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Strike Action and Nation Building
Strike-action has long been a notable phenomenon in Israeli society, despite forces that have weakened its recurrence, such as the Arab-Jewish conflict, the decline of organized labor, and the increasing precariousness of employment. While the impact of strikes was not always immense, they are deeply rooted in Israel's past during the Ottoman Empire and Mandate Palestine. Workers persist in using them for material improvement and to gain power in both the private and public sectors, reproducing a vibrant social practice whose codes have withstood the test of time. This book unravels the trajectory of the strikes as a rich source for the social-historical analysis of an otherwise nation-oriented and highly politicized history.
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Latin American State Building in Comparative Perspective
Latin American State Building in Comparative Perspective provides an account of long-run institutional development in Latin America that emphasizes the social and political foundations of state-building processes. The study argues that societal dynamics have path-dependent consequences at two critical points: the initial consolidation of national institutions in the wake of independence, and at the time when the 'social question' of mass political incorporation forced its way into the national political agenda across the region during the Great Depression. Dynamics set into motion at these points in time have produced widely varying and stable distributions of state capacity in the region. Marcus J. Kurtz tests this argument using structured comparisons of the post-independence political development of Chile, Peru, Argentina and Uruguay.
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Internal Migration, Exclusionary Politics and Crises of Nation-Building in Nigeria
The article examines the crises of nation-building in Nigeria from the perspective of internal migration, exclusionary discourses and politics. Population movement has been a constant feature of human interactions and relations. One of the major constant features of internal migration interpretation has been its continuous intersection with economic considerations and social security. However, in Nigeria, the internal migration of different ethnic groups within the territories has witnessed the interplay of exclusionary discourses and politics or a series of policies and debates directed toward profiling the migrant population to achieve certain objectives. In Nigeria, the Igbo migrants and politics of Lagos State and the Fulani herders’ pastoralists fit into the broad spectrum of this thesis. However, the task of nation-building in Nigeria is a continuous process that involves a careful dialogue on matters that border on national questions. Hence, the reality of the Nigerian nation-building project is the crisis of managing various ethnic and religious identities towards national integration. The article builds on these two cases to shed light on understanding ethnic tension, suspicion and its implications on nation-building through the prism of internal migration. The article relies on secondary data sources.
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State and Nation Making in Latin America and Spain
The growth of institutional capacity in the developing world has become a central theme in twenty-first-century social science. Many studies have shown that public institutions are an important determinant of long-run rates of economic growth. This book argues that to understand the difficulties and pitfalls of state building in the contemporary world, it is necessary to analyze previous efforts to create institutional capacity in conflictive contexts. It provides a comprehensive analysis of the process of state and nation building in Latin America and Spain from independence to the 1930s. The book examines how Latin American countries and Spain tried to build modern and efficient state institutions for more than a century - without much success. The Spanish and Latin American experience of the nineteenth century was arguably the first regional stage on which the organizational and political dilemmas that still haunt states were faced. This book provides an unprecedented perspective on the development and contemporary outcome of those state and nation-building projects.
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