Property, Power and Politics - 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 Property, Power and Politics write by Robé, Jean-Philippe. This book was released on 2020-10-05. Property, Power and Politics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Power over Property
Power over Property - 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 Power over Property write by Matthew Noellert. This book was released on 2020-10-13. Power over Property available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Following the end of World War II in 1945, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) spent the next three decades carrying out agrarian reform among nearly one-third of the world’s peasants. This book presents a new perspective on the first step of this reform, when the CCP helped redistribute over 40 million hectares of land to over three hundred million impoverished peasants in the nationwide land reform movement. This land reform, the founding myth of the People’s Republic of China (1949–present) and one of the largest redistributions of wealth and power in history, embodies the idea that an equal distribution of property will lead to social and political equality. Power Over Property argues that in practice, however, the opposite occurred: the redistribution of political power led to a more equal distribution of property. China’s land reform was accomplished not only through the state’s power to define the distribution of resources, but also through village communities prioritizing political entitlements above property rights. Through the systematic analysis of never-before studied micro-level data on practices of land reform in over five hundred villages, Power Over Property demonstrates how land reform primarily involved the removal of former power holders, the mobilization of mass political participation, and the creation of a new social-political hierarchy. Only after accomplishing all of this was it possible to redistribute land. This redistribution, moreover, was determined by political relations to a new structure of power, not just economic relations to the means of production. The experience of China’s land reform complicates our understanding of the relations between economic, social, and political equality. On the one hand, social equality in China was achieved through political, not economic means. On the other hand, the fundamental solution was a more effective hierarchy of fair entitlements, not equal rights. This book ultimately suggests that focusing on economic equality alone may obscure more important social and political dynamics in the development of the modern world.
Women, Power, and Property
Women, Power, and Property - 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 Women, Power, and Property write by Rachel E. Brulé. This book was released on 2020-10-22. Women, Power, and Property available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Quotas for women in government have swept the globe. Yet we know little about their capacity to upend entrenched social, political, and economic hierarchies. Women, Power, and Property explores this question within the context of India, the world's largest democracy. Brulé employs a research design that maximizes causal inference alongside extensive field research to explain the relationship between political representation, backlash, and economic empowerment. Her findings show that women in government – gatekeepers – catalyze access to fundamental economic rights to property. Women in politics have the power to support constituent rights at critical junctures, such as marriage negotiations, when they can strike integrative solutions to intrahousehold bargaining. Yet there is a paradox: quotas are essential for enforcement of rights, but they generate backlash against women who gain rights without bargaining leverage. In this groundbreaking study, Brulé shows how well-designed quotas can operate as a crucial tool to foster equality and benefit the women they are meant to empower.
Property and Power in Social Theory
Property and Power in Social Theory - 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 Property and Power in Social Theory write by Dick Pels. This book was released on 2002-08-26. Property and Power in Social Theory available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Property and power perform a key role in social and political theories of class inequality and social stratification, however, theorists have yet clearly to define these concepts, their mutual boundaries and scopes of application. This book answers the property/power puzzle by undertaking a broad historical inquiry into its intellectual origins and present-day effects through a series of case studies, including: Marxism vs. anarchism * the fascist assertion of the primacy of the political * social science as power theory * the managerial revolution * the knowledge society and the new intellectual classes
The People's Property?
The People's Property? - 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 People's Property? write by Lynn A. Staeheli. This book was released on 2008. The People's Property? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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
