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Bülent Aras's work I , Turkey's State Crisis, i is a more policy-oriented book, analysing various components of what he dubs a "state crisis" in Turkey. Turkey's state crisis: institutions, reform, and conflict: by Bülent Aras, Syracuse, NY, Syracuse University Press, 2022, 146 pp., $60 (hardback), ISBN: 9780815637486, $19.95 (paper), ISBN: 9780815637349 In his second chapter, "State and Institutions in Turkey", Aras conceptualises the state in Turkey, especially after the failed coup attempt on 15 July 2016, and institutional reform and emergency governance. [Extracted from the article]

The book "Investigaciones Educativas" (Educational Research), coordinated by Joaquín Hernández González and written by Eduardo Weiss, compiles research papers that address various topics related to pedagogy, bureaucratic and technocratic domination, curriculum analysis, levels and modalities of the school system, situated learning, studies on teachers and students, and the gender perspective. The prologue written by Joaquín Hernández highlights Weiss's academic trajectory and his influence on public policy decisions and educational programs in Mexico. The book also includes chapters on young graffiti artists and violence among girls, revealing the importance of upper secondary education for young people and their families. Weiss's research has influenced educational policy and offers important theoretical and methodological contributions for decision-making in this field. [Extracted from the article]

Hambleton, Robin Cities and Communities Beyond COVID-19: How Local Leadership Can Change Our Future for the Better, Bristol: Bristol University Press, 2020; 171 pp.: 978-1-52921-585-4, £9.99 (pbk) COVID-19 has been a global disaster of the greatest possible magnitude. Also published in autumn 2020, Robin Hambleton's book is the first to discuss the implications of COVID-19 for local governance. [Extracted from the article]

In view of the domination of state-focused research, I will not hide the fact that I share his emphasis on the role and responsibility of civil society, on the private law society as ordo-liberals call it, and the role private law and private law theory could and should play in developing a forward-looking meaningful understanding of rethinking the pillars of the private law regime - the legal subject, contract-tort and property. Hanoch Dagan (ed), A Liberal Theory of Property (Cambridge University Press, 2021) 250 pp, ISBN: 9781108290340 1 The Claim A liberal theory of property, this is Hanoch Dagan's core claim, ' I needs to start from the mainstream liberal tradition of the past century, that is with a concern for individual autonomy, self-determination, and self-ownership, ensuring to all of us as free and equal individuals the possibility of writing and rewriting our own life stories i ' (p. 1). In a long line of judgments, the German Constitutional Court has constitutionalized private law rights of the non-owners in various fields of the law, but has not granted the non-owners a right to housing, certainly not as a right to acquire property. A liberal theory of property makes us think deeper about the advantages of a truly liberal law order, the rights and responsibilities of the parties, civil society and private law society. [Extracted from the article]

In chapter 6, Miller intensifies the portrait of individuals' lives after an incarceration experience, lives that are invisible to all but those who have been incarcerated and the family members who surround them. Miller tells the complex and conflicted story of the criminal justice system through the lens of three complex, conflicted, and interconnected narratives. The reader learns of the personal experiences of Miller's research participants and of Miller's own experience. [Extracted from the article]

Contributing to the question of state-citizen linkages, Gabrielle Kruks-Wisner's I Claiming the State i examines the patterns of citizen claim making at the grass roots. Moving beyond the dominant view of citizens as passive beneficiaries in a patron-client relationship, these books provide us with alternative perspectives by exploring dynamic and synergetic state-citizen linkages. Coupled with the uneven distribution of welfare at the grass roots, state-citizen linkages take the shape of citizen claim making. The authors stress the role of citizen agency and the porous state problematizing the dominant views of state as a benevolent provider through patronage and clientelistic networks. [Extracted from the article]

In I Organizing the Presidency, i Hess and Pfiffner consider how the White House bureaucracy can be organized to make the job somewhat less daunting. The consequences for the presidency, and for the organization of the White House bureaucracy, could be explored more fully. As Hess and Pfiffner observe, there are strong incentives for presidents to expand the White House bureaucracy. Hess and Pfiffner emphasize how presidential personality - those "inherent qualities of character and temperament" - shapes operations within the White House ([3], p. 209). [Extracted from the article]

A central contribution of I The Deportation Machine i is the way that Goodman connects political xenophobia with what he convincingly argues is the tripartite functioning of deportation - voluntary departure, deportation, and self-deportation. $35.00 The Deportation Machine: America's Long History of Expelling Immigrants. [Extracted from the article]

Making Archives in Early Modern Europe: Proof, Information, and Political Record-Keeping, 1400-1700 Second, Head carefully tracks the political and cultural attitudes toward the affordances of records that simultaneously contributed to and emerged from these shifting documentary practices. Head also highlights more successful projects, whose shared trait, he argues, was conceptual flexibility, usually enabled by the use of a registry system, something Head singles out as a key development of early modern Europe. [Extracted from the article]

On April 20, 2008, Paraguay elected rural bishop Fernando Lugo as its president, ending the reign of the Colorado party that had ruled the country since 1947. The election spurred a political shift to the left and considerably transformed the relationship that the national soy industry had forged with the state bureaucracy in previous decades. Progressives, intellectuals, and activists became employed by the same legal apparatus they had protested against for years. Correspondingly, public institutions that had been partly built by the soy industry were suddenly staffed by some of the sector's most ardent critics. In The Government of Beans, Kregg Hetherington explores this peculiar political juncture so as to offer wider reflections on governance in the Anthropocene. To this end, he relies on 17 short chapters that are grouped into three parts. Part I (Cast of Characters) presents us with the people and plants that the book is about. Over the course of six chapters, Hetherington historicizes the conjectures that laid the groundwork for the emergence of soy and its politicization, guiding us past, among others, the Stroessner dictatorship, cotton‐growing colonists, soy‐growing colonists displacing the earlier cotton growers, herbicides, Roundup Ready beans, the present–absent state, and 1990s neoliberalization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The theme discussed in Chapter 2, of in-work poverty, is developed further in Chapter 5 by Natalija Atas in a qualitative study of the strategies in the everyday life of the working poor in Lithuania. The remaining eight chapters focus either on the roles of different policy actors in social policy outcomes or on wider issues of systemic change. The range of countries covered includes some that have not had much attention paid to them in social policy studies, particularly countries of the former Yugoslavia, and a few chapters approach their subjects from quite novel perspectives. [Extracted from the article]

Garcia-Colón's historical ethnography builds on that literature - and explains the FLP's challenges and outcome - by following the migrant trail to the labor camps and farm towns of the US Northeast. [Extracted from the article]

Hence, both politicians and bureaucracies in state statistical agencies can learn how to adjust their working interface in the struggle over the final product that will, in turn, determine state policies. In the lens of public administration, the analysis of power relations between politicians and administration calls for a street-level bureaucracy framework ([4]). Finally, the book also offers political science, public policy and administration and also statistics students an informative outlook on the process of producing government data, and the role political decision-making plays in it. [Extracted from the article]

Throughout the book, Huang reminds us that, beyond the immediate health threats of pollution, there are larger questions at stake. In the first section, Huang examines the problem of pollution and its implications for health, society, and political economy. The second section explores the various strategies the state has used to address the pollution crisis, including major institutional changes in the environmental bureaucracy and new legal and regulatory frameworks such as the "war on pollution" declared in 2014 to combat hazardous levels of airborne particulate matter. [Extracted from the article]