Building Blocs
Title | Building Blocs PDF eBook |
Author | Cedric de Leon |
Publisher | Stanford University Press |
Pages | 255 |
Release | 2015-05-27 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0804794987 |
Do political parties merely represent divisions in society? Until now, scholars and other observers have generally agreed that they do. But Building Blocs argues the reverse: that some political parties in fact shape divisions as they struggle to remake the social order. Drawing on the contributors' expertise in Indonesia, India, the United States, Canada, Egypt, and Turkey, this volume demonstrates further that the success and failure of parties to politicize social differences has dramatic consequences for democratic change, economic development, and other large-scale transformations. This politicization of divisions, or "political articulation," is neither the product of a single charismatic leader nor the machinations of state power, but is instead a constant call and response between parties and would-be constituents. When articulation becomes inconsistent, as it has in Indonesia, partisan calls grow faint and the resulting vacuum creates the possibility for other forms of political expression. However, when political parties exercise their power of interpellation efficiently, they are able to silence certain interests such as those of secular constituents in Turkey. Building Blocs exposes political parties as the most influential agencies that structure social cleavages and invites further critical investigation of the related consequences.
Bloc by Bloc
Title | Bloc by Bloc PDF eBook |
Author | Steven Weber |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 265 |
Release | 2019-10-22 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0674979494 |
Globalization is taking a step backward. What, then, is the best way to organize a global enterprise? The key, Steven Weber explains, is to prepare for a world increasingly made up of competing regions with distinct rules and standards. This new condition could be more prosperous, but there will also be more friction and therefore more risk.
Regional Blocs
Title | Regional Blocs PDF eBook |
Author | A.S. Bhalla |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 258 |
Release | 2016-07-27 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1349258113 |
A topical study of regional arrangements covering ASEAN, SAARC and APEC in Asia, NAFTA and MERCOSUR in the Americas, SADC, SACU and ECOWAS in Africa, and the European Union, EFTA and Eastern Europe. The book argues that foreign direct investment is complementary to trade and most regional arrangements can create trade and induce growth so long as they remain open and non-discriminatory. But they could also become stumbling blocks to globalization. The book demonstrates how US and EU trade policy will be crucial in shaping the world economy.
Building Blocks Or Trade Blocs
Title | Building Blocks Or Trade Blocs PDF eBook |
Author | Charles J. McMillan |
Publisher | |
Pages | 92 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Asia |
ISBN |
Building the Bloc
Title | Building the Bloc PDF eBook |
Author | Ruth Bloch Rubin |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 363 |
Release | 2017-08-11 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1316510425 |
When will dissident members of a Congress successfully seize power from their party leaders and fellow lawmakers? When they organize.
Trading Blocs
Title | Trading Blocs PDF eBook |
Author | Jagdish N. Bhagwati |
Publisher | MIT Press |
Pages | 626 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780262024501 |
The recent proliferation of free trade areas and customs unions in the world trading system has led to a revival of interest in the economic analysis of Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs). The principal theoretical question of the 1950s and 1960s (Viner) was whether PTAs encourage or discourage the worldwide nondiscriminatory freeing of trade. The essays in this volume present the central contributions to the analytical approaches developed to examine these questions. -- Provided by publisher.
The Complete Block Book
Title | The Complete Block Book PDF eBook |
Author | Eugene F. Provenzo |
Publisher | Syracuse University Press |
Pages | 192 |
Release | 1983 |
Genre | Family & Relationships |
ISBN | 9780815623007 |
Traces the history of building blocks as educational toys, discusses how play reflects a child's intellectual development, and looks at various types of blocks.