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urn:uuid:5d9e6da3-de96-4210-baf2-7e6eae1fbd64 03 01 01 urn:uuid:5d9e6da3-de96-4210-baf2-7e6eae1fbd64 15 9781911712398 06 10.31389/lsepress.nbw 00 EB E107 10 Creative Commons License 02 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ 01 01 Navigating the 21st Century Business World Case Studies in Management 1 B01 21 0000-0003-3411-4818 Dorottya Sallai 2 B01 21 0000-0003-4927-809X Alexander Pepper 3 A32 Vida Vida 4 A32 Luciano Andrenacci 5 A32 Yally Avrahampour 6 A32 Michael Barzelay 7 A32 Rebecca Campbell 8 A32 Aurelie Cnop 9 A32 Christine Côté 10 A32 Eleanor Cumpsty 11 A32 Saul Estrin 12 A32 Roger Fon 13 A32 Ian Hill 14 A32 Alfred Jasansky 15 A32 Karin A. King 16 A32 Lauren Oddoye 17 A32 Geoffrey Owen 18 A32 Daniel Shapiro 19 A32 Emma Soane 20 A32 Janna Wirth 01 eng 10 BUS041000 04 HD 93 KJ 93 KJMD 93 4T 03 00 <p><p>Case 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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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. </p><p>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.</p></p> 04 00 1. 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 GKN 3. The collapse of Carillion plc 4. On what matters: Unilever plc – purpose or performance? 5. Asset allocation and governance at the Imperial Tobacco pension fund in the mid-20th century 6. The fall of the Maxwell empire 7. Activist investors: Alliance Trust and Elliott International 8. The failure of the Royal Bank of Scotland 9. China National Petroleum Corporation in Sudan 10. TRQ and Rio Tinto: the Oyu Tolgoi copper mine and the obsolescing bargain in Mongolia 11. Activist investors versus Big Oil: how should ExxonMobil and British Petroleum respond? 12. Environmental impact: why fast fashion is bad for the environment 13. The UK’s National Health Service: teams, conflict and performance 14. Redesigning a performance management system 15. Transformation in the automotive sector: the management challenges of AI and the digital revolution 16. auticon: promoting a neurodiverse workforce 17. Planning and programming for a government-hosted mass-gathering event in India: the 2019 Prayagraj Kumbh Mela 18. Socio-economic background and career progression within the UK Civil Service 20 00 Open Access LSE Press 01 LSE Press London, UK 04 01 20250626 13 15 9781911712381 09 LSE Press 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://press.lse.ac.uk/books/e/10.31389/lsepress.nbw 99 01 09 LSE Press 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.press.lse.ac.uk/10.31389/lsepress.nbw.pdf 99 01 urn:uuid:20c896aa-772c-4d01-8df6-d33476a9a1d8 03 01 01 urn:uuid:20c896aa-772c-4d01-8df6-d33476a9a1d8 15 9781911712565 06 10.31389/lsepress.noa 00 EB E107 10 Creative Commons License 02 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 01 01 Nonauthoritarian Authority Cities, Materiality, and the Aesthetics of Power 1 A01 21 0000-0002-2455-0504 Julian Brigstocke 01 eng 20 Authority B2 Geography 04 GN 93 RGC 10 SOC015000 10 POL062000 20 Speculative 20 Nonauthoritarian 20 Power 20 Pluralising worlds 20 Urban spaces 20 Cities 03 00 <p><p>Authority is not a word with many positive connotations. 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. </p><p>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. </p><p>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.</p></p> 04 00 1. Authority and modernity 2. Attuning to emergent, everyday, ordinary authorities 3. Spaces and aesthetics of authority 4. Four speculative figures of authority: attention, care, birth, attunement 5. Lectio divina – reading Arendt’s ‘What is authority?’ 6. Authority, authorship, form, and genre: a horoscope for the neurotic and paranoid 7. Atmospheric authority and emotional borderwork in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro 8. Landscapes of thinking, or, where am I when I think? 9. Granular authority, bureaucracy, and the aesthetics of sand in colonial Hong Kong 10. Authority, modernity, and the factory of emotions 11. Speculative provocations for a nonauthoritarian authority 20 00 Open Access LSE Press 01 LSE Press London 04 01 20260326 13 15 9781911712558 09 LSE Press 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://press.lse.ac.uk/books/m/10.31389/lsepress.noa 99 01 09 LSE Press 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.press.lse.ac.uk/10.31389/lsepress.noa.pdf 99 01 urn:uuid:d0a7c002-8e97-435d-9bbb-6b616bf84c4e 03 01 01 urn:uuid:d0a7c002-8e97-435d-9bbb-6b616bf84c4e 15 9781909890886 06 10.31389/lsepress.ppc 00 EB E107 10 Creative Commons License 02 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 01 01 Pension Policy and Governmentality in China Manufacturing Public Compliance 1 A01 21 0000-0003-3214-4271 Yan Wang 01 eng 00 282 03 04 JQ 12 KFFP 93 KFFP 20 Pensions 10 POL027000 B2 Political Science 20 China 12 JPP 93 JPP 10 POL017000 B2 Public Policy 12 KFFP 20 Social Security 12 1FPC 20 Statecraft 03 00 <p><p>Rapid 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? </p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p></p> 04 00 1. Introduction 2. Manufacturing compliance with ‘rule by design’ 3. Who gets what and how: governance based on subpopulations 4. Who deserves benefits and why – constructing fairness, pension expectations, and subjectivity 5. Maximising support for pension reform using policy experimentation, and the potential to backfire 6. Falsification of ‘manufactured compliance’ and wider legitimation and governmentality issues 7. Pension issues, state governmentality, and falsified compliance in a comparative perspective 20 00 Open Access LSE Press 01 LSE Press London 04 01 20221027 13 15 9781909890886 09 LSE Press 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.press.lse.ac.uk/10.31389/lsepress.ppc.pdf 99 01 09 LSE Press 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://press.lse.ac.uk/books/m/10.31389/lsepress.ppc 99 01 urn:uuid:8c854cfa-26a0-4f9f-a6be-340d988463d8 03 01 01 urn:uuid:8c854cfa-26a0-4f9f-a6be-340d988463d8 15 9781909890930 06 10.31389/lsepress.pop 00 EB E107 10 Creative Commons License 02 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 01 01 Populism Origins and Alternative Policy Responses 1 B01 21 0000-0003-0441-5062 Andrés Velasco 2 B01 Irene Bucelli 3 A32 Catherine E. De Vries 4 A32 Sara B. Hobolt 5 A32 Michael Ignatieff 6 A32 Gilat Levy 7 A32 Ronny Razin 8 A32 Andrés Rodríguez-Pose 9 A32 David Soskice 01 eng 00 161 03 20 Democracy; Populism; Identity politics; Liberal democracy B2 Economics 12 KC 10 POL007000 12 JPA 20 Liberal democracy B2 Political science 20 Identity politics 20 Populism 20 Democracy 03 00 <p><p>Populist 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.</p><p>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.</p></p> 04 00 1. Introduction Andrés Velasco and Irene Bucelli 2. Populism and Identity Politics Andrés Velasco 3. Democracy Versus Democracy: The Populist Challenge to Liberal Democracy Michael Ignatieff 4. Challenger Parties and Populism Catherine E. De Vries and Sara B. Hobolt 5. The Rise of Populism and the Revenge of the Places That Don’t Matter Andrés Rodríguez-Pose 6. Social Media and Political Polarisation Gilat Levy and Ronny Razin 7. The Technological Revolution, Segregation, and Populism – A Long-Term Strategic Response David Soskice 20 00 Open Access LSE Press 01 LSE Press London 04 01 20220809 13 15 9781909890930 09 LSE Press 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://press.lse.ac.uk/site/books/10.31389/lsepress.pop 99 01 09 LSE Press 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.press.lse.ac.uk/10.31389/lsepress.pop.pdf 99 01 urn:uuid:0a9846b7-0034-4a41-803a-19f19db22f8f 03 01 01 urn:uuid:0a9846b7-0034-4a41-803a-19f19db22f8f 15 9781909890732 06 10.31389/lsepress.cwr 00 EB E107 10 Creative Commons License 02 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 01 01 Conflict, War and Revolution The problem of politics in international political thought 1 A01 Paul Kelly 01 eng 00 472 03 B2 International Relations 12 JPS 10 POL011000 20 Revolution 12 JPA 10 PHI019000 B2 Political Science 20 War 20 International Political Theory 20 International Relations 20 Political Ideas 03 00 <p><p>Violence 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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p></p> 04 00 1. Introduction: Conflict, war, revolution and the character of politics 2. Thucydides: The naturalness of war 3. Augustine: The problem of peace in a violent world 4. Machiavelli: Politics and the use of violence 5. Hobbes: Solving the problem of conflict 6. Locke: Liberalism and the externalisation of conflict 7. Rousseau: The threat of the international order 8. Clausewitz: The professionalisation of war 9. Lenin and Mao: Revolution, violence and war 10. Schmitt: The danger of the international liberal order 11. Conclusion: Realisms in international political theory 20 00 Open Access LSE Press 01 LSE Press UK: London 04 01 20220104 13 15 9781909890725 09 LSE Press 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.press.lse.ac.uk/10.31389/lsepress.cwr.pdf 99 01 09 LSE Press 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://doi.org/10.31389/lsepress.cwr 99 01 urn:uuid:2f6323bb-bf0d-4036-9d9a-3d7fdbc0bba2 03 01 01 urn:uuid:2f6323bb-bf0d-4036-9d9a-3d7fdbc0bba2 15 9781909890770 06 10.31389/lsepress.cov 00 EB E107 10 Creative Commons License 02 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 01 01 COVID-19 in Southeast Asia Insights for a post-pandemic world 1 B01 Murray Mckenzie 2 B01 21 0000-0002-1103-9221 Hyun Bang Shin 3 B01 21 0000-0001-5659-351X Do Young Oh 01 eng 00 342 03 B2 Anthropology 20 Economy 12 JHM 10 SOC053000 B2 Econ Geography 12 RGCM 10 SOC015000 20 Urbanization 12 JHB 20 Migrants 10 SOC042000 B2 Sociology 12 2G 20 Mobilities B2 Southeast Asian Studies 12 AMVD 20 Communities B2 Urban Studies 20 Southeast Asia 20 COVID-19 03 00 <p><p>COVID-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. </p><p>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. </p><p>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. </p><p>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. </p><p>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.</p></p> 04 00 1. Introduction: Insights for a post-pandemic world 2. The urbanisation of spatial inequalities and a new model of urban development 3. Digital transformation, education, and adult learning in Malaysia 4. Data privacy, security, and the future of data governance in Malaysia 5. Economic crisis and the panopticon of the digital virus in Cambodia 6. Property development, capital growth, and housing affordability in Malaysia 7. Business process outsourcing industry in the Philippines 8. Global precarity chains and the economic impact on Cambodia’s garment workers 9. The dual structure of Vietnam’s labour relations 10. Southeast Asian haze and socio-environmental–epidemiological feedback 11. Logistical virulence, migrant exposure, and the underside of Singapore’s model pandemic response 12. The new normal, or the same old? The experiences of domestic workers in Singapore 13. Questioning the ‘hero’s welcome’ for repatriated overseas Filipino workers 14. Exposing the transnational precarity of Filipino workers, healthcare regimes, and nation states 15. The economic case against the marginalisation of migrant workers in Malaysia 16. Emergent bordering tactics, logics of injustice, and the new hierarchies of mobility deservingness 17. The impacts of crisis on the conflict-prone Myanmar–China borderland 18. Rethinking urbanisation, development, and collective action in Indonesia 19. Community struggles and the challenges of solidarity in Myanmar 20. Gotong royong and the role of community in Indonesia 21. Rewriting food insecurity narratives in Singapore 22. Happiness-sharing pantries and the ‘easing of hunger for the needy’ in Thailand 23. Being-in-common and food relief networks in Metro Manila, the Philippines 24. Community responses to gendered issues in Malaysia 25. Building rainbow community resilience among the queer community in Southeast Asia 26. Postscript: in-pandemic academia, scholarly practices, and an ethics of care 20 00 Open Access LSE Press 01 LSE Press UK: London 04 01 20220106 13 15 9781909890763 09 LSE Press 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://press.lse.ac.uk/site/books/10.31389/lsepress.cov 99 01 09 LSE Press 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.press.lse.ac.uk/10.31389/lsepress.cov.pdf 99 01 urn:uuid:2f52138f-d56a-4c5b-bf02-abdd1dd81af3 03 01 01 urn:uuid:2f52138f-d56a-4c5b-bf02-abdd1dd81af3 15 9781911712190 06 10.31389/lsepress.wmf 00 EB E107 10 Creative Commons License 02 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 01 01 Dead Men’s Propaganda Ideology and Utopia in Comparative Communications Studies 1 A01 21 0000-0002-5345-6699 Terhi Rantanen 01 eng 00 363 03 12 GTC 93 GTC 10 LAN004000 04 P 12 JHB 93 JHB 10 SOC026000 93 3MP 03 00 <p><p>In Dead Men’s Propaganda: Ideology and Utopia in Comparative Communications Studies, Terhi Rantanen investigates the shaping of early comparative communications research between the 1920s and 1950s, notably the work of academics and men of practice in the United States. Often neglected, this intellectual thread is highly relevant to understanding the 21st-century’s challenges of war and rival streams of propaganda. </p><p>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. </p><p>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.</p></p> 20 00 Open Access LSE Press 01 LSE Press UK: London 04 01 20240507 13 15 9781911712183 09 LSE Press 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.press.lse.ac.uk/10.31389/lsepress.wmf.pdf 99 01 09 LSE Press 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://press.lse.ac.uk/site/books/m/10.31389/lsepress.wmf/ 99 01 urn:uuid:f8247f73-0f29-4090-9cfb-92d7d600d9d8 03 01 01 urn:uuid:f8247f73-0f29-4090-9cfb-92d7d600d9d8 15 9781909890855 06 10.31389/lsepress.dlg 00 EB E107 10 Creative Commons License 02 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 01 01 Decentralised Governance Crafting effective democracies around the world 1 B01 21 0000-0002-7188-0098 Jean-Paul Faguet 2 B01 21 0000-0002-2225-4429 Sarmistha Pal 01 eng 00 390 03 20 Decentralisation B2 Government 93 JPRB 12 JPRB 10 POL017000 04 Public administration 20 Government B2 International Development 93 JPP 12 JPP 10 POL028000 93 JKS 12 JKS 20 Local Government 10 POL048000 B2 Pubic Policy 20 Democracy 20 Global South 03 00 <p><p>For 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.</p><p>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.</p></p> 04 00 1. Decentralised governance: crafting effective democracies around the world 2. Understanding decentralisation: theory, evidence, and practice 3. Decentralised targeting of transfer programmes: a reassessment 4. Realising the promise of partial decentralisation 5. Devolution under autocracy: evidence from Pakistan 6. Social fragmentation, public goods, and local elections: evidence from China 7. How does fiscal decentralisation affect local polities? Evidence from local communities in Indonesia 8. Can parliamentary sanctions strengthen local political accountability? Evidence from Kenya 9. Centralised versus decentralised monitoring in developing countries: a survey of recent research 10. Subnational governance in Ghana: a comparative assessment of data and performance 11. Birth registration, child rights, and local governance in Bangladesh 12. Administrative decentralisation and its impacts on educational expenditure and student outcomes: evidence from Colombia 20 00 Open Access LSE Press 01 LSE Press London 04 01 20230913 13 15 9781909890848 09 LSE Press 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.press.lse.ac.uk/10.31389/lsepress.dlg.pdf 99 01 09 LSE Press 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://press.lse.ac.uk/site/books/10.31389/lsepress.dlg 99 01 urn:uuid:60b3fdb5-923d-44a7-9f9f-9dfb2811c393 03 01 01 urn:uuid:60b3fdb5-923d-44a7-9f9f-9dfb2811c393 15 9781911712350 06 10.31389/lsepress.hae 00 EB E107 10 Creative Commons License 02 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ 01 01 How Africa Eats Trade, Food Security and Climate Risks 1 B01 David Fashole Luke 01 eng 20 African trade 04 HD 93 RNFF 10 SOC055000 10 BUS070120 93 RNT 20 Trade policy 20 Climate change 93 KNAC 10 SCI092000 20 Agricultural trade 93 KCLT 93 1H 03 00 <p><p>Why do images and reports of starving and malnourished Africans appear so often in the media? 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. </p><p>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. </p><p>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. </p><p>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.</p></p> 04 00 1. Introduction: towards a reassessment of food deprivation in Africa David Luke 2. Africa’s trade, food security and climate risks Jamie MacLeod 3. What Africa eats – the basic foods Olawale Ogunkola & Vinaye Dey Ancharaz 4. Policy, resources, actors and capacities Vinaye Dey Ancharaz 5. Intra-African food trade David Luke et al. 6. Expected impact of the African Continental Free Trade Area on food security Jamie MacLeod 7. Food security in the African Continental Free Trade Area legal framework Colette Van der Ven 8. Africa’s bilateral food trade Vinaye Dey Ancharaz 9. The World Trade Organization’s legal framework and Africa’s food security Colette Van der Ven & David Luke 10. Conclusion: trade, food security and climate risks David Luke 20 00 Open Access LSE Press 01 LSE Press London 04 01 20250522 13 15 9781911712343 09 LSE Press 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.press.lse.ac.uk/10.31389/lsepress.hae.pdf 99 01 09 LSE Press 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://press.lse.ac.uk/books/e/10.31389/lsepress.hae 99 01 urn:uuid:3ff8cc27-66c3-40cd-b776-1f5bee1c5587 03 01 01 urn:uuid:3ff8cc27-66c3-40cd-b776-1f5bee1c5587 15 9781911712060 06 10.31389/lsepress.hat 00 EB E107 10 Creative Commons License 02 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ 01 01 How Africa Trades 1 B01 David Fashole Luke 01 eng 00 208 03 10 BUS069020 20 Economic transformation 12 LNTJ B2 Public policy 10 BUS068000 20 Industrial development 12 KCD B2 Trade economics 20 Poverty reduction 20 AfCFTA 20 Trade flows 03 00 <p><p>Trade 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.</p><p>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. </p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p></p> 04 00 1. Trade and investment flows and a perspective for analysing trade policy in Africa Jamie MacLeod & David Luke 2. The AfCFTA and regional trade Jamie MacLeod et al. 3. Africa’s trade arrangements with the European Union and China David Luke et al. 4. Africa’s trade arrangements with the United States, the United Kingdom, and other prominent partners David Luke et al. 5. Africa in the World Trade Organization Colette van der Ven & David Luke 6. How the Covid-19 crisis affected formal trade Jamie MacLeod & Geoffroy Guepie 7. How the Covid-19 crisis affected informal and digital trade Kulani McCartan-Demie & Jamie MacLeod 8. Conclusion: it’s in the world’s interest to give Africa a new trade deal David Luke 20 00 Open Access LSE Press 01 LSE Press UK: London 04 01 20230515 13 15 9781911712060 09 LSE Press 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.press.lse.ac.uk/10.31389/lsepress.hat.pdf 99 01 09 LSE Press 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://press.lse.ac.uk/site/books/10.31389/lsepress.hat 99 01 urn:uuid:66de44e7-39e4-4b5a-90f6-090f12614667 03 01 01 urn:uuid:66de44e7-39e4-4b5a-90f6-090f12614667 15 9781911712114 06 10.31389/lsepress.hdb 00 EB E107 10 Creative Commons License 02 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 01 01 How Did Britain Come to This? A century of systemic failures of governance 1 A01 21 0000-0003-2123-3770 Gwyn Bevan 01 eng 00 326 03 20 Governance 04 JN 12 JPQ 93 JPQ 10 POL058000 93 JPP 12 JPP 10 POL028000 20 Public policy 20 British politics 93 KCP 12 KCP 12 1DBK 93 1DDU 03 00 <p><p>If 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. <break/> <break/>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. <break/> <break/>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.</p></p> 04 00 1. Why governance matters – analysing systemic failures in the NHS 2. Economic and geographical fault lines 3. The interwar period and the Attlee settlement 4. The Attlee settlement’s failures: stagflation, slums in the sky and educational geography 5. Neoliberalism and the new Thatcher settlement 6. The ‘make or buy’ decision: the UK’s ‘parastate’ after privatisation and outsourcing 7. Marketisation in education 8. Healthcare: to marketise or not to marketise? 9. Playing the opening and middle games against Covid-19 10 Afterword: re-engaging with public governance 20 00 Open Access LSE Press 01 LSE Press UK: London 04 01 20231023 13 15 9781911712107 09 LSE Press 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.press.lse.ac.uk/10.31389/lsepress.hdb.pdf 99 01 09 LSE Press 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://press.lse.ac.uk/site/books/m/10.31389/lsepress.hdb/ 99 01 urn:uuid:b9c0ce93-48ff-4dcc-98bf-d8e065873a99 03 01 01 urn:uuid:b9c0ce93-48ff-4dcc-98bf-d8e065873a99 15 9781909890954 06 10.31389/lsepress/eth 00 EB E107 10 Creative Commons License 02 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ 01 01 If You’re So Ethical, Why Are You So Highly Paid? Ethics, Inequality and Executive Pay 1 A01 21 0000-0003-4927-809X Alexander Pepper 01 eng 00 198 03 10 BUS008000 B2 Business ethics 04 HD 12 KJG 93 KJG 20 Unequal pay 10 BUS071000 20 Business ethics B2 Experimental Philosophy 12 HPQ 93 QDTQ 10 BUS038020 12 KCF 93 KCF B2 Management 20 Renumeration 20 Market failure 20 Pay inequality 20 Distributive justices 03 00 <p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p></p> 04 00 1. 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 20 00 Open Access LSE Press 01 LSE Press London 04 01 20221103 13 15 9781909890947 09 LSE Press 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.press.lse.ac.uk/10.31389/lsepress.pdf 99 01 09 LSE Press 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://press.lse.ac.uk/site/books/10.31389/lsepress/eth 99 01 urn:uuid:87ba80cb-eebd-4576-a8c4-a82a1b5bf19a 03 01 01 urn:uuid:87ba80cb-eebd-4576-a8c4-a82a1b5bf19a 15 9781909890695 06 10.31389/lsepress.ame 00 EB E107 10 Creative Commons License 02 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ 01 01 Advanced Macroeconomics An Easy Guide 1 A01 Filipe Campante 2 A01 Federico Sturzenegger 3 A01 21 0000-0003-0441-5062 Andrés Velasco 01 eng 00 418 03 10 BUS039000 B2 Economic Policy 12 K 20 Macroeconomic Policy Discussions B2 Economic Theory 20 Fiscal and Monetary Policy 12 KCA 20 Business Cycles B2 Economics 12 KCB 20 Economic Fluctuations B2 Economics 20 Economic Growth B2 Macroeconomics 20 Advanced macroeconomics 03 00 <p><p>Macroeconomic policy is one of the most important policy domains, and the tools of macroeconomics are among the most valuable for policy makers. Yet there has been, up to now, a wide gulf between the level at which macroeconomics is taught at the undergraduate level and the level at which it is practiced. At the same time, doctoral-level textbooks are usually not targeted at a policy audience, making advanced macroeconomics less accessible to current and aspiring practitioners. </p><p>This book, born out of the Masters course the authors taught for many years at the Harvard Kennedy School, fills this gap. It introduces the tools of dynamic optimization in the context of economic growth, and then applies them to a wide range of policy questions – ranging from pensions, consumption, investment and finance, to the most recent developments in fiscal and monetary policy. It does so with the requisite rigor, but also with a light touch, and an unyielding focus on their application to policy-making, as befits the authors’ own practical experience. </p><p>Advanced Macroeconomics: An Easy Guide is bound to become a great resource for graduate and advanced undergraduate students, and practitioners alike.</p></p> 04 00 1. Introduction 2. Growth theory preliminaries 3. The neoclassical growth model 4. An application: The small open economy 5. Endogenous growth models I: Escaping diminishing returns 6. Endogenous growth models II: Technological change 7. Proximate and fundamental causes of growth 8. Overlapping generations models 9. An application: Pension systems and transitions 10. Unified growth theory 11. Consumption 12. Consumption under uncertainty and macro finance 13. Investment 14. Real business cycles 15. (New) Keynesian theories of fluctuations: A primer 16. Unemployment 17. Fiscal policy I: Public debt and the effectiveness of fiscal policy 18. Fiscal policy II: The long-run determinants of fiscal policy 19. Monetary policy: An introduction 20. Rules vs Discretion 21. Recent debates in monetary policy 22. New developments in monetary and fiscal policy 23. Appendix A: Very brief mathematical appendix 24. Appendix B: Simulating an RBC model 25. Appendix C: Simulating a DSGE model 20 00 Open Access LSE Press 01 LSE Press London 04 01 20211011 13 15 9781909890688 09 LSE Press 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.press.lse.ac.uk/10.31389/lsepress.ame.pdf 99 01 09 LSE Press 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://press.lse.ac.uk/books/m/10.31389/lsepress.ame 99 01 urn:uuid:8375f936-b472-4ee5-98d4-69576359e240 03 01 01 urn:uuid:8375f936-b472-4ee5-98d4-69576359e240 15 9781909890985 06 10.31389/lsepress.afg 00 EB E107 10 Creative Commons License 02 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 01 01 Afghanistan Long War, Forgotten Peace 1 B01 Michael Cox 01 eng 00 314 03 B2 Human rights 12 JPVH 20 Middle East 10 POL011000 20 Afghan conflict B2 International relations 12 JPS 10 POL012000 10 POL059000 B2 War and conflict 20 Women’s rights 12 YXZW 20 International relations 20 Taliban 20 Afghanistan 03 00 <p><p>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. <i>Afghanistan: Long War, Forgotten Peace</italic> examines multiple dimensions of what happened and why, and what the future holds for the country now the Taliban are back in power. </p><p>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. </p><p>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. </p><p><break/></p><h3>Early praise for&nbsp;<i>Afghanistan</italic></h3><p>“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.” <break/><p style="text-align: right;"><i style="text-align: right;">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</italic></p><p>“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.” <break/><p style="text-align: right;"><i>Professor Gerry Simpson, FBA, Professor of International Public International Law, LSE Law School</italic></p><p>“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.” <break/><p style="text-align: right;"><i style="text-align: right;">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’</italic></p><p>“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!” <break/><p style="text-align: right;"><i style="text-align: right;">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'</italic></p></p> 04 00 1. Introduction – Before and After the Towers: Afghanistan’s Forty-Year Crisis 2. Afghanistan: Learning from History? 3. Three Sins: The Disconnect Between de jure Institutions and de facto Power in Afghanistan 4. Self-Defence and its Dangerous Variants: Afghanistan and International Law 5. Why Did the Taliban Win (Again) in Afghanistan? 6. The Rise and Fall of Women’s Rights in Afghanistan 7. Women, War, and the Politics of Emancipation in Afghanistan 8. Human Trafficking in Afghanistan – What Hope for Change? 9. Opium, Meth and the Future of International Drug Control in Taliban Afghanistan 10. Operationally Agile but Strategically Lacking: NATO’s Bruising Years in Afghanistan 11. Biden’s Realism, US Restraint, and the Future of the Transatlantic Partnership 12. China’s New Engagement with Afghanistan after the Withdrawal 20 00 Open Access LSE Press 01 LSE Press London 04 01 20221128 13 15 9781909890985 09 LSE Press 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.press.lse.ac.uk/10.31389/lsepress.afg.pdf 99 01 09 LSE Press 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://press.lse.ac.uk/site/books/10.31389/lsepress.afg 99 01 urn:uuid:80be8f95-dbeb-42d7-b843-a70e79e46edb 03 01 01 urn:uuid:80be8f95-dbeb-42d7-b843-a70e79e46edb 15 9781911712312 06 10.31389/lsepress.ada 00 EB E107 10 Creative Commons License 02 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ 01 01 Australia's Evolving Democracy A New Democratic Audit 1 B01 21 0000-0003-4831-2639 Mark Evans 2 B01 21 0000-0002-2650-6398 Patrick Dunleavy 3 B01 21 0000-0002-3865-0928 John Phillimore 01 eng 93 JPHV 04 JQ 10 POL007000 93 JPHC 10 POL055000 93 1MBF 10 POL016000 10 6.0.1.0.0.0.0 03 00 <p><p>In recent times Australia has developed into one of the world’s leading liberal democracies. Its governments have delivered continuous economic growth for more than three decades, even against the turmoil of a global pandemic. And the country’s highly competitive elections and strong political institutions operate within a stable and balanced federal system. </p><p>In Australia’s Evolving Democracy a team of leading academic authors use an audit approach to critically explore national government institutions, as well as state- and territory-level politics, and to examine how each has contributed to or held back Australian political life as it has changed and diversified. For instance, the top two parties’ monopoly of governance has only begun to adjust to a modern transition to multi-party politics, although balanced voting systems for two-house legislatures have allowed for some adaptation. To date, the country has successfully avoided both rancorous populist politics (as in the USA) and serious governance decline (as in the UK). </p><p>Each of the book’s 28 chapters tackles one institution or issue, outlining recent developments along with an analysis of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats, to fully evaluate the state of Australian democracy in the 21st century. In doing so, the authors draw key lessons for other democracies, showing in detail how robust major and micro-institutions can guard against democratic ‘backsliding’ and policy failures. </p><p>This comprehensive audit also highlights scope for potential democratic improvements. Australia continues to confront the challenges of partisan political barriers to addressing climate change and improving the situation of First Nations peoples, redressing modern social inequalities, and responding to popular mistrust of government and politicians. </p><p>By taking an in-depth, nuanced approach to multiple democratic issues across the whole of the country’s distinctive political system, this book provides analysis that is accessible for students new to Australian politics, along with many insights for political scientists studying comparative democratic politics and Australian institutions.</p></p> 04 00 PART I FOUNDATIONS 1 Situating Australian democracy Patrick Dunleavy, Mark Evans, Harry Hobbs and Patrick Weller 2 Human rights and civil liberties Mark Evans and Stan Grant 3 The Constitution Harry Hobbs 4 The 2023 Voice to Parliament referendum Mark Evans and Michelle Grattan PART II NATIONAL POLITICS 5 Elections and voting Patrick Dunleavy and Mark Evans 6 Political parties Patrick Dunleavy and Mark Evans 7 Interest groups and corporate power Patrick Dunleavy 8 Mainstream media Patrick Dunleavy 9 Social media Max Halupka 10 Gender equality and rights Pia Rowe PART III FEDERAL GOVERNMENT 11 Parliament – the House of Representatives Sarah Moulds 12 Parliament – the Senate Brenton Prosser, Mary Walsh and John Hawkins 13 Prime Minister, Cabinet and government Mark Evans and Patrick Dunleavy 14 The Australian Public Service John Halligan and Mark Evans 15 Government policy-making John Butcher 16 How democratic is Australian federalism? John Phillimore and Alan Fenna PART IV STATE AND LOCAL POLITICS 17 New South Wales Mark Evans 18 Victoria Tom Daly and James Murphy 19 Queensland Cosmo Howard and Pandanus Petter 20 South Australia Rob Manwaring, Josh Holloway and Andrew Parkin 21 Western Australia John Phillimore, Martin Drum, Sarah Murray, Peter Wilkins, Narelle Miragliotta and Benjamin Reilly 22 Tasmania Lachlan Johnson, Richard Eccleston and Mike Lester 23 Northern Territory Rolf Gerritsen 24 Australian Capital Territory Brendan McCaffrie 25 Local democracy in metropolitan regions and big cities Graham Sansom and Su Fei Tan 26 Systems of local government Su Fei Tan and Graham Sansom PART V CHALLENGES AND CHANGE 27 Political institutions in the Anthropocene Pierrick Chalaye and John S. Dryzek 28 Democratic resilience and change Patrick Dunleavy and Mark Evans 20 00 Open Access LSE Press 01 LSE Press London 04 01 20241205 13 15 9781911712305 09 LSE Press 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://press.lse.ac.uk/books/e/10.31389/lsepress.ada 99 01 09 LSE Press 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.press.lse.ac.uk/10.31389/lsepress.ada.pdf 99 01 urn:uuid:38d26bff-897c-42b3-bb96-eb94984d1391 03 01 01 urn:uuid:38d26bff-897c-42b3-bb96-eb94984d1391 15 9781911712237 06 10.31389/lsepress.rpg 00 EB E107 10 Creative Commons License 02 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 01 01 Renegotiating Patriarchy Gender, Agency and the Bangladesh Paradox 1 A01 21 0000-0001-7769-9540 Naila Kabeer 01 eng 00 356 03 04 HC 93 JBSA 10 SOC050000 93 1FKB 10 2.3.1.0.0.0.0 93 KCM 10 POL024000 93 JBSF1 10 SOC028000 03 00 <p><p>The 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.  </p><p>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. </p><p>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. </p><p>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.</p></p> 04 00 1. 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 20 00 Open Access LSE Press 01 LSE Press UK: London 04 01 20240926 13 15 9781911712220 09 LSE Press 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://press.lse.ac.uk/books/m/10.31389/lsepress.rpg 99 01 09 LSE Press 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.press.lse.ac.uk/10.31389/lsepress.rpg.pdf 99 01 urn:uuid:38d50ad2-8e74-48be-be21-92335d73fdc0 03 01 01 urn:uuid:38d50ad2-8e74-48be-be21-92335d73fdc0 15 9781911712022 06 10.31389/lsepress.spa 00 EB E107 10 Creative Commons License 02 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ 01 01 Spectrum Auctions Designing markets to benefit the public, industry and the economy 1 A01 21 0000-0002-0764-6192 Geoffrey Myers 01 eng 00 314 03 10 BUS079000 B2 Economics 04 HE 12 JPP 93 JPP 20 Spectrum auctions 20 Auction theory B2 Public policy 10 TEC071000 93 TJK 12 TJK 93 KNTX 12 KNTX 20 Radio spectrum 10 TEC034000 20 Auction design 20 Digital communication 20 Regulation 03 00 <p><p>Access 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.</p><p>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.</p></p> 04 00 1. Preface 2. Introducing spectrum auctions 3. Understanding the radio spectrum, auctions, and the UK case 4. Market design, economic efficiency, and game theory for spectrum auctions 5. Regulation, public value, and policymaking 6. Applying expertise in decision-making processes 7. Laying foundations before the auction 8. Auction design objectives and baseline decisions 9. Choosing an auction format 10. Promoting downstream competition 11. Harnessing auctions for better-informed public policy decisions 12. Auction bidding and outcomes 13. Afterword: Reflections for future auctions 14. Annex A: Further details of the UK’s spectrum auctions, 2000–21 15. Annex B: Further explanation of the Combinatorial Clock Auction (CCA) format and bidding in the UK’s 2013 auction 16. Annex C: Additional explanation of the cost-benefit role of auctions 20 00 Open Access LSE Press 01 LSE Press UK: London 04 01 20230215 13 15 9781911712022 09 LSE Press 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://press.lse.ac.uk/books/m/10.31389/lsepress.spa 99 01 09 LSE Press 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.press.lse.ac.uk/10.31389/lsepress.spa.pdf 99 01 urn:uuid:c808fb1b-a394-4695-84dc-b4163eeecaf5 03 01 01 urn:uuid:c808fb1b-a394-4695-84dc-b4163eeecaf5 15 9781911712480 06 10.31389/lsepress.tgs 00 EB E107 10 Creative Commons License 02 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ 01 01 The Growth Story of the 21st Century The Economics and Opportunity of Climate Action 1 A01 21 0009-0006-3863-5361 Nicholas Stern 01 eng B2 Economics 93 RNU 10 SCI092000 20 Sustainable development 10 BUS072000 B2 Climate policy 20 Growth 20 Climate action B2 Public policy B2 Development economics 20 Economic Transformation 20 Investment and Innovation 20 Climate Policy 03 00 <p><p>The 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.</p><p>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. <break/> <break/>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.</p></p> 04 00 PART I: FOUNDATIONS: A WORLD RE-DRAWN AND AN URGENT AGENDA FOR ACTION 1. How we got here, and where to now 1.1 Lessons from the two decades following the Stern Review 1.2 The new objective: from growth to sustainability 1.3 Extraordinary advances and deep challenges 1.4 International agreements: the significance of Paris, COP21 1.5 Growth: received theories, change, and the new vision 1.6 Concluding remarks: towards sustainable development 2. Some fundamentals: science and nature 2.1 The forces and the dangers 2.2 Risks, urgency, overshooting, tipping points, and carbon budgets 2.3 Adaptation, hazards, vulnerability, and development 2.4 Nature: biodiversity and climate 2.5 Concluding remarks: the science is clear and sets the timetable 3. More fundamentals: politics, economics, ethics 3.1 Politics and its intersections with history and geography 3.2 Economics and ethics 3.3 Ways forward for constructive analysis in economics and the social sciences 3.4 Concluding remarks: to my fellow economists 4. A changing world: new opportunities and an agenda for action 4.1 Forces for change: public pressure and legal accountability 4.2 Technology, innovation, and the private sector 4.3 International action in a changing world 4.4 A new geopolitics 4.5 Concluding remarks: the agenda PART II. THE NEW GROWTH STORY: INVESTMENT, INNOVATION, AND FUNDAMENTAL STRUCTURAL CHANGE 5. Rising to the challenges: the key elements of a new growth story 5.1 The drivers of growth  5.2 Economy-wide integrated action  5.3 Errors in common counterarguments 5.4 Investment across sectors and geographies 5.5 Development, poverty reduction, and climate action 5.6 Concluding remarks: the new growth and development story 6. Perspectives, policies, institutions: actions for rapid structural transformation and sustainable growth 6.1 Concepts and perspectives; technologies and systems 6.2 Fostering investment: strategies, systems, and platforms 6.3 Incentive structures for the new economy: tackling market failures 6.4 Financial structures for the new economy 6.5 Distribution and a just transition 6.6 Macroeconomic challenges 6.7 Concluding remarks: opportunities, choices, trade-offs, and commitment 7. The role of the state in a changing world 7.1 The confusions, failures, and dangers of market fundamentalism 7.2 The role of the state in driving change: crisis, urgency, and systemic transformation 7.3 Global public goods and internationalism 7.4 Institutions, rights, and behaviours 7.5 Political economy 7.6 Concluding remarks: recasting the role of the state PART III: INTERNATIONAL ACTION 8. Transformation of the international economy: interdependencies, new structures and geographies, differences across nations 8.1 An interdependent world 8.2 A new global economic geography 8.3 New opportunities: new resources, new players, competition 8.4 Natural capital: investment and impact 8.5 Differences between nations: EMDCs’ huge energy potential and infrastructure needs 8.6 Concluding remarks: opportunity, international cooperation, and a new economic geography 9. International action for sustainable development: investment, finance and collaboration 9.1 Future foundations: restoring trust and building new leadership 9.2 The investment imperative: what is needed where 9.3 Mobilising finance: international collaboration 9.4 Technology, industrial policy, trade, and innovation 9.5 Aligning global climate and biodiversity action 9.6 Overshooting, negative emissions, geoengineering 9.7 Concluding remarks: a global response to a global challenge PART IV: GALVANISING ACTION 10. Fallacies and confusions; obstacles and the risk of failure 10.1 Fallacies from advocates of weak or delayed action 10.2 Confusion and misdirection 10.3 Obstacles, action to tackle them, and the research agenda 10.4 Crucial issues that get too little attention: adaptation and biodiversity 10.5 Concluding remarks: dispelling fallacies and overcoming obstacles to action 11. Prospects for success: opportunity, urgency, multilateralism 11.1 Retrospect: developments since the Stern Review 11.2 Prospect: fostering action and an agenda for economics and the social sciences 11.3 Multilateralism 11.4 Concluding remarks: ‘Yes, we can’; success is possible 20 00 Open Access LSE Press 01 LSE Press London 04 01 20251105 13 15 9781911712473 09 LSE Press 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.press.lse.ac.uk/10.31389/lsepress.tgs.pdf 99 01 09 LSE Press 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://press.lse.ac.uk/books/m/10.31389/lsepress.tgs 99 01 urn:uuid:d95151c4-fb83-4008-86bf-57ecc9ac9937 03 01 01 urn:uuid:d95151c4-fb83-4008-86bf-57ecc9ac9937 15 9781911712442 06 10.31389/lsepress.tlc 00 EB E107 10 Creative Commons License 02 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ 01 01 The London Consensus Economic Principles for the 21st Century 1 B01 21 0000-0002-8923-6372 Tim Besley 2 B01 Irene Bucelli 3 B01 21 0000-0003-0441-5062 Andrés Velasco 4 A32 Philippe Aghion 5 A32 Matthew Andrews 6 A32 Oriana Bandiera 7 A32 Pranab Bardhan 8 A32 Nicholas Barr 9 A32 Olivier Blanchard 10 A32 Timo Boppart 11 A32 Robin Burgess 12 A32 Pedro Carneiro 13 A32 Joan Costa-i-Font 14 A32 Diane Coyle 15 A32 Ernesto Dal Bó 16 A32 Ashwini Deshpande 17 A32 Tim Dobermann 18 A32 Dave Donaldson 19 A32 Francisco H. G. Ferreira 20 A32 Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas 22 A32 Chryssi Giannitsarou 24 A32 Ricardo Hausmann 25 A32 Dan Honig 26 A32 Paul Johnson 27 A32 Şebnem Kalemli-Özcan 28 A32 Ravi Kanbur 29 A32 Adnan Khan 30 A32 Margaret Levi 31 A32 Santiago Levy 32 A32 Nora Lustig 33 A32 Isabela Manelici 34 A32 Michael Marmot 35 A32 Alistair McGuire 36 A32 Joana Naritomi 37 A32 Chukwumerije Okereke 38 A32 Torsten Persson 39 A32 Barbara Petrongolo 40 A32 Jean Pisani-Ferry 41 A32 Christopher Pissarides 42 A32 Lant Pritchett 43 A32 Carol Propper 44 A32 Danny Quah 45 A32 Ricardo Reis 46 A32 Hélène Rey 47 A32 Elizabeth Robinson 48 A32 Dani Rodrik 49 A32 Thomas Sampson 50 A32 Kirsten Sehnbruch 51 A32 Almudena Sevilla 52 A32 Ranjeeta Thomas 53 A32 Paul Tucker 54 A32 Miguel Urquiola 55 A32 John Van Reenen 56 A32 Anthony Venables 57 A32 Leonard Wantchekon 01 eng 00 632 03 10 BUS068000 04 HB 93 KC 93 JPP 10 POL028000 03 00 <p><p>A generation ago, the so-called Washington Consensus laid out a series of dos and don’ts for policymakers around the world. 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. </p><p>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. </p><p>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.</p><p>For more on the London Consensus project, see: https://www.lse.ac.uk/school-of-public-policy/Research/London-Consensus</p></p> 04 00 1. Towards a London Economic Consensus: an introduction Tim Besley and Andrés Velasco PART I: INNOVATION AND PRODUCTIVITY 2. Fostering green and inclusive productivity growth Philippe Aghion and John Van Reenen Response to Philippe Aghion and John Van Reenen Diane Coyle Response to Philippe Aghion and John Van Reenen Timo Boppart 3. On productivism Dani Rodrik Response to Dani Rodrik Jean Pisani-Ferry Response to Dani Rodrik Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas PART II: TRADE 4. International trade since the Washington Consensus: the gains and the pains Dave Donaldson Response to Dave Donaldson Thomas Sampson Response to Dave Donaldson Anthony Venables 5. Export-led growth Ricardo Hausmann Response to Ricardo Hausmann Isabela Manelici Response to Ricardo Hausmann Danny Quah PART III: MACROECONOMIC POLICY 6. Fiscal policy and public debt Ricardo Reis and Andrés Velasco Response to Ricardo Reis and Andrés Velasco Olivier Blanchard Response to Ricardo Reis and Andrés Velasco Chryssi Giannitsarou 7. Monetary and financial policies Hélène Rey Response to Hélène Rey Paul Tucker Response to Hélène Rey Şebnem Kalemli-Özcan PART IV: LABOUR MARKET 8. Labour markets and the future of work Christopher Pissarides Response to Christopher Pissarides Kirsten Sehnbruch 9. Labour markets and gender inequality Oriana Bandiera and Barbara Petrongolo Response to Oriana Bandiera and Barbara Petrongolo Ashwini Deshpande Response to Oriana Bandiera and Barbara Petrongolo Almudena Sevilla PART V COHESION, EQUITY AND SOCIAL POLICY 10. Is there a ‘new consensus’ on inequality? Francisco H. G. Ferreira Response to Francisco H. G. Ferreira Ravi Kanbur Response to Francisco H. G. Ferreira Nora Lustig 11. Welfare state Nicholas Barr Response to Nicholas Barr Santiago Levy Response to Nicholas Barr Paul Johnson 12. Addressing the learning crisis: an emergent consensus Lant Pritchett Response to Lant Pritchett Pedro Carneiro Response to Lant Pritchett Miguel Urquiola 13. Towards resilient and sustainable universal healthcare coverage Alistair McGuire, Joan Costa-i-Font and Ranjeeta Thomas Response to Alistair McGuire, Joan Costa-i-Font and Ranjeeta Thomas Carol Propper Response to Alistair McGuire, Joan Costa-i-Font and Ranjeeta Thomas Michael Marmot PART VI: ENVIRONMENT AND CLIMATE CHANGE 14. Climate and environment: what we know and what we need to know Robin Burgess and Tim Dobermann 15. Tackling climate change in low- and middle-income countries Elizabeth Robinson and Chukwumerije Okereke PART VII: POLITICAL ECONOMY AND STATE CAPACITY 16. From liberal economic policies to liberal political institutions? Democracy, development clusters and wellbeing Tim Besley and Torsten Persson Response to Tim Besley and Torsten Persson Margaret Levi Response to Tim Besley and Torsten Persson Leonard Wantchekon 17. State capacity Dan Honig, Adnan Khan and Joana Naritomi Response to Dan Honig, Adnan Khan and Joana Naritomi Matthew Andrews Response to Dan Honig, Adnan Khan and Joana Naritomi Ernesto Dal Bó Afterword Pranab Bardhan 20 00 Open Access LSE Press 01 LSE Press London 04 01 20251016 13 15 9781911712435 09 LSE Press 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://press.lse.ac.uk/en/books/26/files/b1a3c20c-9e9e-47cc-87ec-3575abe20865.pdf 99 01 09 LSE Press 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://press.lse.ac.uk/books/e/10.31389/lsepress.tlc 99 01 urn:uuid:31c3574f-029d-4433-97e3-cc04cfc90837 03 01 01 urn:uuid:31c3574f-029d-4433-97e3-cc04cfc90837 15 9781911712275 06 10.31389/lsepress.ose 00 EB E107 10 Creative Commons License 02 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ 01 01 The Open Society as an Enemy A Critique of How Free Societies Turned Against Themselves 1 A01 J. McKenzie Alexander 01 eng 00 359 03 04 B 10 PHI034000 93 QDTS 93 JPA 10 POL007000 93 JBS 03 00 <p><p>Nearly 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. </p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p></p> 04 00 Introduction Part I: Don’t come around here no more The cosmopolitan conception of the Open Society 1. 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 Society 8. 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 Society 16. Generation Wuss? 17. Trigger warnings 18. Safe spaces 19. No-platforming 20. Concluding remarks Part IV: Modern tribes The communitarian conception of the Open Society 21. 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 remarks We can work it out 20 00 Open Access LSE Press 01 LSE Press London 04 01 20241127 13 15 9781911712268 09 LSE Press 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.press.lse.ac.uk/10.31389/lsepress.ose.pdf 99 01 09 LSE Press 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://press.lse.ac.uk/books/m/10.31389/lsepress.ose 99 01 urn:uuid:bd56a31e-ed11-4dcc-be0e-27cf597a0183 03 01 01 urn:uuid:bd56a31e-ed11-4dcc-be0e-27cf597a0183 15 9781909890442 06 10.31389/book1 00 EB E107 10 Creative Commons License 02 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ 01 01 The UK's Changing Democracy The 2018 Democratic Audit 1 B01 21 0000-0002-2650-6398 Patrick Dunleavy 2 B01 Alice Park 3 B01 Ros Taylor 01 eng 00 520 03 12 1DBK B2 Democracy 10 POL007000 20 UK democracy B2 Government 12 JP 10 POL058000 20 UK politics 12 JPHC 10 POL000000 20 political parties B2 Political Science 20 devolution 12 JPHV 10 POL015000 B2 UK politics 20 democratic audit 12 JPL 10 POL022000 20 government 03 00 <p><p>The 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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p></p> 04 00 Preface Acknowledgements Contributors List of figures and tables 1. Auditing the UK’s changing democracy 1.1 The worsening context for liberal democracy 1.2 Evaluating UK democracy and the Democratic Audit’s choice of methods 1.3 The ambivalent legacies of the ‘British tradition’ 2. How democratic are the UK’s electoral systems? 2.1 The Westminster ‘plurality rule’ electoral system 2.2 The reformed electoral systems used in Britain’s devolved governments and England’s mayoral elections 2.3 The UK’s proportional electoral system: the single transferable vote (STV) 2.4 Are elections conducted with integrity, with sufficient turnout? 3. How democratic are the channels for political participation? 3.1 The political parties and party system 3.2 The interest group process 3.3 The media system 3.4 Social media and citizen vigilance 4. How democratic is the Westminster Parliament? 4.1 The House of Commons: control of government and citizen representation 4.2 The Commons’ two committee systems and scrutiny of government policy-making 4.3 Accountability of the security and intelligence services 4.4 How undemocratic is the House of Lords? 5. How democratic and effective is UK national government? 5.1 The basic constitutional law 5.2 The core executive and government 5.3 The civil service and public services management systems 5.4 How transparent and free from corruption is UK government? 5.5 In terms of Brexit 5.6 The basic structure of the devolution settlements 6. How democratic are the UK’s devolved government arrangements? 6.1 Scotland: devolved government and national politics 6.2 Scotland: local government and politics 6.3 Wales: devolved government and national politics 6.4 Wales: local government and politics 6.5 Northern Ireland: devolved government and politics 6.6 Northern Ireland: local government and politics 6.7 London: devolved government and politics at metropolitan level 6.8 London: government and politics in the boroughs 6.9 England: local government and politics 7. How far are equalities essential for liberal democracy secured? 7.1 Human rights and civil liberties 7.2 Gender equality 7.3 Equality and ethnic minorities 7.4 The rights of workers 7.5 Class disparities and social inequalities 8. Assessing democratic quality and the potential for democratic advance 8.1 Assessing democratic quality and renewing the potential for democratic advance 8.2 Counteracting democratic decay References Index 20 00 Open Access LSE Press 01 LSE Press London 04 01 20181101 13 15 9781909890442 09 LSE Press 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.press.lse.ac.uk/10.31389/book1.pdf 99 01 09 LSE Press 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://press.lse.ac.uk/site/books/10.31389/book1 99 01 urn:uuid:a38ae111-09a5-4899-a9f1-42e7af78773e 03 01 01 urn:uuid:a38ae111-09a5-4899-a9f1-42e7af78773e 15 9781911712152 06 10.31389/lsepress.ukr 00 EB E107 10 Creative Commons License 02 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 01 01 Ukraine Russia’s War and the Future of the Global Order 1 B01 Michael Cox 01 eng 93 JPS 12 JPSL 04 JZ 10 POL011000 20 Ukraine 93 1DTN 12 JW 10 POL012000 20 Russia 12 1DVUK 20 International relations 93 JW 03 00 <p><p>The 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. </p><p>In this volume, a group of internationally acclaimed academics – many originally from Ukraine or Russia – examine the deep causes of Putin’s war, the role played by other actors such as China and the United States, the severe consequences for the many millions of Ukrainians displaced from their home and country, the impact on the West and the Global South and the challenges confronting Ukraine when the war finally comes to an end. </p><p>Part of the LSE Public Policy Review Series, Ukraine: Russia’s War and the Future of the Global Order offers a rigorous intellectual response to this extreme humanitarian crisis and considers the implications for the future of Ukraine and the transformed global order.</p></p> 04 00 1. 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 Nationhood 5. The Securitised ‘Others’ of Russian Nationalism in Ukraine and Russia 6. The Making of Independent Ukraine 7. 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 Integration 9. Uprooting and Borders: The Digital Architecture of the Ukrainian Refugee Crisis 10. Weaponised Energy and Climate Change: Assessing Europe’s Response to the Ukraine War 11. New Dynamics, New Opportunities: Trends in Organised Crime in Ukraine After Russia’s Invasion 12. War in Ukraine in a Polarised America 13. 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 Foretold 18. Reconstructing and Reforming Ukraine 19. Annex A: Ukraine’s Timeline: From Independence to War 20. Annex B: The Geography of War 20 00 Open Access LSE Press 01 LSE Press UK: London 04 01 20231205 13 15 9781911712145 09 LSE Press 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.press.lse.ac.uk/10.31389/lsepress.ukr.pdf 99 01 09 LSE Press 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://doi.org/10.31389/lsepress.ukr 99 01 urn:uuid:91d4af40-32df-4d43-835b-248f429e81f2 03 01 01 urn:uuid:91d4af40-32df-4d43-835b-248f429e81f2 15 9781909890824 06 10.31389/lsepress.well 00 EB E107 10 Creative Commons License 02 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 01 01 Wellbeing Alternative Policy Perspectives 1 B01 21 0000-0002-8923-6372 Timothy Besley 2 A01 Irene Bucelli 01 eng 00 218 03 B2 Economics 10 HEA055000 12 JF 20 Wellbeing; Policy; Social justice; COVID-19; Inequality 20 COVID-19 12 JKS B2 Philosophy 10 PSY000000 12 JMAL 10 PHI000000 B2 Psychology 20 Wellbeing 12 JPA 20 Policy B2 Public health B2 Public policy 20 Social justice 20 Inequality 03 00 <p><p>Governments in liberal democracies pursue social welfare, but in many different ways. The wellbeing approach instead asks: Why not focus directly on increasing measured human happiness? Why not try to improve people’s overall quality of life, as it is subjectively seen by citizens themselves?</p><p>The radical implications of this stance include shifting attention to previously neglected areas (such as mental health and ‘social infrastructure’ services) and developing defensible measures of overall wellbeing or quality of life indicators. Can one ‘master’ concept of wellbeing work to create more holism in policy-making? Or should we stick with multiple metrics? These debates have been live in relation to an alternative ‘capacities’ approaches, and they are well-developed in health policymaking. Most recently, the connections between wellbeing and political participation have come into sharper focus.</p><p>Wellbeing remains a contested concept, one that can be interpreted and used differently, with consequences for how it is incorporated into policy decisions. By bringing together scholars from economics, psychology and behavioural science, philosophy and political science, the authors explore how different disciplinary approaches can contribute to the study of wellbeing and how this can shape policy priorities.</p></p> 04 00 1. Introduction: Making Wellbeing Policies Effective Timothy Besley and Irene Bucelli 2. Wellbeing as the Goal of Policy Richard Layard 3. Accounting for Consequences and Claims in Policy Paul Dolan 4. Weighing the Costs and Benefits of Public Policy: On the Dangers of Single Metric Accounting Johanna Thoma 5. Wellbeing in Public Policy: Contributions Based on Sen’s Capability Approach Paul Anand 6. Incorporating Wellbeing and Mental Health Research to Improve Pandemic Response Michael Daly and Liam Delaney 7. COVID-19 and Mental Health and Wellbeing Research: Informing Targeted, Integrated, and Long-Term Responses to Health Emergencies Annette Bauer 8. Health, Wellbeing, and Democratic Citizenship: A Review and Research Agenda Christopher J. Anderson, Sara Hagemann, and Robert Klemmensen 9. Health and Disability Gaps in Political Engagement: A Short Review Mikko Mattila 20 00 Open Access LSE Press 01 LSE Press UK: London 04 01 20220830 13 15 9781909890824 09 LSE Press 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://press.lse.ac.uk/site/books/10.31389/lsepress.well 99 01 09 LSE Press 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.press.lse.ac.uk/10.31389/lsepress.well.pdf 99 01