Changes to Mexico's Constitution in the 1990s marked end of agrarian reform and Revolutionary land regime which had allowed beneficiaries work but not sell their land. New legislation individual parcels ejido be converted into private property. Many observers link this ‘privatization’ with a transformation periurban landscape resulting from developers’ construction mass ‘social housing’ develop...

When comparisons in terms of industrial policy lessons to be learned have taken place, it has tended to be solely vis-a-vis the ‘development state’ East Asian experience. This paper broadens the analysis and considers lessons which 1 From a poem by William Blake (1757–1827). African countries can learn fro other so-called ‘tiger’ economies including Ireland and the East and South Asian countrie...

Using Critical Realism (CR), which emphasises the interplay of structure, culture, and agency, this conceptual article reflects on culture middle- level academic management at a comprehensive South African university was result merger historically disparate institutions. It is important for layer to be understood because it nexus senior management’s strategic initiatives concerns staff members ...

Questions of policy formation/implementation are often translated into the language of power, and the policy process is undoubtedly a political issue rather than a technical issue. Studies of the policy process are used to apply either a structural or individual perspective to explain power distribution in policy formation/implementation and have also led to the methodological puzzle of what th...

The processes described under the misleading term “privatization” have been part of a major social restructuring in both the political and economic spheres. Most notably, widespread state failures have resulted in significant changes in the form and functions of the state. This reform encompasses not only the collapse of state socialism, but also crises and radical reforms in developed capitali...

The efficacy of privilege under the Old Regime, especially as concerning economy, is an oft-repeated postulate historiography. contexts in which it was used often came activities law or police, and guilds far from being any exception. There were many struggles activating these privileges, due to their near-permanent disputation, a disputation constituted very heart viability corporatism. This w...

Categories reflect particular theories about the world in the form of causal and performative claims. Unlike attributes that are the mainstay of statistical analysis, these discrete entities consist of the contradiction of being easy to understand and yet hard to analyze. An important obstacle to the exploration of causal claims about categories (e.g. nations) is the limited diversity of observ...

Bruce Western has produced some superb quantitative empirical research in the past decade and a half, from his early work on corporatism, unions and wages (e.g. Western, 1991, 1997; Western and Healy, 1999) to his more recent study of the causes and consequences of incarceration in the United States, of which Punishment and Inequality in America is the culmination. The topics are important. Res...