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Author : Adnan Naseemullah
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781009158428
Patchwork States argues that patterns of political violence in South Asia are rooted in state-building during and after colonial rule.
Author : Adnan Naseemullah
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781009178037
Patchwork States argues that the subnational politics of conflict and competition in South Asian countries have roots in the history of uneven state formation under colonial rule. Colonial India contained a complex landscape of different governance arrangements and state-society relations. After independence, postcolonial governments revised colonial governance institutions, but only with partial success. The book argues that contemporary India and Pakistan can be usefully understood as patchwork states, with enduring differences in state capacity and state-society relations within their national territories. The complex nature of territorial governance in these countries shapes patterns of political violence, including riots and rebellions, as well as variations in electoral competition and development across the political geography of the Indian subcontinent. By bridging past and present, this book can transform our understanding of both the legacies of colonial rule and the historical roots of violent politics, in South Asia and beyond.
Author : Erin Metz McDonnell
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780691197364
Corruption and ineffectiveness are often expected of public servants in developing countries. However, some groups within these states are distinctly more effective and public oriented than the rest. Why? Patchwork Leviathan explains how a few spectacularly effective state organizations manage to thrive amid general institutional weakness and succeed against impressive odds. Drawing on the Hobbesian image of the state as Leviathan, Erin Metz McDonnell argues that many seemingly weak states actually have a wide range of administrative capacities. Such states are in fact patchworks sewn loosely together from scarce resources into the semblance of unity. McDonnell demonstrates that when the human, cognitive, and material resources of bureaucracy are rare, it is critically important how they are distributed. Too often, scarce bureaucratic resources are scattered throughout the state, yielding little effect. McDonnell reveals how a sufficient concentration of resources clustered within particular pockets of a state can be transformative, enabling distinctively effective organizations to emerge from a sea of ineffectiveness. Patchwork Leviathan offers a comprehensive analysis of successful statecraft in institutionally challenging environments, drawing on cases from contemporary Ghana and Nigeria, mid-twentieth-century Kenya and Brazil, and China in the early twentieth century. Based on nearly two years of pioneering fieldwork in West Africa, this incisive book explains how these highly effective pockets differ from the Western bureaucracies on which so much state and organizational theory is based, providing a fresh answer to why well-funded global capacity-building reforms fail—and how they can do better.
Author : Barbara Bannister,Edna Paris Ford
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1976-06-01
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9780486232430
50 quilt blocks for the 50 states from "Hearth & Home" Magazine.
Author : Eva Fiks
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2024-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781805394655
The public healthcare system in rural India is chronically under-resourced. It embodies and often perpetuates the wider politics of the Indian state towards its rural communities with provisions of care that are deeply entangled with violence and disgust. For rural women, such care deepens reproductive chronicity while providing temporary relief. Grounded in women’s everyday realities and experiences in sterilization camps and other healthcare settings in rural Rajasthan, State Intimacies examines the mundane workings, ambiguities and fragilities of care in post-colonial rural North India.
Author : Dante Chinni,James Gimpel Ph.D.
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781101544563
A revolutionary new way to understand America's complex cultural and political landscape, with proof that local communities have a major impact on the nation's behavior-in the voting booth and beyond. In a climate of culture wars and tremendous economic uncertainty, the media have often reduced America to a simplistic schism between red states and blue states. In response to that oversimplification, journalist Dante Chinni teamed up with political geographer James Gimpel to launch the Patchwork Nation project, using on-the-ground reporting and statistical analysis to get past generalizations and probe American communities in depth. The result is Our Patchwork Nation, a refreshing, sometimes startling, look at how America's diversities often defy conventional wisdom. Looking at the data, they recognized that the country breaks into twelve distinct types of communities, and old categories like "soccer mom" and "working class" don't matter as much as we think. Instead, by examining Boom Towns, Evangelical Epicenters, Military Bastions, Service Worker Centers, Campus and Careers, Immigration Nation, Minority Central, Tractor Community, Mormon Outposts, Emptying Nests, Industrial Metropolises, and Monied Burbs, the authors demonstrate the subtle distinctions in how Americans vote, invest, shop, and otherwise behave, reflect what they experience on their local streets and in their daily lives. Our Patchwork Nation is a brilliant new way to debate and examine the issues that matter most to our communities, and to our nation.
Author : James Graydon Gimpel,Jason E. Schuknecht
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2009-10-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780472022915
The unprecedented geographic and socioeconomic mobility of twentieth-century America was accompanied by a major reshuffling of political support in many parts of the country. Yet at the dawn of the new century these local and regional movements are still poorly understood. How can we account for persistent political regionalism and the sectional changes that have radically altered the nation's political landscape, from the Sun Belt to the Rust Belt? Patchwork Nation retrieves this lost knowledge, restoring geography to its central role in our nation's political behavior. "A primer on the importance of regional identity in the electoral system. ... [A]nyone interested in learning more about how America's diversity drives its political systems would do well to take a spin through Patchwork Nation." ---Meg Kinnard, NationalJournal.com "Location, location, location. What matters in politics is not just who the voters are, but where they are. Just ask Al Gore. Or read this book, a compelling demonstration that geography is often destiny." ---Bill Schneider, Senior Political Analyst, CNN "This accessible and well-written book challenges us to reflect on the role that political context plays in shaping the vote. By tracing how regional politics evolves over time within and across states, Gimpel and Schuknecht have revived the important but often neglected field of political geography." ---Donald Green, Yale University "In the spirit of V. O. Key, Gimpel and Schuknecht make a fundamental contribution. They demonstrate that states and regions are not simply important as units of aggregation, but rather as complex political arenas with profound consequences for processes of democratic politics both within and beyond their boundaries." ---Robert Huckfeldt, University of California, Davis
Author : William R. Kelly
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781538142172
The Crisis in America’s Criminal Courts highlights a variety of problems that judges, prosecutors, and public defenders face within a criminal justice system that is ineffective, unfair, and extraordinarily expensive. While many argue, and author, William R. Kelly, agrees, that crushing caseloads and court dockets certainly qualify as a crisis, Kelly suggests there is a much greater crisis in the courts that results in profound downstream effects on criminal justice performance and outcomes. It sounds simple, but the greatest risk faced by the justice system is the lack of time, expertise, and resources for effective decision-making. In this book, Kelly proposes a variety of evidence-based reforms that, as a start, provide the key decision-makers with professional clinical experts to accurately assess and advice regarding mitigating the circumstances that bring individuals into the courts. We must rebalance. We need incarceration for those who are too dangerous or violent or who are habitual offenders. For most of the rest, we need to manage risk, but very importantly, it is time to get serious about behavioral change. We need to change the culture of the courthouse and reorient how we think about crime and punishment.
Author : Minnesota State Agricultural Society
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : UIUC:30112112104226
Author : New York State Agricultural Society
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 848 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1860
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : PRNC:32101050721826
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Commerce. Subcommittee on Energy and Power
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Law
ISBN : PSU:000032138405
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Environment and Hazardous Materials
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : UOM:39015061594852
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 794 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Mutual security program, 1951-
ISBN : PURD:32754063631372
Author : Jessica Wärnberg
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781639365227
From a bold new historian comes a vibrant history of Rome as seen through its most influential persona throughout the centuries: the pope. Rome is a city of echoes, where the voice of the people has chimed and clashed with the words of princes, emperors, and insurgents across the centuries. In this authoritative new history, Jessica Wärnberg tells the story of Rome’s longest standing figurehead and interlocutor—the pope—revealing how his presence over the centuries has transformed the fate of the city of Rome. Emerging as the anonymous leader of a marginal cult in the humblest quarters of the city, the pope began as the pastor of a maligned and largely foreign flock. Less than 300 years later, he sat enthroned in a lofty, heavily gilt basilica, a religious leader endorsed (and financed) by the emperor himself. Eventually, the Roman pontiff would supplant even the emperors as de facto ruler of Rome and pre-eminent leader of the Christian world. By the nineteenth century, it would take an army to wrest the city from the pontiff’s grip. As the first-ever account of how the popes’ presence has shaped the history of Rome, City of Echoes not only illuminates the lives of the remarkable (and unremarkable) men who have sat on the throne of Saint Peter, but also reveals the bold and curious actions of the men, women, and children who have shaped the city with them, from antiquity to today. In doing so, the book tells the history of Rome as it has never been told before. During the course of this fascinating story, City of Echoes also answers a compelling question: how did a man—and institution—whose authority rested on the blood and bones of martyrs defeat emperors, revolutionaries, and fascists to give Rome its most enduring identity?
Author : Michigan. State Board of Agriculture
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 746 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : UCAL:B2963132
