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Caroline Beer 《Studies in Comparative International Development (SCID)》2009,44(3):212-227
This article examines the relationship between democracy and gender equality. In particular, it contrasts the impact of long-term
stocks of democracy with the contemporary level of democracy and the participation of women in democracy. It contends that
democracy should be thought of as a historical phenomenon with consequences that develop over many years and decades and that women’s participation should be included as an important component of democracy. The main argument is that long-term
democracy together with women’s suffrage should provide new opportunities for women to promote their interests through mobilization
and elections. A cross-national time-series statistical analysis finds that countries with greater stocks of democracy and
longer experience of women’s suffrage have a higher proportion of the population that is female, a greater ratio of female
life expectancy to male life expectancy, lower fertility rates, and higher rates of female labor force participation.
Caroline Beer is Associate Professor of political science at the University of Vermont. She is author of Electoral Competition and Institutional Change in Mexico, published by the University of Notre Dame Press, 2003. Her research has also been published in journals such as the American Political Science Review, Comparative Politics, International Studies Quarterly, Comparative Political Studies, and Latin American Politics and Society. 相似文献
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Caroline Beer is Associate Professor of political science at the University of Vermont. She is author of Electoral Competition and Institutional Change in Mexico, published by the University of Notre Dame Press, 2003. Her research has also been published in journals such as the American Political Science Review, Comparative Politics, International Studies Quarterly, Comparative Political Studies, and Latin American Politics and Society. 相似文献
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Taylor C. Boas Jordan Gans-Morse 《Studies in Comparative International Development (SCID)》2009,44(2):137-161
In recent years, neoliberalism has become an academic catchphrase. Yet, in contrast to other prominent social science concepts
such as democracy, the meaning and proper usage of neoliberalism curiously have elicited little scholarly debate. Based on a content analysis of 148 journal articles published from 1990
to 2004, we document three potentially problematic aspects of neoliberalism’s use: the term is often undefined; it is employed
unevenly across ideological divides; and it is used to characterize an excessively broad variety of phenomena. To explain
these characteristics, we trace the genesis and evolution of the term neoliberalism throughout several decades of political
economy debates. We show that neoliberalism has undergone a striking transformation, from a positive label coined by the German
Freiberg School to denote a moderate renovation of classical liberalism, to a normatively negative term associated with radical
economic reforms in Pinochet’s Chile. We then present an extension of W. B. Gallie’s framework for analyzing essentially contested
concepts to explain why the meaning of neoliberalism is so rarely debated, in contrast to other normatively and politically
charged social science terms. We conclude by proposing several ways that the term can regain substantive meaning as a “new
liberalism” and be transformed into a more useful analytic tool.
Taylor C. Boas is a Ph.D. candidate in political science at the University of California, Berkeley. His dissertation examines changes in the strategies and techniques of presidential election campaigns in Latin America over the past several decades. His research has appeared in Journal of Theoretical Politics, Latin American Research Review, and Studies in Comparative International Development. Jordan Gans-Morse is a Ph.D. candidate in political science at the University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on various political economy issues in postcommunist and Latin American countries, including property rights, the politics of economic transition, and welfare state development. His work has appeared in Comparative Political Studies and Post-Soviet Affairs. 相似文献
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Taylor C. Boas is a Ph.D. candidate in political science at the University of California, Berkeley. His dissertation examines changes in the strategies and techniques of presidential election campaigns in Latin America over the past several decades. His research has appeared in Journal of Theoretical Politics, Latin American Research Review, and Studies in Comparative International Development. Jordan Gans-Morse is a Ph.D. candidate in political science at the University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on various political economy issues in postcommunist and Latin American countries, including property rights, the politics of economic transition, and welfare state development. His work has appeared in Comparative Political Studies and Post-Soviet Affairs. 相似文献
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Alejandro Portes Lori D. Smith 《Studies in Comparative International Development (SCID)》2008,43(2):101-128
We review the theoretical literature on the concept of institutions and its relationship to national development, propose
a definition of the concept, and advance six hypotheses about institutional adequacy and contributions to national development.
We then present results of a comparative empirical study of existing institutions in three Latin American countries and examine
their organizational similarities and differences. Employing the qualitative comparative method (QCA) proposed by Ragin, we
then test the six hypotheses. Results converge in showing the importance of meritocracy, immunity to corruption, absence of
“islands of power,” and proactivity in producing effective institutions. Findings strongly support Peter Evans’ theory of
developmental apparatuses.
Alejandro Portes is the Howard Harrison and Gabrielle Snyder Beck Professor of Sociology and director of the Center for Migration and Development at Princeton University. His current research is on the adaptation process of the immigrant second generation and the rise of transnational immigrant communities in the United States. His most recent books, co-authored with Rubén G. Rumbaut, are Legacies: The Story of the Immigrant Second Generation and Ethnicities: Children of Immigrants in America (California 2001). Lori D. Smith is a Ph.D. candidate in sociology at Princeton University. Her research interests include international development, organizations, and political and economic sociology. 相似文献
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Alejandro Portes is the Howard Harrison and Gabrielle Snyder Beck Professor of Sociology and director of the Center for Migration and Development at Princeton University. His current research is on the adaptation process of the immigrant second generation and the rise of transnational immigrant communities in the United States. His most recent books, co-authored with Rubén G. Rumbaut, are Legacies: The Story of the Immigrant Second Generation and Ethnicities: Children of Immigrants in America (California 2001). Lori D. Smith is a Ph.D. candidate in sociology at Princeton University. Her research interests include international development, organizations, and political and economic sociology. 相似文献
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Derek Kauneckis Krister Andersson 《Studies in Comparative International Development (SCID)》2009,44(1):23-46
There has been increased emphasis in the last three decades on the decentralization of natural resource governance decisions
to local government in developing countries as a means of improving environmental quality, public service delivery, and the
accountability of local officials. We examine the performance of decentralization of natural resource management services
in a large sample of municipal governments in four Latin American countries. Our analysis includes a variety of factors discussed
in the literature as important in influencing the responsiveness of government officials to local needs. We provide a nested
institutional model in which local officials respond to incentives created by the structure of formal political institutions
at both the local and national level. The results provide support for the importance of considering local and national institutional arrangements as these co-determine the political incentives within decentralized systems.
Derek Kauneckis is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science, University of Nevada, Reno. His research examines environmental governance, policy design and the development of decision-making structures as they relate to environmental outcomes. Current work focuses on property right arrangements, sustainability and science and technology policy within federal systems. He holds a M.S. in International Development from UC Davis and a Ph.D. in Public Policy from Indiana University at Bloomington. Krister Andersson is an assistant professor in environmental policy at the University of Colorado at Boulder. His research focuses on issues related to public policy reforms and their mixed effects on rural development and natural resource governance in Latin America. His work has appeared in journals such as World Development, Comparative Political Studies, and the Journal of Policy Analysis, and Management, among others. In the book The Samaritans Dilemma (Oxford, 2005) he and his co-authors examine the institutional incentive structures of development aid. 相似文献
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Derek Kauneckis is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science, University of Nevada, Reno. His research examines environmental governance, policy design and the development of decision-making structures as they relate to environmental outcomes. Current work focuses on property right arrangements, sustainability and science and technology policy within federal systems. He holds a M.S. in International Development from UC Davis and a Ph.D. in Public Policy from Indiana University at Bloomington. Krister Andersson is an assistant professor in environmental policy at the University of Colorado at Boulder. His research focuses on issues related to public policy reforms and their mixed effects on rural development and natural resource governance in Latin America. His work has appeared in journals such as World Development, Comparative Political Studies, and the Journal of Policy Analysis, and Management, among others. In the book The Samaritans Dilemma (Oxford, 2005) he and his co-authors examine the institutional incentive structures of development aid. 相似文献
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Anne Mariel Peters Pete W. Moore 《Studies in Comparative International Development (SCID)》2009,44(3):256-285
Drawing on recent critiques and advances in theories of the rentier state, this paper uses an in-depth case study of the Hashemite
Kingdom of Jordan to posit a new “supply and demand” approach to the study of external rents and authoritarian durability.
The Jordanian rentier state is not exclusively a product of external rents, particularly foreign aid, but also of the demands
of a coalition encompassing groups with highly disparate economic policy preferences. The breadth of the Hashemite coalition
requires that the regime dispense rent-fueled side payments to coalition members through constructing distributive institutions.
Yet neither rent supply nor coalition demands are static. Assisted by geopolitically motivated donors, the Hashemites have
adapted institutions over time to tap a diverse supply of rents that range from economic and military aid to protocol trade,
allowing them to retain power through periods of late development, domestic political crisis, and neoliberal conditionality.
Anne Mariel Peters is Assistant Professor of Government at Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT. Her recent dissertation, Special Relationships, Dollars, and Development, examines the relationship among US aid, coalition politics, and institutions in Egypt, Jordan, South Korea, and Taiwan. Her current research examines the use of donor-financed “parallel institutions” in the postwar reconstruction of Iraq and Afghanistan. Pete W. Moore is Associate Professor of Political Science at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH. He has conducted research and published on issues of comparative political economy and US trade policy in the Middle East. His current research as a 2008–2009 Fulbright Fellow in the United Arab Emirates examines how the civil war in Iraq is reshaping regional political economies. 相似文献
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Anne Mariel Peters is Assistant Professor of Government at Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT. Her recent dissertation, Special Relationships, Dollars, and Development, examines the relationship among US aid, coalition politics, and institutions in Egypt, Jordan, South Korea, and Taiwan. Her current research examines the use of donor-financed “parallel institutions” in the postwar reconstruction of Iraq and Afghanistan. Pete W. Moore is Associate Professor of Political Science at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH. He has conducted research and published on issues of comparative political economy and US trade policy in the Middle East. His current research as a 2008–2009 Fulbright Fellow in the United Arab Emirates examines how the civil war in Iraq is reshaping regional political economies. 相似文献
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Matthew Loveless 《Studies in Comparative International Development (SCID)》2009,44(2):118-136
Despite the long-standing normative assumption that, for individuals in transitional states, exposure to Western media cultivates
stronger attachments to Western political and economic values, the evidence presented here suggests otherwise. Using mass
public survey data from the mid-1990s in five Central and Eastern European countries, this article demonstrates a general
lack of support for international media’s positive contributions to individuals’ democratic attitudes and preferences for
market economies. This finding is particularly unexpected because the countries under investigation represent ideal cases
based on their proximity to Western democracies and international (Western) media sources’ capacities for extensive transnational
media penetration into the region. Yet this failure to find persuasive evidence of the influence of international media diffusion
on the development of Western political values sharpens our understanding of the process of political socialization in democratizing
countries by eliminating an assumed source and is thus relevant to students of democratization, international development,
and mass media.
Matthew Loveless is a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Oxford. His interests include how individuals learn and change both behaviors and attitudes in countries under transition. Specific to Central and Eastern Europe, he is further interested in how this shapes citizens’ attitudes toward democratic institutions, market economies, and European Union membership. 相似文献
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Matthew Loveless is a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Oxford. His interests include how individuals learn and change both behaviors and attitudes in countries under transition. Specific to Central and Eastern Europe, he is further interested in how this shapes citizens’ attitudes toward democratic institutions, market economies, and European Union membership. 相似文献
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This article seeks to explain the conditions that determine the divergent fates of union actors under democratic governments
by examining union activism around four labor reform episodes (union rights recognition, wage increases, workweek reductions,
and job protection/anti-privatization) in democratized Korea and Taiwan. This study first describes that labor reform politics
in these two new democracies involved contrasting processes and produced divergent outcomes. Korean unions that have resorted
to contentious mobilization have been more successful in areas where their sheer mobilizing strength matters (such as company-level
bargaining of wages and other material benefits), but less successful in national policy reforms. On the contrary, Taiwanese
unions have been more effective in securing labor policy concessions, while obtaining less drastic changes at the company-level
gains. This article contends that these divergent outcomes for unions’ gains would not have been possible without the differences
they faced in the degree of permeability within their respective formal political institutions and partisan interests that
draw these unions into these labor reform politics.
Yoonkyung Lee is assistant professor of sociology and Asian and Asian-American Studies at the State University of New York SUNY at Binghamton. She received her doctoral degree in political science from Duke University in 2006. Her articles appeared in Asian Survey (“Varieties of Labor Politics on Northeast Asian Democracies: Political Institutions and Union Activism in Korea and Taiwan,” XLVI-5, September/October 2006) and in Asia Pacific Forum (“Labor Movements and Democratic Consolidation in Korea: Gains and Losses,” No. 21, September 2003). 相似文献
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Yoonkyung Lee is assistant professor of sociology and Asian and Asian-American Studies at the State University of New York SUNY at Binghamton. She received her doctoral degree in political science from Duke University in 2006. Her articles appeared in Asian Survey (“Varieties of Labor Politics on Northeast Asian Democracies: Political Institutions and Union Activism in Korea and Taiwan,” XLVI-5, September/October 2006) and in Asia Pacific Forum (“Labor Movements and Democratic Consolidation in Korea: Gains and Losses,” No. 21, September 2003). 相似文献
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Chainmaking: A Note on Ornament, Intelligence, and Building 总被引:1,自引:1,他引:0
Robert Kirkbride 《International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society》2009,22(2):191-200
For the past fifteen-odd years, I’ve investigated the mutual influences of thinking and making, and their impact on design
and learning. This article reflects on the traditional role of architectural ornament in equipping a mind with metaphors for
wisdom and methods for learning. It then considers the reappearance of an ancient memory technique as an organizational metaphor
in the design of a new, forward-looking university building, as foreshadowing to the companion article “Chainbuilding.”
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Neal P. Richardson 《Studies in Comparative International Development (SCID)》2009,44(3):228-255
A new form of populism, combining broad-based benefits for urban workers with export promotion, emerged in Argentina under
Néstor Kirchner (2003–2007). This article argues that changes in agricultural production created the conditions for this “export-oriented
populism.” Historically, Argentina’s main exports, beef and wheat, were also the primary consumption goods of urban workers.
Scholars such as Guillermo O’Donnell have argued that this linkage increased rural-urban conflict, resulting in shifting coalitions
and recurring crises. Today, soybeans have replaced beef and wheat as the country’s leading export. Because soybeans are not
consumed by the working class, Kirchner could both promote and tax their export, generating fiscal revenue for populist programs
while not harming the effective purchasing power of urban workers or provoking a balance-of-payments crisis. Export orientation
thus provided the basis for a new variant of Argentine populism. This study offers a new argument within the classic research
tradition on the interaction between politics and various types of export growth. It likewise provides an additional basis
for arguing that populism, as a form of politics, can arise in diverse economic circumstances. Furthermore, this article contends
that, rather than uniformly promoting political stability, the effect of export booms is conditioned by the nature of economic
linkages between the export sector and the domestic economy.
Neal P. Richardson is a Ph.D. candidate in political science at the University of California, Berkeley. He researches the political economy of commodity exporting in South America, particularly in Argentina and Brazil. He also studies land conflict in Brazil, as well as quantitative and qualitative research methodology. 相似文献
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Neal P. Richardson is a Ph.D. candidate in political science at the University of California, Berkeley. He researches the political economy of commodity exporting in South America, particularly in Argentina and Brazil. He also studies land conflict in Brazil, as well as quantitative and qualitative research methodology. 相似文献
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Dawn Richards Elliott Ransford W. Palmer 《Studies in Comparative International Development (SCID)》2008,43(2):181-205
We explore the impact of social institutions on economic performance in Jamaica through a reinterpretation of the plantation
economic model. In its original form, the plantation model fails to develop a causal link between the plantation legacy and
persistent underdevelopment. Despite its marginalization, the model remains useful for discussions on growth and development.
Consequently, we offer a reappraisal using the causal insights from Kenneth Sokoloff and Stanley Engerman. We use two examples
to demonstrate how inequality encourages the formation of institutions that are inconsistent with growth, and an empirical
analysis to confirm the hypothesized relationship between inequality, institutions, and economic development. Since inequality
is expected to influence growth indirectly, we use a structural specification, which follows William Easterly’s recent test
of Sokoloff and Engerman’s argument. Our reliance on a time-series specification is unique. We demonstrate that the expectation
that, on average, inequality and growth is negatively related and that institutions may compromise growth are accurate for
Jamaica, the most cited Caribbean nation in the current discourse. Our results carry several policy implications, including
support for the recent calls in Jamaica for political restructuring. However, both the paucity of similar studies and the
importance of the implications for sustainable growth and development demand further analyses.
Dawn Richards Elliott is a Jamaican economist and associate professor of economics at Texas Christian University. Her research and teaching interests address Caribbean development issues from a political economy perspective. Ransford W. Palmer professor of economics at Howard University, has written several books and journal articles on Caribbean economic and migration issues. He is a former chairman of the Howard University Department of Economics and former president of the Caribbean Studies Association. 相似文献
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Dawn Richards Elliott is a Jamaican economist and associate professor of economics at Texas Christian University. Her research and teaching interests address Caribbean development issues from a political economy perspective. Ransford W. Palmer professor of economics at Howard University, has written several books and journal articles on Caribbean economic and migration issues. He is a former chairman of the Howard University Department of Economics and former president of the Caribbean Studies Association. 相似文献
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Ali Burak Güven 《Studies in Comparative International Development (SCID)》2009,44(2):162-187
The recent revival of interest in institutions in development studies favors the analysis of macroinstitutions and questions
of institutional origination and change. But a strong emphasis on mid-range, sectoral arrangements, and a refined notion of
continuity, can also improve our understanding of institutions in late developers—one by facilitating a thick view of institutions
while offering a sharp perspective on the current institutional reform agenda, and the other by casting new light on instances
of irregular change and failed or partial reform. The trajectory of Turkey’s agricultural support regime is used as a case
to substantiate this argument. Building on an analytic distinction between resilience and persistence, the article explains
the dynamic continuity of populist-corporatist forms of market governance in Turkish agriculture, despite the neoliberalism
of the 1980s and 1990s and radical institutional reform efforts of the 2000s.
Ali Burak Güven is a PhD candidate in political science at the University of Toronto. His dissertation examines the evolution of Turkey’s fiscal, financial, and agricultural regimes of governance. 相似文献
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Ali Burak Güven is a PhD candidate in political science at the University of Toronto. His dissertation examines the evolution of Turkey’s fiscal, financial, and agricultural regimes of governance. 相似文献
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Memory, Empathy, and the Politics of Identification 总被引:1,自引:1,他引:0
Alison Landsberg 《International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society》2009,22(2):221-229
This essay explores the ethical and political dimensions of what I have elsewhere called “prosthetic memories” (Landsberg,
Prosthetic memory: The transformation of American remembrance in the age of mass culture, Harvard University Press, 2004), focusing on those that are produced and disseminated cinematically. I argue that cinematic technology, by which I mean
also to include the dominant cinematic conventions and practices used in the Hollywood style of filmmaking, is an effective
means for structuring vision. Through specific techniques of shooting and editing, films attempt to position the viewer in
highly specific ways in relation to the unfolding narrative. Sometimes, in such films, viewers are brought into intimate contact
with a set of experiences that fall well outside of their own lived experience and, as a result, are forced to look as if
through someone else’s eyes, and asked to remember those situations and events as both meaningful and potentially formative.
By engaging specific strategies intended to elicit identification, films can force viewers to engage both intellectually and
emotionally with another who is radically different from him or herself. This complicated form of identification across difference
might condition viewers to see and think in ways that could foster more radical forms of democracy aimed at advancing egalitarian
social goals.
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Nir Gazit 《International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society》2009,22(1):83-103
The study of the relationships among social agency, spatial practices, and political power opens new directions for empirical
inquiry and theorization of current modalities of sovereignty. Yet, recent research has overemphasized external variables,
such as globalization and international forces, as conditioners of sovereignty and state power, with diminished attention
on national and local realms. In the following article, I investigate state power beyond the limits of its official boundaries,
by examining how intruder states produce, manage, and sustain effective authority over occupied territories and populations.
I use the example of the Israeli occupation in the West Bank to demonstrate how such cases of political authority are based
on fragmented sovereignty: comprised of multiple, localized, and relatively autonomous cores of power, instead of an all-encompassing structural and
centralized modality of control. I propose that fragmented sovereignty is shaped and operated through the increasing autonomous
power of ground level state agents and in the ways spatial perceptions and practices are interwoven into localized political
processes.
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Christopher Gibson Michael Woolcock 《Studies in Comparative International Development (SCID)》2008,43(2):151-180
The salience of the concept of “empowerment” has been deductively claimed more often than carefully defined or inductively
assessed by development scholars and practitioners alike. We use evidence from a mixed methods examination of the Kecamatan
(subdistrict) Development Project (KDP) in rural Indonesia, which we define here as development interventions that build marginalized
groups’ capacity to engage local-level governing elites using routines of deliberative contestation. “Deliberative contestation”
refers to marginalized groups’ practice of exercising associational autonomy in public forums using fairness-based arguments
that challenge governing elites’ monopoly over public resource allocation decisions. Deliberative development interventions
such as KDP possess a comparative advantage in building the capacity to engage because they actively provide open decision-making
spaces, resources for argumentation (such as facilitators), and incentives to participate. They also promote peaceful resolutions
to the conflicts they inevitably spark. In the KDP conflicts we analyze, marginalized groups used deliberative contestation
to moderately but consistently shift local-level power relations in contexts with both low and high preexisting capacities
for managing conflict. By contrast, marginalized groups in non-KDP development conflicts from comparable villages used “mobilizational
contestation” to generate comparatively erratic shifts in power relations, shifts that depended greatly on the preexisting
capacity for managing conflict.
Christopher Gibson is a Ph.D. student in sociology at Brown University. His research interests include comparative political economy, participatory democracy, contemporary sociological theory, qualitative methodology, and long-run causes of development and inequality in large developing countries. He is currently exploring the relationship between democratic participation and redistribution in Kerala, India. Michael Woolcock is professor of social science and development policy, and research director of the Brooks World Poverty Institute, at the University of Manchester. He is currently on external service leave from the World Bank’s Development Research Group. 相似文献
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Christopher Gibson is a Ph.D. student in sociology at Brown University. His research interests include comparative political economy, participatory democracy, contemporary sociological theory, qualitative methodology, and long-run causes of development and inequality in large developing countries. He is currently exploring the relationship between democratic participation and redistribution in Kerala, India. Michael Woolcock is professor of social science and development policy, and research director of the Brooks World Poverty Institute, at the University of Manchester. He is currently on external service leave from the World Bank’s Development Research Group. 相似文献
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The Ur-History of Media Space: Walter Benjamin and the Information Industry in Nineteenth-Century Paris 总被引:1,自引:1,他引:0
Jaeho Kang 《International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society》2009,22(2):231-248
This essay is primarily concerned with Walter Benjamin’s analysis of the newspaper as a media space with reference to privatization
of urban space, industrialization of public communication, and mediazation of public space in nineteenth-century Paris. I
seek to show how the information industry brought about the fundamental changes in literary practice, intellectual activity,
and the formation of a new social subject. I also demonstrate how Benjamin’s rich illustration of the complex dynamics of
media space in the nineteenth century largely avoids the shortcomings of oversimplification embedded in the analysis of the
bourgeois public sphere. In doing so, I argue Benjamin’s critical analysis that the newspaper provides a systematic framework
by which to examine the intersection between the media space and the urban experience in a digital age.
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Jeffrey B. Nugent 《Studies in Comparative International Development (SCID)》2008,43(2):206-217
Applications of institutional analysis to the explanation of economic performance come in many flavors. Some economists have
made use of an economics-oriented flavor in treating culture as one component of that analysis. Steven Heydemann uses a more
political flavor of institutional analysis to argue that two of these economists, Douglass North and Avner Greif, have overly
simplified and homogenized the concept of culture and the way in which it affects economic performance. He goes on to identify
several instances in both the economic history and contemporary experience of the Middle East where he claims that such over-simplification
has led to shortcomings in the analysis. This paper suggests that while some of Heydemann’s claims have merit, several others
are exaggerated.
Jeffrey B. Nugent is professor of economics at the University of Southern California. He specializes in development economics and, within that field, focuses on diverse applications of both quantitative analysis and institutional analysis to various developing countries. 相似文献
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Jeffrey B. Nugent is professor of economics at the University of Southern California. He specializes in development economics and, within that field, focuses on diverse applications of both quantitative analysis and institutional analysis to various developing countries. 相似文献
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Chainbuilding: A New Building for the New New School 总被引:1,自引:1,他引:0
Robert Kirkbride Shannon Mattern 《International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society》2009,22(2):201-219
Until a souring national and local economy led them to scale back their plans in 2008, The New School in New York City had
been designing a new, 500,000-ft2 “signature building” intended to embody what administrators were calling The new New School, a university committed to progressive,
interdisciplinary, urban, global education. The building was to offer glimpses of the horizon of academic infrastructure and
media and their potential impact—structural, pedagogic, and symbolic—on the university and its communities. Although the building
will not be realized in the form presented to the public in spring 2008, the design deliberations that generated that proposal
offer valuable insights into how a university might reembody its ideals in a time of intense globalization and mediatization.
Complementing Robert Kirkbride’s paper on the pedagogical practice of chainmaking and its historical relationship to learning
spaces, we examine in this paper how media can be instrumental in wayfinding, how they can help to organize a building into
various “processual” paths that reflect different approaches to learning, and how their presence in learning spaces can enhance
teaching and learning. We also discuss how the building can serve as a mediator within the community, reflecting the institution’s identity and its pedagogical philosophy.
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The rise of Islamic politics in the Middle East, particularly since the Iranian revolution, is the most cited example that
supposedly testifies to the “clean” separation between “Islam” and the “West.” In this essay, I argue that it is not Islamic
movements and ideology that confirm this separation. Rather, it is their incorporation into the scheme of Western modernity,
with its binary distinctions and evolutionary reading of history, which constructs this separation. Using examples from Iran
and Palestine, I show how Islamic ideology indeed defies the basic premises of Western discourse on modernity, expose its
limitations, and question the constitution of Islam and the West as allegedly distinct, even opposing, categories.
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Policy Experimentation in China’s Economic Rise 总被引:3,自引:0,他引:3
Policy experimentation is frequently highlighted as a potent means to facilitate institutional innovation, and avoid reformist
leaps in the dark by injecting bottom-up initiative and local knowledge into the national policy process. Yet experimentation
remains a surprisingly vague concept in the debate over variants of economic governance. This article contributes to the study
of experiment-based policymaking by examining the distinctive tools, processes, and effects of experimental programs in major
domains of China’s economic reform. China’s experience attests to the potency of experimentation in bringing about transformative
change, even in a rigid authoritarian, bureaucratic environment, and regardless of strong political opposition. Large-scale
experimentation stimulated policy learning and economic expansion effectively in those sectors in which political elites could
benefit from supporting new types of private and transnational entrepreneurial activity. Conversely, experimental programs
largely failed in generating an effective provision of social goods which would require a combination of active societal supervision
and strict central government enforcement to make it work. Though the impact of reform experiments varies between policy domains,
China’s experimentation-based policy process has been essential to redefining basic policy parameters. At the heart of this
process, we find a pattern of central–local interaction in generating policy—“experimentation under hierarchy”—which constitutes
a notable addition to the repertoires of governance that have been tried for achieving economic transformation.
The research for this article was supported by the German National Research Foundation and the Fairbank Center for East Asian
Research at Harvard University. The author is especially indebted to Elizabeth Perry, Steven Goldstein, Rolf Langhammer, Dani
Rodrik, Victor Shih, Ezra Vogel, and Rudolf Wagner for their encouragement and comments. Nancy Hearst made a crucial contribution
by bringing precious sources from the Fairbank Center’s library to my attention that I otherwise would have overlooked.
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