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“darshan vigneswaran”

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  • Mobility Makes States

    Migration and Power in Africa

    Edited by Darshan Vigneswaran, Joel Quirk ...
    Human mobility has long played a foundational role in producing state territories, resources, and hierarchies. When people move within and across national boundaries, they create both challenges and opportunities. In Mobility Makes States, chapters written by historians, political scientists, sociologists, and anthropologists explore different patterns of mobility in sub-Saharan Africa and how ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Mobility Makes States

    Migration and Power in Africa

    Edited by Darshan Vigneswaran, Joel Quirk ...
    Human mobility has long played a foundational role in producing state territories, resources, and hierarchies. When people move within and across national boundaries, they create both challenges and opportunities. In Mobility Makes States, chapters written by historians, political scientists, sociologists, and anthropologists explore different patterns of mobility in sub-Saharan Africa and how ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

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  • "They Take Our Jobs!"

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  • American Immigration: A Very Short Introduction

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  • Evidence for Hope

    Making Human Rights Work in the 21st Century

    by Kathryn Sikkink ...
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  • Canada and the Third World

    Overlapping Histories

    Edited by Karen Dubinsky, Sean Mills, Scott Rutherford ...
    Even though they are aware of the Third World in relation to their daily lives, most Canadians know little about the historical foundations and complex nature of their country's entanglements with non-Western societies.Canada and the Third World provides a long overdue introduction to Canada's historical relationship with the Third World. The book critically explores this relationship by asking ... Read more

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  • Transitions from Authoritarian Rule

    Tentative Conclusions about Uncertain Democracies

    by Guillermo O’Donnell, Philippe C. Schmitter, Laurence Whitehead ...
    The foundational text for democratization studies for over 25 years.Political science scholars consider the four-volume work Transitions from Authoritarian Rule to be a foundational text for studying the process of democratization, specifically in those cases where an authoritarian regime is giving way to some form of democratic government. The most important of the four books is without a doubt ... Read more

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  • Strangers in Our Midst

    The Political Philosophy of Immigration

    by David Miller ...
    How should Western democracies respond to the many millions of people who want to settle in their societies? Economists and human rights advocates tend to downplay the considerable cultural and demographic impact of immigration on host societies. Seeking to balance the rights of immigrants with the legitimate concerns of citizens, Strangers in Our Midst brings a bracing dose of realism to this ... Read more

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  • "They Take Our Jobs!"

    And 20 Other Myths about Immigration

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    Why Leaders Undermine Their Own Democracies

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    Democracy identifies the general processes causing democratization and de-democratization at a national level across the world over the last few hundred years. It singles out integration of trust networks into public politics, insulation of public politics from categorical inequality, and suppression of autonomous coercive power centres as crucial processes. Through analytic narratives and ... Read more

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