Elites are those with vastly disproportionate control over or access to a resource. We can
understand this as a position that a social actor occupies, or we can imagine such resources …

Sociologists are adding specific disciplinary accents to the burgeoning literature in colonial,
imperial, and postcolonial studies. They have been especially keen to add explanatory …

Left-leaning political parties play an important role as representatives of the poor and
disempowered. They once did so by promising protections from the forces of capital and the …

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 …

Citizenship is at the heart of our contemporary world but it is a particular vision of national
citizenship forged in the French Revolution. In Citizens without Nations, Maarten Prak …

This article challenges the liberal, contractual theory of the corporation and argues for
replacing it with a political theory of the corporation. Corporations are government-like in …

Twenty years since the publication of the Second Edition and more than thirty years since
the publication of the original book, Racial Formation in the United States now arrives with …

Featuring updates and revisions that reflect recent historiography, this new edition of The
Portuguese Empire in Asia 1500-1700 presents a comprehensive overview of Portuguese …

This essay tries to bring out some of the complexities that are overlooked in the usual
treatment of the state in the institutional economics literature and supplement the latter with a …

Making Morocco Skip to content Should you have institutional access? Here's how to get it ...
De Gruyter € EUR - Euro £ GBP - Pound $ USD - Dollar EN English Deutsch 0 Subjects Skip …