@book {1750471,
	title = {Struggling for Time: Environmental Governance and Agrarian Resistance in Israel/Palestine},
	year = {Forthcoming},
	publisher = {Stanford University Press},
	organization = {Stanford University Press},
	address = {Stanford},
	abstract = {
	Struggling for Time examines how time is used as a mechanism of control by the Israeli state and a site of mundane resistance among Palestinian agriculture professionals. Natalia Gutkowski unpacks power structures to show how a settler society lays moral claim on indigenous time through agrarian environmental policies, science, technologies, landscapes, and bureaucracy. Shifting the analysis of Israel/Palestine from land and space to time, she offers new insight into the operation of power in agrarian environments and develops a contemporary framework to understand land and resource grabs under temporal justifications.



	Traveling across both policymaking arenas and Palestinian citizens{\textquoteright} agrarian fields, Gutkowski follows the multiple ways that state officials, agronomists, planners, environmentalists, and agriculturalists use time as a tool of collective agency. Through investigations of wetland drainage in Galilee, transformations in olive agriculture, sustainable agrarian development, and regulation of the shmita biblical commandment, the "year of release" for agricultural fields, this work highlights how Palestinian citizens{\textquoteright} agriculture has become a site for the state to settle and mediate time conflicts to justify its existence. As Struggling for Time demonstrates, time politics will take on ever greater urgency as societies and governments plan for an uncertain future in our era of climate change.

},
	url = {https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=31999},
	author = {Gutkowski, Natalia}
}
@book {1634169,
	title = {Hajj across Empires: Pilgrimage and Political Culture after the Mughals, 1739{\textendash}1857},
	year = {2024},
	publisher = {Cambridge University Press},
	organization = {Cambridge University Press},
	address = {Cambridge},
	abstract = {Rishad Choudhury presents a new history of imperial connections across the Indian Ocean from 1739 to 1857, a period that witnessed the decline and collapse of Mughal rule and the consolidation of British colonialism in South Asia. In this highly original and comprehensive study, he reveals how the hajj pilgrimage significantly transformed Muslim political culture and colonial attitudes towards it, creating new ideas of religion and rule. Examining links between the Indian Subcontinent and the Ottoman Middle East through multilingual sources {\textendash} from first-hand accounts to administrative archives of hajj {\textendash} Choudhury uncovers a striking array of pilgrims who leveraged their experiences and exchanges abroad to address the decline and decentralization of an Islamic old regime at home. Hajjis crucially mediated the birth of modern Muslim political traditions around South Asia. Hajj across Empires argues they did so by channeling inter-imperial crosscurrents to successive surges of imperial revolution and regional regime change.},
	url = {https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/hajj-across-empires/8D3901BC94DD6D26BB34B7DFC8E5FDF0},
	author = {Choudhury, Rishad}
}
@book {1740326,
	title = {The Social Origins of Electoral Participation in Emerging Democracies},
	year = {2023},
	publisher = {Cambridge University Press},
	organization = {Cambridge University Press},
	address = {Cambridge},
	abstract = {Given the enormous challenges they face, why do so many citizens in developing countries routinely turn out to vote? This Element explores a new explanation grounded in the social origins of electoral participation in emerging democracies, where mobilization requires local collective action. This Element argues that, beyond incentives to express ethnic identity and vote-buying, perceptions of social sanctioning from community-based formal and informal actors galvanize many to vote who might otherwise stay home. Sanctioning is reinforced by the ability to monitor individual turnout given the open layout and centralized locations of polling stations and the use of electoral ink that identifies voters. This argument is tested using original survey and qualitative data from Africa and Afghanistan, contributing important insights on the nature of campaigns and elections in the promotion of state-building and service delivery, and the critical role voters play reducing fears of global democratic backsliding.},
	url = {https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/social-origins-of-electoral-participation-in-emerging-democracies/1924BA5A116C10016CE38578BBF7B911},
	author = {Danielle F. Jung and James D. Long}
}
@book {1677446,
	title = {Entangled Domains: Empire, Law and Religion in Northern Nigeria},
	year = {2023},
	publisher = {Cambridge University Press},
	organization = {Cambridge University Press},
	address = {Cambridge},
	abstract = {Set in Colonial Northern Nigeria, this book confronts a paradox: the state insisted on its separation from religion even as it governed its multireligious population through what remained of the precolonial caliphate. Entangled Domains grapple with this history to offer a provocative account of secularism as a contested yet contingent mode of governing religion and religious difference. Drawing on detailed archival research, Rabiat Akande vividly illustrates constitutional struggles triggered by the colonial state{\textquoteright}s governance of religion and interrogates the legacy of that governance agenda in the postcolonial state. This book is a novel commentary on the dynamic interplay between law, faith, identity, and power in the context of the modern state{\textquoteright}s emergence from colonial processes.},
	url = {https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/entangled-domains/E853E65CAD4CC987F8752DCDDB5372E3},
	author = {Akande, Rabiat}
}
@book {1658761,
	title = {A Thousand Tiny Cuts: Mobility and Security across the Bangladesh-India Borderlands},
	year = {2023},
	publisher = {University of California Press},
	organization = {University of California Press},
	address = {Berkeley},
	abstract = {A Thousand Tiny Cuts chronicles the slow transformation of a connected region into national borderlands. Drawing on a decade of fieldwork in northern Bangladesh and eastern India, Sahana Ghosh shows the foundational place of gender and sexuality in the making and management of threat in relation to mobility. Rather than focusing solely on border fences and border crossings, she demonstrates that bordering reorders relations of value. The cost of militarization across this ostensibly "friendly" border is devaluation{\textemdash}of agrarian land and crops, of borderland youth undesirable as brides and grooms in their respective national hinterlands, of regional infrastructures now disconnected, and of social and physical geographies disordered by surveillance. Through a textured ethnography of the gendered political economy of mobility across postcolonial borderlands in South Asia, this ambitious book challenges anthropological understandings of the violence of bordering, migration and citizenship, and transnational inequalities that are based on Euro-American borders and security regimes.},
	url = {https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520395732/a-thousand-tiny-cuts},
	author = {Ghosh, Sahana}
}
@book {1658606,
	title = {Gleaning for Communism: The Soviet Socialist Household in Theory and Practice},
	year = {2023},
	publisher = {Cornell University Press},
	organization = {Cornell University Press},
	address = {Ithaca},
	abstract = {Gleaning for Communism: The Soviet Socialist Household in Theory and Practice tells a radically new story of how the Soviet system functioned and why it failed. Mediating between today{\textquoteright}s popular narratives of {\textquotedblleft}Soviet times{\textquotedblright} and the ownership categories of Soviet civil law, it shows the Soviet Union as an explicitly illiberal modern project, reliant in theory and fact on collectivist ethics. A historical ethnography, its narrative begins in the 2010s with former Leningrad residents{\textquoteright} stories of gleaning industrial scrap from worksites. Placing these stories in conversation with Soviet legal theories of property and with economic, political and social history, this book shows the Soviet Union as a {\textquotedblleft}socialist household economy,{\textquotedblright} whose members were guaranteed {\textquotedblleft}personal{\textquotedblright} rights to a commons of socialist property rather than private possessions. It traces the development of such {\textquotedblleft}personal{\textquotedblright} rights though three historically significant turns {\textendash} during the 1930s, 1960s and 1980s {\textendash} and shows how the Soviet project unfolded in dialogue with contemporaneous neoliberal thought in one overarching debate about the possibility of a collectivist modern life.},
	url = {https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501770302/gleaning-for-communism/$\#$bookTabs=1},
	author = {Cherkaev, Xenia A.}
}
@book {1646748,
	title = {State-Building as Lawfare: Custom, Sharia, and State Law in Postwar Chechnya},
	year = {2023},
	publisher = {Cambridge University Press},
	organization = {Cambridge University Press},
	address = {Cambridge},
	abstract = {State-Building as Lawfare offers a unique study on how the state and other social forces regulate everyday life. Focusing on the case of Russian state presence in postwar Chechnya, the book explores how state and non-state legal systems are used to achieve political goals. Egor Lazarev applies this theory of state-building as lawfare to study how politicians and individuals navigate Russian state law, Sharia, and customary law in postwar Chechnya. The book addresses two interrelated puzzles: why do local rulers tolerate and even promote non-state legal systems at the expense of state law, and why do some members of repressed ethnic minorities choose to resolve their everyday disputes using state legal systems instead of non-state alternatives? By analyzing the legacies of the prolonged armed conflict of the 1990s and 2000s, Lazarev sheds an important light on state-building from above and below.},
	url = {https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/statebuilding-as-lawfare/7850C7EDDB0C9614537E1B669582DB1D},
	author = {Lazarev, Egor}
}
@book {1658759,
	title = {Colonial Bureaucracy and Contemporary Citizenship: Legacies of Race and Emergency in the Former British Empire},
	year = {2022},
	publisher = {Cambridge University Press},
	organization = {Cambridge University Press},
	address = {Cambridge},
	abstract = {Colonial Bureaucracy and Contemporary Citizenship examines how the legacies of colonial bureaucracy continue to shape political life after empire. Focusing on the former British colonies of India, Cyprus, and Israel/Palestine, the book explores how post-colonial states use their inherited administrative legacies to classify and distinguish between loyal and suspicious subjects and manage the movement of populations, thus shaping the practical meaning of citizenship and belonging within their new boundaries. The book offers a novel institutional theory of {\textquoteright}hybrid bureaucracy{\textquoteright} to explain how racialized bureaucratic practices were used by powerful administrators in state organizations to shape the making of political identity and belonging in the new states. Combining sociology and anthropology of the state with the study of institutions, this book offers new knowledge to overturn conventional understandings of bureaucracy, demonstrating that routine bureaucratic practices and persistent colonial logics continue to shape unequal political status to this day.},
	url = {https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/colonial-bureaucracy-and-contemporary-citizenship/29EA22ED1D60802C6B59D9F56958F6D2},
	author = {Berda, Yael}
}
@book {1633073,
	title = {The Unsettled Plain: An Environmental History of the Late Ottoman Frontier},
	year = {2022},
	publisher = {Stanford University Press},
	organization = {Stanford University Press},
	address = {Stanford},
	abstract = {
	The Unsettled Plain studies agrarian life in the Ottoman Empire to understand the making of the modern world. Over the course of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the environmental transformation of the Ottoman countryside became intertwined with migration and displacement. Muslim refugees, mountain nomads, families deported in the Armenian Genocide, and seasonal workers from all over the empire endured hardship, exile, and dispossession. Their settlement and survival defined new societies forged in the provincial spaces of the late Ottoman frontier. Through these movements, Chris Gratien reconstructs the remaking of {\c C}ukurova, a region at the historical juncture of Anatolia and Syria, and illuminates radical changes brought by the modern state, capitalism, war, and technology.



	Drawing on both Ottoman Turkish and Armenian sources, Gratien brings rural populations into the momentous events of the period: Ottoman reform, Mediterranean capitalism, the First World War, and Turkish nation-building. Through the ecological perspectives of everyday people in {\c C}ukurova, he charts how familiar facets of quotidian life, like malaria, cotton cultivation, labor, and leisure, attained modern manifestations. As the history of this pivotal region hidden on the geopolitical map reveals, the remarkable ecological transformation of late Ottoman society configured the trajectory of the contemporary societies of the Middle East.

},
	url = {https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=32948\&bottom_ref=subject},
	author = {Gratien, Chris}
}
@book {1588016,
	title = {Never Turn Back: China and the Forbidden History of the 1980s},
	year = {2022},
	publisher = {Harvard University Press},
	organization = {Harvard University Press},
	address = {Cambridge},
	abstract = {
	The history the Chinese Communist Party has tried to erase: the dramatic political debates of the 1980s that could have put China on a path to greater openness.



	On a hike in Guangdong Province in January 1984, Deng Xiaoping was warned that his path was a steep and treacherous one. {\textquotedblleft}Never turn back,{\textquotedblright} the Chinese leader replied. That became a mantra as the government forged ahead with reforms in the face of heated contestation over the nation{\textquoteright}s future. For a time, everything was on the table, including democratization and China{\textquoteright}s version of socialism. But deliberation came to a sudden halt in spring 1989, with protests and purges, massacre and repression. Since then, Beijing has worked intensively to suppress the memory of this era of openness.



	Julian Gewirtz recovers the debates of the 1980s, tracing the Communist Party{\textquoteright}s diverse attitudes toward markets, state control, and sweeping technological change, as well as freewheeling public argument over political liberalization. The administration considered bold proposals from within the party and without, including separation between the party and the state, empowering the private sector, and establishing an independent judiciary. After Tiananmen, however, Beijing systematically erased these discussions of alternative directions. Using newly available Chinese sources, Gewirtz details how the leadership purged the key reformist politician Zhao Ziyang, quashed the student movement, recast the transformations of the 1980s as the inevitable products of consensus, and indoctrinated China and the international community in the new official narrative.



	Never Turn Back offers a revelatory look at how different China{\textquoteright}s rise might have been and at the foundations of strongman rule under Xi Jinping, who has intensified the policing of history to bolster his own authority.

},
	url = {https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674241848},
	author = {Julian Gewirtz}
}
@book {1588015,
	title = {Latecomer State Formation: Political Geography and Capacity Failure in Latin America},
	year = {2021},
	publisher = {Yale University Press},
	organization = {Yale University Press},
	address = {New Haven},
	abstract = {Latin American governments systematically fail to provide the key public goods for their societies to prosper. Sebasti{\'a}n Mazzuca argues this is because nineteenth-century Latin American state formation occurred in a period when commerce, rather than war, was the key driver forging countries. Latin American leaders pursued the benefits of international trade at the cost of long-term liabilities built into the countries they forged, notably patrimonial administrations and dysfunctional regional combinations.},
	author = {Mazzuca, Sebasti{\'a}n}
}
@book {1535580,
	title = {Meritocracy and Its Discontents: Anxiety and the National College Entrance Exam in China},
	year = {2021},
	publisher = {Cornell University Press},
	organization = {Cornell University Press},
	address = {Ithaca},
	abstract = {
	Meritocracy and Its Discontents investigates the wider social, political, religious, and economic dimensions of the Gaokao, China{\textquoteright}s national college entrance exam, as well as the complications that arise from its existence. Each year, some nine million high school seniors in China take the Gaokao, which determines college admission and provides a direct but difficult route to an urban lifestyle for China{\textquoteright}s hundreds of millions of rural residents. But with college graduates struggling to find good jobs, some are questioning the exam{\textquoteright}s legitimacy{\textemdash}and, by extension, the fairness of Chinese society. Chronicling the experiences of underprivileged youth, Zachary M. Howlett{\textquoteright}s research illuminates how people remain captivated by the exam because they regard it as fateful{\textemdash}an event both consequential and undetermined. He finds that the exam enables people both to rebel against the social hierarchy and to achieve recognition within it.



	In Meritocracy and Its Discontents, Howlett contends that the Gaokao serves as a pivotal rite of passage in which people strive to personify cultural virtues such as diligence, composure, filial devotion, and divine favor.

},
	author = {Howlett, Zachary M.}
}
@book {1478594,
	title = {Politics for Profit: Business, Elections, and Policymaking in Russia},
	year = {2020},
	publisher = {Cambridge University Press},
	organization = {Cambridge University Press},
	address = {Cambridge},
	abstract = {Businesspeople run for and win elected office around the world, with roughly one-third of members of parliament and numerous heads of states coming directly from the private sector. Yet we know little about why these politicians choose to leave the private sector and what they actually do while in government. In Politics for Profit, David Szakonyi brings to bear sweeping quantitative and qualitative evidence from Putin-era Russia to shed light on why businesspeople contest elections and what the consequences are for their firms and for society when they win. The book develops an original theory of businessperson candidacy as a type of corporate political activity undertaken in response to both economic competition and weak political parties. Szakonyi{\textquoteright}s evidence then shows that businesspeople help their firms reap huge gains in revenue and profitability while prioritizing investments in public infrastructure over human capital. The book finally evaluates policies for combatting political corruption.},
	author = {David Szakonyi}
}
@book {1478596,
	title = {Making It Count: Statistics and Statecraft in the Early People{\textquoteright}s Republic of China},
	year = {2020},
	publisher = {Princeton University Press},
	organization = {Princeton University Press},
	address = {Princeton},
	abstract = {In 1949, at the end of a long period of wars, one of the biggest challenges facing leaders of the new People{\textquoteright}s Republic of China was how much they did not know. The government of one of the world{\textquoteright}s largest nations was committed to fundamentally reengineering its society and economy via socialist planning while having almost no reliable statistical data about their own country. Making It Count is the history of efforts to resolve this {\textquotedblleft}crisis in counting.{\textquotedblright} Drawing on a wealth of sources culled from China, India, and the United States, Arunabh Ghosh explores the choices made by political leaders, statisticians, academics, statistical workers, and even literary figures in attempts to know the nation through numbers.Ghosh shows that early reliance on Soviet-inspired methods of exhaustive enumeration became increasingly untenable in China by the mid-1950s. Unprecedented and unexpected exchanges with Indian statisticians followed, as the Chinese sought to learn about the then-exciting new technology of random sampling. These developments were overtaken by the tumult of the Great Leap Forward (1958{\textendash}61), when probabilistic and exhaustive methods were rejected and statistics was refashioned into an ethnographic enterprise. By acknowledging Soviet and Indian influences, Ghosh not only revises existing models of Cold War science but also globalizes wider developments in the history of statistics and data.Anchored in debates about statistics and its relationship to state building, Making It Count offers fresh perspectives on China{\textquoteright}s transition to socialism.},
	author = {Arunabh Ghosh}
}
@book {1471915,
	title = {Marijuana Boom: The Rise and Fall of Colombia{\textquoteright}s First Drug Paradise},
	year = {2020},
	publisher = {University of California Press},
	organization = {University of California Press},
	address = {Berkeley},
	abstract = {Before Colombia became one of the world{\textquoteright}s largest producers of cocaine in the 1980s, traffickers from the Caribbean coast partnered with American buyers in the 1970s to make the South American country the main supplier of marijuana for a booming US drug market, fueled by US hippie counterculture. How did one of the poorest and most isolated regions of Colombia become a central player in the making of an international drug trafficking circuit? Marijuana Boom is the untold story of this forgotten history. Combining deep archival research with unprecedented oral interviews, Lina Britto deciphers a puzzle: Why did the Colombian coffee republic, one of Latin America{\textquoteright}s models of representative democracy and economic liberalism, transform into a drug paradise, and at what cost?},
	author = {Lina Britto}
}
@book {1466389,
	title = {Inside Countries: Subnational Research in Comparative Politics},
	year = {2019},
	publisher = {Cambridge University Press },
	organization = {Cambridge University Press },
	address = {Cambridge},
	abstract = {Although comparative politics is conventionally seen as the study of politics across countries, the field has a longstanding and increasingly prominent tradition in national contexts; focusing on subnational units, institutions, actors and processes. This book offers the first comprehensive assessment of the substantive, theoretical, and methodological contributions. With empirical chapters from across the contemporary Global South, including India, Mexico, and China, as well as Russia, the contributors show how subnational research provides useful insights about substantive themes in political science, from regimes and representation, to states and security, to social and economic development. In addition to methodological chapters with specific guidance about best practices for doing subnational research, this volume also proposes a set of strategies for subnational research, assesses their strengths and weaknesses, and offers illustrative empirical applications.},
	editor = {Giraudy, Agustina and Eduardo Moncada and Snyder, Richard}
}
@book {1439948,
	title = {Women in Place: The Politics of Gender Segregation in Iran},
	year = {2019},
	publisher = {University of California Press},
	organization = {University of California Press},
	address = {Berkeley},
	abstract = {While much has been written about the 1979 Islamic revolution and its impact on life in Iran, discussions about the everyday life of Iranian women have been glaringly missing. Women in Place offers a gripping inquiry into gender segregation policies and women{\textquoteright}s rights in contemporary Iran. Author Nazanin Shahrokni takes us on a ride in gender segregated buses, inside a women-only park, and outside the closed doors of sports stadiums, where women are banned from attending men{\textquoteright}s soccer matches. The Islamic character of the state, she demonstrates, has had to coexist, fuse and compete with technocratic imperatives, pragmatic considerations regarding the viability of the state, international influences, and global trends. Through a retelling of the past four decades of state policy regulating the gender boundary, Women in Place challenges notions of the Iranian state as overly unitary, ideological, and isolated from social forces, and pushes us to contemplate the changing place of women in a social order shaped by capitalism, state sanctioned Islamism, and debates about women{\textquoteright}s rights. Shahrokni throws into sharp relief the ways in which the state strives to constantly regulate and contain women{\textquoteright}s bodies and movements within the boundaries of the {\textquotedblleft}proper,{\textquotedblright} but simultaneously invests in and claims credit for their expanded access to public spaces.},
	author = {Shahrokni, Nazanin}
}
@book {1439939,
	title = {Offshore Citizens: Permanent Temporary Status in the Gulf},
	year = {2019},
	publisher = {Cambridge University Press},
	organization = {Cambridge University Press},
	address = {Cambridge},
	abstract = {When it comes to extending citizenship to certain groups, why might ruling elites say neither {\textquoteright}yes{\textquoteright} nor {\textquoteright}no{\textquoteright}, but {\textquoteright}wait{\textquoteright}? The dominant theories of citizenship tend to recognize clear distinctions between citizens and aliens; either one has citizenship or one does not. This book shows that not all populations are fully included or expelled by a state; they can be suspended in limbo - residing in a territory for protracted periods without accruing citizenship rights. This in-depth case study of the United Arab Emirates uses new archival sources and extensive interviews to show how temporary residency can be transformed into a permanent legal status, through visa renewals and the postponement of naturalization cases. In the UAE, temporary residency was also codified into a formal citizenship status through the outsourcing of passports from the Union of Comoros, allowing elites to effectively reclassify minorities into foreign residents.},
	author = {Lori, Noora}
}
@book {1420800,
	title = {From the Grounds Up: Building an Export Economy in Southern Mexico},
	year = {2019},
	publisher = {Stanford University Press},
	organization = {Stanford University Press},
	address = {Palo Alto},
	abstract = {In the late nineteenth century, Latin American exports boomed. From Chihuahua to Patagonia, producers sent industrial fibers, tropical fruits, and staple goods across oceans to satisfy the ever-increasing demand from foreign markets. In southern Mexico{\textquoteright}s Soconusco district, the coffee trade would transform rural life. A regional history of the Soconusco as well as a study in commodity capitalism, From the Grounds Up places indigenous and mestizo villagers, migrant workers, and local politicians at the center of our understanding of the export boom.An isolated, impoverished backwater for most of the nineteenth century, by 1920, the Soconusco had transformed into a small but vibrant node in the web of global commerce. Alongside plantation owners and foreign investors, a dense but little-explored web of small-time producers, shopowners, and laborers played key roles in the rapid expansion of export production. Their deep engagement with rural development challenges the standard top-down narrative of market integration led by economic elites allied with a strong state. Here, Casey Marina Lurtz argues that the export boom owed its success to a diverse body of players whose choices had profound impacts on Latin America{\textquoteright}s export-driven economy during the first era of globalization.},
	author = {Lurtz, Casey Marina}
}
@book {1466390,
	title = {Out of War: Violence, Trauma, and the Political Imagination in Sierra Leone},
	year = {2018},
	publisher = {University of California Press},
	organization = {University of California Press},
	address = {Berkeley},
	abstract = {Out of War draws on three decades of ethnographic engagements to examine the physical and psychological harms produced by the 1991-2002 Sierra Leone civil war. The book analyzes the relationship between violence, trauma, and the political imagination, focusing on {\textquotedblleft}war times{\textquotedblright}{\textemdash}the different qualities of temporality shaped by conflict. Colonial and Precolonial histories and figures of sovereignty were reactivated during the civil war. Rumors and neologisms circulating during different phases of the decade-long conflict froze in time collective anxieties surrounding particular dangers, producing veritable {\textquotedblleft}chronotopes{\textquotedblright} for organizing memories of the war. These include the juridical creation of new figures of victimhood in the Special Court for Sierra Leone and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission set up to bring about accountability for war crimes committed during the civil war. Beyond the expected traumas of war, the book focuses on the loss of intergenerational transmission of farming knowledge and farming techniques in rural areas, which produced lethal effects of its own. Throughout, the book examines strategies of survival and material dwelling amidst massive population displacements and humanitarian intervention.},
	author = {Ferme, Mariane C.}
}
@book {1314182,
	title = {Islands of Sovereignty: Haitian Migration and the Borders of Empire},
	year = {2018},
	publisher = {University of Chicago Press},
	organization = {University of Chicago Press},
	address = {Chicago},
	abstract = {In Islands of Sovereignty, anthropologist and legal scholar Jeffrey S. Kahn offers a new interpretation of the transformation of US borders during the late twentieth century and its implications for our understanding of the nation-state as a legal and political form. Kahn takes us on a voyage into the immigration tribunals of South Florida, the Coast Guard vessels patrolling the northern Caribbean, and the camps of Guant{\'a}namo Bay{\textemdash}once the world{\textquoteright}s largest US-operated migrant detention facility{\textemdash}to explore how litigation concerning the fate of Haitian asylum seekers gave birth to a novel paradigm of offshore oceanic migration policing. Combining ethnography{\textemdash}in Haiti, at Guant{\'a}namo, and alongside US migration patrols in the Caribbean{\textemdash}with in-depth archival research, Kahn expounds a nuanced theory of liberal empire{\textquoteright}s dynamic tensions and its racialized geographies of securitization. An innovative historical anthropology of the modern legal imagination, Islands of Sovereignty forces us to reconsider the significance of the rise of the current US immigration border and its relation to broader shifts in the legal infrastructure of contemporary nation-states across the globe.},
	author = {Kahn, Jeffrey S.}
}
@book {1314179,
	title = {Improvisational Islam: Indonesian Youth in a Time of Possibility},
	year = {2018},
	publisher = {Cornell University Press},
	organization = {Cornell University Press},
	address = {Ithaca},
	abstract = {Improvisational Islam is about novel and unexpected ways of being Muslim, where religious dispositions are achieved through techniques that have little or no precedent in classical Islamic texts or concepts. Nur Amali Ibrahim foregrounds two distinct autodidactic university student organizations, each trying to envision alternative ways of being Muslim independent from established religious and political authorities. One group draws from methods originating from the business world, like accounting, auditing, and self-help, to promote a puritanical understanding of the religion and spearhead Indonesia{\textquoteright}s spiritual rebirth. A second group reads Islamic scriptures alongside the western human sciences. Both groups, he argues, show a great degree of improvisation and creativity in their interpretations of Islam.These experimental forms of religious improvisations and practices have developed in a specific Indonesian political context that has evolved after the deposal of President Suharto{\textquoteright}s authoritarian New Order regime in 1998. At the same time, Improvisational Islam suggests that the Indonesian case study brings into sharper relief processes that are happening in ordinary Muslim life everywhere. To be a practitioner of their religion, Muslims draw on and are inspired by not only their holy scriptures, but also the non-traditional ideas and practices that circulate in their society, which importantly include those originating in the West. In the contemporary political discourse where Muslims are often portrayed as uncompromising and adversarial to the West and where bans and walls are deemed necessary to keep them out, this story about flexible and creative Muslims is an important one to tell.},
	author = {Ibrahim, Nur Amali}
}
@book {1314175,
	title = {Votes for Survival: Relational Clientelism in Latin America},
	year = {2018},
	publisher = {Cambridge University Press},
	organization = {Cambridge University Press},
	address = {Cambridge},
	abstract = {Across the world, many politicians deliver benefits to citizens in direct exchange for their votes.\&nbsp;Scholars often predict the demise of this phenomenon, as it is threatened by economic development, ballot secrecy and other daunting challenges. To explain its resilience, this book shifts attention to the demand side of exchanges. Nichter contends that citizens play a crucial but underappreciated role in the survival of relational clientelism - ongoing exchange relationships that extend beyond election campaigns. Citizens often undertake key actions, including declared support and requesting benefits, to sustain these relationships. As most of the world{\textquoteright}s population remains vulnerable to adverse shocks, citizens often depend on such relationships when the state fails to provide an adequate social safety net. Nichter demonstrates the critical role of citizens with fieldwork and original surveys in Brazil, as well as with comparative evidence from Argentina, Mexico and other continents.},
	author = {Simeon Nichter}
}
@book {1314173,
	title = {Claiming the State: Active Citizenship and Social Welfare in Rural India},
	year = {2018},
	publisher = {Cambridge University Press},
	organization = {Cambridge University Press},
	address = {Cambridge},
	abstract = {Citizens around the world look to the state for social welfare provision, but often struggle to access essential services in health, education, and social security. This book investigates the everyday practices through which citizens of the world{\textquoteright}s largest democracy make claims on the state, asking whether, how, and why they engage public officials in the pursuit of social welfare. Drawing on extensive fieldwork in rural India, Kruks-Wisner demonstrates that claim-making is possible in settings (poor and remote) and among people (the lower classes and castes) where much democratic theory would be unlikely to predict it. Examining the conditions that foster and inhibit citizen action, she finds that greater social and spatial exposure - made possible when individuals traverse boundaries of caste, neighborhood, or village - builds citizens{\textquoteright} political knowledge, expectations, and linkages to the state, and is associated with higher levels and broader repertoires of claim-making.},
	author = {Kruks-Wisner, Gabrielle}
}
@book {1314032,
	title = {Where the Party Rules: The Rank and File of China{\textquoteright}s Communist State},
	year = {2018},
	publisher = {Cambridge University Press },
	organization = {Cambridge University Press },
	address = {Cambridge},
	abstract = {In most non-democratic countries, today governing forty-four percent of the world population, the power of the regime rests upon a ruling party. Contrasting with conventional notions that authoritarian regime parties serve to contain elite conflict and manipulate electoral-legislative processes, this book presents the case of China and shows that rank and-file members of the Communist Party allow the state to penetrate local communities. Subnational comparative analysis demonstrates that in {\textquoteright}red areas{\textquoteright} with high party saturation, the state is most effectively enforcing policy and collecting taxes. Because party membership patterns are extremely enduring, they must be explained by events prior to the Communist takeover in 1949. Frontlines during the anti-colonial Sino-Japanese War (1937{\textendash}1945) continue to shape China{\textquoteright}s political map even today. Newly available evidence from the Great Leap Forward (1958{\textendash}1961) and the Cultural Revolution (1966{\textendash}1976) shows how a strong local party basis sustained the regime in times of existential crisis.},
	author = {Koss, Daniel}
}
@book {1314040,
	title = {Living Emergency: Israel{\textquoteright}s Permit Regime in the Occupied West Bank},
	year = {2017},
	publisher = {Stanford University Press},
	organization = {Stanford University Press},
	address = {Palo Alto},
	abstract = {In 1991, the Israeli government introduced emergency legislation canceling the general exit permit that allowed Palestinians to enter Israel. The directive, effective for one year, has been reissued annually ever since, turning the Occupied Territories into a closed military zone. Today, Israel{\textquoteright}s permit regime for Palestinians is one of the world{\textquoteright}s most extreme and complex apparatuses for population management. Yael Berda worked as a human rights lawyer in Jerusalem and represented more than two hundred Palestinian clients trying to obtain labor permits to enter Israel from the West Bank. With Living Emergency, she brings readers inside the permit regime, offering a first-hand account of how the Israeli secret service, government, and military civil administration control the Palestinian population.Through interviews with Palestinian laborers and their families, conversations with Israeli clerks and officials, and research into the archives and correspondence of governmental organizations, Berda reconstructs the institutional framework of the labyrinthine permit regime, illuminating both its overarching principles and its administrative practices. In an age where terrorism, crime, and immigration are perceived as intertwined security threats, she reveals how the Israeli example informs global homeland security and border control practices, creating a living emergency for targeted populations worldwide.},
	author = {Berda, Yael}
}
@book {1152501,
	title = {Institutional Origins of Islamist Political Mobilization},
	year = {2017},
	publisher = {Cambridge University Press},
	organization = {Cambridge University Press},
	address = {Cambridge},
	abstract = {Muslim countries experience wide variation in levels of Islamist political mobilization, including such political activities as protest, voting, and violence. Institutional Origins of Islamist Political Mobilization provides a theory of the institutional origins of Islamist politics, focusing on the development of religious common knowledge, religious entrepreneurship, and coordinating focal points as critical to the success of Islamist activism. Examining Islamist politics in more than 50 countries over four decades, the book illustrates that Islamist political activism varies a great deal, appearing in specific types of institutional contexts. Detailed case studies of Turkey, Algeria, and Senegal demonstrate how diverse contexts yield different types of Islamist politics across the Muslim world.},
	author = {Mecham, Quinn}
}
@book {1152496,
	title = {Red at Heart: How Chinese Communists Fell in Love with the Russian Revolution},
	year = {2017},
	publisher = {Oxford University Press},
	organization = {Oxford University Press},
	address = {Oxford},
	abstract = {Red at Heart conjures a tale of cross-cultural romance from a topic that is normally seen in geopolitical or ideological terms--and thereby offers a new interpretation of twentieth century communism{\textquoteright}s most crucial alliance.This is the multigenerational history of people who experienced Sino-Soviet affairs most intimately: prominent Chinese revolutionaries who traveled to Russia in their youths to study, often falling in love and having children there. Their deeply personal memoirs, interviews with their children, and a vivid collection of documents from the Russian archives allow Elizabeth McGuire to reconstruct the sexually-charged, physically difficult, and politically dangerous lives of Chinese communists in the Soviet Union. The choices they made shaped not only the lives of their children, but also the postwar alliance between the People{\textquoteright}s Republic of China and Soviet Russia.Red at Heart brings to life a cast of transnational characters--including a son of Chiang Kai-shek and a wife of Mao Zedong--who connected the two great communist revolutions in human terms. Weaving personal stories and cultural interactions into political history, McGuire movingly shows that the Sino-Soviet relationship was not a brotherhood or a friendship, but rather played out in phases like many lifelong love affairs - from first love, early betrayal, and love children; through eventual marriage with its conveniences and annoyances, guarded optimism, and official heirs; to divorce, reconciliation, and a nostalgia that lingers even today.A century after 1917, this book offers a novel story about Chinese communism, the Russian Revolution{\textquoteright}s most geopolitically significant legacy.},
	author = {McGuire, Elizabeth}
}
@book {1152176,
	title = {The Mediterranean Incarnate: Region Formation between Sicily and Tunisia since World War II},
	year = {2017},
	publisher = {University of Chicago Press},
	organization = {University of Chicago Press},
	address = {Chicago},
	abstract = {In The Mediterranean Incarnate, anthropologist Naor Ben-Yehoyada takes us aboard the Naumachos for a thirty-seven-day voyage in the fishing grounds between Sicily and Tunisia. He also takes us on a historical exploration of the past eighty years to show how the Mediterranean has reemerged as a modern transnational region. From Sicilian poaching in North African territory to the construction of the TransMediterranean gas pipeline, Ben-Yehoyada examines the transformation of political action, imaginaries, and relations in the central Mediterranean while detailing the remarkable bonds that have formed between the Sicilians and Tunisians who live on its waters.\&nbsp;\&nbsp;\&nbsp;\&nbsp;\&nbsp;\&nbsp;\&nbsp;\&nbsp;\&nbsp; \&nbsp;The book centers on the town of Mazara del Vallo, located on the southwestern tip of Sicily some ninety nautical miles northeast of the African shore. Ben-Yehoyada intertwines the town{\textquoteright}s recent turbulent history{\textemdash}which has been fraught with conflicts over fishing rights, development projects, and how the Mediterranean should figure in Italian politics at large{\textemdash}with deep accounts of life aboard the Naumacho, linking ethnography with historical anthropology and political-economic analysis. Through this sophisticated approach, he crafts a new viewpoint on the historical processes of transnational region formation, one offered by these moving ships as they weave together new social and political constellations.},
	author = {Ben-Yehoyada, Naor}
}
@book {1152196,
	title = {How Solidarity Works for Welfare: Subnationalism and Social Development in India},
	year = {2016},
	publisher = {Cambridge University Press},
	organization = {Cambridge University Press},
	address = {Cambridge},
	abstract = {
	Why are some places in the world characterized by better social service provision and welfare outcomes than others? In a world in which millions of people, particularly in developing countries, continue to lead lives plagued by illiteracy and ill-health, understanding the conditions that promote social welfare is of critical importance to political scientists and policy makers alike. Drawing on a multi-method study, from the late-nineteenth century to the present, of the stark variations in educational and health outcomes within a large, federal, multiethnic developing country - India - this book develops an argument for the power of collective identity as an impetus for state prioritization of social welfare. Such an argument not only marks an important break from the dominant negative perceptions of identity politics but also presents a novel theoretical framework to understand welfare provision.

},
	author = {Singh, Prerna}
}
@book {1152171,
	title = {Inheritance of Loss: China, Japan, and the Political Economy of Redemption after Empire},
	year = {2016},
	publisher = {University of Chicago Press},
	organization = {University of Chicago Press},
	address = {Chicago},
	abstract = {How do contemporary generations come to terms with losses inflicted by imperialism, colonialism, and war that took place decades ago? How do descendants of perpetrators and victims establish new relations in today{\textquoteright}s globalized economy? With Inheritance of Loss, Yukiko Koga approaches these questions through the unique lens of inheritance, focusing on Northeast China, the former site of the Japanese puppet state Manchukuo, where municipal governments now court Japanese as investors and tourists. As China transitions to a market-oriented society, this region is restoring long-neglected colonial-era structures to boost tourism and inviting former colonial industries to create special economic zones, all while inadvertently unearthing chemical weapons abandoned by the Imperial Japanese Army at the end of World War II.\&nbsp;Inheritance of Loss chronicles these sites of colonial inheritance{\textendash}{\textendash}tourist destinations, corporate zones, and mustard gas exposure sites{\textendash}{\textendash}to illustrate attempts by ordinary Chinese and Japanese to reckon with their shared yet contested pasts. In her explorations of everyday life, Koga directs us to see how the violence and injustice that occurred after the demise of the Japanese Empire compound the losses that later generations must account for, and inevitably inherit.},
	author = {Koga, Yukiko}
}
@book {1152166,
	title = {Dictators and Their Secret Police: Coercive Institutions and State Violence},
	year = {2016},
	publisher = {Cambridge University Press},
	organization = {Cambridge University Press},
	address = {Cambridge},
	abstract = {How do dictators stay in power? When, and how, do they use repression to do so? Dictators and their Secret Police explores the role of the coercive apparatus under authoritarian rule in Asia - how these secret organizations originated, how they operated, and how their violence affected ordinary citizens. Greitens argues that autocrats face a coercive dilemma: whether to create internal security forces designed to manage popular mobilization, or defend against potential coup. Violence against civilians, she suggests, is a byproduct of their attempt to resolve this dilemma. Drawing on a wealth of new historical evidence, this book challenges conventional wisdom on dictatorship: what autocrats are threatened by, how they respond, and how this affects the lives and security of the millions under their rule. It offers an unprecedented view into the use of surveillance, coercion, and violence, and sheds new light on the institutional and social foundations of authoritarian power.},
	author = {Sheena Chestnut Greitens}
}
@book {1152521,
	title = {Warlords and Coalition Politics in Post-Soviet States},
	year = {2015},
	publisher = {Cambridge University Press},
	organization = {Cambridge University Press},
	address = {Cambridge},
	abstract = {The break-up of the USSR was unexpected and unexpectedly peaceful. Though a third of the new states fell prey to violent civil conflict, anarchy on the post-Soviet periphery, when it occurred, was quickly cauterized. This book argues that this outcome had nothing to do with security guarantees by Russia or the United Nations and everything to do with local innovation by ruthless warlords, who competed and colluded in a high-risk coalition formation game. Drawing on a structured comparison of Georgian and Tajik militia members, the book combines rich comparative data with formal modeling, treating the post-Soviet space as an extraordinary laboratory to observe the limits of great powers{\textquoteright} efforts to shape domestic institutions in weak states.},
	author = {Driscoll, Jesse}
}
@book {1152516,
	title = {Democrats and Autocrats: Pathways of Subnational Undemocratic Regime Continuity within Democratic Countries},
	year = {2015},
	publisher = {Oxford University Press},
	organization = {Oxford University Press},
	address = {Oxford},
	abstract = {
	Despite the fact that Latin American countries have transitioned to democracy, many citizens residing in peripheral regions continue to live under undemocratic rule. Democrats and Autocrats studies the existence of subnational undemocratic regimes (SURs) alongside national democratic regimes. Specifically it answers the following questions: Why do SURs continue to exist despite national democratization? Why do some subnational autocrats and SURs prevail despite presidents{\textquoteright} strategies to weaken SURs? Why do democratic presidents support some autocrats and SURs, even when they are from the opposition? Under what conditions do democratically elected presidents endorse or combat (opposition and/or copartisan) autocrats and SURs?



	Contrary to conventional wisdom, the book argues that there are multiple pathways for SURs reproduction within democratic countries. These pathways, in turn, are determined by a specific combination of intergovernmental interactions, all of which are shaped by institutional and economic national and subnational variables.



	The explanation of SUR continuity advanced in this book is tested in contemporary Argentina and Mexico using a multi-method approach. Both quantitative and qualitative methods, as well as cross-national and within-country comparisons are employed to test pathways of SUR continuity in two of Latin America{\textquoteright}s largest countries.

},
	author = {Giraudy, Agustina}
}
@book {1152511,
	title = {Social Collateral: Women and Microfinance in Paraguay{\textquoteright}s Smuggling Economy},
	year = {2015},
	publisher = {University of California Press},
	organization = {University of California Press},
	address = {Berkeley},
	abstract = {
	Microcredit is part of a global trend of financial inclusion that brings banking services, especially small loans, to the world{\textquoteright}s poor. In this book, Caroline Schuster explores Paraguayan solidarity lending as a window into the tensions between social development and global finance.



	Social Collateral tracks collective debt across the commercial society and smuggling economies at the Paraguayan border by examining group loans made to women by nonprofit development programs. These highly regulated loans are secured through mutual support and peer pressure{\textemdash}social collateral{\textemdash}rather than through physical collateral. This story of social collateral necessarily includes an interwoven account about the feminization of solidarity lending. At its core is an economy of gender{\textemdash}from pink-collar financial work, to men{\textquoteright}s committees, to women smugglers. At stake are interdependencies that bind borrowers and lenders, financial technologies, and Paraguayan development in ways that structure both global inequality and global opportunity.

},
	author = {Schuster, Caroline E.}
}
@book {1152191,
	title = {Humanitarian Invasion: Global Development in Cold War Afghanistan},
	year = {2015},
	publisher = {Cambridge University Press},
	organization = {Cambridge University Press},
	address = {Cambridge},
	abstract = {Humanitarian Invasion is the first book of its kind: a ground-level inside account of what development and humanitarianism meant for Afghanistan, a country touched by international aid like no other. Relying on Soviet, Western, and NGO archives, interviews with Soviet advisers and NGO workers, and Afghan sources, Timothy Nunan forges a vivid account of the impact of development on a country on the front lines of the Cold War. Nunan argues that Afghanistan functioned as a laboratory for the future of the Third World nation-state. If, in the 1960s, Soviets, Americans, and Germans sought to make a territorial national economy for Afghanistan, later, under military occupation, Soviet nation-builders, French and Swedish humanitarians, and Pakistani-supported guerrillas fought a transnational civil war over Afghan statehood. Covering the entire period from the Cold War to Taliban rule, Humanitarian Invasion signals the beginning of a new stage in the writing of international history.},
	author = {Nunan, Timothy}
}
@book {1152531,
	title = {Joyriding in Riyadh: Oil, Urbanism, and Road Revolt},
	year = {2014},
	publisher = {Cambridge University Press},
	organization = {Cambridge University Press},
	address = {Cambridge},
	abstract = {Why do young Saudis, night after night, joyride and skid cars on Riyadh{\textquoteright}s avenues? Who are these {\textquoteright}drifters{\textquoteright} who defy public order and private property? What drives their revolt? Based on four years of fieldwork in Riyadh, Pascal Menoret{\textquoteright}s Joyriding in Riyadh explores the social fabric of the city and connects it to Saudi Arabia{\textquoteright}s recent history. Car drifting emerged after Riyadh was planned, and oil became the main driver of the economy. For young rural migrants, it was a way to reclaim alienating and threatening urban spaces. For the Saudi state, it jeopardized its most basic operations: managing public spaces and enforcing law and order. A police crackdown soon targeted car drifting, feeding a nation-wide moral panic led by religious activists who framed youth culture as a public issue. This book retraces the politicization of Riyadh youth and shows that, far from being a marginal event, car drifting is embedded in the country{\textquoteright}s social violence and economic inequality.},
	author = {Menoret, Pascal}
}
@book {1152526,
	title = {Bitter Roots: The Search for Healing Plants in Africa},
	year = {2014},
	publisher = {University of California Press},
	organization = {University of California Press},
	address = {Berkeley},
	abstract = {For over a century, plant specialists worldwide have sought to transform healing plants in African countries into pharmaceuticals. And for equally as long, conflicts over these medicinal plants have endured, from stolen recipes and toxic tonics to unfulfilled promises of laboratory equipment and usurped personal patents. In Bitter Roots, Abena Dove Osseo-Asare draws on publicly available records and extensive interviews with scientists and healers in Ghana, Madagascar, and South Africa to interpret how African scientists and healers, rural communities, and drug companies{\textemdash}including Pfizer, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and Unilever{\textemdash}have sought since the 1880s to develop drugs from Africa{\textquoteright}s medicinal plants.\&nbsp;\&nbsp;\&nbsp;\&nbsp;\&nbsp;\&nbsp;\&nbsp;\&nbsp;\&nbsp; \&nbsp;Osseo-Asare recalls the efforts to transform six plants into pharmaceuticals: rosy periwinkle, Asiatic pennywort, grains of paradise, Strophanthus, Cryptolepis, and Hoodia. Through the stories of each plant, she shows that herbal medicine and pharmaceutical chemistry have simultaneous and overlapping histories that cross geographic boundaries. At the same time, Osseo-Asare sheds new light on how various interests have tried to manage the rights to these healing plants and probes the challenges associated with assigning ownership to plants and their biochemical components.\&nbsp; \&nbsp;\&nbsp;\&nbsp;\&nbsp;\&nbsp;\&nbsp;\&nbsp;\&nbsp;\&nbsp;\&nbsp; \&nbsp;A fascinating examination of the history of medicine in colonial and postcolonial Africa, Bitter Roots will be indispensable for scholars of Africa; historians interested in medicine, biochemistry, and society; and policy makers concerned with drug access and patent rights.},
	author = {Osseo-Asare, Abena Dove}
}
@book {1152186,
	title = {Property, Predation, and Protection: Piranha Capitalism in Russia and Ukraine},
	year = {2014},
	publisher = {Cambridge University Press},
	organization = {Cambridge University Press},
	address = {Cambridge},
	abstract = {What threatens the property rights of business owners? And what makes these rights secure? This book transcends the conventional diagnosis of the issue in modern developing countries by moving beyond expropriation by the state ruler or by petty bureaucratic corruption. It identifies {\textquoteright}agent predation{\textquoteright} as a novel threat type, showing it to be particularly widespread and detrimental. The book also questions the orthodox prescription: institutionalized state commitment cannot secure property rights against agent predation. Instead, this volume argues that business actors can hold the predatory state agents accountable through firm-level alliances with foreign actors, labor, and local communities. Beyond securing ownership, such alliances promote rule of law in a rent-seeking society. Taking Russia and Ukraine between 2000 and 2012 as its empirical focus, the book advances these arguments by drawing on more than 150 qualitative interviews with business owners, policy makers, and bureaucrats, as well as an original large-N survey of firms.},
	author = {Markus, Stanislav}
}
@book {1152181,
	title = {After the Revolution: Youth, Democracy, and the Politics of Disappointment in Serbia},
	year = {2014},
	publisher = {Stanford University Press},
	organization = {Stanford University Press},
	address = {Palo Alto},
	abstract = {
	What happens to student activism once mass protests have disappeared from view, and youth no longer embody the political frustrations and hopes of a nation? After the Revolution chronicles the lives of student activists as they confront the possibilities and disappointments of democracy in the shadow of the recent revolution in Serbia. Greenberg{\textquoteright}s narrative highlights the stories of young student activists as they seek to define their role and articulate a new form of legitimate political activity, post-socialism.



	When student activists in Serbia helped topple dictator Slobodan Milosevic on October 5, 2000, they unexpectedly found that the post-revolutionary period brought even greater problems. How do you actually live and practice democracy in the wake of war and the shadow of a recent revolution? How do young Serbians attempt to translate the energy and excitement generated by wide scale mobilization into the slow work of building democratic institutions? Greenberg navigates through the ranks of student organizations as they transition their activism from the streets back into the halls of the university. In exploring the everyday practices of student activists{\textemdash}their triumphs and frustrations{\textemdash}After the Revolution argues that disappointment is not a failure of democracy but a fundamental feature of how people live and practice it. This fascinating book develops a critical vocabulary for the social life of disappointment with the aim of helping citizens, scholars, and policymakers worldwide escape the trap of framing new democracies as doomed to failure.

},
	author = {Jessica Greenberg}
}
@book {1152541,
	title = {Women in War: The Micro-processes of Mobilization in El Salvador},
	year = {2013},
	publisher = {Oxford University Press},
	organization = {Oxford University Press},
	address = {Oxford},
	abstract = {Over the past several decades, women have joined insurgent armies in significant and surprising numbers. Why do women become guerrilla insurgents? What experiences do they have in guerrilla armies? What are the long-term repercussions of this participation for the women themselves and the societies in which they live? Women in War answers these questions while providing a rare look at guerrilla life from the viewpoint of rank and-file participants in the FMLN rebel army. Using data from 230 in-depth interviews with men and women guerrillas, guerrilla supporters, and non-participants in rural El Salvador, this book investigates why some women were able to channel their wartime actions into post-war gains, and how those patterns differed from the benefits that accrued to men. In the process, Women in War makes theoretical contributions to studies of gender, revolution, civil war, and political violence. Most centrally, Women in War develops a new micro-level theory of mobilization that challenges several assumptions embedded within more macro- and meso-level approaches, and extends our understanding of the causes and consequences of mobilization in many social movement settings.},
	author = {Viterna, Jocelyn}
}
@book {1152536,
	title = {The Rise and Fall of Human Rights: Cynicism and Politics in Occupied Palestine},
	year = {2013},
	publisher = {Stanford University Press},
	organization = {Stanford University Press},
	address = {Palo Alto},
	abstract = {The Rise and Fall of Human Rights provides a groundbreaking ethnographic investigation of the Palestinian human rights world{\textemdash}its NGOs, activists, and "victims," as well as their politics, training, and discourse{\textemdash}since 1979. Though human rights activity began as a means of struggle against the Israeli occupation, in failing to end the Israeli occupation, protect basic human rights, or establish an accountable Palestinian government, the human rights industry has become the object of cynicism for many Palestinians. But far from indicating apathy, such cynicism generates a productive critique of domestic politics and Western interventionism. This book illuminates the successes and failures of Palestinians{\textquoteright} varied engagements with human rights in their quest for independence.},
	author = {Lori Allen}
}
@book {1152466,
	title = {Moral Nation: Modern Japan and Narcotics in Global History},
	year = {2013},
	publisher = {University of California Press},
	organization = {University of California Press},
	address = {Berkeley},
	abstract = {
	This trailblazing study examines the history of narcotics in Japan to explain the development of global criteria for political legitimacy in nations and empires in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.



	Japan underwent three distinct crises of sovereignty in its modern history: in the 1890s, during the interwar period, and in the 1950s. Each crisis provoked successively escalating crusades against opium and other drugs, in which moral entrepreneurs--bureaucrats, cultural producers, merchants, law enforcement, scientists, and doctors, among others--focused on drug use as a means of distinguishing between populations fit and unfit for self-rule. Moral Nation traces the instrumental role of ideologies about narcotics in the country{\textquoteright}s efforts to reestablish its legitimacy as a nation and empire.



	As Kingsberg demonstrates, Japan{\textquoteright}s growing status as an Asian power and a "moral nation" expanded the notion of "civilization" from an exclusively Western value to a universal one. Scholars and students of Japanese history, Asian studies, world history, and global studies will gain an in-depth understanding of how Japan{\textquoteright}s experience with narcotics influenced global standards for sovereignty and shifted the aim of nation building, making it no longer a strictly political activity but also a moral obligation to society.

},
	author = {Kingsberg, Miriam}
}
@book {27656,
	title = {The Politics of Nation-Building: Making Co-Nationals, Refugees, and Minorities},
	year = {2012},
	publisher = {Cambridge University Press},
	organization = {Cambridge University Press},
	address = {Cambridge},
	abstract = {What drives a state{\textquoteright}s choice to assimilate, accommodate, or exclude ethnic groups within its territory? In this pathbreaking work on the international politics of nation-building, Harris Mylonas argues that a state{\textquoteright}s nation-building policies toward non-core groups - any aggregation of individuals perceived as an unassimilated ethnic group by the ruling elite of a state - are influenced by both its foreign policy goals and its relations with the external patrons of these groups. Through a detailed study of the Balkans, Mylonas shows that the way a state treats a non-core group within its own borders is determined largely by whether the state{\textquoteright}s foreign policy is revisionist or cleaves to the international status quo, and whether it is allied or in rivalry with that group{\textquoteright}s external patrons. Mylonas explores the effects of external involvement on the salience of cultural differences and the planning of nation-building policies. The Politics of Nation-Building injects international politics into the study of nation-building, building a bridge between international relations and the comparative politics of ethnicity and nationalism. This is the first book to explain systematically how the politics of ethnicity in the international arena determine which groups arWhat drives a state{\textquoteright}s choice to assimilate, accommodate, or exclude ethnic groups within its territory? In this pathbreaking work on the international politics of nation-building, Harris Mylonas argues that a state{\textquoteright}s nation-building policies toward non-core groups{\textemdash}any aggregation of individuals perceived as an unassimilated ethnic group by the ruling elite of a state{\textemdash}are influenced by both its foreign policy goals and its relations with the external patrons of these groups. Through a detailed study of the Balkans, Mylonas shows that the way a state treats a non-core group within its own borders is determined largely by whether the state{\textquoteright}s foreign policy is revisionist or cleaves to the international status quo, and whether it is allied or in rivalry with that group{\textquoteright}s external patrons. Mylonas explores the effects of external involvement on the salience of cultural differences and the planning of nation-building policies. The Politics of Nation-Building injects international politics into the study of nation-building, building a bridge between international relations and the comparative politics of ethnicity and nationalism. This is the first book to explain systematically how the politics of ethnicity in the international arena determine which groups are assimilated, accommodated, or annihilated by their host states.},
	author = {Mylonas, Harris}
}
@book {27651,
	title = {Brokers of Empire: Japanese Settler Colonialism in Korea, 1876-1945},
	year = {2012},
	publisher = {Harvard University Press},
	organization = {Harvard University Press},
	address = {Cambridge},
	abstract = {
	
		Between 1876 and 1945, thousands of Japanese civilians{\textemdash}merchants, traders, prostitutes, journalists, teachers, and adventurers{\textemdash}left their homeland for a new life on the Korean peninsula. Although most migrants were guided primarily by personal profit and only secondarily by national interest, their mundane lives and the state{\textquoteright}s ambitions were inextricably entwined in the rise of imperial Japan. Despite having formed one of the largest colonial communities in the twentieth century, these settlers and their empire-building activities have all but vanished from the public memory of Japan{\textquoteright}s presence in Korea.
	

	
		Drawing on previously unused materials in multi-language archives, Jun Uchida looks behind the official organs of state and military control to focus on the obscured history of these settlers, especially the first generation of {\textquotedblleft}pioneers{\textquotedblright} between the 1910s and 1930s who actively mediated the colonial management of Korea as its grassroots movers and shakers. By uncovering the downplayed but dynamic role played by settler leaders who operated among multiple parties{\textemdash}between the settler community and the Government-General, between Japanese colonizer and Korean colonized, between colony and metropole{\textemdash}this study examines how these {\textquotedblleft}brokers of empire{\textquotedblright} advanced their commercial and political interests while contributing to the expansionist project of imperial Japan.
	

},
	author = {Uchida, Jun}
}
@book {27646,
	title = {Ethnic Struggle, Coexistence, and Democratization in Eastern Europe},
	year = {2012},
	publisher = {Cambridge University Press},
	organization = {Cambridge University Press},
	address = {Cambridge},
	abstract = {In societies divided on ethnic and religious lines, problems of democracy are magnified {\textendash} particularly where groups are mobilized into parties. With the principle of majority rule, minorities should be less willing to endorse democratic institutions where their parties persistently lose elections. While such problems should also hamper transitions to democracy, several diverse Eastern European states have formed democracies even under these conditions. In this book, Sherrill Stroschein argues that sustained protest and contention by ethnic Hungarians in Romania and Slovakia brought concessions on policies that they could not achieve through the ballot box, in contrast to Transcarpathia, Ukraine. In Romania and Slovakia, contention during the 1990s made each group accustomed to each other{\textquoteright}s claims and aware of the degree to which each could push its own. Ethnic contention became a de facto deliberative process that fostered a moderation of group stances, allowing democratic consolidation to slowly and organically take root.},
	author = {Stroschein, Sherrill}
}
@book {27636,
	title = {Alliance Formation in Civil Wars},
	year = {2012},
	publisher = {Cambridge University Press},
	organization = {Cambridge University Press},
	address = {Cambridge},
	abstract = {Some of the most brutal and long-lasting civil wars of our time {\textendash} those in Afghanistan, Bosnia, Lebanon, and Iraq, among others {\textendash} involve the rapid formation and disintegration of alliances among warring groups, as well as fractionalization within them. It would be natural to suppose that warring groups form alliances based on shared identity considerations {\textendash} such as Christian groups allying with Christian groups, or Muslim groups with their fellow co-religionists {\textendash} but this is not what we see. Two groups that identify themselves as bitter foes one day, on the basis of some identity narrative, might be allies the next day and vice versa. Nor is any group, however homogeneous, safe from internal fractionalization. Rather, looking closely at the civil wars in Afghanistan and Bosnia and testing against the broader universe of fifty-three cases of multiparty civil wars, Fotini Christia finds that the relative power distribution between and within various warring groups is the primary driving force behind alliance formation, alliance changes, group splits, and internal group takeovers.},
	author = {Christia, Fotini}
}
@book {5525,
	title = {Moscow Prime Time: How the Soviet Union Built the Media Empire that Lost the Cultural Cold War},
	year = {2011},
	publisher = {Cornell University Press},
	organization = {Cornell University Press},
	address = {Ithaca},
	abstract = {In this intriguing account of Soviet mass-culture after WWII, Kristin Roth-Ey delineates how it grew explosively in an attempt to make good socialism{\textquoteright}s promise of {\textquotedblleft}high-quality cultural experience on an everyday basis,{\textquotedblright} delivering more and more individualized Soviet forms of mass media uncorrupted by the degraded {\textquotedblleft}masscult{\textquotedblright} of the West.  Moscow Prime Time analyses the growth and maturity of this important cultural initiative - especially in film and television - that was intimately bound to the Soviet experiment, and ultimately unable to save it.
},
	author = {Kristin Roth-Ey}
}
@book {1166041,
	title = {Competitive Authoritarianism: Hybrid Regimes after the Cold War},
	year = {2010},
	publisher = {Cambridge University Press},
	organization = {Cambridge University Press},
	address = {Cambridge},
	abstract = {
	Based on a detailed study of 35 cases in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and post-communist Eurasia, this book explores the fate of competitive authoritarian regimes between 1990 and 2008. It finds that where social, economic, and technocratic ties to the West were extensive, as in Eastern Europe and the Americas, the external cost of abuse led incumbents to cede power rather than crack down, which led to democratization. Where ties to the West were limited, external democratizing pressure was weaker and countries rarely democratized. In these cases, regime outcomes hinged on the character of state and ruling party organizations. Where incumbents possessed developed and cohesive coercive party structures, they could thwart opposition challenges, and competitive authoritarian regimes survived; where incumbents lacked such organizational tools, regimes were unstable but rarely democratized.

},
	author = {Levitsky, Steven and Way, Lucan A.}
}
@book {1154356,
	title = {Elections and Distributive Politics in Mubarak{\textquoteright}s Egypt},
	year = {2010},
	publisher = {Cambridge University Press},
	organization = {Cambridge University Press},
	address = {Cambridge},
	abstract = {Despite its authoritarian political structure, Egypt{\textquoteright}s government has held competitive, multi-party parliamentary elections for more than 30 years. This book argues that, rather than undermining the durability of the Mubarak regime, competitive parliamentary elections ease important forms of distributional conflict, particularly conflict over access to spoils. In a comprehensive examination of the distributive consequences of authoritarian elections in Egypt, Lisa Blaydes examines the triadic relationship between Egypt{\textquoteright}s ruling regime, the rent-seeking elite that supports the regime, and the ordinary citizens who participate in these elections. She describes why parliamentary candidates finance campaigns to win seats in a legislature that lacks policymaking power, as well as why citizens engage in the costly act of voting in such a context.},
	author = {Blaydes, Lisa}
}
@book {5528,
	title = {Skeletons in the Closet: Transitional Justice in Post-Communist Europe},
	year = {2010},
	publisher = {Cambridge University Press},
	organization = {Cambridge University Press},
	address = {Cambridge},
	abstract = {After communist regimes in Eastern Europe fell after 1989, the pattern of {\textquotedblleft}lustration,{\textquotedblright} of shedding light on the Communist past, took different forms in the early years of the new regimes. These arose from complex patterns of bargaining, but showed an unexpected willingness of former rulers to allow disclosure of the past. Monika Nalepa{\textquoteright}s path-breaking book re-examines the process by which this took place through qualitative and quantitative means in nine East Central Europe countries. Skeletons in the Closet argues that secrets of past collaboration played a prominent role in stabilizing the transition to representative democracy and in the timing and content of subsequent transitional justice laws.
},
	author = {Monika Nalepa}
}
@book {1165836,
	title = {Coethnicity: Diversity and the Dilemmas of Collective Action},
	year = {2009},
	publisher = {Russell Sage Foundation},
	organization = {Russell Sage Foundation},
	address = {New York},
	abstract = {
	Ethnically homogenous communities often do a better job than diverse communities of producing public goods such as satisfactory schools and health care, adequate sanitation, and low levels of crime. Coethnicity reports the results of a landmark study that aimed to find out why diversity has this cooperation-undermining effect. The study, conducted in a neighborhood of Kampala, Uganda, notable for both its high levels of diversity and low levels of public goods provision, hones in on the mechanisms that might account for the difficulties diverse societies often face in trying to act collectively.



	The Mulago-Kyebando Community Study uses behavioral games to explore how the ethnicity of the person with whom one is interacting shapes social behavior. Hundreds of local participants interacted with various partners in laboratory games simulating real-life decisions involving the allocation of money and the completion of joint tasks. Many of the subsequent findings debunk long-standing explanations for diversity{\textquoteright}s adverse effects. Contrary to the prevalent notion that shared preferences facilitate ethnic collective action, differences in goals and priorities among participants were not found to be structured along ethnic lines. Nor was there evidence that subjects favored the welfare of their coethnics over that of non-coethnics. When given the opportunity to act altruistically, individuals did not choose to benefit coethnics disproportionately when their actions were anonymous. Yet when anonymity was removed, subjects behaved very differently. With their actions publicly observed, subjects gave significantly more to coethnics, expected their partners to reciprocate, and expected that they would be sanctioned for a failure to cooperate. This effect was most pronounced among individuals who were otherwise least likely to cooperate. These results suggest that what may look like ethnic favoritism is, in fact, a set of reciprocity norms{\textemdash}stronger among coethnics than among non-coethnics{\textemdash}that make it possible for members of more homogeneous communities to take risks, invest, and cooperate without the fear of getting cheated. Such norms may be more subject to change than deeply held ethnic antipathies{\textemdash}a powerful finding for policymakers seeking to design social institutions in diverse societies.



	Research on ethnic diversity typically draws on either experimental research or field work. Coethnicity does both. By taking the crucial step from observation to experimentation, this study marks a major breakthrough in the study of ethnic diversity.

},
	author = {Habyarimana, James and Macartan Humphreys and Posner, Daniel N. and Jeremy Weinstein}
}
@book {1154376,
	title = {Economic Liberalism and Its Rivals: The Formation of International Institutions Among the Post-Soviet States},
	year = {2009},
	publisher = {Cambridge University Press},
	organization = {Cambridge University Press},
	address = {Cambridge},
	abstract = {
	Examines the critical role that the economic ideas of state leaders play in the creation and maintenance of the international economic order. Drawing on a detailed study of the fifteen post-Soviet states in their first decade of independence, interviews with key decision-makers and the use of closed ministerial archives, the book explores how the changing ideas of state officials led countries to follow one of three institutional paths: rapid entry into the World Trade Organization, participation in a regional Customs Union based on their prior Soviet ties, or autarky and economic closure. In doing so, the book traces the decisions that shaped the entry of these strategically important countries into the world economy and provides a novel theory of the role of ideas in international politics.

},
	author = {Keith Darden}
}
@book {1165911,
	title = {American Empire and the Politics of Meaning: Elite Political Cultures in the Philippines and Puerto Rico during U.S. Colonialism},
	year = {2008},
	publisher = {Duke University Press},
	organization = {Duke University Press},
	address = {Durham},
	abstract = {
	When the United States took control of the Philippines and Puerto Rico in the wake of the Spanish-American War, it declared that it would transform its new colonies through lessons in self-government and the ways of American-style democracy. In both territories, U.S. colonial officials built extensive public school systems, and they set up American-style elections and governmental institutions. The officials aimed their lessons in democratic government at the political elite: the relatively small class of the wealthy, educated, and politically powerful within each colony. While they retained ultimate control for themselves, the Americans let the elite vote, hold local office, and formulate legislation in national assemblies.



	American Empire and the Politics of Meaning is an examination of how these efforts to provide the elite of Puerto Rico and the Philippines a practical education in self-government played out on the ground in the early years of American colonial rule, from 1898 until 1912. It is the first systematic comparative analysis of these early exercises in American imperial power. The sociologist Julian Go unravels how American authorities used {\textquotedblleft}culture{\textquotedblright} as both a tool and a target of rule, and how the Puerto Rican and Philippine elite received, creatively engaged, and sometimes silently subverted the Americans{\textquoteright} ostensibly benign intentions. Rather than finding that the attempt to transplant American-style democracy led to incommensurable {\textquotedblleft}culture clashes,{\textquotedblright} Go assesses complex processes of cultural accommodation and transformation. By combining rich historical detail with broader theories of meaning, culture, and colonialism, he provides an innovative study of the hidden intersections of political power and cultural meaning-making in America{\textquoteright}s earliest overseas empire.

},
	author = {Go, Julian}
}
@book {5530,
	title = {Distrusting Democrats: Outcomes of Participatory Constitution Making},
	year = {2008},
	publisher = {University of Michigan Press},
	organization = {University of Michigan Press},
	address = {Ann Arbor},
	abstract = {
	How does mass participation affect political culture in countries undergoing political transition? Distrusting Democrats examines the consequences of citizen involvement in Uganda, one of a growing number of countries employing the participatory model of constitutional reform. Contrary to predictions, author Devra Moehler finds that participation contributes to the creation of "distrusting democrats": citizens who are democratic in their attitudes, but suspicious of their governmental institutions in practice. Moehler argues that participation in developing democracies gives citizens new tools with which to evaluate their imperfectly-performing institutions. Participation raises democratic expectations and alerts citizens to existing democratic deficits. The general implications for constitution-building countries are clear: short-term risks of disillusionment and instability; and long-term advantages from a more sophisticated citizenry capable of monitoring leaders and promoting political development.

},
	author = {Moehler, Devra C.}
}
@book {1154371,
	title = {The Politics of Anti-Westernism in Asia: Visions of World Order in Pan-Islamic and Pan-Asian Thought},
	year = {2007},
	publisher = {Columbia University Press},
	organization = {Columbia University Press},
	address = {New York},
	abstract = {
	In this rich intellectual history, Cemil Aydin challenges the notion that anti-Westernism in the Muslim world is a political and religious reaction to the liberal and democratic values of the West. Nor is anti-Westernism a natural response to Western imperialism. Instead, by focusing on the agency and achievements of non-Western intellectuals, Aydin demonstrates that modern anti-Western discourse grew out of the legitimacy crisis of a single, Eurocentric global polity in the age of high imperialism.



	Aydin compares Ottoman Pan-Islamic and Japanese Pan-Asian visions of world order from the middle of the nineteenth century to the end of World War II. He looks at when the idea of a universal "West" first took root in the minds of Asian intellectuals and reformers and how it became essential in criticizing the West for violating its own "standards of civilization." Aydin also illustrates why these anti-Western visions contributed to the decolonization process and considers their influence on the international relations of both the Ottoman and Japanese Empires during WWI and WWII.



	The Politics of Anti-Westernism in Asia offers a rare, global perspective on how religious tradition and the experience of European colonialism interacted with Muslim and non-Muslim discontent with globalization, the international order, and modernization. Aydin{\textquoteright}s approach reveals the epistemological limitations of Orientalist knowledge categories, especially the idea of Eastern and Western civilizations, and the way in which these limitations have shaped not only the contradictions and political complicities of anti-Western discourses but also contemporary interpretations of anti-Western trends. In moving beyond essentialist readings of this history, Aydin provides a fresh understanding of the history of contemporary anti-Americanism as well as the ongoing struggle to establish a legitimate and inclusive international society.

},
	author = {Aydin, Cemil}
}
@book {1154366,
	title = {Hard Times in the Lands of Plenty: Oil Politics in Iran and Indonesia},
	year = {2007},
	publisher = {Cornell University Press},
	organization = {Cornell University Press},
	address = {Ithaca},
	abstract = {
	That natural resources can be a curse as well as a blessing is almost a truism in political analysis. In many late-developing countries, the "resource curse" theory predicts, the exploitation of valuable resources will not result in stable, prosperous states but rather in their opposite. Petroleum deposits, for example, may generate so much income that rulers will have little need to establish efficient, tax-extracting bureaucracies, leading to shallow, poorly functioning administrations that remain at the mercy of the world market for oil. Alternatively, resources may be geographically concentrated, thereby intensifying regional, ethnic, or other divisive tensions.



	In Hard Times in the Lands of Plenty, Benjamin Smith deciphers the paradox of the resource curse and questions its inevitability through an innovative comparison of the experiences of Iran and Indonesia. These two populous, oil-rich countries saw profoundly different changes in their fortunes in the period 1960{\textendash}1980. Focusing on the roles of state actors and organized opposition in using oil revenues, Smith finds that the effects of oil wealth on politics and on regime durability vary according to the circumstances under which oil exports became a major part of a country{\textquoteright}s economy. The presence of natural resources is, he argues, a political opportunity rather than simply a structural variable.



	Drawing on extensive primary research in Iran and Indonesia and quantitative research on nineteen other oil-rich developing countries, Smith challenges us to reconsider resource wealth in late-developing countries, not as a simple curse or blessing, but instead as a tremendously flexible source of both political resources and potential complications.

},
	author = {Smith, Benjamin}
}
@book {1154361,
	title = {Entrepreneurial States: Reforming Corporate Governance in France, Japan, and Korea},
	year = {2007},
	publisher = {Cornell University Press},
	organization = {Cornell University Press},
	address = {Ithaca},
	abstract = {
	In Entrepreneurial States, an innovative examination of the comparative politics of reform in stakeholder systems, Yves Tiberghien analyzes the modern partnership between the state and global capital in attaining structural domestic change. The emergence of a powerful global equity market has altered incentives for the state and presented political leaders with a "golden bargain"{\textemdash}the infusion of abundant and cheap capital into domestic stock markets in exchange for reform of corporate governance and other regulatory changes.



	Drawing on extensive archival research and interviews with policy and corporate elites in Europe and East Asia, Tiberghien asks why states such as Korea and France have embraced this opportunity and engaged in far-reaching reforms to make their companies more attractive to foreign capital, whereas Japan and Germany have moved forward much more grudgingly. Interest groups and electoral institutions have their impacts, but by tracing the unfolding dynamic of reform under different constraints, Tiberghien shows that the role of political entrepreneurs is critical. Such policy elites act as mediators between global forces and national constraints. As risk takers and bargain builders, Tiberghien finds, they use corporate reform to reshape their political parties and to stake out new policy ground. The degree of political autonomy available to them and the domestic organization of bureaucratic responsibility determine their ability to succeed.

},
	author = {Tiberghien, Yves}
}
@book {5538,
	title = {Accountability without Democracy: Solidarity Groups and Public Goods Provision in Rural China},
	year = {2007},
	publisher = {Cambridge University Press},
	organization = {Cambridge University Press},
	address = {Cambridge},
	abstract = {Observers of modern China have noted the stark differences in the kinds of public expenditure undertaken by villages in rural China, villages often located right next to each other. The differences in social services and public amenities between villages in rural China cannot be accounted for by just the exercise of democratic activity, nor by direction from the central government. Instead, these differences are produced by the informal means of exercising accountability and control over officials by village and temple organizations, and family lineages. Lily Tsai{\textquoteright}s book is an exploration of the unseen mechanisms of public life in rural China - a study of how governance in rural China at the local level cannot be understood through democratic institutional forms alone.

Accountability Without Democracy has been selected as the winner of the 2007/2008 Dogan Award from the Society for Comparative Research.
},
	author = {Lily L. Tsai}
}
@book {5537,
	title = {Politics and Volunteering in Japan: A Global Perspective},
	year = {2007},
	publisher = {Cambridge University Press},
	organization = {Cambridge University Press},
	address = {Cambridge},
	abstract = {Mary Alice Haddad{\textquoteright}s book is a comparative examination of the sometimes crucial phenomenon in democratic societies: volunteering. Yet patterns of volunteering vary across cultures. These differences are measured in this important study as a combination of citizen{\textquoteright}s attitudes toward their government, their own society{\textquoteright}s patterns of expectations and practices, and the sense of responsible individualism found in each society. Politics and Volunteering in Japan develops a predictive model for understanding volunteering across cultures from a comparison of three Japanese cites, and tests it against patterns of volunteering in Finland, Japan, Turkey and the United States.
},
	author = {Mary Alice Haddad}
}
@book {5533,
	title = {Globalization and Business Politics in Arab North Africa: A Comparative Perspective},
	year = {2007},
	publisher = {Cambridge University Press},
	organization = {Cambridge University Press},
	address = {Cambridge},
	abstract = {The adjustments to a global economy have produced varied industry/ state relations throughout the world, but perhaps nowhere as crucially as in the developing industrial countries. Melani Cammett{\textquoteright}s Globalization and Business Politics finds that these forms of cooperation rely on past relations of the state and industry. Her subtle comparative analysis of the textile and clothing industries in Morocco and Tunisia encompasses the social, political, economic, and historical forces that shaped - and continue to shape- these contrasting examples. Success in this new environment depends crucially, Globalization and Business Politics suggests, on new and productive ways that state, society, and industries can develop means of persistent, ongoing, and adaptive mutual support.
},
	author = {Melani Claire Cammett}
}
@book {1165996,
	title = {Crucibles of Political Loyalty: Church Institutions and Electoral Continuity in Hungary},
	year = {2006},
	publisher = {Cambridge University Press},
	organization = {Cambridge University Press},
	address = {Cambridge},
	abstract = {This book investigates one of the oldest paradoxes in political science: why do mass political loyalties persist even amid prolonged social upheaval and disruptive economic development. Drawing on extensive archival research and an original database of election results, this book explores the paradox of political persistence by examining Hungary{\textquoteright}s often tortuous path from pre- to post-communism. Wittenberg reframes the theoretical debate, and then demonstrates how despite the many depredations of communism, the Roman Catholic and Calvinist Churches transmitted loyalties to parties of the Right. Contrary to conventional wisdom, Church resistance occurred not from above, but from below. Hemmed in and harassed by communist party cadres, parish priests and pastors employed a variety of ingenious tactics to ensure the continued survival of local church institutions. These institutions insulated their adherents from pressures to assimilate into the surrounding socialist milieu. Ultimately this led to political continuity between pre- and post-communism.},
	author = {Jason Wittenberg}
}
@book {1165811,
	title = {Japan{\textquoteright}s Dual Civil Society: Members without Advocates},
	year = {2006},
	publisher = {Stanford University Press},
	organization = {Stanford University Press},
	address = {Palo Alto},
	abstract = {
	This book provides an overview of the state of Japan{\textquoteright}s civil society and a new theory, based on political institutions, to explain why Japan differs so much from other industrialized democracies. It offers a new interpretation of why Japan{\textquoteright}s civil society has developed as it has, with many small, local groups but few large, professionally managed national organizations. The book further asks what the consequences of that pattern of development are for Japan{\textquoteright}s policy and politics. The author persuasively demonstrates that political institutions{\textemdash}the regulatory framework, financial flows, and the political opportunity structure{\textemdash}are responsible for this pattern, with the result that civil groups have little chance of influencing national policy debates. The phenomenon of {\textquotedblleft}members without advocates{\textquotedblright} thus has enormous implications for democratic participation in Japan.

},
	author = {Robert Pekkanen}
}
@book {1154391,
	title = {Runaway State-Building: Patronage Politics and Democratic Development},
	year = {2006},
	publisher = {Johns Hopkins University Press},
	organization = {Johns Hopkins University Press},
	address = {Baltimore},
	abstract = {
	Here, Conor O{\textquoteright}Dwyer introduces the phenomenon of runaway state-building as a consequence of patronage politics in underdeveloped, noncompetitive party systems. Analyzing the cases of three newly democratized nations in Eastern Europe{\textemdash}Poland, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia{\textemdash}O{\textquoteright}Dwyer argues that competition among political parties constrains patronage-led state expansion.



	O{\textquoteright}Dwyer uses democratization as a starting point, examining its effects on other aspects of political development. Focusing on the link between electoral competition and state-building, he is able to draw parallels between the problems faced by these three nations and broader historical and contemporary problems of patronage politics{\textemdash}such as urban machines in nineteenth-century America and the Philippines after Marcos.



	This timely study provides political scientists and political reformers with insights into points in the democratization process where appropriate intervention can minimize runaway state-building and cultivate efficient bureaucracy within a robust and competitive democratic system.

},
	author = {O{\textquoteright}Dwyer, Conor}
}
@book {1154381,
	title = {The Graves of Tarim: Genealogy and Mobility across the Indian Ocean},
	year = {2006},
	publisher = {University of California Press},
	organization = {University of California Press},
	address = {Berkeley},
	abstract = {
	The Graves of Tarim narrates the movement of an old diaspora across the Indian Ocean over the past five hundred years. Ranging from Arabia to India and Southeast Asia, Engseng Ho explores the transcultural exchanges{\textemdash}in kinship and writing{\textemdash}that enabled Hadrami Yemeni descendants of the Muslim prophet Muhammad to become locals in each of the three regions yet remain cosmopolitans with vital connections across the ocean. At home throughout the Indian Ocean, diasporic Hadramis engaged European empires in surprising ways across its breadth, beyond the usual territorial confines of colonizer and colonized. A work of both anthropology and history, this book brilliantly demonstrates how the emerging fields of world history and transcultural studies are coming together to provide groundbreaking ways of studying religion, diaspora, and empire.



	Ho interprets biographies, family histories, chronicles, pilgrimage manuals and religious law as the unified literary output of a diaspora that hybridizes both texts and persons within a genealogy of Prophetic descent. By using anthropological concepts to read Islamic texts in Arabic and Malay, he demonstrates the existence of a hitherto unidentified canon of diasporic literature. His supple conceptual framework and innovative use of documentary and field evidence are elegantly combined to present a vision of this vital world region beyond the histories of trade and European empire.

},
	author = {Ho, Engseng}
}
@book {5529,
	title = {An Enchanted Modern: Gender and Public Piety in Shi{\textquoteright}i Lebanon},
	year = {2006},
	publisher = {Princeton University Press},
	organization = {Princeton University Press},
	address = {Princeton},
	abstract = {Lara Deeb{\textquoteright}s An Enchanted Modern concerns the many ways religious piety has been reborn and reshaped in the Shi{\textquoteright}i neighborhood of Al-Dahiyya in Beirut. She presents an engrossing anthropological account of a community fashioning a creative and rich religious modernity. Deeb encounters a vibrant, redirected, Islamic life, reshaped by the politics of the recent past, creatively re-imagined and lived in the present, with no sign of losing its centrality to individuals, communities and states in the future. Most notably, it is an Islamic life that is expressed in especially creative ways in the public and private lives of women. The modern pious includes women involved, educated, outspoken and part of a community, at odds at points with Western notions of modernity, and equally powerful and attractive.
},
	author = {Lara Deeb}
}
@book {1166026,
	title = {Courts under Constraints: Judges, Generals, and Presidents in Argentina},
	year = {2005},
	publisher = {Cambridge University Press},
	organization = {Cambridge University Press},
	address = {Cambridge},
	abstract = {
	This study offers a theoretical framework for understanding how institutional instability affects judicial behavior under dictatorship and democracy. In stark contrast to conventional wisdom, the central findings of the book contradict some assumptions that only independent judges rule against the government of the day. Set in the context of Argentina, the study uses the tools of positive political theory to explore the conditions under which courts rule against the government. In addition to shedding light on the dynamics of court-executive relations in Argentina, the study provides general lessons about institutions, instability, and the rule of law. In the process, the study builds a set of connections among diverse bodies of scholarship, including US judicial politics, comparative institutional analysis, positive political theory, and Latin American politics.

},
	author = {Gretchen Helmke}
}
@book {1165901,
	title = {Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject},
	year = {2004},
	publisher = {Princeton University Press},
	organization = {Princeton University Press},
	address = {Princeton},
	abstract = {
	Politics of Piety is a groundbreaking analysis of Islamist cultural politics through the ethnography of a thriving, grassroots women{\textquoteright}s piety movement in the mosques of Cairo, Egypt. Unlike those organized Islamist activities that seek to seize or transform the state, this is a moral reform movement whose orthodox practices are commonly viewed as inconsequential to Egypt{\textquoteright}s political landscape. Saba Mahmood{\textquoteright}s compelling exposition of these practices challenges this assumption by showing how the ethical and the political are indelibly linked within the context of such movements.



	Not only is this book a sensitive ethnography of a critical but largely ignored dimension of the Islamic revival, it is also an unflinching critique of the secular-liberal assumptions by which some people hold such movements to account. The book addresses three central questions: How do movements of moral reform help us rethink the normative liberal account of politics? How does the adherence of women to the patriarchal norms at the core of such movements parochialize key assumptions within feminist theory about freedom, agency, authority, and the human subject? How does a consideration of debates about embodied religious rituals among Islamists and their secular critics help us understand the conceptual relationship between bodily form and political imaginaries? Politics of Piety is essential reading for anyone interested in issues at the nexus of ethics and politics, embodiment and gender, and liberalism and postcolonialism.

},
	author = {Mahmood, Saba}
}
@book {1165881,
	title = {Why Ethnic Parties Succeed: Patronage and Ethnic Head Counts in India},
	year = {2004},
	publisher = {Cambridge University Press},
	organization = {Cambridge University Press},
	address = {Cambridge},
	abstract = {
	Why do some ethnic parties succeed in attracting the support of their target ethnic group while others fail? In a world in which ethnic parties flourish in both established and emerging democracies alike, understanding the conditions under which such parties rise and fall is of critical importance to both political scientists and policy makers. Drawing on a study of variation in the performance of ethnic parties in India, this book builds a theory of ethnic party performance in {\textquoteright}patronage democracies{\textquoteright}. Chandra shows why individual voters and political entrepreneurs in such democracies condition their strategies not on party ideologies or policy platforms, but on a headcount of co-ethnics and others across party personnel and among the electorate.

},
	author = {Chandra, Kanchan}
}
@book {5542,
	title = {Foundations of Despotism: Peasants, the Trujillo Regime, and Modernity in Dominican History},
	year = {2004},
	publisher = {Stanford University Press},
	organization = {Stanford University Press},
	address = {Palo Alto},
	abstract = {This book explores the history of the Dominican Republic as it evolved from the first European colony in the Americas into a modern nation under the rule of Rafael Trujillo. Turits reveals how the seemingly unilateral imposition of power by Trujillo in fact depended on the regime{\textquoteright}s mediation of profound social and economic transformations, especially through agrarian policies that assisted the nation{\textquoteright}s large independent peasantry. Most of the existing literature casts the Trujillo dictatorship as the paradigm of despotic rule through coercion and terror alone. This book elucidates instead the hidden foundations of the regime, portraying everyday life and economy in the Dominican countryside and the exchanges between state and society under Trujillo. Winner of the American Historical Association{\textquoteright}s John Edwin Fagg Prize for the best publication in Latin American history.
},
	author = {Richard Turits}
}
@book {1165851,
	title = {Lineages of State Fragility: Rural Civil Society in Guinea-Bissau},
	year = {2003},
	publisher = {Ohio University Press},
	organization = {Ohio University Press},
	address = {Athens},
	abstract = {
	In Guinea-Bissau, as elsewhere in Africa, there is a disjuncture between the central state and rural civil society. It is this significant and overlooked aspect of Guinea-Bissau{\textquoteright}s political evolution{\textemdash}the continuing ability of civil society to evade and thwart state power{\textemdash}that is at the heart of Joshua B. Forrest{\textquoteright}s Lineages of State Fragility.



	Professor Forrest argues that despite European influences, the contemporary fragility of African states can be fully appreciated only by examining the indigenous social context in which these states evolved. Focusing on Guinea-Bissau, Forrest exposes the emergence of a strong and adaptable {\textquotedblleft}rural civil society{\textquotedblright} that can be traced back to precolonial times.



	Lineages of State Fragility analyzes the social, political, and military experiences of this rural civil society to account for the origins of Guinea-Bissau{\textquoteright}s soft state. For example, Forrest identifies interethnic social and military practices that became entrenched in rural social structures and continued to evolve through the colonial period, enabling Guinea-Bissauans to resist state predation.



	Lineages of State Fragility offers an unorthodox explanation of African politics by tracing the direct social links among the precolonial, colonial, and postcolonial periods and affirms the role of rural actors in determining present-day political outcomes.



	Based on remarkably extensive research conducted in archives in Guinea-Bissau, Senegal, and Portugal, Lineages of State Fragility represents both a new approach to the region{\textquoteright}s past and present and an important synthesis of the political analysis that has come before.

},
	author = {Forrest, Joshua B.}
}
@book {1165816,
	title = {Picking Winners? From Technology Catch-up to the Space Race in Japan},
	year = {2003},
	publisher = {Stanford University Press},
	organization = {Stanford University Press},
	address = {Palo Alto},
	abstract = {
	How do governments choose which industries to favor? If governments are largely motivated by the national economic interest, then industrial selection would be biased in favor of picking winners. If, on the other hand, governments are motivated by an electoral and political logic, as is usually assumed in mainstream political economy approaches, then industrial choices would be skewed in favor of politically influential industries{\textemdash}even if they are uncompetitive or declining.



	At the core of this book is a methodology that pits these competing explanations against each other, draws out their testable propositions, and then uses three different approaches{\textemdash}econometrics, structured data analysis, and case studies{\textemdash}to ascertain whether one or the other explanation prevails in the celebrated case of postwar Japan. The evidence, which ranges from Japan{\textquoteright}s earliest efforts at technology catch-up to present-day policies of indigenizing space rockets, shows that economic logic did in fact prevail across industries and over time, despite ever-present political pressures. The most important point this study uncovers is that it is not just selection but deselection that has been the hallmark of Japan{\textquoteright}s trade and industrial policies over the postwar period.

},
	author = {Pekkanen, Saadia M.}
}
@book {5541,
	title = {The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, and Belarus, 1569-1999},
	year = {2003},
	publisher = {Yale University Press},
	organization = {Yale University Press},
	address = {New Haven},
	abstract = {Moving from the sixteenth century to the present, and using a wide array of multi-lingual sources, The Reconstruction of Nations shows how multiple versions of national identity evolved and competed with each other in what are now Poland, Lithuania, Belarus, and Ukraine. Snyder contends that the triumph of modern ethnic nationalism in this part of Eastern Europe is very recent. Federalism and communal toleration were considered viable national ideas from the 16th through 20th centuries - only the atrocities of the Second World War buried such traditional alternatives. Snyder{\textquoteright}s original explanations for these atrocities include the first scholarly account of the Ukrainian-Polish ethnic cleansings of the 1940s. Snyder concludes with an analysis of the peaceful resolution of national tensions in the region since 1989. 

The Reconstruction of Nations is a winner of the American Historical Association{\textquoteright}s George Louis Beer Prize for the best publication in European international history since 1895.
},
	author = {Timothy Snyder}
}
@book {5539,
	title = {Political Topographies of the African State},
	year = {2003},
	publisher = {Cambridge University Press},
	organization = {Cambridge University Press},
	address = {Cambridge},
	abstract = {Political Topographies shows that central rulers{\textquoteright} powers, ambitions, and strategies of control vary across subregions of the national space, even in countries reputed to be highly centralized. Boone argues that this unevenness reflects a state-building logic that is shaped by differences in the political economy of regions - that is, by relations of property, production, and authority that determine the political clout and economic needs of regional-level elites. Center-provincial bargaining, rather than the unilateral choices of the center, is what drives the politics of national integration and determines how institutions distribute power. Boone{\textquoteright}s innovative analysis speaks to scholars and policy makers who want to understand geographic unevenness in the centralization and decentralization of power, in the nature of citizenship and representation, and in patterns of core-periphery integration and breakdown in many of the world{\textquoteright}s multiethnic or regionally divided states.
},
	author = {Catherine Boone}
}
@book {1165991,
	title = {Redeeming the Communist Past: The Regeneration of Communist Parties in East Central Europe},
	year = {2002},
	publisher = {Cambridge University Press},
	organization = {Cambridge University Press},
	address = {Cambridge},
	abstract = {This major study examines one of the most surprising developments in East Central European politics after the democratic transitions of 1989: the completely unexpected regeneration of the former communist parties. After the collapse of the communist regimes in 1989, these ruling communist parties seemed consigned to oblivion. However, confounding scholarly and popular expectations, all of these parties survived. Some have even returned to power. This in-depth, comparative study systematically analyzes the trajectories of four cases: the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, and Hungary (with additional examination of other communist party successors). Relying on extensive, and unprecedented, primary research, this analysis employs a consistent analytical framework that combines the peculiarities of the post-socialist cases with broad theoretical concerns of institutional analysis, democratic transitions and consolidation, and party politics.},
	author = {Grzymala-Busse, Anna M.}
}
@book {1165876,
	title = {Institutional Change and Political Continuity in Post-Soviet Central Asia: Power, Perceptions, and Pacts},
	year = {2002},
	publisher = {Cambridge University Press},
	organization = {Cambridge University Press},
	address = {Cambridge},
	abstract = {
	The establishment of electoral systems in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan presents both a complex set of empirical puzzles and a theoretical challenge. Why did three states with similar cultural, historical, and structural legacies establish such different electoral systems? How did these distinct outcomes result from strikingly similar institutional design processes? Explaining these puzzles requires understanding not only the outcome of institutional design but also the intricacies of the process that led to this outcome. Moreover, the transitional context in which these three states designed new electoral rules necessitates an approach that explicitly links process and outcome in a dynamic setting. This book provides such an approach. Finally, it both builds on the key insights of the dominant approaches to explaining institutional origin and change and transcends these approaches by moving beyond the structure versus agency debate.

},
	author = {Luong, Pauline Jones}
}
@book {1165801,
	title = {Back-Alley Banking: Private Entrepreneurs in China},
	year = {2002},
	publisher = {Cornell University Press},
	organization = {Cornell University Press},
	address = {Ithaca},
	abstract = {
	Chinese entrepreneurs have founded more than thirty million private businesses since Beijing instituted economic reforms in the late 1970s. Most of these private ventures, however, have been denied access to official sources of credit. State banks continue to serve state-owned enterprises, yet most private financing remains illegal. How have Chinese entrepreneurs managed to fund their operations? In defiance of the national banking laws, small business owners have created a dizzying variety of informal financing mechanisms, including rotating credit associations and private banks disguised as other types of organizations. Back-Alley Banking includes lively biographical sketches of individual entrepreneurs; telling quotations from official documents, policy statements, and newspaper accounts; and interviews with a wide variety of women and men who give vivid narratives of their daily struggles, accomplishments, and hopes for future prosperity. Kellee S. Tsai{\textquoteright}s book draws upon her unparalleled fieldwork in China{\textquoteright}s world of shadow finance to challenge conventional ideas about the political economy of development. Business owners in China, she shows, have mobilized local social and political resources in innovative ways despite the absence of state-directed credit or a well-defined system of private property rights. Entrepreneurs and local officials have been able to draw on the uncertainty of formal political and economic institutions to enhance local prosperity.

},
	author = {Tsai, Kellee S.}
}
@book {1165931,
	title = {Politics after Neoliberalism: Reregulation in Mexico},
	year = {2001},
	publisher = {Cambridge University Press},
	organization = {Cambridge University Press},
	address = {Cambridge},
	abstract = {
	During the past two decades, virtually all developing countries shifted from state-led to market-oriented neoliberal economic policies. This book analyzes fresh evidence from Southern Mexico about the effects of this global wave of policy reforms. The evidence challenges the widely held view that these reforms have set countries on a convergent path toward unregulated markets. The analysis shows that free-market reforms, rather than unleashing market forces, trigger the construction of different types of new regulatory institutions with contrasting consequences for economic efficiency and social justice.

},
	author = {Snyder, Richard}
}
@book {1165856,
	title = {Smokestack Diplomacy: Cooperation and Conflict in East-West Environmental Politics},
	year = {2001},
	publisher = {MIT Press},
	organization = {MIT Press},
	address = {Cambridge},
	abstract = {
	Many environmental problems cross national boundaries and can be addressed only through international cooperation. In this book Robert Darst examines transnational efforts to promote environmental protection in the USSR and in five of its successor states--Russia, Ukraine, and the Baltic republics of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania--from the late 1960s to the present. The core of the book is a comparative study of three key issues: nuclear power safety, transboundary air pollution, and Baltic Sea pollution.Although expectations were high that the end of the Cold War and the breakup of the Soviet Union would lead to increased East-West environmental cooperation, the opposite has been true. Russia and the other successor states have generally agreed to address such problems only when paid to do so. Darst finds that post-Cold War environmental cooperation has been most successful when there is an overlap between the environmental and economic interests of the successor states and those of their Western neighbors, and when the foundation for cooperation was laid during the Cold War period.The book is based on extensive original field research, including interviews with diplomats, government officials, scientists, and environmental activists in the successor states and Western Europe. Its findings underscore the importance of the domestic and international political context in which international environmental policy making occurs. It also deepens our understanding of the opportunities and dangers of positive inducements as a tool of international environmental policy.

},
	author = {Darst, Robert G.}
}
@book {5651,
	title = {Culture Matters: How Values Shape Human Progress},
	year = {2001},
	publisher = {Basic Books},
	organization = {Basic Books},
	address = {New York},
	abstract = {
	The 2000-2001 academic year saw the release of a major publication from the Academy{\textquoteright}s Global Cultures Program. Arising from a 1999 Harvard Academy symposium, Culture Matters: How Values Shape Human Progress was published in 2001 by Basic Books. The book is edited by Lawrence Harrison (an Academy affiliate and author of Underdevelopment is a State of Mind) and Academy Chairman Samuel Huntington.



	Culture Matters examines the question of why some countries and ethnic groups are better off than others, and the role that cultural values play in driving political, economic, and social development. A distinguished group of scholars, journalists, and practitioners looks at the role of culture in developmental contexts across the globe. Among this diverse group of contributors are Francis Fukuyama, Nathan Glazer, Ronald Inglehart, Seymour Martin Lipset, Orlando Patterson, Michael Porter, Jeffrey Sachs, and Richard Shweder. Most of these contributors but not all conclude that cultural values are a powerful factor in promoting development and value change is indispensable to future progress in underdeveloped countries.



	Described as "stunning" by Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Culture Matters was favorably reviewed in such diverse publications as Time, The Wall Street Journal, and Foreign Affairs. It has stimulated extensive discussion in the United States and other countries, been the subject of a long story in The New York Times, and is being translated or has been translated into seven foreign languages.

},
	author = {Lawrence E. Harrison and Huntington, Samuel}
}
@book {5652,
	title = {The Wall Around the West: State Borders and Immigration Controls in North America and Europe},
	year = {2000},
	publisher = {Rowman \& Littlefield},
	organization = {Rowman \& Littlefield},
	address = {Lanham},
	abstract = {
	In 1999, responding to the initiative of Academy Scholars Peter Andreas and Timothy Snyder, the Academy sponsored a project and a conference dealing with the efforts of the United States and Western European countries to control immigration. This resulted in a book, The Wall Around the West: State Borders and Immigration Controls in North America and Europe (Rowman and Littlefield, 2000), edited by Snyder and Andreas.



	In March 2001, the Academy held a symposium on the issues raised by the book. Challenging the conventional wisdom of a "borderless" future, The Wall Around the West demonstrates that, far from disappearing, many borders are being redrawn and reinforced by state regulators. Focusing on economic divides in North America (the southern border of the United States) and Europe (the eastern and southern borders of the European Union), the contributors to the volume show how the regulatory apparatus of the state is being "transformed, not transcended" in such important issue areas as trade, immigration, and drug trafficking. At the March symposium, the editors responded to commentaries on the volume by Academy Senior Scholars Samuel Huntington and John Coatsworth, as well as Academy Scholar Keith Darden.

},
	author = {Andreas, Peter and Timothy Snyder}
}
