

Politics and Foreign Direct Investment

By Nathan Jensen, Glen Biglaiser, Quan Li, Edmund Malesky, Pablo Pinto, Santiago Pinto, and Joseph Staats
Subjects: Political Science, International Relations, Political Economy, Economics, International Economics
Series: Michigan Studies in International Political Economy

What makes a country attractive to multinational corporations?

Greening China

The Benefits of Trade and Foreign Direct Investment

By Ka Zeng & Joshua Eastin
Subjects: Political Science, International Relations, Economics, International Economics
Series: Michigan Studies in International Political Economy

Trade and foreign direct investment can have a positive effect on the environment

Tax Politics in Eastern Europe

Globalization, Regional Integration, and the Democratic Compromise

By Hilary Appel
Subjects: Political Science, Political Economy, Economics, European Studies, Eastern European Studies

Fundamental shifts in Eastern European tax policy

Taking Trade to the Streets

The Lost History of Public Efforts to Shape Globalization

By Susan Ariel Aaronson
Subjects: Economics, Labor, Health, and Educational Economics, History, American History, Political Science, Political Economy

Traces the history of civil society involvement in the international trade debate

Embedded Politics

Industrial Networks and Institutional Change in Postcommunism

By Gerald Andrew McDermott
Subjects: Economics, International Economics, Sociology, European Studies, Eastern European Studies, Political Science, Comparative Politics

An empirical analysis of changing industrial processes in the postcommunist Czech Republic

Positive Political Theory I

Collective Preference

By David Austen-Smith & Jeffrey S. Banks
Subjects: Political Science, Political Methodology, Economics, Micro Economics
Series: Michigan Studies in Political Analysis

A definitive, comprehensive, and analytically sophisticated treatment of the theory of collective preference

State Institutions, Private Incentives, Global Capital

By Andrew Carl Sobel
Subjects: Political Science, Political Economy, International Relations, Economics, International Economics, Comparative Politics
Series: Michigan Studies in International Political Economy

Considers why some countries are more successful than others in attracting international investment

Is It Time to Reform Social Security?

By Edward Martin Gramlich
Subjects: Economics, Political Science, Law, Business

The chair of the recent Social Security Advisory Council explains and shares his views on Social Security reform

Altruistically Inclined?

The Behavioral Sciences, Evolutionary Theory, and the Origins of Reciprocity

By Alexander J. Field
Subjects: Economics, Economic Theory, Anthropology, Political Science
Series: Economics, Cognition, and Society

An exploration of the role of altruism in the discipline of economics

Games, Information, and Politics

Applying Game Theoretic Models to Political Science

By Scott Gates & Brian D. Humes
Subjects: Political Science, Political Methodology, Economics, Micro Economics
Series: Analytical Perspectives on Politics

Explains how game theory can be used to explain political phenomena

Wealth Accumulation and Communities of Color in the United States

Current Issues

Edited by Jessica Gordon Nembhard & Ngina S. Chiteji
Subjects: African American Studies, Economics, Sociology, Political Science, Gender Studies

A unique examination of asset accumulation and the connection between wealth and well-being among different racial and ethnic communities in the United States

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