Democratic Governance and Political Participation in Nigeria 1999 - 2014ДЄ sweeping, five-decade history of the evangelical movement in southern California that explains an epochal realignment of American politics. Drawing on rich ethnographic material from Caracas' shantytowns, state institutions, as well as everyday life and public culture, StrГёnen explores the complexities and challenges in fostering deep social and political change. A central argument is that the Bolivarian process was an attempt to challenge the practices, ideas, and values inherited from Venezuela's historical development as an oil-producing state.

Taking the contested relationship between the popular sectors and the Venezuelan state as a point of departure, Iselin Г…sedotter StrГёnen explores how notions such as class, race, state, bureaucracy, popular politics, capitalism, neoliberalism, consumption, oil wealth, and corruption gained salience in the Bolivarian process. This book presents an ethnographic study of how grassroots activism in Venezuela during the ChГЎvez presidency can be understood in relation to the country's history as a petro-state. This book is published open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. Grassroots Politics and Oil Culture in Venezuela This book is essential reading for anyone interested in Chinese economics and business, Chinese Law, Chinese politics and commercial law. Given the forecast for the growth of ChinaвЂ™s domestic market, those wishing to gain a better understanding and seeking success in the world's most dynamic marketplace will benefit greatly from reading this book. Law and Policy for China's Market Socialism includes contributions from leading China-law scholars and specialist practitioners from the PeopleвЂ™s Republic of China, Hong Kong, the United States, the United Kingdom and other countries who all extend the examination of powerful influences on ChinaвЂ™s law reforms into new areas. The contributors ask probing questions about doing business with China and highlight the astonishing escalation of ChinaвЂ™s outbound foreign direct investment (OFDI). This movement of capital has become an intriguing phenomenon for both ongoing economic reform and its largely unheralded underpinning law reforms. The contributors consider ChinaвЂ™s civil and commercial law reforms against the economic backdrop of an outflow of Chinese capital into strategic assets outside her own borders. The chapters examine ChinaвЂ™s вЂgoing outвЂ™ policy by addressing the ways in which the underpinning legal reforms enable China to pursue its core interests and broad international responsibilities as a rising power. This edited volume presents fresh empirical research on the emerging outcomes of ChinaвЂ™s law reforms. Grassroots Political Reform in Contemporary China This book argues that the reason for such serious deviation, between political intentions and institutional arrangements, as well as between policy goals and its results is: as a political force, the peasantry itself has not effectively engaged with the political process of the country. Even today, quite a few institutional arrangements with good intentions have ended up with opposite results and have even become bad policies that do harm to people. Nonetheless, the history and current reality of rural development have demonstrated that the same policy starting point had lead to very different policy designs. After examining the long term rural policies, either before or after the reform, it was found that all these polices have been expected to promote peasantsвЂ™ interests and claimed to take enhancing peasantsвЂ™ happiness as their goal. This book is an analysis and exploration of the relationship between peasants and policies within the process of reform in China.

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