Great Britain? How We Get Our Future Back by #TorstenBell, published by BODLEY HEAD LIMITED(THE) Penguin Random House UK, critiques the #UK's 🇬🇧 short-term political thinking under the recent 14-year stint of #Conservative leadership, linking it to low #investment and stagnating #productivity. According to Phil Bell's #review, though the book stops short of unravelling the political rationale for such myopic policymaking, it sets out a hopeful and persuasive set of medium-term reforms for how the new #Labour government can boost productivity and reduce #inequality.
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"With the federal right to abortion gone and women reliant on state ballot initiatives to enshrine abortion rights in their respective state constitutions […] was overturning Roe a politically astute move by the conservative legal movement, or one they will regret?" Roe v. Dobbs: The Past, Present, and Future of a Constitutional Right to Abortion edited by Lee C. Bollinger (Columbia University Law School) and Geoffrey Stone (University of Chicago Law School) and published by Oxford University Press assembles leading scholars of the #US 🇺🇸 #constitution to examine the #SupremeCourt’s decision to overturn #RoevWade with the 2022 ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. This comprehensive and insightful volume unpacks the far-reaching implications of the Dobbs decision for #abortion rights, #equality and American constitutional law, writes Kanav Narayan Sahgal in his #review.
Roe v. Dobbs: The Past, Present, and Future of a Constitutional Right to Abortion – review
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East and Southeast Asian (ESEA) Heritage Month takes place each year in September as a celebration of how these cultures and communities have shaped the UK and continue to thrive. For #ESEA Month 2024, we share a list of sixteen must-read fiction and nonfiction books about ESEA culture and history, and books by ESEA and ESEA-heritage authors, recommended by the LSE community 📚 LSE Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre LSE Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) #EastAsia #SoutheastAsia #ReadingList
Sixteen recommended reads for East and Southeast Asian Heritage Month 2024
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Revolution and Democracy in Tunisia by Larbi Sadiki and Layla Saleh, published by Oxford University Press, presents an interdisciplinary analysis of #Tunisia’s 🇹🇳 rich history of #protest ✊🏾 arguing that popular resistance has long shaped the nation’s identity. According to Elena Korosteleva(Institute for Global Sustainable Development (IGSD), University of Warwick) the book’s nuanced theoretical framework and human-centred narrative sheds important light on the power of “peoplehood” as a grassroots force driving #politicalchange.
Revolution and Democracy in Tunisia: A Century of Protestscapes – review
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"Over time […] Western nations’ international aspirations exceeded their populations willingness to provide social welfare support, leading to a rise in anti-globalist sentiment and a decline in the public’s endorsement of liberal internationalism." Geopolitics and Democracy by Peter Trubowitz (LSE Department of International Relations and LSE United States Centre) and Brian Burgoon (University of Amsterdam and Amsterdam Centre for European Studies), published by Oxford University Press, explores the declining support for #liberal #internationalism in Western #democracies since the end of the #ColdWar. Highlighting how the shift towards partisan and #nationalist politics is linked to geopolitical events, Trubowitz and Burgoon’s eloquent, innovative analysis sheds new light on the crisis of liberal internationalism, writes Mohammad Imtiyaz in his #review.
Geopolitics and Democracy: The Western Liberal Order from Foundation to Fracture – review
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"Our imaginative capacities – creative, moral, artistic – are absent from machines driven by 'optimisation' goals and algorithms." The AI Mirror: How to Reclaim Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking by Shannon Vallor, published by Oxford University Press, explores #AI from a moral-philosophical perspective, cautioning against an overreliance on machines at the expense of human #empathy and #creativity. In her #review, Sarah Richmond posits that Vallor’s discussion overlooks ongoing policy work aiming to #regulate and monitor AI and the role that #BigTech plays in stymying these efforts. Read it here 👉 https://wp.me/p2MwSQ-hyO
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The Liberal Democrats: From hope to despair to where? by David Cutts (University of Birmingham), Andrew Russell (University of Liverpool) and Joshua Townsley, PhD (LSE Data Science Institute LSE Methodology), published by Manchester University Press, surveys the party's fluctuating fortunes and identity struggles within Britain's turbulent political landscape. According to James Dennison's #review, the book's thorough history and informed practicality make for a nuanced understanding of the #LiberalDemocrats' identity crisis and potential future trajectory. Read it here 👉 https://wp.me/p2MwSQ-hyf
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"The key theoretical approach in Auerbach and Thachil's work is the theory of political brokerage and clientelism and active citizenship from below." Migrants and Machine Politics by Adam Michael Auerbach and Tariq Thachil, published by Princeton University Press, examines how #India’s #urban poor navigate and shape political networks to secure representation and accountability within city #politics. This in-depth, multi-method study challenges dominant narratives of top-down political organisation and dynamics of resource allocation in rapidly urbanising contexts, writes Dr. Suraj Beri in his #review Read it here 👉 https://wp.me/p2MwSQ-hyd
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Junk Food Politics by Eduardo J. Gómez, published by Johns Hopkins University Press, considers how #junkfood industries, in collusion with states, shape #publicpolicy in developing countries to expand their markets while regulation such as #sugartaxes begin to restrict growth in developed countries. According to Aida Hassan's #review, this groundbreaking work "illuminates how this corrupt system of control operates, with corporations pushing unhealthy foods at low prices to maximise profits, while states work with them and become complicit in exacerbating the costs to people and health systems."
Junk Food Politics – review
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How Did Britain Come to This? by Gwyn Bevan (LSE Department of Management), published #OpenAccess by LSE Press, critiques a century of systemic #governance failures in #Britain in areas from #healthcare and #housing to #privatisation and #outsourcing. Bevan’s sharp analysis reveals how ideological shifts have weakened the country’s #publicservices over decades, and paints "a damning portrait of a country which has 'lost its way'", writes James Barfleur in his #review, though he stops short of setting out potential paths forward for politicians and #policymakers.
How Did Britain Come to This? – review
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