Property Power And Politics

Author : Robé, Jean-Philippe
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-05
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781529213188

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Property, Power and Politics by Robé, Jean-Philippe Pdf

Globalization is an extraordinary phenomenon affecting virtually everything in our lives. And it is imperative that we understand the operation of economic power in a globalized world if we are to address the most challenging issues our world is facing today, from climate change to world hunger and poverty. This revolutionary work rethinks globalization as a power system feeding from, and in competition with, the state system. Cutting across disciplines of law, politics and economics, it explores how multinational enterprises morphed into world political organisations with global reach and power, but without the corresponding responsibilities. In illuminating how the concentration of property rights within corporations has led to the rejection of democracy as an ineffective system of government and to the rise in inequality, Robé offers a clear pathway to a fairer and more sustainable power system.

Author : Robé, Jean-Philippe
Publisher : Bristol University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-05
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781529213164

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Property, Power and Politics by Robé, Jean-Philippe Pdf

Globalization is an extraordinary phenomenon affecting virtually everything in our lives. And it is imperative that we understand the operation of economic power in a globalized world if we are to address the most challenging issues our world is facing today, from climate change to world hunger and poverty. This revolutionary work rethinks globalization as a power system feeding from, and in competition with, the state system. Cutting across disciplines of law, politics and economics, it explores how multinational enterprises morphed into world political organisations with global reach and power, but without the corresponding responsibilities. In illuminating how the concentration of property rights within corporations has led to the rejection of democracy as an ineffective system of government and to the rise in inequality, Robé offers a clear pathway to a fairer and more sustainable power system.

Author : Rachel E. Brulé
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108835824

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Women, Power, and Property by Rachel E. Brulé Pdf

Cutting-edge research from India finds bargaining power predicts whether electoral quotas can empower women to upend economic inequality.

Author : Lynn Staeheli,Donald Mitchell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-06
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781135917098

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The People's Property? by Lynn Staeheli,Donald Mitchell Pdf

The People’s Property? is the first book-length scholarly examination of how negotiations over the ownership, control, and peopling of public space are central to the development of publicity, citizenship, and democracy in urban areas. The book asks the questions: Why does it matter who owns public property? Who controls it? Who is in it? Donald Mitchell and Lynn A. Staeheli answer the questions by focusing on the interplay between property (in its geographical sense, as a parcel of owned space) and people. Property rights are often defined as the "right to exclude." It is important, therefore, to understand who (what individual and corporate entities, governed by what kinds of regulations and restrictions) owns publicly accessible property. It is likewise important to understand the changing bases for excluding some people and classes of people from otherwise publicly accessible property. That is to say, it is important to understand how modes of access and possibilities for association in publicly accessible space vary for different individuals and different classes of people, if we are to understand the role public spaces play in shaping democratic possibilities. In what ways are urban public spaces "the people’s property" – and in what ways are they not? What does this mean for citizenship and the constitution of an inclusive, democratic polity? The book develops its argument through five case studies: protest in Washington DC; struggles over the Plaza of Santa Fe, NM; homelessness and property redevelopment in San Diego, CA; the enclosure of public space in a mall in Syracuse, NY; and community gardens in New York City. Though empirically focused on the US, the book is of broader interests as publics in all liberal democracies are under-going rapid reconsideration and transformation.

Author : Thomas Sikor,Christian Lund
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1444322915

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The Politics of Possession by Thomas Sikor,Christian Lund Pdf

The Politics of Possession investigates how struggles overaccess to resources and political power constitute property andauthority recursively. Such dynamics are integral to stateformation in societies characterized by normative and legalpluralism. Includes some of the latest theoretical work on the dynamics ofaccess and property and how they are joined to questions of powerand authority Explores how access to resources is often contested and rifewith conflict, particularly in post-colonial and post-socialistcountries Offers a thought-provoking approach to the study of everydayprocesses of state formation Shows how the process of seeking authorization for propertyclaims works to legitimize the authorizers, and the effortsundertaken by politico-legal institutions to gain legitimacyunderpin and undermine various claims of access and property Contributors explore from a wide empirical compass of originalresearch spanning Latin America, Africa, South-East Asia, andEastern Europe

Author : Susan K. Sell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 052152539X

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Private Power, Public Law by Susan K. Sell Pdf

Analysis of the power of multinational corporations in moulding international law on intellectual property rights.

Author : Wendy Davies,Paul Fouracre
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2002-08-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521522250

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Property and Power in the Early Middle Ages by Wendy Davies,Paul Fouracre Pdf

A collection of original essays on the relationship between property and power in early medieval Europe.

Author : Lynn A. Staeheli,Don Mitchell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Community power
ISBN : UCSC:32106019119327

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The People's Property? by Lynn A. Staeheli,Don Mitchell Pdf

Chapter 6 Placing the Public: Discourses of Publicity and Practices of Property -- Chapter 7 Power, Politics, and Regimes of Publicity -- Postscript: Interventions -- Methodological Appendix -- References -- Court Cases Cited -- Index

Author : Richard A. Epstein
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780674036550

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Takings by Richard A. Epstein Pdf

If legal scholar Richard Epstein is right, then the New Deal is wrong, if not unconstitutional. Epstein reaches this sweeping conclusion after making a detailed analysis of the eminent domain, or takings, clause of the Constitution, which states that private property shall not be taken for public use without just compensation. In contrast to the other guarantees in the Bill of Rights, the eminent domain clause has been interpreted narrowly. It has been invoked to force the government to compensate a citizen when his land is taken to build a post office, but not when its value is diminished by a comprehensive zoning ordinance. Epstein argues that this narrow interpretation is inconsistent with the language of the takings clause and the political theory that animates it. He develops a coherent normative theory that permits us to distinguish between permissible takings for public use and impermissible ones. He then examines a wide range of government regulations and taxes under a single comprehensive theory. He asks four questions: What constitutes a taking of private property? When is that taking justified without compensation under the police power? When is a taking for public use? And when is a taking compensated, in cash or in kind? Zoning, rent control, progressive and special taxes, workers’ compensation, and bankruptcy are only a few of the programs analyzed within this framework. Epstein’s theory casts doubt upon the established view today that the redistribution of wealth is a proper function of government. Throughout the book he uses recent developments in law and economics and the theory of collective choice to find in the eminent domain clause a theory of political obligation that he claims is superior to any of its modern rivals.

Author : Christian Lund
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2010-03-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521148510

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Local Politics and the Dynamics of Property in Africa by Christian Lund Pdf

Access to land and property is vital to people's livelihoods in rural, peri-urban, and urban areas in Africa. People exert tremendous energy and imagination to have land claims recognized as rights with a variety of political, administrative, and legal institutions. This book is dedicated to a detailed analysis of how public authority and the state are formed through debates and struggles over property in the Upper East Region of Ghana. While scarcity may indeed promote exclusivity, the evidence from this book shows that when there are many institutions competing for the right to authorize claims to land, the result of an effort to unify and clarify the law is to intensify competition among them and weaken their legitimacy. The book particularly explores how state divestiture of land in 1979 encouraged competition between customary authorities and how the institution of the earthpriest was revived. Such processes are key to understanding property and authority in Africa.

Author : Mathew Lawrence,Adrienne Buller
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781839765803

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Owning the Future by Mathew Lawrence,Adrienne Buller Pdf

A radical manifesto for the transformation of post-pandemic politics The question of ownership is the critical fault line of our times. During the pandemic this issue has only become more divisive. Since March 2020 we have witnessed the extraordinary growth of asset manager capitalism and the explosive concentration of wealth within the hands of the already super-rich. This new oligarchy controls every part of our social and economics lives. In the face of crisis, the authors warn that mere redistribution within current forms of ownership is not enough; our goal must be to go beyond the limits of the current system, dominated by private enclosure and unequal ownership. Only by reimagining how our economy is owned and by whom can we address the crises of our time - from the fallout of the pandemic to ecological collapse - at their roots. Building from this insight, the authors argue the systemic change we need hinges on a new era of democratic ownership: a reinvention of the firm as a vehicle for collective endeavour and meeting social needs. Against the new oligarchy of the platform giants, a digital commons that uses our data for collective good, not private profit. In place of environmental devastation, a new agenda of decommodification - of both nature and needs - with a Green New Deal and collective stewardship of the planet’s natural wealth. Together, these proposals offer a road map to owning the future, and building a better world.

Author : Hue-Tam Ho Tai,Mark Sidel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780415626255

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State, Society and the Market in Contemporary Vietnam by Hue-Tam Ho Tai,Mark Sidel Pdf

Lively debates around property, access to resources, legal rights, and the protection of livelihoods have unfolded in Vietnam since the economic reforms of 1986. Known as Doi Moi (changing to the new), these have gradually transformed the country from a socialist state to a society in which a communist party presides over a neoliberal economy. By exploring the complex relationship between property, the state, society, and the market, this book demonstrates how both developmental issues and state-society relations in Vietnam can be explored through the prism of property relations and property rights. The essays in this collection demonstrate how negotiations over property are deeply enmeshed with dynamics of state formation, and covers debates over the role of the state and its relationship to various levels of society, the intrusion of global forces into the lives of marginalized communities and individuals, and how community norms and standards shape and reshape national policy and laws. With contributors from around the world, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of East and Southeast Asian studies, including politics, culture, society, and law, as well as those interested in the role of the state and property relations more generally.

Author : James Simmie
Publisher : MacMillan
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015004817956

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Power, Property, and Corporatism by James Simmie Pdf

Author : David McCrone,Brian Elliott
Publisher : Springer
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1989-06-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781349037742

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Property and Power in a City by David McCrone,Brian Elliott Pdf

A study of the way landlordism has operated in Edinburgh over the past 100 years. It examines the type of people who have profited from this type of investment and the way they have influenced the city's politics. It is argued that in the long run this is a most destructive form of capitalism.

Author : Jennifer Nedelsky
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1994-06-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780226569710

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Private Property and the Limits of American Constitutionalism by Jennifer Nedelsky Pdf

Federalists vision of the Constitution; an interdisciplinary investigation.