"Political economy themes have - directly and indirectly - been a central concern of law and legal scholarship ever since political economy emerged as a concept

Drawing together leading scholars, the book provides a revealing new map of the US political economy in cross-national perspective.

Events such as the global financial crisis have helped reveal that the drivers and contours of governance on a national and international level remain a mystery

Bsrd A. Andreassen is Professor at the Norwegian Center for Human Rights and Director of Research (human rights and development) at the Law Faculty, University