Rebalancing the Economy, Refurbishing the State: The Political Economic Logic of Sino-Capitalism in Contemporary China by Christopher A. McNally

“…Specifically, Sino-capitalism’s constitution demonstrates the importance of Régulation Theory’s more open and evolutionary approach to understanding CC.Sino-capitalism conceives China’s political economy as driven by the dialectic of top-down state-centric modes of governance interacting with bottom-up networked modes of entrepreneurship based on market competition. …”
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Centre-periphery circulation patterns in Ghana’s print media landscape: exploring the underlying determinants by Jacob Nyarko

“…Since there are not enough studies that explore the circulation of print media under Ghana’s fourth republic to show its circulation patterns, this article analyses print distribution figures and views sourced from newspaper firms to examine the situation within the participatory communication and the political economy of the media frameworks. It uncovers that a few newspaper firms have regional offices but do not print in those locations. …”
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Hyperinflation argentine de 1989 : une interprétation post-keynésienne by Jonathan Marie

“…Secondly, this theoretical framework is confronted to economic facts observed in Argentina from the 1970’s to the 1989 hyper-inflationist spurt. The historical political economy analysis allows the spotting of the following sequence: the distributive conflict is highly violent, reshaped several times from the 1970’s onwards. …”
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ADDRESSING DESERTIFICATION TO PROMOTE SUSTAINABLE PEACE BETWEEN FARMERS AND HERDSMEN IN NIGERIA by Sani Sani Ibrahim

“…The research is situated within the theoretical framework of Political Economy Approach, to explain economic issues as the primary cause of tension and conflict between Farmers and Herdsmen in their struggle for economic survival. …”
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The EU’s neoliberal constitutionalism(s) by Guillaume Grégoire

“…From ordoliberal Ordnungspolitik to new classical macroeconomics and public choice, from Hayek’s ‘constitution of liberty’ to Vanberg’s ‘constitutional political economy’, an institutional agenda has emerged around a number of key tenets: enhancing the competition between jurisdictions through (state and international) federalism; safeguarding the competitive functioning of the market through supra-legislative rules; limiting fiscal policies and disciplining public spending through balanced budget rules; neutralising monetary policy through independent and price stability-oriented central banks. …”
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Local level institutional complementarities in contemporary China by Alexandre De Podestá Gomes

“…This study privileges a political economy definition of institutions (Amable, 2003; Boyer, 1988), and employs the concept of institutional complementarities (Amable, 2016; Aoki, 1994) in order to tackle the institutional arrangements of Nanjing and Suzhou. …”
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Desenvolvimento desigual e turismo no Brasil by Rita de Cássia Ariza da Cruz

“…In this sense, we seek, in addition to supposed cultural determinations, to understand, through a political economy of the territory, the spawning logic of the spatialities assumed by tourism as an economic activity in Brazil. …”
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Supporting Homeownership and Naturalizing Debt<subtitle>The Housing Discourse in Swedish Newspapers 2005–2022</subtitle> by Chiara Valli, Neil Dunne

“…Critical housing and political economy research have shown how, in the past three decades, housing, fiscal and legal reforms have consistently moved the Swedish housing system away from the tenure-neutrality principle in favor of homeownership. …”
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A social dynamics of the development of community network: problems raised by two cases of community network development by Dong Hee Shin

“…<br><b>Results.</b> The political economy of the development process has biased the development toward private interests and away from the public benefit, and toward lucrative services and intra-organizational connectivity and away from community-oriented uses. …”
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How Health Systems World-wide Fail Type 2 Diabetics by Abdo S. Yazbeck, Son Nam Nguyen, Maria-Luisa Escobar

“…The immense and ever-growing health and economic burdens of T2DM should provide all the motivation needed for national and global efforts to counteract the political-economy constraints standing in the way of successful whole-of-system approaches to T2DM.…”
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Why do countries engage in the preferential trade agreement network? by Flavia Rovira, Marcel Vaillant

“…The second group is related to political economy effects. And finally, we include a variable related to trade specialization, which has not been used in earlier works to explain PTAs. …”
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Restructuring of Rural Governance in a Rapidly Growing Resource Town: The Case of Kitimat, BC, Canada by Laura Ryser, Greg Halseth, Sean Markey

“…Neoliberal public policy shifts include wider changes where the state has become less involved in program and infrastructure investments in resource-dependent communities. Even as this political economy continues to evolve, past neoliberal policy responses continue to restrict local supports, while also failing to provide a comprehensive strategy to guide rapidly changing communities. …”
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A Critical Review of the Book Violence and Social Orders: A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Recorded Human History by Ali Karimi Maleh

“…This book by North and his colleagues is considered as a pioneer and creative work regarding the issue of violence and its relationship with development from the perspective of political economy and historical-comparative approach to provide a conceptual framework for understanding and analyzing ways of control of political violence in limited access social orders and open access social orders. …”
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The city as context: culture and scale in new immigrant destinations by Wendy Cadge, Sara Curran, B.Nadya Jaworsky, Peggy Levitt

“…In this study of two small, post-industrial cities, we argue that important variations in how cities create and deploy what we call their cultural armature, including differences in urban self-presentation, the prevailing ethos toward immigrants, how culture is harnessed in service of urban renewal projects, and how history and political economy influence the available cultural apparatus explain much of the variation in our two contexts of reception.…”
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Indonesia-US Trade Barrier: A Study on the Halal Certification of Imported Chicken Leg Quarters by Akim Akim, Arfin Sudirman, Januar Aditya Pratama

“…This study uses a mercantilism approach in the global political economy, namely the theory of non-tariff trade barrier from Thomas Oatley. …”
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A Critical Review on the Book Cities and Consumption by Mohammad Abbaszadedh, Sajjad Mesgarzadeh

“…Jayne failed to explain the consumer and consumption status in the relationship between the structure of the political economy and the formation of the modern city and consumer society. …”
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Reconfiguración del estado colombiano: el difícil balance entre consenso y coerción by Daniel James Hawkins

“…These interactions provide an exemplary illustration of the reconfiguration at multiple levels of the world political economy today.…”
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Standards of living and human potential development: Assessing risks to regions’ economic security by Gleb A. Maslov, Yulia A. Sherstobitova

“…Methodologically, the re search relies on Senchagov–Mityakov zonal theory as well as on a political economy approach. The methods include a historical-logical method, comparative analysis, and an index method. …”
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Political and socioeconomic implications of Classic Maya lithic artifacts from the Main Plaza of Aguateca, Guatemala by Kazuo Aoyama

“…First, combined with the results of analysis of 10,845 lithic artifacts collected in the Palace Group, the elite residential area along the Causeway, and other parts of the site by the Aguateca Archaeological Project First Phase, the data on obsidian artifacts indicate a skewed distribution, suggesting that the rulers of Aguateca controlled the main access to obsidian in the city while the procurement and distribution of obsidian polyhedral cores may have been administered by the royal court of the Aguateca dynasty as part of its political economy. Second, several lines of lithic evidence reinforce the argument advanced by Inomata et al. (2004) that Structure L8-8, a large temple building, was abandoned during its construction toward the end of the Late Classic period. …”
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THE POLITICS OF INSECURITY REPORTAGE IN NORTHERN NIGERIA by ISA SA’IDU

“…With the use of the Political Economy of Communication, Framing, Social Responsibility, and Agenda Setting Theories, the paper reviewed relevant literature and established how Nigerian media used their organisations to report the phenomenon of insecurity both for and against the country’s national interest.The study found that many media outlets, both new and conventional, have over the years engaged inan unethical practice that both exacerbates security challenges as well as threatens Nigeria’s corporate existence. …”
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