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Response to financial meltdown is entangled with basic challenges to global governance. Environment, global security and ethnicity and nationalism are all global issues today. Focusing on the political and social dimensions of the crisis, contributors examine changes in relationships between the world's richer and poorer countries, efforts to strengthen global institutions, and difficulties facing states trying to create stability for their citizens.Contributors include: William Barnes, Rogers Brubaker, Vincent Della Sala, Nils Gilman, David Held, Mary Kaldor, Adrian Pabst, Ravi Sundaram, Vadim Volkov, Michael Watts, and Kevin Young. The three volumes can purchased individually or as a set.

pOpportunities to “have your say,” “get involved,” and “join the conversation” are everywhere in public life. From crowdsourcing and town hall meetings to government experiments with social media, participatory politics increasingly seem like a revolutionary antidote to the decline of civic engagement and the thinning of the contemporary public sphere. Many argue that, with new technologies, flexible organizational cultures, and a supportive policymaking context, we now hold the keys to large-scale democratic revitalization. Democratizing Inequalities shows that the equation may not be so simple. Modern societies face a variety of structural problems that limit potentials for true democratization, as well as vast inequalities in political action and voice that are not easily resolved by participatory solutions. Popular participation may even reinforce elite power in unexpected ways. Resisting an oversimplified account of participation as empowerment, this collection of essays brings together a diverse range of leading scholars to reveal surprising insights into how dilemmas of the new public participation play out in politics and organizations. Through investigations including fights over the authenticity of business-sponsored public participation, the surge of the Tea Party, the role of corporations in electoral campaigns, and participatory budgeting practices in Brazil, Democratizing Inequalities seeks to refresh our understanding of public participation and trace the reshaping of authority in today’s political environment./p

Situates the current crisis in the historical trajectory of the capitalist world-system, showing how the crisis was made possible not only by neoliberal financial reforms but by a massive turn away from manufacturing things of value towards seeking profit from financial exchange and credit. Much more basic than the result of a few financial traders cheating the system, this is a potential historical turning point. In original essays, the contributors establish why the system was ripe for crisis of the past, and yet why this meltdown was different. The volume concludes by asking whether as deep as the crisis is, it may contain seeds of a new global economy, what role the US will play, and whether China or other countries will rise to global leadership. Contributors include: Giovanni Arrighi, Gopal Balakrishnan, Manuel Castells, Daniel Chirot, Fernando Coronil, Nancy Fraser, James K. Galbraith, David Harvey, Caglar Keyder, Beverly J. Silver, and Immanuel Wallerstein. The three volumes can purchased individually or as a set.

This collection of essays examines how \"the secular\" is constituted and understood, and how new understandings of secularism and religion shape analytic perspectives in the social sciences, politics, and international affairs.

\"Higher education can be a vital public good, providing opportunities for students, informed citizens for democracy, and knowledge to improve the human condition. Yet public investment in universities is widely being cut, often because public purposes are neglected while private benefits dominate. In this collection, international scholars confront the realities of higher education and the future of its public and private agenda. Their perspectives illuminate the trajectory of education in the twenty-first century and the continuing importance of the university's public mission. Reporting from Asia, Africa, Europe, Latin America, and North America, these scholars look at the different ways universities struggle to serve public and private agendas. Contributors examine the implications of changes in funding sources as well as amounts, different administrative and policy decisions, and the significance of various approaches to assessment and evaluation. They ask whether wider student access has in fact resulted in social mobility, whether more scientific research can be treated as an open-access resource, how changes in academic publishing change access to knowledge, and whether universities get full value from research sold to private corporations. At the same time, these chapters capture the confusion in the university sector over explaining academic work to a broader public and prioritizing its multiple purposes. Authors examine these practical challenges and the implications of different approaches in different contexts.\" (HoF/text adopted) Contents: 1. Calhoun, Craig: The Public Mission of the Research University. - 2. Fischman, Gustavo E./Igo, Sarah E./Rhoten, Diana: Great Expectations, Past Promises, and Golden Ages: Rethinking the \"Crisis\" of Public Research Universities. - 3. Marginson, Simon/Ordorika, Imanol: \"El central volumen de la fuerza\": Global Hegemony in Higher Education and Research. - 4. Johnson, Mark S./Kortunov, Andrey V.: The State, the University, and Society in Soviet and Russian Higher Education: The Search for a New Public Mission. - 5. Moreno-Brid, Juan Carlos/Ruiz-Napoles, Pablo: Public Research Universities in Latin America and Their Relation to economic Development. - 6. Mok, Ka Ho: When Neoliberalism Colonizes Higher Education in Asia: Bringing the \"Public\" Back to the Contemporary University. - 7. Waghid, Yusef: Challenges for Higher Education in Africa, Ubuntu, and Democratic Justice. - 8. Assie-Lumumba, N'Drie T./Lumumba-Kasongo, Tukumbi: The Idea of the Public University and the National Project in Africa: Toward a Full Circle, from the 1960s to the Present. - 9. Willinsky, John: Rethinking What Is Made Public in the University's Public Mission. - 10. Rhoten, Diana/Powell, Walter: Public Research Universities: From Land Grant to Federal Grant to Patent Grant Institutions. - 11. Lange, Stefan/Krücken, Georg: German Universities in the New Knowledge Ecology: Current Changes in Research Conditions and University-Industry Relations. - 12. Tomusk, Voldemar: The Micropolitics of Knowledge in England and Europe: The Cambridge University IPRs Controversy and Its Macropolitical Lessons. - 13. Brennan, John/Singh, Mala: Playing the Quality Game: Whose Quality and Whose Higher Education? - 14. Musselin, Christine: The Academic Workplace: What We Already Know, What We Still Do not Know, and What We Would Like to Know. - 15. Kennedy, Michael D.: Cultural Formations of the Public University: Globalization, Diversity, and the State at the University of Michigan.