For three decades, neoliberalism dominated the global political economy. Defined as an
explicit preference for private over public control, neoliberalism represented a dramatic …

When and why do governments promote women's rights? Through comparative analysis of
state action in seventy countries from 1975 to 2005, this book shows how different women's …

Throughout the twentieth century, much of the population in Latin America lacked access to
social protection. Since the 1990s, however, social policy for millions of outsiders-rural …

We hold many assumptions about police work—that it is the responsibility of the state, or that
police officers are given the right to kill in the name of public safety or self-defense. But in …

Over the past four decades, violence against women (VAW) has come to be seen as a
violation of human rights and an important concern for social policy. Yet government action …

This article provides a political explanation for the unexpectedly high levels of income
inequality found in the African region today. Traditional explanations for inequality are …

Based on the eclectic theory of entrepreneurship, this article analyzes macro-level
determinants of national rates of formal versus informal entrepreneurship. Our evaluation of …

This highly-acclaimed, bestselling textbook, quickly established itself as one of the leading
texts on the subject worldwide in its 1st edition. Now substantially revised and updated …

During the last few decades, human dynamics, institutional change, political relations and
the global environment have become successively more intertwined. While increased global …

Inconsistent efforts at international cooperation often undermined global efforts to mitigate
the COVID-19 health pandemic. Pundits and scholars alike laid much of the blame for this …