Hailed a “significant contribution” by The New York Times, David Noble’s book America by Design
describes the factors that have shaped the history of scientific technology in the United States. Since the beginning, technology and industry have been undeniably intertwined, ...
In this volume, Latin Americanist scholars explore the recent evidence relating to the ways in
which partial state failure in the continent is interacting with new types of organized violence, thereby undermining the process of democratic consolidation that has characterized ...
This book analyzes and explains the ways in which major developing world cities respond to
the challenge of urban violence. The study shows how the political projects that cities launch to confront urban violence are shaped by the interaction between ...
This book showcases experiences from research, field projects and best practice in climate change adaptation
in countries in the Latin American region, focusing on managing vulnerability and fostering resilience. It includes a selection of papers presented at a specialist symposium ...
Under what conditions do political institutions develop that are capable of promoting economic and social
elites' accommodation to democracy? The importance of this question for research on regime change and democracy in Latin America lies in two established political facts: ...
Bringing together comparative case studies from Central Europe and South America, this book focuses on
'new' regions - regions created as political projects of modernization and 're-scaling'. Through this approach it de-codes 'New Regionalism' in terms of its contributions to ...
Development economists and practitioners agree that close collaboration between business and government improves industrial policy,
yet little research exists on how best to organize that. This book examines three necessary functions–-information exchange, authoritative allocation, and reducing rent ...
Women, Work and Development SeriesThe majority of women around the world work long hours and
contribute significantly to production and to family income, although this fact is not generally recognised in attitudes and policies or reflected in official statistics. Women's ...