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1	K2, the Savage Mountain: The Classic True Story of Disaster and Survival on the World's Second Highest Mountain more books like this by Charles Houston, Robert H Bates, Jim Wickwire (Foreword by) add to wishlist Then on the descent, tragedy struck, and how they made it back to safety is renowned in the annals of climbing. "K2 - The Savage Mountain" captures this sensational tale with an unmatched power that has earned this book its place as one of the classics of mountaineering literature. see all copies from $2.50! new only from $2.50! \| SVS
2	Power in Movement: Social Movements and Contentious Politics more books like this by Sidney Tarrow, Peter Lange (Editor), Robert H Bates (Editor) add to wishlist Unlike political or economic institutions, social movements have an elusive power, but one that is no less real. From the French and American revolutions through the democratic and workers' movements of the nineteenth century to the totalitarian movements of today, movements exercise a fleeting but powerful influence on politics and society. This ... see all copies from $7.00! new only from $7.00! \| SVS
3	Markets and States in Tropical Africa: The Political Basis of Agricultural Policies more books like this by Robert H Bates add to wishlist Most Africans live in rural areas and derive their incomes from farming; but because African governments follow policies that are adverse to most farmers' interests, these countries fail to produce enough food to feed their populations. Markets and States in Tropical Africa analyzes these and other paradoxical features of development in modern ... see all copies from $20.94! new only from $20.94! \| SVS
4	Prosperity and Violence: The Political Economy of Development more books like this by Robert H Bates add to wishlist This text looks back over the history of human civilization and explains the origins of the modern state, focusing on the stages though which capitalism evolves as a culture moves from dispersed agrarian clans to the dense modern metropolis. Informed by firsthand experience with the political and economic development of many diverse cultures, the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $20.09! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Paths Toward Democracy: The Working Class and Elites in Western Europe and South America more books like this by Ruth Berins Collier, Peter Lange (Editor), Robert H Bates (Editor) add to wishlist The question of whether democratization is an elite-led process from above or a popular triumph from below continues to be an area of contention among political scientists. Examining the experiences of countries that have provided the main empirical base for recent theorizing, namely, Western Europe and South America, this book delineates a more ... see all copies from $21.93! new only from $21.93!
6	Global Capital, Political Institutions, and Policy Change in Developed Welfare States more books like this by Duane Swank, Peter Lange (Editor), Robert H Bates (Editor) add to wishlist This book argues that the post-1970 rise in international capital mobility has not contributed to the retrenchment of developed welfare states. Nor has globalization reduced the revenue-raising capacities of governments and undercut the political institutions that support the welfare state. Rather, institutional features of the polity and the ... see all copies from $25.25! new only from $25.25!
7	Democracy and Redistribution more books like this by Carles Boix, Peter Lange (Editor), Robert H Bates (Editor) add to wishlist When do countries democratize? What facilitates the survival of authoritarian regimes? What determines the occurrence of revolutions, often leading to left-wing dictatorships, such as the Soviet regime? Although a large literature has developed since Aristotle through contemporary political science to answer these questions, we still lack a ... see all copies from $20.00! new only from $63.10!
8	Subversive Institutions more books like this by Valerie Bunce, Peter Lange (Editor), Robert H Bates (Editor) add to wishlist From 1989 to 1992, all of the socialist dictatorships in Europe (including the Soviet Union) collapsed, as did the Soviet bloc. Yugoslavia, the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia dismembered, and the Cold War international order came to an abrupt end. Based on a series of controlled comparisons among regimes and states, Valerie Bunce argues in this ... see all copies from $4.07! new only from $19.07! \| first editions
9	Redeeming the Communist Past: The Regeneration of Communist Parties in East Central Europe more books like this by Anna Maria Grzymaa-Busse, Peter Lange (Editor), Robert H Bates (Editor) add to wishlist This major study examines one of the most surprising developments in East Central European politics after the democratic transitions of 1989: the completely unexpected regeneration of the former communist parties. After the collapse of the communist regimes in 1989, these ruling communist parties seemed consigned to oblivion. However, confounding ... see all copies from $21.97! new only from $21.97!
10	No Other Way Out: States and Revolutionary Movements, 1945-1991 more books like this by Jeff Goodwin, Peter Lange (Editor), Robert H Bates (Editor) add to wishlist No Other Way Out provides a powerful explanation for the emergence of popular revolutionary movements, and the occurrence of actual revolutions, during the Cold War era. This sweeping study ranges from Southeast Asia in the 1940s and 1950s to Central America in the 1970s and 1980s and Eastern Europe in 1989. Goodwin demonstrates how the actions ... see all copies from $8.45! new only from $25.00! \| SVS
11 view cover	When Things Fell Apart: State Failure in Late-Century Africa more books like this by Robert H Bates add to wishlist In the later decades of the twentieth century, Africa plunged into political chaos. States failed, governments became predators, and citizens took up arms. In When Things Fell Apart, Robert H. Bates advances an exploration of state failure in Africa. In so doing, he not only plumbs the depths of the continent's late-century tragedy, but also the ... see all copies from $15.55! new only from $15.55! \| SVS
12 view cover	Making Race and Nation: A Comparison of South Africa, the United States, and Brazil more books like this by Anthony W Marx, Peter Lange (Editor), Robert H Bates (Editor) add to wishlist Why and how has race become a central aspect of politics during this century? This book addresses this pressing question by comparing South African apartheid and resistance to it, the United States Jim Crow law and protests against it, and the myth of racial democracy in Brazil. Anthony Marx argues that these divergent experiences had roots in the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.99! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Forces of Labor: Workers' Movements and Globalization Since 1870 more books like this by Beverly J Silver, Peter Lange (Editor), Robert H Bates (Editor) add to wishlist Recasting labor studies in a long-term and global framework, the book draws on a major new database on world labor unrest to show how local labor movements have been related to world-scale political, economic and social processes since the late-nineteenth century. Through an in-depth empirical analysis of select global industries it demonstrates ... see all copies from $19.14! new only from $23.97!
14 view cover	Nationalist Mobilization and the Collapse of the Soviet State more books like this by Mark R Beissinger, Peter Lange (Editor), Robert H Bates (Editor) add to wishlist This study examines the process by which the seemingly impossible in 1987 - the disintegration of the Soviet state - became the seemingly inevitable by 1991, providing an original interpretation not only of the Soviet collapse, but also of the phenomenon of nationalism more generally. Probing the role of nationalist action as both cause and effect ... see all copies from $36.22! new only from $36.22! \| SVS
15 view cover	Forging Democracy from Below: Insurgent Transitions in South Africa and El Salvador more books like this by Elisabeth Jean Wood, Peter Lange (Editor), Robert H Bates (Editor) add to wishlist The recent replacement of authoritarian rule by democracy in both South Africa and El Salvador poses a puzzle: why did the powerful and fervently anti-democratic elites of these countries abandon death squads, apartheid, and the other tools of political repression and take a chance on democracy? Forging Democracy From Below shows how popular ... see all copies from $10.69! new only from $22.81!
16 view cover	California Series on Social Choice and Political Economy more books like this by Robert H Bates add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions
17 view cover	Crony Capitalism: Corruption and Development in South Korea and the Philippines more books like this by Professor David C Kang, Peter Lange (Editor), Robert H Bates (Editor) add to wishlist Why has the literature on Asian development not addressed the issue of money politics in Korea? How can we reconcile the view of an efficient developmental state in Korea before 1997 with reports of massive corruption and inefficiency in that same country in 1998 and 1999? Politics is central to the answer. In this book the author makes two ... see all copies from $24.20! new only from $30.38! \| SVS
18 view cover	Why Women Protest: Women's Movements in Chile more books like this by Lisa Baldez, Peter Lange (Editor), Robert H Bates (Editor) add to wishlist Why do women protest? Under what conditions do women protest on the basis of their gender identity? Professor Baldez answers in terms of tipping, timing and framing. She relies on the concept of tipping to identify the point at which diverse organizations converge to form a women's movement. She argues that two conditions trigger this ... see all copies from $17.67! new only from $23.61! \| SVS
19 view cover	The Nationalization of Politics: The Formation of National Electorates and Party Systems in Western Europe more books like this by Daniele Caramani, Peter Lange (Editor), Robert H Bates (Editor) add to wishlist In an in-depth comparative and long-term analysis Daniele Caramani studies the macro-historical process of the nationalization of politics. Using a great wealth of new and unexplored data on single constituencies in seventeen West European countries, he reconstructs the territorial structures of electoral support for political parties, as well as ... see all copies from $7.89! new only from $7.89!
20 view cover	The European Parliament and Supranational Party System: A Study in Institutional Development more books like this by Amie Kreppel, Peter Lange (Editor), Robert H Bates (Editor) add to wishlist This book examines the impact of increased legislative power and political authority on the internal development of the European Parliament and the supranational party group system. This is done through an analysis of changes in the hierarchical structures that regulate the internal organization of both the EP as a whole and the individual party ... see all copies from $2.23! new only from $2.23!
21 view cover	Political Parties, Growth and Equality: Conservative and Social Democratic Economic Strategies in the World Economy more books like this by Carles Boix, Peter Lange (Editor), Robert H Bates (Editor) add to wishlist Given the increased openness of countries to international trade and financial flows, the general public and the scholarly literature have grown skeptical about the capacity of policy-makers to affect economic performance. Challenging this view, Political Parties, Growth, and Equality shows that the increasingly interdependent world economy and ... see all copies from $9.00! new only from $15.47! \| first editions
22 view cover	Beyond the Miracle of the Market: The Political Economy of Agrarian Development in Kenya more books like this by Robert H Bates add to wishlist As capitalism defeated socialism in Eastern Europe, the market displaced the state in the developing world. In Beyond the Miracle of the Market, Bates focuses on Kenya, a country that continued to grow while others declined in Africa, and mounts a prescient critique of the neo-classical turn in development economics. Attributing Kenya's ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $21.19! \| first editions
23 view cover	Unemployment in the New Europe more books like this by Nancy Bermeo (Editor), Peter Lange (Editor), Robert H Bates (Editor) add to wishlist The movement for European integration has yielded a European Union of fifteen states with a unified monetary system that will eventually embrace over 370 million people. If current trends continue, an average of one in ten of these people will be unemployed. Not surprisingly, the European public ranks joblessness among its primary political ... see all copies from $2.00! new only from $5.14! \| SVS
24 view cover	Heroic Defeats: The Politics of Job Loss more books like this by Miriam A Golden, Peter Lange (Editor), Robert H Bates (Editor) add to wishlist Heroic Defeats is a comparative investigation of how unions and firms interact when economic circumstances require substantial job loss. Using simple game theory to generate testable propositions about when these situations will result in industrial conflict, Professor Golden illustrates the theory in a range of situations between 1950 and 1985 ... see all copies from $2.11! new only from $2.11! \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Five Miles High more books like this by Charles Houston, Robert H Bates, Jim Wickwire (Foreword by) add to wishlist The epic account of the 1938 American expedition to the summit of K2. see all copies from $8.12! new only from $12.95!

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