Political Order and Inequality - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Political Order and Inequality write by Carles Boix. This book was released on 2015-02-23. Political Order and Inequality available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The fundamental question of political theory, one that precedes all other questions about the nature of political life, is why there is a state at all. This book describes the foundations of stateless societies, why and how states emerge, and the basis of political obligation.
The First Political Order
The First Political Order - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The First Political Order write by Valerie M. Hudson. This book was released on 2020-03-17. The First Political Order available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Global history records an astonishing variety of forms of social organization. Yet almost universally, males subordinate females. How does the relationship between men and women shape the wider political order? The First Political Order is a groundbreaking demonstration that the persistent and systematic subordination of women underlies all other institutions, with wide-ranging implications for global security and development. Incorporating research findings spanning a variety of social science disciplines and comprehensive empirical data detailing the status of women around the globe, the book shows that female subordination functions almost as a curse upon nations. A society’s choice to subjugate women has significant negative consequences: worse governance, worse conflict, worse stability, worse economic performance, worse food security, worse health, worse demographic problems, worse environmental protection, and worse social progress. Yet despite the pervasive power of social and political structures that subordinate women, history—and the data—reveal possibilities for progress. The First Political Order shows that when steps are taken to reduce the hold of inequitable laws, customs, and practices, outcomes for all improve. It offers a new paradigm for understanding insecurity, instability, autocracy, and violence, explaining what the international community can do now to promote more equitable relations between men and women and, thereby, security and peace. With comprehensive empirical evidence of the wide-ranging harm of subjugating women, it is an important book for security scholars, social scientists, policy makers, historians, and advocates for women worldwide.
Class Inequality and Political Order
Class Inequality and Political Order - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Class Inequality and Political Order write by Frank Parkin. This book was released on 1972. Class Inequality and Political Order available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Affluence and Influence
Affluence and Influence - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Affluence and Influence write by Martin Gilens. This book was released on 2012-07-22. Affluence and Influence available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Why policymaking in the United States privileges the rich over the poor Can a country be a democracy if its government only responds to the preferences of the rich? In an ideal democracy, all citizens should have equal influence on government policy—but as this book demonstrates, America's policymakers respond almost exclusively to the preferences of the economically advantaged. Affluence and Influence definitively explores how political inequality in the United States has evolved over the last several decades and how this growing disparity has been shaped by interest groups, parties, and elections. With sharp analysis and an impressive range of data, Martin Gilens looks at thousands of proposed policy changes, and the degree of support for each among poor, middle-class, and affluent Americans. His findings are staggering: when preferences of low- or middle-income Americans diverge from those of the affluent, there is virtually no relationship between policy outcomes and the desires of less advantaged groups. In contrast, affluent Americans' preferences exhibit a substantial relationship with policy outcomes whether their preferences are shared by lower-income groups or not. Gilens shows that representational inequality is spread widely across different policy domains and time periods. Yet Gilens also shows that under specific circumstances the preferences of the middle class and, to a lesser extent, the poor, do seem to matter. In particular, impending elections—especially presidential elections—and an even partisan division in Congress mitigate representational inequality and boost responsiveness to the preferences of the broader public. At a time when economic and political inequality in the United States only continues to rise, Affluence and Influence raises important questions about whether American democracy is truly responding to the needs of all its citizens.
The Origins of Political Order
The Origins of Political Order - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Origins of Political Order write by Francis Fukuyama. This book was released on 2011-05-12. The Origins of Political Order available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Nations are not trapped by their pasts, but events that happened hundreds or even thousands of years ago continue to exert huge influence on present-day politics. If we are to understand the politics that we now take for granted, we need to understand its origins. Francis Fukuyama examines the paths that different societies have taken to reach their current forms of political order. This book starts with the very beginning of mankind and comes right up to the eve of the French and American revolutions, spanning such diverse disciplines as economics, anthropology and geography. The Origins of Political Order is a magisterial study on the emergence of mankind as a political animal, by one of the most eminent political thinkers writing today.
