Commonwealth & Comparative Politics articles from March 2002

Commonwealth & Comparative Politics archives from March 2002

Why was there no general strike in 1991? Corporatism, pluralism and neoliberal labour relations in New Zealand.
March 1, 2002... This article explores the ideology and practical strategies of organised labour in New Zealand over two decades in order to assess its influence on the pattern of market-oriented policy implementation experienced there since 1984. Through the...

Can democracy consolidate in Africa amidst poverty? economic influences upon political participation in Zambia.
March 1, 2002... Political participation is a fundamental element of democracy. Yet in Zambia, as in many African countries undergoing democratic transitions amidst conditions of high poverty, economic circumstances may hinder or dissuade people from...

A critical examination of the democratic transition in South Africa: the question of public participation.
March 1, 2002... South Africa has emphasised the notion of participatory democracy and has introduced novel experiments to achieve this objective. However, more recently its focus has shifted to that of institutional and legislative reform in order to enable...

Elite habituation to democracy in Mozambique: the view from parliament, 1994-2000.
March 1, 2002... In 1994, Mozambique put an end to a protracted civil war through a peace agreement premised on the construction of multiparty democracy. This article explores the impact on the two major parties of participation in the first term of the...

Homogenous voting, electoral manipulation and the 'garrison' process in post-independence Jamaica.
March 1, 2002... Jamaican politics presents a number of distinctive features that sets it apart from other Commonwealth Caribbean countries. While elections have been held regularly since independence in 1962 and changes of government have...

India and Pakistan.(Book Review)
March 1, 2002... by Ian Talbot (London: Arnold, 2000, pp.xxi + 312, 50 [pounds sterling] hb; 19.99 [pounds sterling] pb). For many years scholars studying the post-independence politics of India and Pakistan tended to concentrate on one of the two with...

Building Democracy in South Asia: India, Nepal, Pakistan.(Book Review)
March 1, 2002... by Maya Chadda (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2000, pp.247, 42.50 [pounds sterling] hb). Maya Chadda argues that conventional approaches to studying democratisation have intrinsic shortcomings that become especially apparent when it comes to...

Globalization and Nationalization: the Changing Balance in India's Economic Policy 1950-2000.(Book Review)
March 1, 2002... by Baldev Raj Nayar (London, New Delhi and Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2001, pp.285, 29.99 [pounds sterling] cloth). Nayar's book is an impressive overview of 50 years of national economic policy making. Major actors in this drama...

India's Newspaper Revolution: Capitalism, Politics and the Indian-Language Press, 1977-99.(Book Review)
March 1, 2002... by Robin Jeffrey (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2000, pp.xxi + 234, Rupees 545 hb). The interaction between media and society, in the context of developing democracy, remains relatively unexplored. This book may become one of the...

Fifty Years of the Supreme Court of India: its Grasp and Reach.(Book Review)
March 1, 2002... by S.K. Verma and Kusum (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2001, pp.832, 33.99 [pounds sterling] hb). India's Supreme Court, more than the other institutions of state, has retained the high esteem in which it was held by the generation that...

Hindu Women and Marriage Laws: from Sacrament to Contract.(Book Review)
March 1, 2002... by Monmayee Basu (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2001, pp.x + 177, 10.99 [pounds sterling] hb). Basu's book on Hindu women explores the one dominating, inescapable fact of life for Hindu women, that is, marriage. Basu suggests that...

The Social Anthropology of a Civilation.(Book Review)
March 1, 2002... by Bernard S. Cohn (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2000, pp.xix + 164, 550 Indian rupees). This is a 1971 book in reprint but still influential among anthropologists and historians studying India. Gyan Prakash, a historian, offers in his...

Trans-Himalayan Caravans: Merchant Princes and Peasant Traders in Ladakh.(Book Review)
March 1, 2002... by Janet Rizvi (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1999, pp.xvi + 359, 18.99 [pounds sterling] hb, special Indian price INR 935). Contrary to the popular notion that the societies of the Karakoram and Himalayas were extremely isolated,...

Region and Partition: Bengal, Punjab and the Partition of the Subcontinent.(Book Review)
March 1, 2002... edited by Ian Talbot and Singh, Gurharpal (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999, pp.viii + 407, 17.99 [pounds sterling] hb, 4 [pounds sterling] pb). The partition of the Indian subcontinent following the end of British rule stands out as...

The Jinnah Anthology.(Book Review)
March 1, 2002... edited and compiled by Liaquat H. Merchant (Karacbi: Oxford University Press, 1999, pp.93, 15 [pounds sterling] hb). This artistically produced and beautifully designed anthology on M.A. Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan, is a slim coffee...

Jinnah Papers. On the Threshold of Pakistan 1 July-25 July 1947. First Series Volume III.(Book Review)
March 1, 2002... edited by Z.H. Zaidi (Islamabad: Quaid-i-Azam Papers Project, Cabinet Division, Government of Pakistan, 1996, pp.1045, no price given). Jinnah Papers. Pakistan At Last 26 July--14 August 1947. First Series Volume IV edited by Z.H. Zaidi...

Timber Booms and Institutional Breakdown in Southeast Asia.(Book Review)
March 1, 2002... by M.L. Ross (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001, pp.xvi + 237, 30 [pounds sterling] hb). Michael Ross addresses one of the more interesting issues surrounding the rapid depletion of the natural resources base in Southeast...

The Politics of Human Rights in East Asia.(Book Review)
March 1, 2002... by K. Christie and D. Roy (London: Pluto Press, 2001, pp.viii + 307, 50 [pounds sterling] hb, 16.99 [pounds sterling] pb). Human rights issues remain controversial, not only in international relations and individual states, but also in...

The Political Economy of Drugs in the Caribbean.(Book Review)
March 1, 2002... edited bu Ivelaw L. University The Political Economy of Drugs in the Caribbean (New York: Macmillan, 2000, pp.271, 45 [pounds sterling] hb). In this book, Ivelaw Griffith has compiled a series of articles which discuss and analyse the...

The Politics of the New South Africa.(Book Review)
March 1, 2002... by Heather Deegan (London: Longman, 2001, pp.x + 272, 18.99 [pounds sterling] pb). The end of apartheid and the birth of the 'new South Africa' after a protracted bargaining process--what was essentially an elite compromise--has generated...

A Country Unmasked: Inside South Africa's Truth and Reconcilliation Commission.(Book Review)
March 1, 2002... by Alex Boraine (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000, pp.xv + 466, 20 [pounds sterling] hb). Inside Apartheid's Prison: Notes and Letters of Struggle by Raymond Suttner (New York: Ocean Press, 2001, pp.203, 12.95[pounds sterling] pb)....

South Africa's Brittle Peace: the Problem of Post-Settlement Violence.(Book Review)
March 1, 2002... by Pierre du Toit (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001, pp.222, 42.50 [pounds sterling] hb). Pierre Du Toit seeks to provide a balanced academic and scholarly appraisal of the particular difficulties South Africa faces not only in the wake of...

Closing the Circle: Democratization and Development in Africa.(Book Review)
March 1, 2002... by Richard Sandbrook (Toronto: Between the Lines, 2000, pp. 180, $29.95 pb). It was commonplace in the mid and late 1990s for academics to present the state of the third wave of democratisation in Africa as reversed, stalled or jagged....

Ethnic Conflicts Explained by Ethnic Nepotism.(Book Review)
March 1, 2002... by Tatu Vanhanen (Stamford, Connecticut: Jai/Elsevier, 1999, pp.xix + 370, $82.50 hb). Ethnicity, along with other identities, was considered to be unhelpful for the development of what came to be termed as liberal democracy. In the...

The Deadly Ethnic Riot.(Book Review)
March 1, 2002... by Donald L. Horowitz (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001, pp.xvii + 588, 22 [pounds sterling] hb). The publication in 1985 of Ethnic Groups in Conflict established Don Hornwitz as one of the key analysts in the comparative...

Foreign Aid and Political Reform: A Comparative Analysis of Democracy Assistance and Political Conditionality.(Book Review)
March 1, 2002... by Gordon Crawford (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001, pp.xi + 293, 45 [pounds sterling] hb). This book examines and compares the efforts of four northern donors--Sweden, the United States, the United Kingdom and the European Union--to promote...