The contents of this book: 1. The 1955 System: Origin and Transformation 2. Rearmament Controversis and Cultural Conflict in Japan: The Case of the Conservation 3. The Japan Socialist Party before the Mid-1960s
China’s political and economic growth in the past three decades has been one of astonishing, epochal dimensions. The most remarkable part of this transformation, however, has been left largely untold—the central role of the Chinese Communist Party. McGregor delves deeply into China’s inner sanctum for the first time, showing how the Communist Party controls the government, courts, media, …
This book is the first comprehensive account of the influence of ideology on contemporary British politics. It examines the extent to which parties can be considered to have pursued ideological objectives and presents a sustained analysis of the relationship between theory and practice in British politics.
This book provides an excellent account of how political parties in Western Europe are perceiving and are responding to these contemporary challenges of electoral dealignment. Each chapter employs a common format to present and compare the changing strategies of established parties and party systems in Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, and Ireland. The result is …
In sub-Saharan Africa, property relationships around land and access to natural resources vary across localities, districts, and farming regions. These differences produce patterned variations in relationships between individuals, communities, and the state. This book captures these patterns in an analysis of structure and variation in rural land tenure regimes. In most farming areas, state aut…
This book examines recent humanitarian catastrophes involving such groups and suggests how the society of states may develop a col- lective capacity for human-rights enforcement.
Divine Violence is a major contribution to our understanding of the process by which the State's discourses can elaborate the enemy and thus 'reason' a practice of torture and ritualized destruction of the 'other.' Graziano explains how and why denial underlines this nexus of religious, sexual, and violent impulses in the politics of atrocity. A chilling account.
The breakdown of authoritarian regimes and the transition to more open forms of government and new market structures require extensive change, especially when such shifts lead to the disintegration of previous political, social, and economic systems. In his exploration of the Portuguese case, Lawrence Graham contends that during transitions the absence of a civilian-based opposition movement wi…
Based on a decade of research in Indonesia, this book provides an in-depth account of the military's struggle to adapt to the new democratic system after the downfall of Suharto's authoritarian regime in 1998. Unlike other studies of the Indonesian armed forces, which focus exclusively on internal military developments, Mietzner's study emphasizes the importance of conflicts among civilians in …
This book comprises a set of essays written around the problems and conflicts that inhere in notions of community, nation and nationalism in South Asia, and more particularly India, as seen from the perspective of the closing years of the twentieth century.