Secure property rights are central to economic development and stable government, yet difficult to create. Relying on surveys in Russia from 2000 to 2012, Timothy Frye examines how political power, institutions, and norms shape property rights for firms. Through a series of simple survey experiments, Property Rights and Property Wrongs explores how political power, personal con...(展开全部)

China's urban sprawl has led to serious social cleavages. Unclear land and property rights have resulted in an uneasy alliance between real estate companies and local authorities, with most willing to strike illegal deals over land. The results have been devastating. Farmers live in fear that the land they till today will be gone tomorrow, while urban citizens are regularly evi...(展开全部)

This is a study of the way individuals organise the use of resources in order to maximise the value of their economic rights over these resources. Property rights and all forms of organisation result from people's deliberate actions. In the tradition of Coase, this study offers a unified theoretical structure to deal with exchange, rights formation and organisation which tradit...(展开全部)

Over the last forty years, the field of disability studies has emerged from the political activism of disabled people. In this challenging review of the field, leading disability academic and activist Tom Shakespeare argues that disability research needs a firmer conceptual and empirical footing. This new edition is updated throughout, reflecting Shakespeare’s most recent think...(展开全部)

杰克·奈特研究政治经济制度的一流学者，曾任华盛顿大学政治学系教授。他以其独特的跨学科研究方法，涉及哲学、经济学、政治学和法律等学科领域，发表了许多有关民主理论、法治、司法决策以及制度形成与变迁理论的论文，学术成果具有开创性。主要著作包括《制度与社会冲突》、《解释社会制度》（与伊塔·塞尼德合著）和《正义的选择》（与李·爱泼斯坦合著）等。

Many of the fundamental questions in social science entail an examination of the role played by social institutions. Why do we have so many social institutions? Why do they take one form in one society and quite different ones in others? In what ways do these institutions develop? When and why do they change? Institutions and Social Conflict addresses these questions in two way...(展开全部)