Oligarchy - Softcover

Winters, Jeffrey A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521182980 ISBN 13: 9780521182980

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2011

Synopsis

The common thread for oligarchs across history is that wealth defines them, empowers them and inherently exposes them to threats.

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About the Author

Jeffrey A. Winters specializes in oligarchy and elites in a range of historical and contemporary cases, including Athens, Rome, medieval Europe, the United States and several major countries in Southeast Asia. His research, publications and teaching focus on the areas of comparative and international political economy. Themes in his work in addition to oligarchy include state-capital relations, capital mobility and the structural power of investors, human rights, authoritarianism and democratic transitions in postcolonial states, the International Monetary Fund, the World Trade Organization and the World Bank. He has conducted extensive research in the region of Southeast Asia, especially Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, the Philippines, Malaysia and Singapore. He is the author of Power in Motion: Capital Mobility and the Indonesian State. With Jonathan Pincus, he co-edited Reinventing the World Bank. He has also published two other books in Indonesian. Professor Winters has received numerous grants and scholarships, including a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Grant; a J. William Fulbright Senior Specialist Grant; grants from the National Science Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Sawyer–Mellon Foundation, the Henry R. Luce Foundation, Yale's Center for International Studies and the J. M. Kaplan Fund; and a Rackham Research Grant from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0521182980
• ISBN 13: 9780521182980
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 344