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Journal articles on the topic "Political history":
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Ware, Susan. "Political Partnerships, Political History." Reviews in American History 40, no. 2 (2012): 301–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/rah.2012.0027.
De Hart, Jane Sherron. "Women's History, Gender History, and Political History." Public Historian 15, no. 4 (1993): 77–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3378639.
For too many political scientists, “political history” means little more than poll results, aggregate vote totals, and DW-NOMINATE scores. Useful as these data may be for narrow purposes, they miss the complexity of political life. Real political history concerns the interplay of ideas, interests, institutions, and individuals.
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Graham, Hugh Davis. "[Women's History, Gender History, and Political History]: Response." Public Historian 15, no. 4 (1993): 79–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3378640.
Sukhobokovа, O. "NATIONAL AND SOCIAL СOMPONENTS OF UKRAINIAN REVOLUTION 1917–1921 IN N. HRYHORYIV'S VISION." Intermarum history policy culture, no. 5 (January 1, 2018): 88–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.35433/history.11186.
The paper considers the national and social aspects of the Ukrainian revolution of 1917–1921 in the conception of the national-state construction by N. Hryhoryiv. Public figure and politician Nykyfor Hryhoryiv was one of the active participants and theorists of the Ukrainian Revolution of 1917–1921, the Minister of Education of the Ukrainian People's Republic, a member of the Central Rada, one of the leaders of the Ukrainian party of Socialist-Revolutionaries. He created the original conception of national-state construction in Ukraine of that period, which is relevant today.
According to him, the Ukrainian national revolution of 1917–1921 had a pronounced social color, and simultaneous solution of national and social issues became its main task and distinctive feature. He considered the achievement of Ukraine’s national sovereignty as the goal of the Ukrainian nationalliberation movement in the national-political sphere. At the same time, as a socialist-revolutionary, one of the theorists of ethical socialism, he stressed the necessity of a social revolution and construction of the Ukrainian state on the principles of «labor democracy».
Based on these principles and the political situation in 1917, N. Hryhoryiv advocated a democratic federal republic and wide autonomy of Ukraine – its full sovereignty in internal affairs. Subsequently, when the situation changed, instead of autonomy, he demanded full independence of Ukraine from Russia.
According to his opinion, the social character of the Ukrainian state was to be realized through a political system in the form of the so-called labor democracy, which corresponded to his principle of social and political freedom of the Ukrainian people. His concept gives each citizen not only the right to vote in elections, but also gives him the tools of constant and direct influence on the solution of all issues – from production to general political.
The national and social components of N. Hryhoryiv’s conception are not only closely linked but mutually complement each other in the creation of the Ukrainian state. In his opinion, only in such a way the Ukrainians could fully create a strong independent state and a successful society.
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Lottermann, Luiz Alfredo Fernandes. "Regional history and political history: possible interfaces between two approaches." CONTRIBUCIONES A LAS CIENCIAS SOCIALES 17, no. 2 (February 19, 2024): e4724. http://dx.doi.org/10.55905/revconv.17n.2-185.
This work addresses the transformation in the approach to History that occurred in 1929 with the creation of the Revista dos Annales, led by Marc Bloch and Lucien Febvre. This paradigmatic shift broke with the tradition of focusing only on major historical events and figures, adopting a broader, interdisciplinary approach that incorporated anthropology, sociology, and geography into historical analysis. Political history, which had been disregarded by the Annales, underwent a revival in the 1970s, reintroducing it as an important field of study. It also highlights the importance of considering the regional dimension in the analysis of political history, recognizing that the politician creates his own spatiality and that regional politics plays a significant role in the formation of identities and specific political practices. The regional approach enriches our understanding of politics by connecting the particular to the universal, allowing for a more complete and interdisciplinary analysis of historical phenomena. In summary, the text emphasizes the importance of considering the interconnection between regional history and political history for a deeper understanding of society over time.
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Leff, Mark H. "Revisioning U.S. Political History." American Historical Review 100, no. 3 (June 1995): 829. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2168607.
Rich, Ben A. "Pain: A Political History." Journal of Pain & Palliative Care Pharmacotherapy 29, no. 1 (January 2, 2015): 75–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/15360288.2014.1003685.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Political history":
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Cosby, Bruce. "Technological politics and the political history of African-Americans." DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 1995. http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/dissertations/AAI9543185.
This dissertation is a critical study of technopolitical issues in the history of African American people. Langdon Winner's theory of technopolitics was used to facilitate the analysis of large scale technologies and their compatibility with various political ends. I contextualized the central technopolitical issues within the major epochs of African American political history: the Atlantic slave trade, the African artisans of antebellum America, and the American Industrial Age.
Throughout this study I have sought to correct negative stereotypes and to show how "technological gauges" were employed to belittle people of African descent. This research also has shown that the mainstream notion that Africans had no part in the history of technology is false.
This study identifies and analyses specific technologies that played a major role in the political affairs of Africans and African Americans. Those technologies included nautical devices, fort construction, and automatic guns in Africa, and hoes, plows, tractors, cotton gins, and the mechanical cotton pickers in America. The findings of this study suggested that African Americans have been disengaged and victimized by western technologies. This dissertation proposes how to overcome the oppressive uses of technology.
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Harris, David. "Sierra Leone: A Political History." Hurst, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/17555.
No Sierra Leone came to world attention in the 1990s when a catastrophic civil war linked to the diamond trade was reported globally. This fleeting and particular interest, however, obscured two crucial processes in this small West African state. On the one hand, while the civil war was momentous and brutal, affecting all Sierra Leoneans, it was also just one element in the long and faltering attempt to build a nation and state, given the country’s immensely problematic pre-colonial and British colonial legacies. On the other, the aftermath of the war precipitated a huge international effort to construct a ‘liberal peace’, with mixed results, and interrupted by the devastating Ebola pandemic. This made Sierra Leone a laboratory for both post-conflict and health crisis interventions.
Sierra Leone examines over 230 years of its history and sixty years of independence, placing state–society relations at the centre of an original and revealing investigation of those who have tried to rule or change Sierra Leone and its inhabitants, and the responses engendered. It interweaves the historical narrative with sketches of politicians, anecdotes, the landscape and environment and key turning-points, alongside theoretical and other comparisons with the rest of Africa. It is a new contribution to the debate for those who already know Sierra Leone and a solid point of entry for those who wish to.
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Mayo-Bobee, Dinah. "Politics, Love and Longing: The Political Marriage of Sarah Crowninshield." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2013. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/734.
Tsai, Ying-Wen. "History and politics in Michael Oakshott's and Hannah Arendt's political thought." Thesis, University of York, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.316180.
Collins, Merle Angela. "Grenada : a political history: 1950-1979." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.263364.
Manzoor, Farhat. "A political history : abortion in Ireland." Thesis, University of Ulster, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.342408.
This thesis argues that the ideology of Naam (principle of power) is an essential and overlooked component in explaining both the logic of state formation, as well as the institutional continuities evident within the Mossi-Mamprusi-Dagomba states system. With reference to Igor Kopytoff’s Internal African Frontier Thesis, it understands this logic as a single, continuous historical process whereby states were formed and dismantled, broken in autonomous entities and (re)created as clones of a constitutive Naam ‘model’. This model also was negatively responsible for the genesis of acephalous non-state formations, composed of frontier men and women who escaped the stifling grip of the state. Specifically, the thesis argues that the ideology of Naam was the overarching principle that not only informed the expansion of the Mossi-Mamprusi-Dagombasystem, but also enabled the construction of a Mossi identity. Naam was ‘proposed’ in some places, and ‘imposed’ in others, through rituals, family-like associations, and the integration of indigenous groups into the sphere of political rule. Naam ideology was confronted with a fundamental contradiction: the Mossi ruled (over) people but had no control over the territorial basis of their rule. This contradiction was partly resolved through the extension of the discourse of power to the realm of Tenga (the sphere of rituals and earth-custody), by uniting the Mossi divinity (Wende) to the earth divinity (Tenga) and by tapping into the possibilities of a common belief, in order to buttress state legitimacy but also to articulate ‘Mossi’ culture on the basis of a shared idiom that transcended the dichotomy Naam/Tenga. This contradiction cannot be explained with reference to the materiality of conquest alone, as most accounts of state formation, within and beyond Africa, have suggested. Yet the process was informed throughout by violence of a different kind. The deployment of Naam in the realm of rituals served to mediate the gap between power and legitimacy; but at the same time, state power as discourse and representation concealed the ontological violence inherent in the Mossi state. It also concealed the limits of discourse in making valid statements on historical experience. In the Mossi case, pânga (a form of travesty/violent version of Naam), intervenes in the disarticulation of power from kinship by isolating the Naaba (king) from all forms of loyalties. An extended analysis of the consolidation of the Mossi state in the eighteenth century demonstrates how centralisation centred on the twin conditions of the necessary separation between kinship and kingship, and the integration of the stranger-kin as mediating agent at the junction of this divorce. The thesis will contribute to a better understanding of the role of ideology in state formation and society-making in the Voltaic region and West Africa more generally.
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MacDonald, Catriona M. M. "The radical thread : political change in Scotland : Paisley politics 1885-1924." Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 1995. http://oleg.lib.strath.ac.uk:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=21281.
This is a study of the transition of the political community of Paisley in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century, from one dominated by industrial paternalism and local Liberal Party hierarchies to one in which deferential modes of electoral behaviour had broken down. It questions many historiographical conventions and orthodoxies regarding the rise of' the Labour Party in Scotland and, by focussing on the language of political discourse, seeks to highlight an important historical continuum in the evolutlon of challenges to Liberal dominInance from both 'left' and 'right' in the form of locally defined Radical Tradition. Through the extensive use of the local press, company records records and trade union and party minutes, the study considers political change in its wider economic, industrial and cultural context, developing a theory of political change which reaches out to an appreciation of how 'community' forms determined both the pace and character of change. Beyond this, however, changes in Paisley are further considered in their national context. Through the use of national party archives, the collected papers of prominant political leaders and parrliamentarians and a wide variety of secondary sources, a picture of Paisley as a community which, whilst following many, national trends, proved locked in nineeteenth-century patterns of status politics far longer than comparable Scottish burghs and Engiish cotIon towns. The analysis of the evolution of political change, as presented in this study, moves bevond conventional class-based models of party politics to an appreciation of the totality of the political experience as the product of the continual re-definition of popular political traditions, and in this case, the emergence of new strands in a Radical thread.
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Fooks, Gary Jonas. "The Serious Fraud Office : a political history." Thesis, University of Southampton, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.264649.
Treadwell, William Luke. "The political history of the Sāmānid state." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1991. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:2bcb89ab-29b3-401b-84b9-e25c477476bb.
The Sāmānids (204/819-395/1005) were the last Iranian dynasty to rule Eastern Iran before the advent of the Turkish Muslim states which dominated the_central Islamic lands during the medieval period. The Sāmānid state was the largest and most prosperous of the "Abbasid successor states and one of the most vigorous culturally. Yet like all successor states, the Samanids were beset by a high level of political instability which led finally to the dismemberment of the state between two Turkish dynasties, the Qarākhānid steppe rulers and the Ghaznavids, former vassals of the Sāmānids. This thesis explores the causes of this instability and attempts to account for the fall of the state, using the works of V.V. Barthold and R.N. Frye as points of reference. Barthold's hypothesis, which concludes that the Samanids and their bureaucrats were overwhelmed by an alliance of military and scholarly interests before the arrival of the Qarākhānids, is rejected. Instead the fatal weakness in the state structure is sought in the institution of patronage which controlled appointments to provincial governorships. Chapter one presents a survey of the sources with particular reference to the chronicle literature and the geographers, Iṣtakhrī, Ibn Hawqal and Muqaddasī; the unpublished works of the chronicler Ibn Ẓafir al-Azdī (d. 613/1216) and Muhammad ibn ˋAbd al-Jalll al-Samarqandī's 12th century biographical dictionary of Transoxanian scholars are also analysed. Chapter two comprises an overview of the physical and human geography of the 10th century mashriq. The following six chapters form a narrative of the political history of the dynasty from the obscure pre-monarchical period to 395/1005. Chapters five and six are devoted to the reign of Nasr ibn Aḥmad, a watershed in the Sāmānid period during which the earliest works of Persian literature were composed and many senior courtiers converted to Ismāˋīlīsm. Chapter nine examines the Sāmānids 1 sources of revenue, the state apparatus, the nature of Sāmānid politics and the ways in which rulers sought to legitimize their authority and Chapter ten summarizes my conclusions regarding Barthold's interpretation of the fall of the dynasty. The appendices include prosopographical studies of members of the state elite, notes on the Ismāˋīlī rebellion of 295/907, the history of the Khwārazmshāhs and an edition of Ibn Ẓāfir al-Azdī's chapter on Sāmānid history.
Priorelli, Giorgia, and Carlos Domper Lasús. Combining Political History and Political Science. London: Routledge, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003180234.
Floyd, Jonathan, and Marc Stears, eds. Political Philosophy versus History? Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781139003698.
Claus, Peter, and John Marriott. "Political history." In History, 185–202. Second edition. | Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, [2017]: Routledge, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315684673-10.
Macintyre, Stuart. "Political History." In The Australian Study of Politics, 84–96. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230296848_6.
Kelly, Christopher. "Political History." In A Companion to Augustine, 9–23. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781118255483.ch2.
Glenn, Jason. "Political History." In Paradigms and Methods in Early Medieval Studies, 153–68. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-12305-3_9.
Muto, Sho. "Political Science and Political History." In Combining Political History and Political Science, 8–25. London: Routledge, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003180234-2.
Alebrahim, Abdulrahman. "Kuwait's Political History." In The Making of Contemporary Kuwait, 7–25. London: Routledge, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003435259-2.
Stix, Andi, and Frank Hrbek. "Political Parties." In Walking Through History, 125–29. New York: Routledge, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003259022-6.
Conference papers on the topic "Political history":
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Bereznyakov, Dmitry V., and Sergey V. Kozlov. "Memory politics “from above” from political communicative studies perspective." In Communication and Cultural Studies: History and Modernity. Novosibirsk State University, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.25205/978-5-4437-1258-1-15-20.
Tihomirov, V. A. "Social and political talk shows on Russian television as a tool political propaganda." In Scientific trends: Philology, Culturology, Art history. ЦНК МОАН, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.18411/spc-26-06-2020-04.
Mika, Hardi. "The role of history in future studies." In REFORM AND POLITICAL CHANGE. University of Human Development, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.21928/uhdiconfrpc.pp184-194.
"The role of history in future studies History is one of the fields of human research and has a strong relationship with politics, political studies and future studies. Future studies are considered a new field in effective and developed scientific research and have an essential role in politics since they influence each other. Future research fields are enhanced by taking advantage of other human and scientific research fields or using interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary methods. One of the fields that future researchers cannot disregard is historical research. This research focused on the two different directions: the fields of future research and history, i.e., past events, on the one hand, their future and scenarios on the other. The research seeks to answer some main questions: What is the common ground and relationship between history as a field of human research with future research? What is the function and purpose of both fields? What are their common keywords? Where will history assist the science of future research? The importance of the research is that working on the relationship between history and future science will keep history away from the past. It also makes future studies more realistic in identifying and cooperating with politics, political reform, management, and other aspects of society and choosing a better future among futures ahead of any society and individual. Moreover, historical research and academic centers in Kurdistan have been less likely to apply history as a science to understand the future. The research aims to find common ground and the effective relationships between the two fields of futures and history and link them by analyzing their content, tasks and methods. The research methodology is descriptive-analysis and has benefited from historical and comparative methods to explain the definitions, emergence, and common grounds for both research's variables."
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Nedelcu, Cristina. "History Through Former Political Elites’ Eyes." In Uluslararası Prof. Dr. Halil İnalcık Tarih ve Tarihçilik Sempozyumu. Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurumu Yayınları, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.37879/9789751749987.2022.2.
Tatiana, Gusakova. "DOCUMENTS OF THE NATIONAL ARCHIVE REPUBLIC OF KHAKASSIA ON THE PERIOD OF POLITICAL REPRESSION IN THE PERSONAL FUND N.S. ABDIN." In Archives in history. History in archives. Ottisk, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.32363/978-5-6041443-5-0-2018-168-171.
Toshboev, Zhamshid. "Processes of Political Transformation in Uzbekistan in 2016–2021." In Communication and Cultural Studies: History and Modernity. Novosibirsk State University, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.25205/978-5-4437-1280-2-123-128.
Ковалевська, О. О. "Микола Івасюк: проблеми біографічного дослідження." In HISTORY, POLITICAL SCIENCE, PHILOSOPHY AND SOCIOLOGY: REVOLUTIONARY CHANGES. Baltija Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.30525/978-9934-26-079-7-2.
Кравченко, А. І. "Системотворча роль культурної дипломатії у європейських практиках міжкультурної комунікації." In HISTORY, POLITICAL SCIENCE, PHILOSOPHY AND SOCIOLOGY: REVOLUTIONARY CHANGES. Baltija Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.30525/978-9934-26-079-7-16.
Москальчук, К. В. "Факт захоплення у полон командувача 6-ї армії І. М. Музиченка у серпні 1941 року: історико-джерелознавчий зріз." In HISTORY, POLITICAL SCIENCE, PHILOSOPHY AND SOCIOLOGY: REVOLUTIONARY CHANGES. Baltija Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.30525/978-9934-26-079-7-5.
Шедяков, В. Е. "Социокультурный потенциал структурирования политического пространства." In HISTORY, POLITICAL SCIENCE, PHILOSOPHY AND SOCIOLOGY: REVOLUTIONARY CHANGES. Baltija Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.30525/978-9934-26-079-7-13.
Wallis, John Joseph. The Concept of Systematic Corruption in American Political and Economic History. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, December 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w10952.
Banerjee, Abhijit, and Esther Duflo. Under the Thumb of History? Political Institutions and the Scope for Action. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, January 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w19848.
Egeresi, Zoltán. Movement for Rights and Freedom: Bulgaria’s Turkish minority party. Külügyi és Külgazdasági Intézet, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.47683/kkielemzesek.ke-2021.68.
This paper describes the political trajectory of the Movement for Rights and Freedom (MRF) in Bulgaria. It outlines the history of the Turkish minority in Bulgaria, as well as the social background enabling the emergence of the party. The paper also describes the political history of the party during the last thirty years and highlights its role in Bulgarian politics. It is argued that the MRF has built a solid electoral base by relying not only on the Turks living in Bulgaria but also on the Turks who live in Turkey but have a Bulgarian citizenship. Despite several attempts to break its political hegemony over the Turkish electorate, the party has managed to keep its primacy and resist any kind of counter-hegemonic attempts.
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Devereux, Stephen. Policy Pollination: A Brief History of Social Protection’s Brief History in Africa. Institute of Development Studies (IDS), December 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/ids.2020.004.
The relatively recent emergence and sustained rise of social protection as a policy agenda in Africa can be understood as either a nationally owned or ‘donor-driven’ process. While elements of both can be seen in different countries at different times, this paper focuses on the pivotal role of transnational actors, specifically international development agencies, as ‘policy pollinators’ for social protection. These agencies deployed a range of tactics to induce African governments to implement cash transfer programmes and establish social protection systems, including: (1) building the empirical evidence base that cash transfers have positive impacts, for advocacy purposes; (2) financing social protection programmes until governments take over this responsibility; (3) strengthening state capacity to deliver social protection, through technical assistance and training workshops; (4) commissioning and co-authoring national social protection policies; (5) encouraging the domestication of international social protection law into national legislation. Despite these pressures and inducements, some governments have resisted or implemented social protection only partially and reluctantly, either because they are not convinced or because their political interests are not best served by allocating scarce resources to cash transfer programmes. This raises questions about the extent to which the agendas of development agencies are aligned or in conflict with national priorities, and whether social protection programmes and systems would flourish or wither if international support was withdrawn.
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Haider, Huma. Political Settlements: The Case of Moldova. Institute of Development Studies, May 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/k4d.2022.065.
The new elite in post-1991 independent Moldova gradually captured state institutions, while internal drivers of reforms have generally been weak. Civil society has had limited effectiveness; and the media is largely dominated by political and business circles (BTI, 2022). The Moldovan diaspora has emerged in recent years, however, as a powerful driver of reform. In addition, new political parties and politicians have in recent years focused on common social and economic problems, rather than exploiting identity and geopolitical cleavages. These two developments played a crucial role in the transformative changes in the presidential and parliamentary elections in 2020 and 2021, respectively.1 The new Moldovan leadership has experienced many challenges, however, in achieving justice and anti-corruption reforms—the primary components of their electoral platform—due to the persistence of rent-seeking and corruption in the justice sector (Minzarari, 2022). This rapid review examines literature—primarily academic and non-governmental organisation (NGO)-based—in relation to the political settlement of Moldova. It provides an overview of the political settlement framework and the political history of Moldova. It then draws on the literature to explore aspects of the social foundation and the power configuration in Moldova; and implications for governance and inclusive development. The report concludes with recommendations for government, domestic reformers, Moldovan society, and donors for improving inclusive governance and development in Moldova, identified throughout the literature. This report does not cover political settlement in relation to Transnistria.
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Učeň, Peter. The Russia–Ukraine War and the Radicalization of Political Discourse in Slovakia. European Center for Populism Studies (ECPS), March 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.55271/rp0029.
The report opens with a reflection on the political actors who have been labelled and analysed as populists in the modern history of Slovakia. Then, it assesses the impact of the Russian aggression in Ukraine by taking into account the broader group of radical challengers to the liberal-democratic notion of “politics as usual” in Slovakia who operate beyond the populist Radical Right. Overall, the report finds that while the Russia–Ukraine war has contributed to the radicalization of the public discourse in Slovakia, it has not engendered new populist or radical actors nor caused notable changes in the ideational profiles and political strategies of existing ones.
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Panwar, Nalin Singh. Decentralized Political Institution in Madhya Pradesh (India). Fribourg (Switzerland): IFF, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.51363/unifr.diff.2017.23.
The change through grassroots democratic processes in the Indian political system is the result of a growing conviction that the big government cannot achieve growth and development in a society without people's direct participation and initiative. The decentralized political institutions have been more participatory and inclusive ensuring equality of political opportunity. Social exclusion in India is not a new phenomenon. History bears witness to exclusion of social groups on the bases of caste, class, gender and religion. Most notable is the category of Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Women who were denied the access and control over economic and social opportunities as a result they were relegated to the categories of excluded groups. It is true that the problems of the excluded classes were addressed by the state through the enactment of anti-discriminatory laws and policies to foster their social inclusion and empowerment. Despite these provisions, exclusion and discrimination of these excluded groups continued. Therefore, there was a need to address issues of ‘inclusion’ in a more direct manner. Madhya Pradesh has made a big headway in the working for the inclusion of these excluded groups. The leadership role played by the under privileged, poor and the marginalized people of the society at the grassroots level is indeed remarkable because two decade earlier these people were excluded from public life and political participation for them was a distant dream. Against this backdrop, the paper attempts to unfold the changes that have taken place in the rural power structure after 73rd Constitutional Amendment Act. To what extent the decentralized political institutions have been successful in the inclusion of the marginalized section of the society in the state of Madhya Pradesh [India].
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Longo, Stefano B. Longo, and Timothy P. Clark Clark. Industrial Aquaculture: History, Problems, Potential - Political Economic Review and Analysis of Socioecological Issues in Global Industrial Aquaculture Supply Chains. Tiny Beam Fund, October 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.15868/socialsector.39078.
Baker, Lucy. The Political Economy of South Africa’s Carbon Tax. Institute of Development Studies, November 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/ictd.2022.017.
The subject of carbon pricing is rising up the global policy agenda, as countries take action in the aftermath of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change’s Conference of the Parties 26 summit in November 2021. South Africa is the only country in sub-Saharan Africa to have enacted a carbon tax to date, and, globally speaking, was ahead of the curve when it started to consider its implementation at the start of 2010. With a historically energy-intensive and carbon-intensive economy as a core feature of its minerals-energy complex, South Africa is the world’s 14th largest emitter of greenhouse gases, and the largest emitter on the continent. Its electricity grid is the world’s most carbon-intensive, and its primary energy consumption is ranked 17th globally. While the country’s gross domestic product is the 30th highest in the world, it is also one of the most unequal. It has a legacy of socioeconomic and political exclusion, and marginalisation created by the apartheid history that has persisted in the decades since the democratic transition in 1994. This paper asks to what extent and in what way has South Africa’s political economy shaped the process and implementation of its carbon tax? In answering this question, the report explores and analyses the design and implementation of the tax; the key criticisms to which it has been subjected; the effectiveness of the tax, not least in light of the considerable allowances and exemptions that have been included in its design; the relationship between the carbon tax and other existing climate change policies; and the potential relevance of South Africa’s experience for other countries on the continent.
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Saleem, Raja M. Ali, Ihsan Yilmaz, and Priya Chacko. Civilizationist Populism in South Asia: Turning India Saffron. European Center for Populism Studies (ECPS), February 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.55271/pp0009.
The 21st century has witnessed a significant shift in how the concept of nationalism is understood. A political marriage between identity politics and populism has resulted in “civilizationism,” a new form of nationalism that entails an emotionally charged division of society into “the people” versus “the Other.” All too often, the divisive discourses and policies associated with civilizationalist populism produce intercommunal conflict and violence. This paper draws on a salient case study, India’s Hindutva movement, to analyze how mainstream populist political parties and grassroots organizations can leverage civilizationist populism in campaigns to mobilize political constituencies. In surveying the various groups within the Hindutva movement and conducting a discourse analysis of their leaders’ statements, the paper shows the central role of sacralized nostalgia, history, and culture in Hindutva populist civilizationism. By analyzing the contours and socio-political implications of civilizationist populism through this case study, the paper contributes to the theoretical understanding of the concept more generally.
