A 2010 Noteworthy Book in Industrial Relations and Labor Economics (Princeton University's Industrial Relations Section) Over the past two decades, China has rapidly increased its spending on its public pension programs, to the point that pension funding is one of the government's largest expenditures. Despite this, only about fifty million citizens—one-third of the country's p...(展开全部)

In "Uneven Development," a classic in its field, Neil Smith offers the first full theory of uneven geographical development, entwining theories of space and nature with a critique of capitalist development. Featuring pathbreaking analyses of the production of nature and the politics of scale, Smith's work anticipated many of the uneven contours that now mark neoliberal globaliz...(展开全部)

In "Uneven Development," a classic in its field, Neil Smith offers the first full theory of uneven geographical development, entwining theories of space and nature with a critique of capitalist development. Featuring pathbreaking analyses of the production of nature and the politics of scale, Smith's work anticipated many of the uneven contours that now mark neoliberal globaliz...(展开全部)

《The Government and Politics of China 中国的政府与政治》内容简介：This book has several parts. Chapters Ⅱ and Ⅲ are brief reviews of the political ideas and institutions of ancent China. The four chapters that follow give a brief account of political and institutional development during the generation preceding the Kuomintang Government of 1928. Chapters VIII and IX describe the Kuomintang a...(展开全部)

中山大学哲学系副教授，中国问题学专家

This book applies the conceptual framework of Douglass C. North, John Joseph Wallis and Barry R. Weingast's Violence and Social Orders (Cambridge University Press, 2009) to nine developing countries. The cases show how political control of economic privileges is used to limit violence and coordinate coalitions of powerful organizations. Rather than castigating politicians and e...(展开全部)

This book applies the conceptual framework of Douglass C. North, John Joseph Wallis and Barry R. Weingast's Violence and Social Orders (Cambridge University Press, 2009) to nine developing countries. The cases show how political control of economic privileges is used to limit violence and coordinate coalitions of powerful organizations. Rather than castigating politicians and e...(展开全部)

In The Book of Politics, Michael Dutton offers an affective theorization of the political and a political theorization of affect. Drawing on Western and Chinese social theory and practice, Dutton rethinks Carl Schmitt’s insistence that the political can be thought of only within the antagonistic pairing of friend and enemy. Dutton shows how the power of the friend/enemy binary ...(展开全部)