Migrants and Machine Politics: How India's Urban Poor Seek Representation and Responsiveness 9780691236100, 9780691236087, 9780691236094, 0691236100

Migrants and Machine Politics - How India's Urban Poor Seek Representation and Responsiveness [1 ed.] 9780691236100, 9780691236094, 9780691236087

As the Global South rapidly urbanizes, millions of people have migrated from the countryside to urban slums, which now h

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Migrants and Machine Politics: How India's Urban Poor Seek Representation and Responsiveness 9780691236100

How poor migrants shape city politics during urbanization As the Global South rapidly urbanizes, millions of people hav

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The Long War over Party Structure: Democratic Representation and Policy Responsiveness in American Politics 1108484913, 9781108484916

A long-standing debate in American politics is about the proper structure for political parties and the relative power t

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Teaching Hospitals and the Urban Poor 9780300133011

Academic health centers (AHCs) have played a key role in propelling the United States to world leadership in technologic

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Hide and Seek

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The Right to Be Counted: The Urban Poor and the Politics of Resettlement in Delhi 9781503632141

An ethnographic account of how marginalized poor people in Delhi, India assert their numerical strength to lay claim to

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Access to Power: Politics and the Urban Poor in Developing Nations 9781400885978

Joan Nelson elucidates the implications of this rapid growth and concomitant poverty for politics. Unlike many scholars

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The Politics of Crime in Turkey: Neoliberalism, Police and the Urban Poor 9781784535438, 9781350989115, 9781786730541

This book focuses on urban crime and policing in Turkey since the steady economic decline of the 1990s. Concentrating on

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How media and conflicts make migrants 9781526138125

Based on interviews and workshops with refugees in both countries, the book develops the concept of “migrantification” –

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Making Autocracy Work: Representation and Responsiveness in Modern China [Hardcover ed.] 1107172438, 9781107172432

Can meaningful representation emerge in an authoritarian setting? If so, how, when, and why? Making Autocracy Work ident

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