the International Political Economy: Old Welfare States and the New Politics of Housing Herman Schwartz and Leonard Seabrooke Politics Department, PO Box 400787, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4787, USA. E-mail: [email protected] International Center for Business and Politics, Copenhagen Business School, Steen Blichers Vej 22, Frederiksberg 2000, Denmark. E-mail: ls.cbp@c...

What is the relationship between politics and disasters and how does this relate to the recent boom in disaster studies? The introduction to this volume argues that the recent interest in disasters is not because there are more disasters, but because of two recent developments within the social sciences: first, a focus on rupture rather than on continuity and second, a focus on materiality. Dis...

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During the presidential election of 2008, policy commentators and cultural critics alike had their hands full. The primary race between Barack Hussein Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton and Sarah Palin’s subsequent entry as the vice presidential candidate transformed identity and political discourse in ways we are still trying to comprehend. The primary race caught the Democratic Party and its ―b...

The central distinction in Derek Edyvane’s book Civic Virtue and the Sovereignty of Evil: Political Ethics in Uncertain Times is that between aspirational politics and preventive politics. I am going to dedicate the first section of the paper to the analysis of this distinction. There are authors who say that the two politics are symmetrical. In their opinion, preventing evil is preventing the ...

This paper explores the features of political economy in the dynamics of representative politics in India. Politics is seen as enhancing economic benefits through acquiring and maintenance of power in the realm of democratic set up. The system of representation is riddled with competitive populism. Emerging leaders and parties are forced to accommodate their ideologies in coping with competitiv...

With a diverse sample (n = 231 paired responses) of employees from various organizations in Pakistan, we tested for the main effects of perceived organizational politics and psychological capital on turnover intentions, job satisfaction, and supervisor rated job performance. We also examined the moderating influence of psychological capital in the politics – outcomes relationships. Results prov...

Although government intervention in economies has been widely debated lately, the extent to which government and market affect employees’ perceptions about their organization remains inadequately discussed. We took the initial steps to create measures of perceived government influence and perceived market influence, and examined how they might be associated with organizational politics and just...

Medicare spends more than $200 billion a year; the politics surrounding the Medicare program cannot be fully understood without an adequate appreciation of that fact. An understanding of the political economy of Medicare is perhaps best achieved by thinking along three dimensions: (1) Medicare as redistributive politics; (2) Medicare as special-interest politics; and (3) Medicare as distributiv...

Author's bio: Stephen Bocking is Professor of environmental politics and history at Trent University. His most active area of research is the roles of expertise in environmental politics, viewed both historically and in terms of various contemporary issues. His books include: Nature’s Experts: Science, Politics, and the Environment (Rutgers, 2004); Biodiversity in Canada: Ecology, Ideas, and Ac...