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  • MPI Ethno. Forsch.  (16)
  • Oxford University Press  (12)
  • Hickey, Sam  (4)
  • Chandler, Daniel
  • Oxford : Oxford University Press  (16)
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  • 1
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (304 p.)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Pockets of effectiveness and the politics of state-building and development in Africa
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    Keywords: Politik ; Öffentliche Verwaltung ; Bürokratie ; Erfolgsfaktor ; Nationenbildung ; Entwicklung ; Ghana ; Kenia ; Ruanda ; Sambia ; Uganda ; Nationenbildung ; Staat ; Funktion ; Fähigkeit ; Sozioökonomischer Wandel ; Politischer Wandel ; Effektivität ; Beispiel ; Development studies ; Political economy ; Public administration ; Africa ; Afrika ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Fallstudiensammlung
    Abstract: Why do certain parts of the state in Africa work so effectively despite operating in difficult governance contexts? How do 'pockets of bureaucratic effectiveness' emerge and become sustained over time? And what does this tell us about the prospects for state-building and development in Africa? Repeated economic and social crises have demanded that development thinkers and policy actors have had to engage with the critical role that states play in delivering development. Pockets of Effectiveness and the Politics of State-building and Development in Africa shows that politics is the driving factor that shapes how well state agencies perform their roles. It deploys a new conceptual framework – the power domains approach – to explore the shifting fortunes of key state agencies in five countries – Ghana, Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, and Zambia – over the past three decades. Our original research reveals when, how and why political rulers decide to build effective state agencies and enable them to deliver certain forms of economic development – often through forming strategic coalitions with senior bureaucrats and with international support – and also when this support falters and gives way to a politics of survival. Comparative analysis identifies two potential trajectories towards state-building in Africa, each shaped by different configurations of social and political power. The book critiques the role that international development agencies have played in (mis)shaping the state in Africa and suggests a new strategic agenda for building the state capacities required to deliver sustained development at the current juncture. The book closes with critical commentaries from two leading scholars in the field, to help place our work in context and establish the next steps for research and strategy in this increasingly important area of development theory and practice
    Note: English
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  • 2
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (272 p.)
    Keywords: Political economy ; Development economics & emerging economies ; Economic systems & structures
    Abstract: Few concepts have captured the imagination of the conflict and development communities in recent years as powerfully as the idea of a 'political settlement'. At its most ambitious, 'political settlements analysis' (PSA) promises to explain why conflicts occur and states collapse, the conditions for their successful rehabilitation, different developmental pathways from peace, and how to better fit development policy to country context. Yet despite the meteoric rise of the term and its tremendous promise, not all is well in the world of PSA. Rival definitions of the concept abound; there are disagreements about its scope and the way it should be used; a growing schism between conflict specialists and economists; basic concepts are ambiguous; and little progress has been made on measurement. This book consequently has three main aims. The first is to argue for a revised definition of a political settlement, capable of unifying its diverse strands. The second is to put the concept on a more solid theoretical and scientific footing, providing a method for measuring and categorizing political settlements, using both qualitative case studies and a large-n statistical analysis to illustrate its potential. And the third is to examine the implications of the findings for mainstream social science analysis and for policymakers
    Note: English
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  • 3
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    Book
    Oxford : Oxford University Press
    ISBN: 9780198791355 , 9780198791362
    Language: English
    Pages: xxviii, 928 Seiten
    Edition: First edition
    Uniform Title: Rechtsvergleichung
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Kischel, Uwe, 1964 - Comparative law
    DDC: 340.2
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    Keywords: Lehrbuch ; Rechtsvergleich ; Rechtsvergleich
    Abstract: Uwe Kischel's comprehensive treatise on comparative law offers a critical introduction to the central tenets of comparative legal scholarship. The first part of the book is dedicated to general aspects of comparative law. The controversial question of methods, in particular, is addressed by explaining and discussing different approaches, and by developing a contextual approach that seeks to engage with real-world issues and give a practitioner's angle on contemporary comparative legal scholarship. The second part of the book offers a detailed treatment of the major legal contexts across the globe, including common law, civil law systems (based on Germany and France as well as case studies of Eastern Europe, Scandinavia, and Latin America, among others), the African context (with an emphasis on customary law), Asian jurisdictions, Islamic law and law in Islamic countries (plus a brief treatment of Jewish law and canon law), and transnational contexts (public international law, European Union law, and lex mercatoria). The book offers a coherent treatment of global legal systems that aims not only to describe their varying norms and legal institutions but to propose a better way of seeking to understand how the overall context of legal systems influences legal thinking and legal practice.
    Note: Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke
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  • 4
    ISBN: 9780198835684
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (256 p.)
    Keywords: Economics ; Development economics & emerging economies ; Education ; Politics & government
    Abstract: This book examines the politics of the learning crisis in the global South, where learning outcomes have stagnated or worsened, despite progress towards Universal Primary Education since the 1990s. Comparative analysis of education reform in Bangladesh, Cambodia, Ghana, Rwanda, South Africa, and Uganda highlights systemic failure on the frontline of education service delivery, driven by deeper crises of policymaking and implementation: few governments try to raise educational standards with any conviction, and education bureaucracies are unable to deliver even those learning reforms that get through the policy process. Introductory chapters develop a theoretical framework within which to examine the critical features of the politics of education. Case study chapters demonstrate that political settlements, or the balance of power between contending social groups, shape the extent to which elites commit to adopting and implementing reforms aimed at improving learning outcomes, and the nature this influence takes. Informal politics and power relations can generate incentives that undermine rather than support elite commitment to development, politicizing the provision of education. Tracing reform processes from their policy origins down to the frontline, it seems that successful schools emerged as localized solutions to specific solutions, often against the grain of dysfunctional sectoral arrangements and the national-level political settlement, but with local political backing. The book concludes with discussion of the need for more politically attuned approaches that focus on building coalitions for change and supporting ‘best-fit’ types of problem-solving fixes, rather than calling for systemic change
    Note: English
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  • 5
    ISBN: 9780198850342
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (310 p.)
    Keywords: Economics ; Political economy ; Welfare economics ; Development economics & emerging economies
    Abstract: The notion that social protection should be a key strategy for reducing poverty in developing countries has now been mainstreamed within international development policy and practice. Promoted as an integral dimension of the post-Washington Consensus that emerged around the turn of the new millennium, all major international development agencies and bilateral donors now include a strong focus on social protection in their advocacy and programmatic interventions, and a commitment to providing social protection was recently enshrined within the Sustainable Development Goals. The rhetoric around social protection, particularly when delivered in the form of cash transfers, has sometimes reached hyperbolic proportions, with advocates seeing it as a silver bullet that can tackle multi-dimensional problems of poverty, vulnerability, and inequality and a southern-led success story that challenges the unequal power relations inherent within international aid. This book examines how the operation of power and politics at multiple levels of governance shapes the extent to which political elites are committed to social protection, the form this commitment takes, and the implications this has not only for the future shape of welfare regimes but also for state–citizen relations on the continent. With a particular focus on cash transfers, the chapters set out how the politics of promoting social protection has played out in countries from all regions of sub-Saharan Africa. The power relations we examine include those that operate within and amongst global development agencies, between global actors and political and bureaucratic elites, and between and amongst political and bureaucratic elites within Africa
    Note: English
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  • 6
    ISBN: 9780198827405
    Language: English
    Pages: xxix, 535 Seiten , 25 cm
    Edition: First published in paperback
    Series Statement: Oxford commentaries on international law
    DDC: 341.48
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    Keywords: International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination ; Race discrimination Law and legislation ; Kommentar ; International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (1965 December 21)
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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  • 7
    ISBN: 9780198797203
    Language: English
    Pages: xviii, 633 Seiten , Diagramme, Karten , 28 cm
    Edition: First edition
    Series Statement: Oxford handbooks
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The Oxford handbook of governance and limited statehood
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The Oxford handbook of governance and limited statehood
    DDC: 306.2
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    Keywords: Public institutions ; Legitimacy of governments ; Non-state actors (International relations) ; Governance ; Failed State ; Begrenzte Staatlichkeit ; Staat ; Staatslehre ; Herrschaft ; Herrschaftssystem ; Geschichte ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Begrenzte Staatlichkeit ; Governance ; Öffentliche Einrichtung ; Legitimität ; Nichtstaatlicher Akteur ; Internationale Politik ; Staatslehre ; Governance ; Politisches System ; Handbuch ; Nachschlagewerk
    Abstract: The Handbook gives a comprehensive picture of the varieties of governance in areas of limited statehood from interdisciplinary perspectives including political science, geography, history, law, and economics. 29 chapters review the academic scholarship and explore the conditions of effective and legitimate governance in areas of limited statehood, as well as its implications for world politics in the twenty-first century. The authors examine theoretical and methodological approaches as well as historical and spatial dimensions of areas of limited statehood, and deal with the various governors as well as their modes of governance. They cover a variety of issue areas and explore the implications for the international legal order, for normative theory, and for policies toward areas of limited statehood
    Note: Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke , Literaturangaben , Governance in areas of limited statehood : conceptual clarifications and major contributions of the handbook , Theories of development and areas of limited statehood , A historical-sociological perspective on statehood , Anthropological perspectives on the limits of the state , Critical approaches , Measuring governance and limited statehood , Histories of governance , A global history of governance , Geographies of limited statehood , External state actors , INGOs and multi-stakeholder partnerships , 'Traditional' authorities , Business , Violent and criminal non-state actors , Coercion and trusteeship , Hierarchical and non-hierarchical coordination , Brokerage, intermediation, translation , Social trust , Security , Foreign aid , Human rights, the rule of law, and democracy , Health , Food security , Education , Environmental and natural resources , Migration , International legal order , Normative political theory , Policy
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  • 8
    Book
    Book
    Oxford : Oxford University Press
    ISBN: 9780199570195
    Language: English
    Pages: viii, 373 Seiten , 24 cm
    Edition: First edition
    Series Statement: Criminalization
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Duff, Antony, 1945 - The realm of criminal law
    DDC: 300
    Keywords: Criminal law ; Criminal law Philosophy ; Criminal law Social aspects
    Abstract: We are said to face a crisis of over-criminalization: our criminal law has become chaotic, unprincipled, and over-expansive. This book proposes a theory of criminal law, as an institution that can play an important but limited role in the civil order of a political community: it shows how criminal law could be ordered, principled, and restrained
    Note: Bibliographie: Seite 335-354. - Index: Seite 355-373
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  • 9
    ISBN: 9780198819981 , 9780198819974
    Language: English
    Pages: xviii, 312 Seiten , Diagramme , 24 cm
    Edition: First edition
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Zürn, Michael, 1959 - A theory of global governance
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Zürn, Michael, 1959 - A theory of global governance
    DDC: 341.2
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    Keywords: International organization ; International cooperation ; International cooperation ; International organization ; International cooperation ; International organization ; Global Governance ; Weltpolitik ; Internationale Organisation
    Abstract: This book offers a major new theory of global governance, explaining both its rise and what many see as its current crisis. The author suggests that world politics is now embedded in a normative and institutional structure dominated by hierarchies and power inequalities and therefore inherently creates contestation, resistance, and distributional struggles. Within an ambitious and systematic new conceptual framework, the theory makes four key contributions. Firstly, it reconstructs global governance as a political system which builds on normative principles and reflexive authorities. Second, it identifies the central legitimation problems of the global governance system with a constitutionalist setting in mind. Third, it explains the rise of state and societal contestation by identifying key endogenous dynamics and probing the causal mechanisms that produced them. Finally, it identifies the conditions under which struggles in the global governance system lead to decline or deepening. Rich with propositions, insights, and evidence, the book promises to be the most important and comprehensive theoretical argument about world politics of the 21st century.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis Seite 267-307, Register
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  • 10
    ISBN: 9780198803164 , 9780198847083
    Language: English
    Pages: xxxix, 973 Seiten , 25 cm
    Edition: Second edition
    Series Statement: Oxford handbooks
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The Oxford handbook on the United Nations
    DDC: 341.2309
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    Keywords: Vereinte Nationen ; United Nations Handbooks, manuals, etc ; United Nations History ; Internationale Organisation ; Vereinte Nationen ; UN ; Internationale Politik ; Internationale Organisation ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Vereinte Nationen
    Note: Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke
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  • 11
    ISBN: 9780198713197
    Language: English
    Pages: xiii, 775 Seiten
    Edition: First edition
    Series Statement: Oxford handbooks
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 321.0309
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    Keywords: Decolonization History 20th century ; Imperialism History 20th century ; World politics 20th century ; Imperialism ; Decolonization ; World politics ; Politics and Government ; Politics and Government ; General & world history ; History ; Colonialism & imperialism ; National liberation & independence, post-colonialism ; Politics & government ; History ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Imperialismus ; Kolonialismus ; Entkolonialisierung ; Geschichte 1900-2000
    Abstract: 1.Rethinking decolonization: A New Research Agenda for the 21st Century /Martin Thomas and Andrew S, Thompson --2.1918 and the End of Europe's Land Empires /Robert Gerwarth --3.An Empire Unredeemed: Tracing the Ottoman State's Path towards Collapse /Ryan Gingeras --Part I. National perspectives.4.Britain and decolonization in an era of global change /Sarah Elizabeth Stockwell --5.France: the longue durée of French decolonization /Emmanuelle Saada --6.The first postcolonial national in Europe? the end of the German empire /Andreas Eckert --7.Exceptional Italy? the many ends of the Italian colonial empire /Nicola Labanca --8.Après nous, le déluge: Belgium, decolonization , and the Congo /Matthew G. Stanard --9.Portugal: decolonization without agency /Norrie MacQueen --10.The collapse of the Romanov empire /Alexey Miller --11.Empire by imitation? US economic imperialism within a British world system /Marc-William Palen --12.Rethinking empire: lessons from imperial and post-imperial Japan /Louise Young --13.The eclipse of empire in China: from the Manchus to Mao /Tehyun Ma --Part II. Regional perspectives.14.Decolonization in South Asia: the long view /Joya Chatterji --15.Global wars and decolonization in East and South-East Asia (1937-1954) /Christopher Goscha --16.The end of empire in the Maghreb: the common heritage and distinct destinies of Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia /Sylvie Thénault --17.Decolonization in tropical Africa /Frederick Cooper --18.The Caribbean in an international and regional context: revolution, neo-colonialism, and diaspora /Spencer Mawby --19.Eastern Europe in the global history of decolonization /James Mark and Quinn Slobodian --20.Decolonization and the arid world /Robert S. G. Fletcher --21.The open ends of the Dutch empire and the Indonesian past: sites, scholarly networks, and moral geographies of Greater India across decolonization /Marieke Bloembergen --Part III. Thematic perspectives.22.Self-determination and decolonization /Brad Simpson --23.Anti-colonialism: origins, practices, and historical legacies /Christopher J. Lee --24.Unravelling the relationships between humanitarianism, human rights, and decolonization: time for a radical rethink? /Andrew S. Thompson --25.Decolonization and the Cold War /Piero Gleijeses --26.Violence, insurgency, and the end of empires /Martin Thomas --27.Nationalism, development, and welfare colonialism: gender and the dynamics of decolonization /Barbara Bush --28.Repressive developmentalism: idioms, repertoires, and trajectories in late colonialism /Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo --29.Islamic revolutionaries and the end of empire /David Motadel --30.Refugees and the end of empire /Panikos Panayi --Part IV. Legacies and memories.31.Postcolonial migrations to Europe /Elizabeth Buettner --32.Beyond dependency: north-south relationships in the age of development /Joseph Morgan Hodge --33.Imperial business interests, decolonization, and post-colonial diversification /Nicholas J. White --34.Film and the end of empire: deconstructing and reconstructing colonial pasts and their legacy in world cinemas /Paul Cooke --35.Remnants of empire /Michael J. Parsons --36.Literature and decolonization /Charles Forsdick --37.Apologies, restitutions, and compensation: making reparations for colonialism /Robert Aldrich.
    Abstract: The Oxford Handbook of the Ends of Empire offers the most comprehensive treatment of the causes, course, and consequences of the ends of empire in the twentieth century. The volume's contributors convey the global reach of decolonization, with chapters analysing the empires of Western Europe, Eastern Europe, China and Japan. The Handbook combines broad, regional treatments of decolonization with chapter contributions constructed around particular themes or social issues. It considers how the history of decolonization is being rethought as a result of the rise of the 'new' imperial history, and its emphasis on race, gender, and culture, as well as the more recent growth of interest in histories of globalization, transnational history, and histories of migration and diaspora, humanitarianism and development,0and human rights. The Handbook, in other words, seeks to identify the processes and commonalities of experience that make decolonization a unique historical phenomenon with a lasting resonance. In light of decades of historical and social scientific scholarship on modernization, dependency, neo-colonialism, 'failed state' architectures and post-colonial conflict, the obvious question that begs itself is 'when did empires actually end?' In seeking to unravel this most basic dilemma the Handbook explores the relationship between the study of decolonization and the study of globalization. It connects histories of the late-colonial and post-colonial worlds, and considers the legacies of empire in European and formerly colonised societies
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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  • 12
    ISBN: 9780199672653
    Language: English
    Pages: xv, 1051 Seiten
    Edition: First published in paperback
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The Oxford handbook of European Union law
    DDC: 341.2422
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    Keywords: Law ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Europäische Union ; Recht ; Europäische Union ; Recht
    Note: "First published 2015. First published in paperback 2017" - Rückseite Titelseite , Literaturangaben
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  • 13
    Book
    Book
    Oxford : Oxford University Press
    ISBN: 9780199689682
    Language: English
    Pages: xv, 232 Seiten
    Edition: First edition
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Norton, Jane Calderwood Freedom of religious organizations
    DDC: 344/.096
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    Keywords: Corporations, Religious Law and legislation ; Religious institutions Law and legislation ; Freedom of religion ; Religion and law England ; Religious law and legislation England ; Ecclesiastical law England ; Großbritannien ; Religiöse Einrichtung ; Religionsfreiheit
    Abstract: Introduction -- Membership -- Employment -- Property disputes -- The family -- Goods and services -- Conclusion
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 219-230
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  • 14
    ISBN: 9780199597253 , 9780198820567
    Language: English
    Pages: xxv, 777 Seiten , Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karten , 26 cm
    Edition: First edition
    Series Statement: Oxford handbooks
    Angaben zur Quelle: Volume 1
    Keywords: Europe History 1492-1648 ; Europe History 1648-1789 ; Europe History 15th century ; Europe History 14th century
    Note: Haupttitel der Reihe auf der hinteren Klappe des losen Schutzumschlags , Literaturangaben , Mit Registern
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  • 15
    Language: English
    Pages: 2 Bände
    Series Statement: Oxford handbooks
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    Keywords: Europe History 1492-1648 ; Europe History 1648-1789 ; Europe History 15th century ; Europe History 14th century ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Europa ; Geschichte 1350-1750
    Description / Table of Contents: volume 1. Peoples and place -- volume 2. Cultures and power
    Note: Erschienen: Volume 1-2 , Mehr nicht erschienen , Haupttitel der Reihe auf der hinteren Klappe des losen Schutzumschlags
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  • 16
    ISBN: 9780199597260 , 9780198820574
    Language: English
    Pages: xxiii, 735 Seiten , Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karten , 26 cm
    Edition: First edition
    Series Statement: Oxford handbooks
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Cultures and power
    Angaben zur Quelle: Volume 2
    Keywords: Europe History 1492-1648 ; Europe History 1648-1789 ; Europe History 15th century ; Europe History 14th century
    Note: Haupttitel der Reihe auf der hinteren Klappe des losen Schutzumschlags , Literaturangaben , Mit Registern , Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke
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