Camillia Kong, "Mental Capacity in Relationship: Decision-Making, Dialogue, and Autonomy" (Cambridge UP, 2017)
Mental Capacity in Relationship: Decision-Making, Dialogue, and Autonomy (Cambridge University Press, 2017), challenges the current legal landscape of mental capacity law and human rights legislation,...
16 Aug 20211h 8min
Mai Hassan, "Regime Threats and State Solutions: Bureaucratic Loyalty and Embeddedness in Kenya" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
When trying to understand how to help countries escape poverty, economists initially focused on macro topics like inflation, government deficits, trade balances, and capital inflows. Later there was a...
11 Aug 202157min
Hanno Jentzsch, "Harvesting State Support: Institutional Change and Local Agency in Japanese Agriculture" (U Toronto Press, 2021)
Agriculture has been among the toughest political battlegrounds in postwar Japan and represents an ideal case study in institutional stability and change. Inefficient land use and a rapidly aging work...
11 Aug 202136min
Aaron Passell, "Preserving Neighborhoods: How Urban Policy and Community Strategy Shape Baltimore and Brooklyn" (Columbia UP, 2021)
Historic preservation is typically regarded as an elitist practice. In this view, designating a neighborhood as historic is a project by and for affluent residents concerned with aesthetics, not affor...
11 Aug 202128min
Shelby Grossman, "The Politics of Order in Informal Markets: How the State Shapes Private Governance" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Property rights are important for economic exchange, but many governments don't protect them. Private market organizations can fill this gap by providing an institutional structure to enforce agreemen...
4 Aug 202146min
Leo Casey, "The Teacher Insurgency: A Strategic and Organizing Perspective" (Harvard Education Press, 2020)
In The Teacher Insurgency: A Strategic and Organizing Perspective (Harvard Education Press, 2020), Leo Casey addresses how the unexpected wave of recent teacher strikes has had a dramatic impact on Am...
4 Aug 20211h 2min
Sailen Routray, "Everyday State and Politics in India: Government in the Backyard in Kalahandi" (Routledge, 2017)
Set in the eastern state of Odisha in a district known as the “Somalia of India,” Everyday State and Politics in India: Government in the Backyard in Kalahandi (Routledge 2018) studies a development p...
2 Aug 20211h 32min
Lani Watson, "The Right to Know: Epistemic Rights and Why We Need Them" (Routledge, 2021)
We often talk as if individuals have entitlements to certain kinds of information: medical test results, political representatives’ voting records, crime statistics, and the like. We also talk as if t...
2 Aug 20211h 7min
