Afghanistan has been in the headlines for many years – but tragically for all the wrong reasons. First invaded by the Soviets in 1979, the country then experienced the trauma of civil war followed by yet another intervention, this time by the United States and allies, which ended with the West’s ignominious withdrawal in August 2021. Afghanistan: Long War, Forgotten Peace examines multiple dimensions of what happened and why, and what the future holds for the country now the Taliban are back in power.
Multidisciplinary in approach, this book features analysts from a variety of academic disciplines, including policy-makers and public intellectuals – many with direct experience of having lived and worked in Afghanistan. It explains why the Taliban finally triumphed, what this means for Afghan society, and how competing actors in the international system have reacted to the Taliban takeover. Questions include whether the West’s withdrawal represented a major or only a temporary setback for NATO and the United States, and whether and how there can be any amelioration of the situation in Afghanistan itself. The country and its people face multiple interrelated challenges, including those of women’s rights, the drugs economies and human trafficking and exploitation.
This volume is essential reading for all those concerned with what happens in Afghanistan over the coming months and years, the consequences for the Afghan people – and for the rest of the world.
“In this superb volume, Michael Cox has brought together a distinguished and interdisciplinary group of scholars to reflect on Afghanistan’s troubled recent past. Chapters range widely, probing the social challenges and religious upheavals within Afghan society as well as the regional geopolitical struggles and military interventions that have left the country so desperately in need of a better future. The book is essential reading for both scholars and policy-makers.”
Professor G.J. Ikenberry, Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University in the Department of Politics and the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs
“Published in the midst of ‘Putin's Afghanistan’ in Ukraine, this bracing, salutary collection of essays reminds us that the original Afghanistan continues to suffer from decades of misconceived, sometimes disastrous, foreign adventurism and internal misrule. Written by a group of expert and thoughtful authors – knowledgeable, and adept at teasing out the broader implications of the war – the volume never forgets to put Afghanistan and the Afghan people back at the centre of their own story.”
Professor Gerry Simpson, FBA, Professor of International Public International Law, LSE Law School
“Afghanistan Long War, Forgotten Peace provides a unique, multidisciplinary approach employing different perspectives to explain how the West first became involved in Afghanistan, why in the end it left, and with what consequences. A brilliant volume that makes it possible to fully understand why NATO’s intervention failed and why the Taliban have returned.”
Professor Vittorio Emanuele Parsi, Professor of International Relations and Director of ASERI at Università Cattolica, Milan. Author of ‘Inevitable Alliance: Europe and the United States Beyond Iraq’ and ‘The Wrecking of the Liberal World Order’
“The Afghan tragedy still has a long way to go, writes Professor Michael Cox in his introductory essay to this excellent volume with contribution by leading experts in the field. Collectively, they draw critical lessons from an over 20-year long failure, showing that many of the mistakes made could have been avoided, and many of the opportunities lost, realized. What better advice could there be for students of international relations and politicians alike to ensure that such a tragedy will not repeat itself!”
Professor Helmut Anheier. President of the Hertie School Berlin (2009 to 2018) and Adjunct Professor of Social Welfare, Luskin School of Public Affairs, UCLA. Author of ‘Nonprofit Organizations: Theory Management, Policy’ and ‘The Future of the Liberal Order: The Key Questions'
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Introduction: Conflict, war, revolution and the character of politics2. Thucydides: The naturalness of war3. Augustine: The problem of peace in a violent world4. Machiavelli: Politics and the use of violence5. Hobbes: Solving the problem of conflict6. Locke: Liberalism and the externalisation of conflict7. Rousseau: The threat of the international order8. Clausewitz: The professionalisation of war9. Lenin and Mao: Revolution, violence and war10. Schmitt: The danger of the international liberal order11. Conclusion: Realisms in international political theory =506 0\$aOpen Access$fUnrestricted online access$2star =520 \\$aViolence and war were ubiquitous features of politics long before the emergence of the modern state system. Since the late 18th century major revolutions across the world have further challenged the idea of the state as a final arbiter of international order. This book discusses ten major thinkers who have questioned and re-shaped how we think about politics, violence and relations between states – Thucydides, Augustine, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Clausewitz, Lenin and Mao, and Schmitt.Conflict, war and revolution have generally been seen in political thought as problems to be managed by stable domestic political communities. In different ways, all the paradigmatic thinkers here acknowledge them instead as inevitable dimensions of human experience, manifested through different ways of acting politically – while yet offering radically distinct answers about how they can be handled. This book dramatically broadens the canon of political thought by considering perspectives on the international system that challenge its historical inevitability and triumph.Drawing on history, theology, and law as well as philosophy, Paul Kelly introduces thinkers who challenge fundamentally the ways in which we should think about the nature and scope of political institutions and agents. He illuminates many troubling contemporary conflicts with a critical and historical perspective.This book is primarily intended for second year and upwards undergraduate students in general political theory and international theory, and advanced international relations students. Each chapter is also downloadable on its own for use in courses considering only some of the ten theorists covered.Written in an accessible way Conflict, War and Revolution will also interest advanced general readers with interests in the historical thought underpinnings of political ideas and today’s international politics. =538 \\$aMode of access: World Wide Web. =540 \\$aThe text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0). 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Introduction: Insights for a post-pandemic world2. The urbanisation of spatial inequalities and a new model of urban development3. Digital transformation, education, and adult learning in Malaysia4. Data privacy, security, and the future of data governance in Malaysia5. Economic crisis and the panopticon of the digital virus in Cambodia6. Property development, capital growth, and housing affordability in Malaysia7. Business process outsourcing industry in the Philippines8. Global precarity chains and the economic impact on Cambodia’s garment workers9. The dual structure of Vietnam’s labour relations10. Southeast Asian haze and socio-environmental–epidemiological feedback11. Logistical virulence, migrant exposure, and the underside of Singapore’s model pandemic response12. The new normal, or the same old? The experiences of domestic workers in Singapore13. Questioning the ‘hero’s welcome’ for repatriated overseas Filipino workers14. Exposing the transnational precarity of Filipino workers, healthcare regimes, and nation states15. The economic case against the marginalisation of migrant workers in Malaysia16. Emergent bordering tactics, logics of injustice, and the new hierarchies of mobility deservingness17. The impacts of crisis on the conflict-prone Myanmar–China borderland18. Rethinking urbanisation, development, and collective action in Indonesia19. Community struggles and the challenges of solidarity in Myanmar20. Gotong royong and the role of community in Indonesia21. Rewriting food insecurity narratives in Singapore22. Happiness-sharing pantries and the ‘easing of hunger for the needy’ in Thailand23. Being-in-common and food relief networks in Metro Manila, the Philippines24. Community responses to gendered issues in Malaysia25. Building rainbow community resilience among the queer community in Southeast Asia26. Postscript: in-pandemic academia, scholarly practices, and an ethics of care =506 0\$aOpen Access$fUnrestricted online access$2star =520 \\$aCOVID-19 has presented huge challenges to governments, businesses, civil societies, and people from all walks of life, but its impact has been highly variegated, affecting society in multiple negative ways, with uneven geographical and socioeconomic patterns. The crisis revealed existing contradictions and inequalities in society, compelling us to question what it means to return to “normal” and what insights can be gleaned from Southeast Asia for thinking about a post-pandemic world. In this regard, this edited volume collects the informed views of an ensemble of social scientists – area studies, development studies, and legal scholars; anthropologists, architects, economists, geographers, planners, sociologists, and urbanists; representing academic institutions, activist and charitable organisations, policy and research institutes, and areas of professional practice – who recognise the necessity of critical commentary and engaged scholarship. These contributions represent a wide-ranging set of views, collectively producing a compilation of reflections on the following three themes in particular: (1) Urbanisation, digital infrastructures, economies, and the environment; (2) Migrants, (im)mobilities, and borders; and (3) Collective action, communities, and mutual action. Overall, this edited volume first aims to speak from a situated position in relevant debates to challenge knowledge about the pandemic that has assigned selective and inequitable visibility to issues, people, or places, or which through its inferential or interpretive capacity has worked to set social expectations or assign validity to certain interventions with a bearing on the pandemic’s course and the future it has foretold. Second, it aims to advance or renew understandings of social challenges, risks, or inequities that were already in place, and which, without further or better action, are to be features of our “post-pandemic world” as well. This volume also contributes to the ongoing efforts to de-centre and decolonise knowledge production. It endeavours to help secure a place within these debates for a region that was among the first outside of East Asia to be forced to contend with COVID-19 in a substantial way and which has evinced a marked and instructive diversity and dynamism in its fortunes. =538 \\$aMode of access: World Wide Web. =540 \\$aThe text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0). 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Often neglected, this intellectual thread is highly relevant to understanding the 21st-century’s challenges of war and rival streams of propaganda. Borrowing her conceptual lenses from Karl Mannheim and Robert Merton, Rantanen draws on detailed archival research and case studies to analyse the extent and importance of work outside and inside the academy, illuminating the work of pioneers in the field. Some of these were well-known academics such as Harold Lasswell and the authors of the seminal book Four Theories of the Press. Others operated in the world of news agencies, such as Associated Press's Kent Cooper, or were marginalised as émigré scholars, notably Paul Kecskemeti and Nathan Leites. Her study shows how comparative communications, from its very beginning, can be understood as governed by the Mannheimian concepts of ideology and utopia and the power play between them. The close relationship between these two concepts resulted in a bias in knowledge production, contributed to dominant narratives of generational conflicts, and to the demarcation of Insiders and Outsiders. By focusing on a generation at the forefront of comparative communications at this pivotal time in the 20th century, this book challenges orthodoxies in the intellectual histories of communication studies. =536 \\$aThe London School of Economics and Political Science =538 \\$aMode of access: World Wide Web. =540 \\$aThe text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC 4.0). 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Decentralised governance: crafting effective democracies around the world2. Understanding decentralisation: theory, evidence, and practice3. Decentralised targeting of transfer programmes: a reassessment4. Realising the promise of partial decentralisation5. Devolution under autocracy: evidence from Pakistan6. Social fragmentation, public goods, and local elections: evidence from China7. How does fiscal decentralisation affect local polities? Evidence from local communities in Indonesia8. Can parliamentary sanctions strengthen local political accountability? Evidence from Kenya9. Centralised versus decentralised monitoring in developing countries: a survey of recent research10. Subnational governance in Ghana: a comparative assessment of data and performance11. Birth registration, child rights, and local governance in Bangladesh12. Administrative decentralisation and its impacts on educational expenditure and student outcomes: evidence from Colombia =506 0\$aOpen Access$fUnrestricted online access$2star =520 \\$aFor developing countries, decentralising power from central government to local authorities holds the promise of deepening democracy, empowering citizens, improving public services and boosting economic growth. But the evidence on when and how decentralisation can bring these benefits has been mixed. Under the wrong conditions, decentralised power can be captured by unrepresentative elites or undermined by corruption and the clientelistic distribution of public resources. The picture is complex, and we still do not understand enough about what factors can contribute to creating better local government, and to what effect. Decentralised Governance brings together a new generation of political economy studies that explore these questions analytically, blending theoretical insights with empirical innovation. Individual chapters provide fresh evidence from around the world, including broad cross-country data as well as detailed studies of Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, China, Indonesia, Ghana, Kenya and Colombia. They investigate the pros and cons of decentralisation in both democratic and autocratic regimes, and the effects of critical factors such as advances in technology, citizen-based data systems, political entrepreneurship in ethnically diverse societies, and reforms aimed at improving transparency and monitoring.This wide-ranging volume examines the conditions under which devolving power can intensify democratic competition, boost transparency, and improve local governance, providing examples of good and bad practice in both. It is essential reading for researchers investigating decentralised governance, development and democratisation, and for policymakers and practitioners drawing lessons for future reforms. =538 \\$aMode of access: World Wide Web. =540 \\$aThe text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0). 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What are the actual dimensions of the problem? What has trade and climate got to do with it? In How Africa Eats: Trade, Food Security and Climate Risks, award-winning author David Luke and a team of researchers seek to answer these questions, to explain why Africa struggles with food security and what can be done about it. The intersection between trade, agriculture policies, and climate risks is fundamental to this enquiry. Using a data-led approach, this book examines in detail what Africa eats and where and how it is produced. It investigates how finance, investment, foreign aid, institutions, actors and capacities interact with policies in holding Africa back from becoming an agricultural powerhouse despite having 60 per cent of the world’s arable land area. The book evaluates how climate change exacerbates the continent’s challenges and scrutinises the sustainability of production systems in the face of environmental volatility. Experts in trade policy, international law and development unpack the barriers that currently limit the growth of intra-African food trade, including the role of the World Trade Organization (WTO), and model the expected impact of the implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) on agricultural trade. The extent of food deprivation in Africa is sobering. The United Nations estimates that a fifth of the African population is undernourished, and a quarter live with the day-to-day experience of severe food insecurity. How Africa Eats provides a vital, open access resource for academics, policymakers and trade experts seeking to address the continent’s food insecurity in the face of urgent threats from climate change, trade barriers and complex policy challenges. =538 \\$aMode of access: World Wide Web. =540 \\$aThe text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC 4.0). 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Trade and investment flows and a perspective for analysing trade policy in AfricaJamie MacLeod & David Luke2. The AfCFTA and regional tradeJamie MacLeod et al.3. Africa’s trade arrangements with the European Union and ChinaDavid Luke et al.4. Africa’s trade arrangements with the United States, the United Kingdom, and other prominent partnersDavid Luke et al.5. Africa in the World Trade OrganizationColette van der Ven & David Luke6. How the Covid-19 crisis affected formal tradeJamie MacLeod & Geoffroy Guepie7. How the Covid-19 crisis affected informal and digital tradeKulani McCartan-Demie & Jamie MacLeod8. Conclusion: it’s in the world’s interest to give Africa a new trade dealDavid Luke =506 0\$aOpen Access$fUnrestricted online access$2star =520 \\$aTrade is an essential driver of economic transformation, growth, and prosperity. At a time of global uncertainty and policy fluidity, this comprehensive volume demystifies African trade and trade policy to provide a deeper understanding of how trade impacts the lives of all Africans and the continent’s development aspirations.Featuring a wealth of data-driven evaluations of trade negotiations and policy choices, How Africa Trades is an invaluable open access resource for making sense of the continent’s major trade challenges, including commodity dependence, competitiveness, and how African countries engage with often unconducive international trade rules that distort global markets.In-depth analysis focuses on intra-African trade initiatives, including the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), trade between African countries and their major trading partners, and how the short-term shocks of Covid-19 restrictions brought about longer-term changes in informal and formal trade patterns, and sped-up shifts in digital trade.Edited by Professor David Luke, and featuring vital contributions on trade economics, international law and sustainable development, How Africa Trades draws on the research expertise of LSE’s Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa. This volume provides information, expertise and tools for policymakers, stakeholders and scholars with an interest in understanding the dynamics of trade and in making effective policy decisions that centre development and inclusivity for Africa and its people. =538 \\$aMode of access: World Wide Web. =540 \\$aThe text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC 4.0). 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Why governance matters – analysing systemic failures in the NHS2. Economic and geographical fault lines3. The interwar period and the Attlee settlement4. The Attlee settlement’s failures: stagflation, slums in the sky and educational geography5. Neoliberalism and the new Thatcher settlement6. The ‘make or buy’ decision: the UK’s ‘parastate’ after privatisation and outsourcing7. Marketisation in education8. Healthcare: to marketise or not to marketise?9. Playing the opening and middle games against Covid-1910 Afterword: re-engaging with public governance =506 0\$aOpen Access$fUnrestricted online access$2star =520 \\$aIf every system is perfectly designed to get the results it gets, what is wrong with the design of the systems that govern Britain? And how have they resulted in failures in housing, privatisation, outsourcing, education and healthcare? In How Did Britain Come to This? Gwyn Bevan examines a century of varieties of systemic failures in the British state. The book begins and ends by showing how systems of governance explain scandals in NHS hospitals, and the failures and successes of the UK and Germany in responding to Covid-19 before and after vaccines became available. The book compares geographical fault lines and inequalities in Britain with those that have developed in other European countries and argues that the causes of Britain’s entrenched inequalities are consequences of shifts in systems of governance over the past century. Clement Attlee’s postwar government aimed to remedy the failings of the prewar minimal state, while Margaret Thatcher’s governments in the 1980s in turn sought to remedy the failings of Attlee’s planned state by developing the marketised state, which morphed into the financialised state we see today. This analysis highlights the urgent need for a new political settlement of an enabling state that tackles current systemic weaknesses from market failures and over-centralisation. This book offers an accessible, analytic account of government failures of the past century, and is essential reading for anyone who wants to make an informed contribution to what an innovative, capable state might look like in a post-pandemic world. =538 \\$aMode of access: World Wide Web. =540 \\$aThe text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC 4.0). 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Introduction – ethics, inequality and executive pay 2. Executive pay and distributive justice 3. What do business executives think about distributive justice? 4. Welfare liberals 5. Relational egalitarians 6. Meritocrats 7. Free marketeers 8. If executives are so ethical, why are they so highly paid? 9. What is to be done? 10. Afterword and postscript =506 0\$aOpen Access$fUnrestricted online access$2star =520 \\$a
In the past 30 years, senior executive pay has increased dramatically in the UK, US and other developed countries, causing much debate and, at times, public outrage. In this book, Alexander (‘Sandy’) Pepper argues that this soaring inflation in high pay is the result of a market failure, leading to inefficient pay practices that are replicated across industries. Individual company’s renumeration committees face a prisoner’s dilemma, and so recommend over-the-odds payments in the vain hope of obtaining superior talent. For institutional investors, these developments have created a collective action problem, with many historically unwilling or unable to intervene to curtail excessive corporate pay.
But are executives themselves really the greedy, self-interested, fat cats of popular culture? Based on a thought experiment and survey of beliefs of over a thousand senior executives from around the world, Pepper and his colleagues found that business executives in fact tend not to justify their pay levels as if they were ethical egoists entitled to act entirely in their own self-interest. Instead, they expressed support for a range of ethical beliefs on inequality and distributive justice. They can be categorised as either welfare liberals, relational egalitarians, meritocrats or free marketeers. Many believe that in a civilised society everyone has the right to an income that is sufficient for a dignified life, and that companies, not just governments, have responsibilities in this respect. So, Pepper argues, it is the market failure in executive pay that has created such wage inflation at the top, and this ultimately requires an ethical response from investors, companies and executives.
This is a book for anyone who wishes to understand and tackle business’s role in the growing social inequality of advanced economies in an informed, fair and feasible way.
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Business cases: what are they, why do we use them and how should you go about doing a case analysis?2. Corporate strategy in the UK vehicle components industry: a comparison of Lucas Industries and GKN3. The collapse of Carillion plc4. On what matters: Unilever plc – purpose or performance?5. Asset allocation and governance at the Imperial Tobacco pension fund in the mid-20th century6. The fall of the Maxwell empire7. Activist investors: Alliance Trust and Elliott International8. The failure of the Royal Bank of Scotland9. China National Petroleum Corporation in Sudan10. TRQ and Rio Tinto: the Oyu Tolgoi copper mine and the obsolescing bargain in Mongolia11. Activist investors versus Big Oil: how should ExxonMobil and British Petroleum respond?12. Environmental impact: why fast fashion is bad for the environment13. The UK’s National Health Service: teams, conflict and performance14. Redesigning a performance management system15. Transformation in the automotive sector: the management challenges of AI and the digital revolution16. auticon: promoting a neurodiverse workforce17. Planning and programming for a government-hosted mass-gathering event in India: the 2019 Prayagraj Kumbh Mela18. Socio-economic background and career progression within the UK Civil Service =506 0\$aOpen Access$fUnrestricted online access$2star =520 \\$aCase studies have long been an integral part of business and management education. As artificial intelligence transforms teaching and learning, they are assuming even greater importance. Cases provide the opportunity to learn from real-life scenarios, equipping students with the analytical skills required to critically examine data, apply theory, and interpret complex situations in what is an increasingly noisy and uncertain world.Navigating the 21st Century Business World: Case Studies in Management is a fully open access collection of management cases, featuring examples from the health sector, media, oil and gas industries, fast fashion, financial services, and the public sector.Written by LSE academics and tested in the classroom, the case studies in this book challenge students to evaluate classic issues of management, such as corporate governance and leadership, and to address contemporary dilemmas, from considering a company’s responsibilities in the face of man-made climate change to how to create inclusive workforces. Each case details the core dilemmas raised and includes questions for students to consider when preparing the case. Academics and industry trainers can use the collection to make their lessons more hands-on and enhance their curriculum. The case studies provide practical examples of management decision-making to spark thought-provoking discussions for university students, experienced executives looking to improve their leadership skills, and entrepreneurs seeking a competitive edge. =538 \\$aMode of access: World Wide Web. =540 \\$aThe text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC 4.0). 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It suggests power-hungry dictators, trigger-happy police, stifling bureaucracies, and monumental urban landscapes. In Nonauthoritarian Authority Julian Brigstocke argues that in these shattered times, anti-authoritarianism is not enough: a radical, speculative reinvention of authority is needed. He introduces the idea of non-authoritarian authority: a form of power that pluralises marginalised and hidden voices, recognises diverse agencies, and amplifies heterogeneous demands. Engaging with key philosophical debates around materiality, experience, feeling, agency, and landscape, Nonauthoritarian Authority stages a series of experiments with thinking, reading, researching, and writing non-authoritarian authority. Dramatising a speculative search for barely sensed, dispersed authorities, Brigstocke’s experiments in thinking explore the intrinsically spatial nature of authority, through empirical studies of violent urban borders in Rio de Janeiro, colonial material infrastructures in Hong Kong, monumental architecture in Paris, and everyday spaces of encounter in the UK. Offering an intricate and playful reflection on the relationship between authority, urban forms, and writing, each exercise in thinking links form and genre to a distinctive way of imagining authority. Each chapter simultaneously critiques a form of authoritarian authority and searches for a new, nonauthoritarian authority within the rubble of the old. =536 \\$aArts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)$cAH/N008855/1 =536 \\$aArts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)$cAH/T000996/1 =536 \\$aArts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)$cAH/L013282/1 =538 \\$aMode of access: World Wide Web. =540 \\$aThe text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC 4.0). 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Introduction2. Manufacturing compliance with ‘rule by design’3. Who gets what and how: governance based on subpopulations4. Who deserves benefits and why – constructing fairness, pension expectations, and subjectivity5. Maximising support for pension reform using policy experimentation, and the potential to backfire6. Falsification of ‘manufactured compliance’ and wider legitimation and governmentality issues7. Pension issues, state governmentality, and falsified compliance in a comparative perspective =506 0\$aOpen Access$fUnrestricted online access$2star =520 \\$aRapid economic growth is often a disruptive social process threatening the social relations and ideologies of incumbent regimes. Yet far from acting defensively, the Chinese Communist Party has lead a major social and economic transformation over forty years, without yet encountering fundamental challenges subverting its rule. A key question for political sociology is thus - how have the logics of China’s governmentality been able to help maintain compliance from the governed while acting so radically to advance the state’s growth priorities? This book explores the issue by analysing the detailed trajectories, rationale, and effects of China’s pension reforms. It uses strong methods, including institutional analysis of resource allocation in the multiple pension schemes and programmes, and quantitative text analysis of the knowledge construction in official discourse along with the reforms. Causal identification estimates the effects of key policy instruments on public opinion about pension responsibility and political trust. Moving beyond the pension issues, the analysis discusses with qualitative evidence why falsified compliance might exist in China’s society and the mechanisms that may lie behind it. Where active counter-conduct (such as resistance) is confined, individuals may choose cognitive rebellion and falsify their public compliance.The Chinese state’s strategy to generate public compliance is hybrid, organic, and dynamic. The state rules society by its customised governance design and constant adjustments. Public compliance is not only acquired through ‘buying off’ the public with governmental performance and transfer benefits, but is also manufactured through achieving cultural changes and new ideological foundations for general legitimation. =538 \\$aMode of access: World Wide Web. =540 \\$aThe text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0). 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IntroductionAndrés Velasco and Irene Bucelli2. Populism and Identity PoliticsAndrés Velasco3. Democracy Versus Democracy: The Populist Challenge to Liberal DemocracyMichael Ignatieff4. Challenger Parties and PopulismCatherine E. De Vries and Sara B. Hobolt5. The Rise of Populism and the Revenge of the Places That Don’t MatterAndrés Rodríguez-Pose6. Social Media and Political PolarisationGilat Levy and Ronny Razin7. The Technological Revolution, Segregation, and Populism – A Long-Term Strategic ResponseDavid Soskice =506 0\$aOpen Access$fUnrestricted online access$2star =520 \\$aPopulist movements, parties and leaders have gained influence in many countries, disrupting long-established patterns of party competition, impugning the legitimacy of representative institutions and sometimes actively weakening or coarsening government capabilities. By positing an acute contrast between the will of the people and established elites, and advocating simplistic policy solutions careless of minority rights, populists have challenged the development and even the maintenance of liberal democracy on many fronts.Social scientists’ attention to populism has grown rapidly, although it remains somewhat fragmented across disciplines. Many questions remain. Are populism’s causes economic or cultural? National or local? Is populism a threat to liberal democracy? If so, what kind of threat? And what can be done about it? Employing a range of conceptual toolkits and methods, this interdisciplinary book addresses in a critical and evidence-based way the most common diagnoses of populism’s causes, consequences and policy antidotes. =538 \\$aMode of access: World Wide Web. =540 \\$aThe text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0). 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Those conflicts, once again in the news, stretch back centuries. In this book, Don Herzog examines the history and politics of anxieties about readers and reading, spanning both the United States and Britain, from the 1500s right up to contemporary battles over banning library books and freedom of speech. In these pages, Herzog deftly interweaves episodes from Reformation England, when first Catholics and then Protestants cracked down on unsupervised Bible-reading, with the deadly campaigns in pre-Civil War America to keep black people – both free and enslaved – illiterate. Drawing on a wealth of primary sources, he reconstructs arguments insisting that ordinary men and women could not be trusted to read what they liked – indeed, that some of them ought not read at all. And he charts struggles to promote literacy. Herzog argues that at stake in these battles is whether some people – those banned from reading – are perceived as not fully human, or lesser persons than others. The radical campaign to let more or less everyone read more or less everything is ultimately, therefore, a campaign for equality. =538 \\$aMode of access: World Wide Web. =540 \\$aThe text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC 4.0). 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Unravelling the paradox: meaning, motivation and methodology 2. Frontiers and crossroads: economy, politics and culture in the Bengal delta 3. ‘The test case for development’: policy debates in the aftermath of independence 4. Behind the grim litany: researching a development impasse 5. Defying the prophets of doom: the emergence of the Bangladesh paradox 6. ‘My children have a future’: fate, family planning and the capacity to aspire 7. ‘Standing on your own feet’: the making of a female labour force 8. ‘We follow shariat, but we follow marfat too’: contestations over gender and Islam in the nation-making project 9. Unruly sons, compassionate daughters: reconfiguring the intergenerational bargain 10. Resolving the paradox: concluding reflections =506 0\$aOpen Access$fUnrestricted online access$2star =520 \\$aThe idea of the ‘Bangladesh paradox’ describes the unexpected social progress that Bangladesh has made in recent decades that has been both pro-poor and gender equitable. This began at a time when the country was characterised by extreme levels of poverty, poor quality governance, an oppressive patriarchy and rising Islamic orthodoxy. This ‘paradox’ has evoked a great deal of interest within the international development community because Bangladesh had been dubbed an ‘international basket case’ at the time of its independence in 1971, seemingly trapped in a development impasse. Previous attempts to explain this paradox have generally taken a top-down approach, focusing on the role of leading institutional actors – donors, government, NGOs and the private sector. In Renegotiating Patriarchy: Gender, Agency and the Bangladesh Paradox, Naila Kabeer starts with the rationale that policy actions taken at the top are unlikely to materialise into actual changes if they are not acted on by the mass of ordinary women and men. But what led these women and men to act? And why did they act in ways that modified some of the more oppressive aspects of patriarchy in the country? That is what this book sets out to investigate. It describes the history of the Bengal delta, and the forces that gave rise to the kind of society that Bangladesh was at the time of its independence. It considers the policy and politics that characterised post-independence Bangladesh and how these contributed to the progress captured in the idea of the Bangladesh paradox. But the key argument of the book is that much of this progress reflected the agency exercised by ordinary, often very poor, women in the course of their everyday lives. Their agency helped to translate institutional actions into concrete changes on the ground. To explore why and how this happened, the book draws on a rich body of ethnographic, qualitative and quantitative research on social change in Bangladesh – including studies by the author herself. The book is therefore about how norms and practices can change in progressive ways despite unpropitious circumstances as a result of the efforts of poor women in Bangladesh to renegotiate what had been described as one of the most non-negotiable patriarchies in the world. =536 \\$aThe London School of Economics and Political Science =538 \\$aMode of access: World Wide Web. =540 \\$aThe text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC 4.0). 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Preface2. Introducing spectrum auctions3. Understanding the radio spectrum, auctions, and the UK case4. Market design, economic efficiency, and game theory for spectrum auctions5. Regulation, public value, and policymaking6. Applying expertise in decision-making processes7. Laying foundations before the auction8. Auction design objectives and baseline decisions9. Choosing an auction format10. Promoting downstream competition11. Harnessing auctions for better-informed public policy decisions12. Auction bidding and outcomes13. Afterword: Reflections for future auctions14. Annex A: Further details of the UK’s spectrum auctions, 2000–2115. Annex B: Further explanation of the Combinatorial Clock Auction (CCA) format and bidding in the UK’s 2013 auction16. Annex C: Additional explanation of the cost-benefit role of auctions =506 0\$aOpen Access$fUnrestricted online access$2star =520 \\$aAccess to the radio spectrum is vital for modern digital communication. It is an essential component for smartphone capabilities, the Cloud, the Internet of Things, autonomous vehicles, and multiple other new technologies. Governments use spectrum auctions to decide which companies should use what parts of the radio spectrum. Successful auctions can fuel rapid innovation in products and services, unlock substantial economic benefits, build comparative advantage across all regions, and create billions of dollars of government revenues. Poor auction strategies can leave bandwidth unsold and delay innovation, sell national assets to firms too cheaply, or create uncompetitive markets with high mobile prices and patchy coverage that stifles economic growth. Corporate bidders regularly complain that auctions raise their costs, while government critics argue that insufficient revenues are raised. The cross-national record shows many examples of both highly successful auctions and miserable failures.Drawing on experience from the UK and other countries, senior regulator Geoffrey Myers explains how to optimise the regulatory design of auctions, from initial planning to final implementation. Spectrum Auctions offers unrivalled expertise for regulators and economists engaged in practical auction design or company executives planning bidding strategies. For applied economists, teachers, and advanced students this book provides unrivalled insights in market design and public management. Providing clear analytical frameworks, case studies of auctions, and stage-by-stage advice, it is essential reading for anyone interested in designing public-interested and successful spectrum auctions. =538 \\$aMode of access: World Wide Web. =540 \\$aThe text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). For more detailed information consult the publisher's website.$uhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ =588 0\$aMetadata licensed under CC0 Public Domain Dedication. =653 \\$aSpectrum auctions =653 \\$aAuction theory =653 \\$aRadio spectrum =653 \\$aAuction design =653 \\$aDigital communication =653 \\$aRegulation =710 2\$aLSE Press,$epublisher. =856 40$uhttps://doi.org/10.31389/lsepress.spa$zConnect to e-book =856 42$uhttps://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/service-zipper/lse/files/13/cover.jpg$zConnect to cover image =856 42$uhttps://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/$zCC0 Metadata License =LDR 03064nam 22004572 4500 =001 c808fb1b-a394-4695-84dc-b4163eeecaf5 =006 m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ =007 cr\\n\\\\\\\\\ =008 250711t20252025\\\\\\\\ob\\\\000\0\eng\d =020 \\$z9781911712473$q(Paperback) =020 \\$a9781911712480$q(PDF) =020 \\$a9781911712497$q(Epub) =020 \\$a9781911712503$q(Mobi) =024 7\$a10.31389/lsepress.tgs$2doi =040 \\$aUkCbTOM$beng$elocal =072 7$aBUS072000$2bisacsh =072 7$aSCI092000$2bisacsh =072 7$aRNU$2thema =100 1\$aStern, Nicholas,$eauthor.$uLondon School of Economics.$0(orcid)0009000638635361$1https://orcid.org/0009-0006-3863-5361 =245 14$aThe Growth Story of the 21st Century :$bThe Economics and Opportunity of Climate Action /$cNicholas Stern. =264 \1$aLondon :$bLSE Press,$c2025. =264 \4$c©2025 =300 \\$a1 online resource. =336 \\$atext$btxt$2rdacontent =337 \\$acomputer$bc$2rdamedia =338 \\$aonline resource$bcr$2rdacarrier =500 \\$aAvailable through LSE Press. =506 0\$aOpen Access$fUnrestricted online access$2star =520 \\$aThe world stands at a crossroads. The next decade will determine whether we avoid climate, biodiversity, and economic catastrophe – or unlock a new era of sustainable, resilient, and inclusive growth. The Growth Story of the 21st Century challenges the outdated idea that we must choose between climate action and development. Instead, it presents a compelling case for a transformation that delivers both prosperity and a healthier planet.Drawing on economics, finance, policy, politics, and behavioural science, Nicholas Stern explores why this transformation is essential, what it entails, and how we can achieve it. He revisits the insights of the Stern Review two decades on and sets out a new research agenda for economics and the social sciences. This is a story of optimism – about how rapid technological advances, including digitisation and AI, can drive change at scale. But it does not shy away from the immense challenges ahead. With clear and practical strategies for national and international action, this book is a call to leaders, businesses, and individuals alike: the future is in our hands, and delay is the riskiest option of all. =538 \\$aMode of access: World Wide Web. =540 \\$aThe text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC 4.0). 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Today, that vision is recognised as having fallen short in a number of ways – particularly in its neglect of the social and institutional factors that are indispensable for achieving sustained growth and for building fairer and more cohesive societies. The immense challenges humanity faces are easy to list: climate change, pandemics, social inequalities, the far-reaching effects of the tech revolution and AI, a fragmenting world economy, and a wave of populism and political polarisation that has undermined support for liberal democracy in many countries. It is much harder to identify a set of new ideas – and policies – that will solve these seemingly intractable global problems. In this new world, political leaders and policymakers need guidance and principles that can assist when choosing among policy alternatives. To this end, the editors of this volume convened over 50 of the world’s leading economists and policy experts at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). The London Consensus: Economic Principles for the 21st Century is the result of these exchanges. It is not intended as a one-size-fits-all set of economic remedies, but an exercise in assembling the best available evidence and ideas to foster dialogue, and ultimately to develop a set of principles that can address the urgent political, social and economic tasks ahead.For more on the London Consensus project, see: https://www.lse.ac.uk/school-of-public-policy/Research/London-Consensus =538 \\$aMode of access: World Wide Web. =540 \\$aThe text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC 4.0). For more detailed information consult the publisher's website.$uhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ =588 0\$aMetadata licensed under CC0 Public Domain Dedication. =700 1\$aBesley, Tim,$eeditor.$0(orcid)0000000289236372$1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8923-6372 =700 1\$aBucelli, Irene,$eeditor. =700 1\$aVelasco, Andrés,$eeditor.$0(orcid)0000000304415062$1https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0441-5062 =710 2\$aLSE Press,$epublisher. =856 40$uhttps://doi.org/10.31389/lsepress.tlc$zConnect to e-book =856 42$uhttps://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/$zCC0 Metadata License =LDR 04546nam 22004452 4500 =001 31c3574f-029d-4433-97e3-cc04cfc90837 =006 m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ =007 cr\\n\\\\\\\\\ =008 250711t20242024\\\\\\\\ob\\\\000\0\eng\d =020 \\$z9781911712268$q(Paperback) =020 \\$a9781911712275$q(PDF) =020 \\$a9781911712282$q(Epub) =020 \\$a9781911712299$q(Mobi) =024 7\$a10.31389/lsepress.ose$2doi =040 \\$aUkCbTOM$beng$elocal =050 00$aB =072 7$aPHI034000$2bisacsh =072 7$aPOL007000$2bisacsh =072 7$aQDTS$2thema =072 7$aJPA$2thema =072 7$aJBS$2thema =100 1\$aAlexander, J. McKenzie,$eauthor. =245 14$aThe Open Society as an Enemy :$bA Critique of How Free Societies Turned Against Themselves /$cJ. McKenzie Alexander. =264 \1$aLondon :$bLSE Press,$c2024. =264 \4$c©2024 =300 \\$a1 online resource (359 pages). =336 \\$atext$btxt$2rdacontent =337 \\$acomputer$bc$2rdamedia =338 \\$aonline resource$bcr$2rdacarrier =500 \\$aAvailable through LSE Press. =505 0\$aIntroduction Part I: Don’t come around here no more The cosmopolitan conception of the Open Society1. Consider the wall 2. You should have picked different parents 3. The room where it happens 4. Go your own way 5. It’s the economy, stupid 6. Nowhere, man 7. Concluding remarks Part II: The panopticon of the soul The transparent conception of the Open Society8. The book of life 9. Unwanted inferences 10. Lifting the veil 11. Letting it all hang out 12. Don’t you forget about me 13. Returning to the past 14. We’ll be watching you 15. Concluding remarks Part III: Safe spaces The Enlightenment conception of the Open Society16. Generation Wuss? 17. Trigger warnings 18. Safe spaces 19. No-platforming 20. Concluding remarks Part IV: Modern tribes The communitarian conception of the Open Society21. Joshua’s question 22. On polarisation 23. Social identity, in-group bias, and norms 24. The psychology of modern tribes 25. Authenticity and the WINOs 26. Intersectionality 27. Epistemic closure and extreme groups 28. The collision of horizons 29. Concluding remarksWe can work it out =506 0\$aOpen Access$fUnrestricted online access$2star =520 \\$aNearly 80 years ago, Karl Popper gave a spirited philosophical defence of the Open Society in his two-volume work, The Open Society and Its Enemies. In this book, J. McKenzie Alexander argues that a new defence is urgently needed because, in the decades since the end of the Cold War, many of the values of the Open Society¬ have come under threat once again. Populist agendas on both the left and right threaten to undermine fundamental principles that underpin liberal democracies, so that what were previously seen as virtues of the Open Society are now, by many people, seen as vices, dangers, or threats. The Open Society as an Enemy interrogates four interconnected aspects of the Open Society: cosmopolitanism, transparency, the free exchange of ideas, and communitarianism. Each of these is analysed in depth, drawing out the implications for contemporary social questions such as the free movement of people, the erosion of privacy, no-platforming and the increased political and social polarisation that is fuelled by social media.In re-examining the consequences for all of us of these attacks on free societies, Alexander calls for resistance to the forces of reaction. But he also calls for the concept of the Open Society to be rehabilitated and advanced. In doing this, he argues, there is an opportunity to re-think the kind of society we want to create, and to ensure it is achievable and sustainable. This forensic defence of the core principles of the Open Society is an essential read for anyone wishing to understand some of the powerful social currents that have engulfed public debates in recent years, and what to do about them. =536 \\$aThe London School of Economics and Political Science =538 \\$aMode of access: World Wide Web. =540 \\$aThe text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC 4.0). For more detailed information consult the publisher's website.$uhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ =588 0\$aMetadata licensed under CC0 Public Domain Dedication. =710 2\$aLSE Press,$epublisher. =856 40$uhttps://doi.org/10.31389/lsepress.ose$zConnect to e-book =856 42$uhttps://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/$zCC0 Metadata License =LDR 04435nam 22005772 4500 =001 bd56a31e-ed11-4dcc-be0e-27cf597a0183 =006 m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ =007 cr\\n\\\\\\\\\ =008 250711t20182018\\\\\\\\ob\\\\000\0\eng\d =020 \\$z9781909890442$q(Paperback) =020 \\$a9781909890442$q(PDF) =020 \\$a9781909890473$q(Epub) =020 \\$a9781909890480$q(Mobi) =024 7\$a10.31389/book1$2doi =040 \\$aUkCbTOM$beng$elocal =072 7$a1DBK$2bicssc =072 7$aJP$2bicssc =072 7$aJPHC$2bicssc =072 7$aJPHV$2bicssc =072 7$aJPL$2bicssc =072 7$aPOL007000$2bisacsh =072 7$aPOL058000$2bisacsh =072 7$aPOL000000$2bisacsh =072 7$aPOL015000$2bisacsh =072 7$aPOL022000$2bisacsh =245 04$aThe UK's Changing Democracy :$bThe 2018 Democratic Audit /$cedited by Patrick Dunleavy, Alice Park, Ros Taylor. =264 \1$aLondon :$bLSE Press,$c2018. =264 \4$c©2018 =300 \\$a1 online resource (520 pages). =336 \\$atext$btxt$2rdacontent =337 \\$acomputer$bc$2rdamedia =338 \\$aonline resource$bcr$2rdacarrier =500 \\$aAvailable through LSE Press. =506 0\$aOpen Access$fUnrestricted online access$2star =520 \\$aThe UK’s Changing Democracy presents a uniquely democratic perspective on all aspects of UK politics, at the centre in Westminster and Whitehall, and in all the devolved nations.The 2016 referendum vote to leave the EU marked a turning point in the UK’s political system. In the previous two decades, the country had undergone a series of democratic reforms, during which it seemed to evolve into a more typical European liberal democracy.The establishment of a Supreme Court, adoption of the Human Rights Act, Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish devolution, proportional electoral systems, executive mayors and the growth in multi-party competition all marked profound changes to the British political tradition.Brexit may now bring some of these developments to a juddering halt. The UK’s previous ‘exceptionalism’ from European patterns looks certain to continue indefinitely. ‘Taking back control’ of regulations, trade, immigration and much more is the biggest change in UK governance for half a century. It has already produced enduring crises for the party system, Parliament and the core executive, with uniquely contested governance over critical issues, and a rapidly changing political landscape. Other recent trends are no less fast-moving, such as the revival of two-party dominance in England, the re-creation of some mass membership parties and the disruptive challenges of social media.In this context, an in-depth assessment of the quality of the UK’s democracy is essential. Each of the 2018 Democratic Audit’s 37 short chapters starts with clear criteria for what democracy requires in that part of the nation’s political life and outlines key recent developments before a SWOT analysis (of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats) crystallises the current situation. A small number of core issues are then explored in more depth.Set against the global rise of debased semi-democracies, the book’s approach returns our focus firmly to the big issues around the quality and sustainability of the UK’s liberal democracy. =538 \\$aMode of access: World Wide Web. =540 \\$aThe text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). 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Introduction: The International System in the shadow of the Russian war in Ukraine 2. The War in Ukraine and the Return of History 3. Who Supports the War? And Who Protests? The Legacies of Tzarist Social Divide in Russia 4. Rewriting History and ‘Gathering the Russian Lands’: Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian Nationhood5. The Securitised ‘Others’ of Russian Nationalism in Ukraine and Russia 6. The Making of Independent Ukraine7. Russia’s Networked Authoritarianism in Ukraine’s Occupied Territories During the Full-Scale Invasion: Control and Resilience 8. Ukraine’s Decentralisation Reforms and the Path to Reconstruction, Recovery and European Integration9. Uprooting and Borders: The Digital Architecture of the Ukrainian Refugee Crisis10. Weaponised Energy and Climate Change: Assessing Europe’s Response to the Ukraine War11. New Dynamics, New Opportunities: Trends in Organised Crime in Ukraine After Russia’s Invasion12. War in Ukraine in a Polarised America13. Europe and Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine: Where Does the EU Stand?14. After Merkel: Germany from Peace to War 15. Comrades? Xi, Putin and the Challenge to the West 16. The Global South and Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine 17. Mr Putin and the Chronicle of a Normalisation Foretold18. Reconstructing and Reforming Ukraine 19. Annex A: Ukraine’s Timeline: From Independence to War20. Annex B: The Geography of War =506 0\$aOpen Access$fUnrestricted online access$2star =520 \\$aThe full-scale invasion of Ukraine by Russia in 2022 has not only caused immense suffering inside the country, and among its people, it has shifted the political landscape in Russia for the worse, altered the strategic map of Europe, and created division and economic pain in the rest of the world. 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