The political economy of identity

This chapter presents a selective overview of the study of identity. Identity is defined broadly as self-understandings, especially those with strong emotional resonances, and ofte...

Cultural political economy (CPE) is an approach to political economy that focuses on how economic systems, and their component parts, are products of specific human, technical, and...

Abstract Until recently, many Japanese believed that they lived in the richest country in the world, and in the early 1990s, they welcomed the end of one-party do...

Ambiguous, yet proliferous, the concept of identity has taken an important place in the analysis of individuals, groups, and nations. The chapter introduces the literature on ident...

Global Geopolitical Power and African Political and Economic Institutions: When Elephants Fight describes the emergence and nature of the prevailing African political and economic ...

Offering an in-depth examination of the political philosophy of Plato’sRepublic, Stephen O. Peprah challenges the prevalent scholarly interpretation that misreads and underestimate...

This chapter examines the dimensions of the political communication system. It first explains the rationale for a comparative study of political communication before discussing rel...

Abstract The idea of constitutional identity has been central to the negotiation of authority between EU and national constitutional orders. Many national constituti...