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"This is a book about people. 'Fragile States' in an Unequal World: The Role of the g7+ in International Diplomacy and Development Cooperation introduces the members of the g7+, a group formed by 20 conflict-affected states: why they came to believe in politics and policy; how they feel about their work, their family and their communities; and what they want to leave behind for the next generations. It is the story of their personal and collective values, their mistakes, and the challenges they faced, and it will resonate with anyone who has tried to organize and work with a group of very different people. This book is also a contribution for those seeking to influence international policy, especially from a disadvantageous position. It explores how to find your voice, use your survival skills, work with passion, decide how much to concede and act responsibly. Together, these lessons illuminate the paths that individual members have walked as they found their own voices, as well as how the g7+ fights to speak collectively. The book ends with a glimpse of the way forward, as Isabel Rocha de Siqueira encourages younger generations to engage with politics and policy generously, with hope for the future. Combining literature and hard facts - along with other elements such as illustrations, cartoon strips and photographs to tell the previously untold stories of public servants in poor, conflict-affected countries, the book offers an original (and very human) micro and macro perspective on the politics of development. It will be of interest to professionals in major development organisations, students and professors in development courses, policymakers, public servants, civil society, activists working for major international NGOs, and journalists who report on the development industry, as well as those with a general interest in international development cooperation, international diplomacy and other related fields."--Publisher's website.
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In many established democracies, vote choices are growing more volatile over time. This book assesses how changes in voters' decision making process have contributed to this change. The first part of the book examines the evidence for the claim that the increase in volatility results from a shift in weight from long-term to more short-term determinants of the vote choice. This overview and the analyses that are presented highlight the limitations of existing theories of electoral change and call for novel explanations for voter volatility. The second part of the book makes the argument that group-based cross-pressures are an important source of volatility. Such cross-pressures, that results from the fact that citizens' socio-demographic characteristics and group-memberships pull them in different partisan directions, imply voters' decision making process lacks constraint, ultimately making the vote choice more volatile. The book tests this argument by means of longitudinal election survey data from eight established democracies, which allows tracing changes in the vote choice process since the 1950s. The over-time increase in levels of group-based cross-pressures provide a first indication of their importance for explaining over-time changes in voting behaviour. The empirical analyses that are presented next provide more evidence that is in line with this theoretical argument. The results show that group-based cross-pressured voters are less likely to be partisan, are less guided by short-term determinants when choosing a party, make their vote choice later and switch parties more. Analyses that make use of panel survey data confirm these key findings
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Communalism --- Minorities --- Political stability
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