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Doing Research in Political Science

Doing Research in Political Science

Paul Pennings, Hans Keman and Jan Kleinnijenhuis

(2005)

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Abstract

'This is an immensely helpful book for students starting their own research' - Klaus Armingeon, University of Bern. 'Has established itself as a concise and well-readable text on comparative methods and statistics in political science I strongly recommend it' - Dirk Berg-Schlosser, Philipps-University Marburg

Table of Contents

Section Title Page Action Price
Foreword
Introduction
Chapter 1. Peasant Theories and Smallholder Policies. Past and Present.
PART 1. SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA.
Chapter 2. African Peasants' Centrality and Marginality. Rural Labour Transformations
Chapter 3. Modernization and Adjustment in African Peasant Agriculture
Chapter 4. Veiled Conflicts: Peasant Differentiation, Gender and Structural Adjustment in Nigerian Hausaland
Chapter 5. The Politics of Peasant Ethnic Communities and Urban Civil Society: Reflections of an African Dilemma
Chapter 6. Peasant Wars in Africa: Gone With the Wind.
PART II. LATIN AMERICA.
Chapter 7. Latin America's Agrarian Transformation: Peasantisation and Proletarianisation
Chapter 8. Towards a Reconstruction of Cuba's Agrarian Transformation: Peasantisation, Depeasantisation and Repeasantisation
Chapter 9. The Mexican Peasantry and the Ejido in the Neo-Liberal Period
Chapter 10. Global-Local Links in Latin America's New Ruralities
Chapter 11. Structural Adjustment, Peasant Differentiation and the Environment in Central America.
PART III. ASIA.
Chapter 12. Changing Peasantries in Asia
Chapter 13. Labour and Landlessness in South and Southeast Asia
Chapter 14. Women Workers in Bonded Labour in Rural Industry in South India: Responsibility without Rights
Chapter 15. The Fate of the Chinese Peasantry since 1978
Chapter 16. Japan's New Peasants John Knight.
Conclusions.
Chapter 17: Disappearing Peasantries? Rural Labour Redundancy in the Neo-Liberal