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  • 21. Publications & Writing

    Courts under Constraints: Judges, Generals, and Presidents in Argentina (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)

    This study offers a new theoretical framework for understanding how institutional instability affects judicial behavior under dictatorship and democracy. In stark contrast to conventional wisdom, 1997 IDRF Fellow Gretchen Helmke’s findings of the book contradict the longstandin…

    Author Helmke, Gretchen Publisher Cambridge University Press, 2004

  • 22. Publications & Writing

    Cows, Kin, and Globalization: An Ethnography of Sustainability

    …1999 IDRF Fellow Susan Alexandra Crate presents the first cultural ecological study of a Siberian people: the Viliui Sakha, contemporary horse and cattle agropastoralists in northeastern Siberia. The author links the local and global economic forces, and provides an intimate view…

    Author Crate, Susan A. Publisher Alta Mira Press

  • 23. Publications & Writing

    Creative State: Forty Years of Migration and Development Policy in Morocco and Mexico

    At the turn of the twenty-first century, with the amount of money emigrants sent home soaring to new highs, governments around the world began searching for ways to capitalize on emigration for economic growth, and they looked to nations that already had policies in place. Morocc…

    Publisher Cornell University Press, 2010

  • 24. Publications & Writing

    Domesticating the World: African Consumerism and the Genealogies of Globalization (California World History Library)

    This book, by 1999 IDRF Fellow Jeremy Prestholdt, destabilizes the idea of globalization as a recent phenomenon driven by Western interests by offering a compelling new perspective on global interconnectivity in the nineteenth century. During an era of broad social and economic c…

    Author Prestholdt, Jeremy Graham Publisher University of California Press, 2008

  • 25. Publications & Writing

    Electoral Competition and Institutional Change in Mexico

    …1998 IDRF Fellow Caroline Beer’s new book explores the consequences of democratic politics in Mexico. Focusing on struggles at the subnational level, she assesses how increased electoral competition alters the long-term distribution of power across political institutions in wa…

    Author Beer, Caroline Charlotte Publisher University of Notre Dame Press, 2003

  • 26. Publications & Writing

    Entrepreneurial States: Reforming Corporate Governance in France, Japan, and Korea

    In Entrepreneurial States, 1999 IDRF Fellow Yves Tiberghien provides an innovative examination of the comparative politics of reform in stakeholder systems and analyzes the modern partnership between the state and global capital in attaining structural domestic change. Drawing on…

    Author Tiberghien, Yves Emmanuel Publisher Cornell University Press, 2007

  • 27. Publications & Writing

    Eugenic Nation: Faults and Frontiers of Better Breeding in the United States

    Many people assume that eugenics all but disappeared with the fall of Nazism, but as this sweeping history demonstrates, the idea of better breeding had a wide and surprising reach in the United States throughout the twentieth century. With an original emphasis on the American We…

    Author Stern, Alexandra M. Publisher University of California Press, 2005

  • 28. Publications & Writing

    Exile and Cultural Hegemony: Spanish Intellectuals in Mexico (1939-1975)

    After Francisco Franco’s victory in the Spanish Civil War, a great many of the country’s intellectuals went into exile in Mexico. During the three and a half decades of Francoist dictatorship, these exiles held that the Republic, not Francoism, represented the authentic cultu…

    Author Faber, Sebastiaan Publisher Vanderbilt University Press, 2002

  • 29. Publications & Writing

    Exploring the Invisibility of Local Knowledge in Decision-making: The Boscastle Harbour Flood Disaster

    Adapting to climate change is one of the most challenging problems facing humanity, but the time for adaptation is now upon us. Living with climate change involves reconsidering our lifestyles and goals for the future, which are linked to our actions as individuals, societies and…

    Author Jennings, Tori Lee Publisher Cambridge University Press, 2009

  • 30. Publications & Writing

    Gathering Leaves and Lifting Words: Buddhist Monastic Education in Laos and Thailand (Critical Dialogues in Southeast Asian Studies)

    …2001 IDRF Fellow Justin McDaniel’s Gathering Leaves and Lifting Words examines modern and pre-modern Buddhist monastic education traditions in Laos and Thailand. Through five centuries of adaptation and reinterpretation of sacred texts and commentaries, McDaniel traces curricul…

    Author McDaniel, Justin Publisher University of Washington Press, 2008