Book Review: Bumba Mukherjee, Democracy and Trade Policy in Developing Countries
| Date | 01 November 2017 |
| DOI | 10.1177/1478929917720410 |
| Published date | 01 November 2017 |
| Subject Matter | Book ReviewsComparative Politics |
Political Studies Review 15(4)
In contrast, Stephanie Dornschneider’s
Guy Lancaster
book Whether to Kill offers a corrective to
(Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture)
such trends by employing a cognitive mapping
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approach, which ‘explores the belief systems
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underlying human behavior’ and thus ‘bridges
DOI: 10.1177/1478929917713467
the gap between actors and structures’ (p. 3;
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emphasis in original), with the aim of investi-
gating why different individuals enduring the
Democracy and Trade Policy in Developing
same conditions may choose violent or non-
Countries by Bumba Mukherjee. Chicago, IL:
violent activism.
University of Chicago Press, 2016. 315pp., £21.00
After explaining the cognitive mapping
(p/b), ISBN 9780226358819
approach, Dornschneider details her research
design, a double-paired comparison of violent
The book is an important contribution towards
and non-violent individuals in Egypt and
understanding the impact of democratisation
Germany. For her research, she interviewed
on trade policy in developing countries:
representatives of the Muslim Brotherhood and
Al-Jihad, among others, in Egypt, while her
Why do trade barriers decrease in the immediate
German research focused upon such groups as
years following a democratic transition in some
the Red Army Faction and the Socialist German
newly democratic nations across the developing
Student Union.
world but not others? What conditions influence
Following a brief history of the groups
incumbents in new democratic regimes in the
whose members or former members she was
developing world to adopt trade reforms? When
are incumbents in new democracies more likely
able to interview, Dornschneider lays out in
to respect the results from the first postdemo-
great detail how she went about constructing
cratic transition election rather than engage in
...
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