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Markets, Democracy, and Ethnicity: Toward a New Paradigm for Law and Development
In developing countries with a market-dominant minority, markets and democracy will tend to favor different ethnic groups. Markets will benefit the market-dominant minority, while democracy will increase the power of the relatively impoverished majority. In these circumstances, the combined pursuit of markets and democracy will produce a highly charged and unstable situation. A model is offered to explore the consequences of pursuing markets and democracy under these conditions. The sobering thrust of the model is that in many developing countries, simultaneous marketization and democratization will likely lead to one of three outcomes: 1. an ethnically fueled antimarket backlash, 2. actions directed at eliminating the market dominant minority, or 3. a retreat from democracy. In case studies of South Africa, Kazakhstan, and Vietnam, the question of what reforms, legal and nonlegal, would lead to the long-term success of markets and democracy in the developing world is explored.
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The golden gate
\"Amy Chua's debut novel, The Golden Gate, is a sweeping, evocative, and compelling historical thriller that paints a vibrant portrait of a California buffeted by the turbulent crosswinds of a world at war and a society about to undergo massive change. In Berkeley, California, in 1944, Homicide Detective Al Sullivan has just left the swanky Claremont Hotel after a drink in the bar when a presidential candidate is assassinated in one of the rooms upstairs. A rich industrialist with enemies among the anarchist factions on the far left, Walter Wilkinson could have been targeted by any number of groups. But strangely, Sullivan's investigation brings up the specter of another tragedy at the Claremont, ten years earlier: the death of seven-year-old Iris Stafford, a member of the Bainbridge family, one of the wealthiest in all of San Francisco. Some say she haunts the Claremont still. The many threads of the case keep leading Sullivan back to the three remaining Bainbridge heiresses, now adults: Iris's sister, Isabella, and her cousins Cassie and Nicole. Determined not to let anything distract him from the truth-not the powerful influence of Bainbridges' grandmother, or the political aspirations of Berkeley's district attorney, or the interest of China's First Lady Madame Chiang Kai-Shek in his findings-Sullivan follows his investigation to its devastating conclusion. Chua's page-turning debut brings to life a historical era rife with turbulent social forces and groundbreaking forensic advances, when race and class defined the very essence of power, sex, and justice, and introduces a fascinating character in Detective Sullivan, a mixed race former Army officer who is still reckoning with his own history\"-- Provided by publisher.
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How America's celebrity obsession weakens the fight against inequality
Deepening inequality is escalating a tribal conflict between the haves and the have-nots in America. But it's not playing out in the most obvious way: the beef of working-class, blue-collar Americans isn't with Manhattan-born billionaires and Instagram influencers-it's with garden variety professional elites. \"If you look at the surveys, Pew Foundation studies, you find that most Americans, including working-class Americans, actually love capitalism,\" says Yale professor Amy Chua. \"They don't want socialism. They still want a system where if you can work hard you can strike it rich, and they want it to be fine to be rich.\" It's that dream that sustains inequality from the bottom up. Amy Chua is the author of Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations.
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عصر الإمبراطورية : كيف تتربع القوى المطلقة على عرش العالم وأسباب سقوطها
سعت المؤلفة إلى تكريس هذا الكتاب ليكون أولاً لفتة تقدير وعرفان لمبدأ التسامح في أميركا الذي وبالرغم من كل عيوبه-كان هو ما جذب والديها إلى هذه البلاد، وجعل من الممكن لعائلتها أن تحسن أوضاعها بشروطها .. ولكن وفي نفس الوقت فإن هذا الكتاب يمثل بالنسبة لها صرخة تحذير، ومن زاوية أخرى فإن هذا الكتاب يدور حول الصراع بين النقاد العنصري من جهة، وبين التعددية العرقية من جهة أخرى أي أنه بعبارة أخرى دراسة حول السلطة والأسباب التي تهيئ لبعض المجتمعات حيازتها والمحافظة عليها.
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A world on the edge
With the debate about globalization focused on economics and politics, the author have raised an alarm in their Autumn 2002 issue about the dangerous escalation of ethnic tensions in many countries caused by the triumph of free-market democracy. The author later wrote Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother (2011)
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The Privatization-Nationalization Cycle: The Link between Markets and Ethnicity in Developing Countries
Examines tendency to repeatedly transfer ownership of assets back and forth between government and the private sector; economic and ethnic reasons for this pattern; Latin America and Southeast Asia, since independence.
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Civil Rights in Wartime
In the days, months, and now years following the events of September 11th, 2001, discrimination against the Sikh community in America has escalated sharply, due in part to a populace that often confuses Sikhs, compelled by their faith to wear turbans, with the Muslim extremists responsible for the devastating terrorist attacks. Although Sikhs have since mobilized to spread awareness and condemn violence against themselves and Muslims, there has been a conspicuous absence of academic literature to aid scholars and commentators in understanding the effect of the backlash on the Sikh community. This volume provides a unique window onto this particular minority group's experience in an increasingly hostile climate, and offers a sharp analysis of the legal battles fought by Sikhs in post-9/11 America. In doing so, it adds a new chapter to the ongoing national story of the difficulties minority groups have faced in protecting their civil liberties in times of war.
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