PART I: POLITICAL POWER, STATE FORMATION, AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT State Building in Pre-colonial Sub-Saharan Africa: The Case of YorubalandE. C. Ejiogu Political Attitudes and Political Participation of Russian Capital Owners: What Matters? Nathalia Rogers Development and Collective Action in Chile's Neoliberal DemocracyPaul W. Posner -- PART II: OPPOSITION POLITICS IN AMERICA: PAST AND PRESENTThe CIO and Third Party Politics in New York: The Rise and Fall of the CIO-ALPStuart Eimer This is Not your Father's War: The Changing Organization of Militarism and Social MovementsAlec Campbell -- PART III: SCHOLARLY CONTROVERSY: Modes of Repair: Reparations and Citizenship at the Dawn of the New MillenniumJohn Torpey Reparation as Luxury or as Basic Need: Atonement for Canadians, Redistribution for Africa Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann Republican Meritocracy, Identity Politics and the Idea of Reverse Reparation: Commentary Yossi Yonah Reparations Claims: Politics by Another NameMelissa Nobles Rejoinder John Torpey.
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Examines political power, state formation, and economic development with examples from Africa, Russia, and Chile. This book looks at the status of opposition politics in America. It is suitable for graduate students and researchers in the field of political science and social theory.