1. Why Scale Matters 1.1.Chiefdom Organization: Simple Political Scale Systems 1.2. States, Ancient and Modern 2. Growth, Power, and Cultural Process 2.1.The Sapienization Process 2.2.The Politicization Process 2.3.The Commercialization Process 3. Growth and Sustainability 3.1.Growth and Power in Washington State 3.2. Global Trends 4. The End of Growth Acknowledgments Glossary Bibliography Biog...

With this introduction to the special issue on climate politics, democracy, and populism, we lay ground for multiplicity of analyses that follow. We highlight essentially contested nature concepts like (de-)politicization, democracy reject notion a single definition. do so by outlining what post-, de-, re-politicization can mean, how diverse perspectives populism are, which ones help guide us i...

Abstract The notion of politicization has been often assimilated to that partisanship, especially in political and social sciences. However, these accounts underestimate more fine-grained, yet pivotal, aspects at stake processes politicization. In addition, they overlook cognitive mechanisms underlying politicizing practices. Here, we propose an integrated approach relying on recent insights fr...

Wallonia demonstrated the importance of regional actors for EU trade policy. What remains, however, involvement when politicization subsides, as after CETA and TTIP? Our paper provides a framework that allows prediction politicization. It posits interaction three factors is decisive: (short-term), preferences (medium-term), institutions (long-term). The more dispose institutionalised channels v...

Do presidents use federal agencies as campaign resources? Scholars of distributive politics have long argued that political elites use public policy outcomes for electoral benefit. Of late, researchers have focused more closely on the president’s role in this process. However, little work examines how differences across agencies condition agency responsiveness to presidential electoral preferen...

This paper analyzes the rise and decline of social movements in Amsterdam and Paris, focusing in particular on the organizations of left-wing immigrant workers. These organizations performed crucial roles for new social movements in the 1970s and 1980s but were isolated and coopted in the 1990s and early 2000s. To explainwhy this is so, we engage in a dialogue with Jacques Rancière and develop ...