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Open access books make OUP’s top 10 titles

We’re thrilled that two of ESID’s recent open access publications have made the Oxford University Press’ top 10 economics books of the year. The list was compiled from the most visited publications between April 2020 – March 2021.

The ESID publications featured are:

The Politics of Education in Developing Countries: From Schooling to Learning
Edited by Sam Hickey and Naomi Hossain

The problem of education quality is serious across the Global South. The Politics of Education in Developing Countries: From Schooling to Learning deploys a new conceptual framework-the domains of power approach-to show how the type of political settlement shapes the level of elite commitment and state capacity to improving learning outcomes. The domain of education is prone to being highly politicized, as it offers an important source of both rents and legitimacy to political elites, and can be central to paradigmatic elite ideas around nation-building and modernity. Of particular importance is the relative strength of coalitions pushing for access as against those focused on issues of higher quality education. This book concludes with a discussion of entry points and strategies for thinking and working politically in relation to education quality reforms and critical commentaries.

Governing Extractive Industries: Politics, Histories, Ideas
By Anthony Bebbington, Abdul-Gafaru Abdulai, Denise Humphreys Bebbington, Marja Hinfelaar and Cynthia Sanborn

Governing Extractive Industries synthesizes findings regarding the political drivers of institutional change in extractive industry governance. It analyses resource governance from the late nineteenth century to the present in Bolivia, Ghana, Peru, and Zambia, focusing on the ways in which resource governance and national political settlements interact. The authors focus on the ways in which resource governance and national political settlements interact, exploring the nature of elite politics, the emergence of new political actors, forms of political contention, changing ideas regarding natural resources and development, the geography of natural resource deposits, and the influence of the transnational political economy of global commodity production.

And don’t forget…

We have four other open access books, which can be freely downloaded:

• The Politics of Social Protection in Eastern and Southern Africa
  Edited by Sam Hickey, Tom Lavers, Miguel Niño-Zarazúa, and Jeremy Seekings (2019)
• Negotiating Gender Equity in the Global South: The Politics of Domestic Violence Policy
  Edited By Sohela Nazneen, Sam Hickey, Eleni Sifaki (2019)
• Deals and Development: The Political Dynamics of Growth Episodes
  Edited by Lant Pritchett, Kunal Sen, and Eric Werker (2017)
• The Politics of Inclusive Development: Interrogating the Evidence
  Edited by Sam Hickey, Kunal Sen, and Badru Bukenya (2014)

Other Effectives States books, working papers and policy briefings can be found here.