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The latest social science books reviewed by academics and experts at the London School of Economics and wider #politics #economics #philosophy #media #gender
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New research from Felipe Carozzi & Andres Gago sheds light on why there is a growing ideological gap between young men and women across the world blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/202…
'Rather than interpreting disability as an aberration for which compensations need to be made, Gissen calls for the creation of an architecture which coexists with disability.'
The Architecture of Disability U of MN Press reviewed by Amy Batley ➡ wp.me/p2MwSQ-hgt
We are proud to welcome three #NobelPrize winners to LSE in Spring Term!
Register to attend online:
🗓️ 30 April - Joseph E. Stiglitz: lse.ac.uk/Events/2024/04…
🗓️ 2 May - Claudia Goldin: lse.ac.uk/Events/2024/05…
🗓️ 2 May - Esther Duflo: lse.ac.uk/Events/2024/05…
New ✨ The Architecture of Disability: Buildings, Cities, and Landscapes beyond Access by David Gissen U of MN Press, reviewed by Amy Batley. wp.me/p2MwSQ-hgt
Data shows that the British public trusts its own government less than in America.
Ros Taylor argues that for the sake of a functioning democracy, politicians must help rebuild trust in institutions, rather than undermine it for their own benefit.
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Drawing on extensive qualitative data, Marcus Mietzner's The Coalitions Presidents Make Cornell University Press both sheds light on #Indonesia 's particular case and reflects more broadly on #CoalitionPolitics in emerging democracies, writes yennie yong.
Review 👉 wp.me/p2MwSQ-hf2
Can we know what drives human behaviours?🧔🥕
A post on LSE Business Review proposes a framework to capture four key categories of behavioural drivers (society, thoughts, emotions and motivation) to enable better understanding of behavioural biases.
In a review of Good Governance in Nigeria by Portia Roelofs, Stephanie Wanga finds the book a grounded and nuanced argument for models of #Governance that, unlike the conventional western models, are locally shaped and socially embedded.
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What caused #Capitalism to take root in 17th-century England?
Geoffrey M Hodgson #FBPA 🔶's The Wealth of a Nation Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.s explores how the enshrined alienability of property (including slaves) ushered in capitalism and the #IndustrialRevolution . SM Amadae 👉 wp.me/p2MwSQ-hgh
'The central institution enabling the rise of modern political economy in England was finance: the ability to alienate the ownership of land and other property to serve as collateral for investment loans.
Geoffrey M Hodgson #FBPA 🔶's The Wealth of a Nation reviewed 👉 wp.me/p2MwSQ-hgh
New ✨ The Wealth of a Nation: Institutional Foundations of English Capitalism Geoffrey M Hodgson #FBPA 🔶 Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.s. #Review by SM Amadae.
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'How have Indonesia’s presidents post-2004 managed to survive the perils of presidentialism, and what is the price for it?'
Marcus Mietzner's The Coalitions Presidents Make: Presidential Power and its Limits in Democratic Indonesia. Review yennie yong ➡ wp.me/p2MwSQ-hf2
#WeekendReading : Good Governance in Nigeria 🇳🇬: Rethinking Accountability and Transparency in the Twenty-First Century by Portia Roelofs Dr Portia Roelofs Cambridge University Press.
Review Stephanie Wanga 👉 wp.me/p2MwSQ-heJ
.yennie yong reviews The Coalitions Presidents Make: Presidential Power and Its Limits in Democratic Indonesia Marcus Mietzner Cornell University Press
Read it here 👉 wp.me/p2MwSQ-hf2
LSE Southeast Asia #Indonesia 🇮🇩 #Politics #Elections
Good Governance in Nigeria by Portia Roelofs Dr Portia Roelofs Cambridge University Press critiques conventional Western ideas of good #Governance imposed in #Africa , and specifically #Nigeria 🇳🇬, through fieldwork and historical analysis.
Review Stephanie Wanga wp.me/p2MwSQ-heJ
Tactical Publishing The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social is an inspiring resource for scholars and practitioners interested in the critical potential of experimenting with the technologies, forms and socio-material spaces that emerge around books, writes Rebekka Kiesewetter.
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In Reclaiming Participatory Governance Routledge Books, editors Adrian Bua Sonia Bussu also on @[email protected] bring together analyses of social movements from Germany to Brazil to Greenland that engage with democracy-driven governance.
#Review by Andrea Felicetti wp.me/p2MwSQ-hfL