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"In this book, longtime political scientist Richard Davis tells the stories of academics who have reached beyond the ivory tower-not only scholars in the past, but also his own story of working in party politics in Utah. He frames his political activism within the context of a larger trend in political science away from the affairs of academia toward more public and political engagement. Some political scientists have become purely activists; a few have left academe and accepted appointments in government or have been elected to full-time office. Davis discusses different ways to remain both active in academic life while also becoming more publicly engaged in the community and state where one lives. At a time when higher education is going through a crisis, this book shows how political scholars may find alternative ways to explore their passion for politics"-- Provided by publisher.

• 1 Introduction: trespassing the boundaries of politics and economics / Samuel Bowles, Maurizio Franzini, Ugo Pagano 1
• Part I Politics and power in economic organizations 11
• 2 Power in competitive exchange / Samuel Bowles, Herbert Gintis 13
• 3 Adaptation and opportunism in political and economic markets / Maurizio Franzini 31
• 4 The internal politics of the firm / Paul Milgrom, John Roberts 46
• 5 Is power an economic good? Notes on social scarcity and the economics of positional goods / Ugo Pagano 63
• 6 How politics limits markets: power, legitimacy, choice / John Dunn 85
• Part II The economic analysis of political organizations 101
• 7 Modeling politics as a competitive endeavor / Albert Breton 103
• 8 Political parties and representative democracy / Gianluigi Galeotti 129
• 9 Constitutionally constrained and safeguarded competition in markets and politics: with reference to a European constitution / Viktor Vanberg 141
• 10 Political parties, pressure groups, and democracy: a transaction cost theory of political institutions / Donald Wittman 167
• Part III The 'contamination' between economic and political factors in institutional change 177
• 11 The coming of nationalism, and its interpretation: the myths of nation and class / Ernest Gellner 179
• 12 Norms of exclusion / Russell Hardin 225
• 13 From expressionism and futurism to kitsch: ethnic and intergenerational conflict, political inaction, and the rise of dictatorship / Ronald Wintrobe 260
• 14 Multiple equilibria, critical masses, and institutional change: the coup d'etat problem / Ulrich Witt 286.

The Politics and Economics of Power looks at the emerging interface between economics and politics. The analysis of power relations - traditionally the preserve of political science - is increasingly being adopted by economists in order to aid understanding of concepts such as the 'contested nature' of market exchanges. The papers examine power relations in the firm and market-place, and offer an economic perspective on power relations.

• Introduction : a posthuman techno-feminist praxis
• Glitch in the age of technoculture
• Arab data bodies
• Digital activism
• Aggregation as archive
• Art practice
• Conclusion : fix your own democracy.

"Arabic Glitch explores an alternative origin story of twenty-first century technological innovation in digital politics--one centered on the Middle East and the 2011 Arab uprisings. Developed from an archive of social media data collected over the decades following the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, this book interrogates how the logic of programming technology influences and shapes social movements. Engaging revolutionary politics, Arab media, and digital practice in form, method, and content, Laila Shereen Sakr formulates a media theory that advances the concept of the glitch as a disruptive media affordance. She employs data analytics to analyze tweets, posts, and blogs to describe the political culture of social media, and performs the results under the guise of the Arabic-speaking cyborg VJ Um Amel. Playing with multiple voices that span across the virtual and the real, Sakr argues that there is no longer a divide between the virtual and embodied: both bodies and data are physically, socially, and energetically actual. Are we cyborgs or citizens--or both? This book teaches us how a region under transformation became a vanguard for new thinking about digital systems: the records they keep, the lives they impact, and how to create change from within"-- Provided by publisher.