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Commonwealth and Comparative Politics @FCCPolitics

Commonwealth & Comparative Politics is a quarterly journal of Comparative Politics, esp in the Commonwealth. It is published by Taylor & Francis @tandfonline

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📩Please read our book review by @MCollord of the book~ Autocratization in contemporary Uganda: clientelism, coercion, and social control edited by Moses Khisa, published by Zed Books, London. #Uganda #clientism #Africa #social Link➡️bit.ly/4v9iDEg

Autocratization in contemporary Uganda: clientelism, coercion, and social control

Published in Commonwealth & Comparative Politics (Vol. 62, No. 4, 2024)

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📩Please read our book review by @Mars_CoetZulu of the book~Power shift: The global political economy of energy transitions by @PeterJNewell_ published by @CambridgeUP #energy #politics #economy Link➡️ bit.ly/4uDc6kY

Power shift: The global political economy of energy transitions

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📩Please read our book review by Peter Clegg of the book~ Flawed democracy and development: A Jamaica case study, edited by Stacey-Ann Wilson, published by Lexington Books. #democarcy #Jamaica #development Link➡️bit.ly/4tZySTt

Flawed democracy and development: A Jamaica case study

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📩Please read our book review by @sameen_mohsin of the book ~Good governance in Nigeria: rethinking accountability and transparency in the twenty-first century by @whowhywherewhen published by @CambridgeUP #Nigeria #Governance #accountability Link➡️bit.ly/4c45bJb

Good governance in Nigeria: rethinking accountability and transparency in the twenty-first century

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Please read our article📩: How do political families reproduce power: evidence from Maharashtra, India by @ajinkyaMu21 and @rahul_tverma #power #elections #politics #india Link➡️bit.ly/3PHbg79

How do political families reproduce power: evidence from Maharashtra, India

How do political families maintain their hold in local politics? While the impact of dynastic politics on economic development has received scholarly attention, the underlying mechanisms that susta...

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Please read our article📩: Pakistan’s contemporary political crisis: historical perspectives by Ian Talbot @unisouthampton #pakistan #political #crisis #southasia Link➡️bit.ly/4lT2dvS

Pakistan’s contemporary political crisis: historical perspectives

This article brings a historical perspective to contemporary Pakistan’s mounting political, constitutional and economic crisis. Lying behind this scenario there is a complex collision between the s...

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Please read our article📩: Hustlers and dynasties: exploring the role of anti-China populism in Kenya’s 2022 elections by Steve Hess @Transy and Richard Aidoo @CCUChanticleers #kenya #china #populism Link➡️bit.ly/4chNYOv

Hustlers and dynasties: exploring the role of anti-China populism in Kenya’s 2022 elections

The article examines William Ruto's use of a populist ‘hustlers versus dynasties’ campaign strategy and the degree to which this strategy incorporated anti-China rhetoric in his successful bid to w...

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Please read our article📩: Powerlessness at the inhuman scale? Examining the relationship between municipality size and political efficacy in two Australian states by @joshuamcdonnell #Australia #state #Power #council Link➡️bit.ly/45Vfw7Z

Powerlessness at the inhuman scale? Examining the relationship between municipality size and...

A nation’s political culture, tradition goes, is built at the local level. Local government’s proximity, simplicity, and human scale enable a wider range of people to participate and to learn the c...

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Please read our article📩: Inside or outside the federation of Pakistan: the Gilgit-Baltistan conundrum by Jean-Luc Racine, Centre for South Asian and Himalayan Studies (CESAH-EHESS). #Pakistan #Gilgit #Baltistan Link➡️bit.ly/4acFlnc

Inside or outside the federation of Pakistan: the Gilgit-Baltistan conundrum

For more than seven decades, since the partition of India and the first conflict over Kashmir in 1947–1948, the former Northern Territories, renamed Gilgit-Baltistan in 2009, have remained in a con...

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Please read our article📩: The politics of policing in Pakistan: decentralisation of power in a federalised political landscape by @Y2Kureshi and @ZohaWaseem #Pakistan #Federalism #decentralisation Link ➡️bit.ly/4qd3GxX

The politics of policing in Pakistan: decentralisation of power in a federalised political landscape

How do political parties establish partisan control over police forces in federalised hybrid regimes with powerful militaries? Focusing on Pakistan, this paper examines how, in the context of limit...

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📢📢PUBLICATION ALERT In this paper for @FCCPolitics, I examine the populist performance of international summitry in the context of 🇮🇳’s G20 presidency in 2023. Using the theoretical frameworks of populism as style (@bjmoffitt) & populism as ...(1/3) tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

Summitry as populist performance: a case study of Narendra Modi and the 2023 G20 summit

The intersection of populism and foreign policy has garnered increasing scholarly attention. However, its manifestation through international summits remains underexplored. The 2023 G20 summit held...

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Please read our article📩Territorial re-organisation of administrative units in Pakistan: the demand for new provinces in Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and Sindh by @FarhanHSiddiqi #pakistan #Sindh #provinces Link➡️bit.ly/49LQhry

Territorial re-organisation of administrative units in Pakistan: the demand for new provinces in...

The 18th Amendment ushered a public discourse on a novel ethnofederal experiment with both federal and ethnic elites advocating territorial reorganisation of existing provinces, however, this has n...

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Please read our article📩: Global China and Pakistan’s federal politics: 10 years of the China–Pakistan Economic Corridor by @KatAdeney and @FilippoBoni1 #pakistan #China #BRI Link➡️ bit.ly/47RxXe0

Global China and Pakistan’s federal politics: 10 years of the China–Pakistan Economic Corridor

The China–Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is one of the most prominent projects under China’s Belt and Road Initiative. While its geopolitical and financial implications have received much attent...

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Please read our article📩: Territorial autonomy and ethnic conflict: the Baloch ethnic question post-18th Amendment by Rafiullah Kakar #baloch #Pakistan #territory #Conflict Link ➡️bit.ly/3LxKs6X

Territorial autonomy and ethnic conflict: the Baloch ethnic question post-18th Amendment

This article critically assesses the effectiveness of territorial autonomy under the 18th Constitutional Amendment in managing ethnic conflict in Pakistan's Balochistan province. It argues that lim...

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Please read our article📩: The federal project in Pakistan: beyond fixing the design by Intergovernmental relations in Pakistan: managing the federation-Sindh contestation by @faiz_asma #Pakistan #Inter #government #Sindh #Federal Link ➡️bit.ly/4n6eDiX

Intergovernmental relations in Pakistan: managing the federation-Sindh contestation

Drawing on the comparative literature on intergovernmental relations this article analyses the dynamics of executive federalism in Pakistan with a focus on relations between the federation and Sind...

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Please read our article📩: The federal project in Pakistan: beyond fixing the design by @Waseem13134666 #Pakistan #federal #PolicyInPractice #SouthAsia Link: bit.ly/4ojZnA4

The federal project in Pakistan: beyond fixing the design

Federalism remains a contested matter in Pakistan. This article analyses the issues of representation, territoriality, ethnicity and asymmetry of the federating units in the federal theory and prac...

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Please read our article📩: Mapping the post-18th Amendment federalism in Pakistan: hegemony, centralization or cooperation? by @jaffrelotc @Waseem13134666 and @faiz_asma #federalism #Pakistan #hegemony #politics Link➡️bit.ly/3VA76gN

Mapping the post-18th Amendment federalism in Pakistan: hegemony, centralization or cooperation?

The 1973 Constitution accelerated the development of federalism in Pakistan. Federalizing institutions such as the Senate and the Council of Common Interests (CCI) were introduced. The 18th Amendme...

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New update:📩Please read our book review by Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò @Cornell of the book ~ African political thought: an intellectual history of the quest for freedom by @DrStephenChan published by @HurstPublishers #Africa #political #thought Link ➡️bit.ly/44Dm7UE
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New update:📩Please read our book review by Ryan Shaffer of the book ~ Race and Diplomacy in Zimbabwe: the Cold War and decolonization, 1960–1984 by Timothy Lewis Scarnecchia published by @CambridgeUP #race #Diplomacy #zim #coldwar #decolonial Link➡️ bit.ly/4lfOKgr

Race and diplomacy in Zimbabwe: the Cold War and decolonization, 1960–1984

Published in Commonwealth & Comparative Politics (Vol. 62, No. 2, 2024)

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New update :📩Please read our book review by @HarshaliNagral1 of the book ~House of the People: parliament and the making of Indian democracy by @ronojoy_sen published by @CambridgeUP #people #India #Democracy Link➡️bit.ly/4lfd5TE

House of the People: parliament and the making of Indian democracy

Published in Commonwealth & Comparative Politics (Vol. 62, No. 2, 2024)

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