Foreign Legal Systems category: 1801 books
Comparative analysis of political systems of Lebanon and Switzerland
Consociational Democracy and its Core Principles
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2009
Seminar paper from the year 2002 in the subject Politics - Political Systems - General and Comparisons, grade: A, American University of Central Asia, course: Electoral Politics, language: English, abstract: In the beginning of the 21st century nobody spoke out loud about consociational democracy...
What is the most convincing explanation for the success (or failure) of green parties in Europe - Value change, party strategy or institutions
Value change, party strategy or institutions
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2006
Essay from the year 2005 in the subject Politics - Political Systems - General and Comparisons, grade: 1,3, University of Nottingham (School of Politics and International Relations), course: Politics and Society in Europe, a comparative approach, 16 entries in the bibliography, language: English,...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
Given the centrality of political parties in modern democracies, most research on these systems either directly address their internal functioning and activities or question their critical role. Political science has moved from describing institutions to the thorough analysis of behavior within...
Power-Sharing in Conflict-Ridden Societies
Challenges for Building Peace and Democratic Stability
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Based on a unique comparative study of Burundi, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Lebanon, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Nepal, Myanmar, the Philippines, and Fiji this book analyses the formal and informal arrangements defining the post-conflict political order in these countries and evaluates whether these systems strengthened...
by Eric C. C. Chang, Mark Andreas Kayser, Drew A. Linzer
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2010
This book investigates the effects of electoral systems on the relative legislative and, hence, regulatory influence of competing interests in society. Building on Ronald Rogowski and Mark Andreas Kayser's extension of the classic Stigler–Peltzman model of regulation, the authors demonstrate that...
Welfare and Education - Austria & Sweden in comparison
Austria & Sweden in comparison
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2002
Seminar paper from the year 2000 in the subject Politics - Political Systems - General and Comparisons, grade: very good, Göteborg University (Department of Political Science), course: Course: Swedish politics in a comparative perspective, 11 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract:...
by Professor Heather Stoll
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2013
How do changes in society that increase the heterogeneity of the citizenry shape democratic party systems? This book seeks to answer this question. It focuses on the key mechanism by which social heterogeneity shapes the number of political parties: new social groups successfully forming new, sectarian...
by Franziska Zschornak
Language: German
Release Date: March 10, 2010
Language: German
Release Date: March 10, 2010
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2007 im Fachbereich Politik - Politische Systeme - Allgemeines und Vergleiche, Note: 1,3, Technische Universität Dresden (Institut für Politikwissenschaft), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Ob demokratische Systeme eher repräsentativdemokratisch oder direktdemokratisch verfasst...
by Martin Weber
Language: German
Release Date: December 10, 2007
Language: German
Release Date: December 10, 2007
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2003 im Fachbereich Politik - Politische Systeme - Politisches System Deutschlands, Note: 2,0, Universität Potsdam (Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät), Veranstaltung: Das föderative System der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, 14 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis,...
The Legal Foundations of Inequality
Constitutionalism in the Americas, 1776–1860
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2010
The long revolutionary movements that gave birth to constitutional democracies in the Americas were founded on egalitarian constitutional ideals. They claimed that all men were created equal with similar capacities and also that the community should become self-governing. Following the first constitutional...
The Rule of the Clan
What an Ancient Form of Social Organization Reveals About the Future of Individual Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
A revealing look at the role kin-based societies have played throughout history and around the world
A lively, wide-ranging meditation on human development that offers surprising lessons for the future of modern individualism, The Rule of the Clan examines the constitutional principles and...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2017
The Geneva Conventions are the best-known and longest-established laws governing warfare, but what difference do they make to how states engage in armed conflict? Since the start of the "War on Terror" with 9/11, these protocols have increasingly been incorporated into public discussion. We have entered...
Weak Constitutionalism
Democratic Legitimacy and the Question of Constituent Power
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
It has been frequently argued that democracy is protected and realized under constitutions that protect certain rights and establish the conditions for a functioning representative democracy. However, some democrats still find something profoundly unsettling about contemporary constitutional regimes....
Japanese Contract and Anti-Trust Law
A Sociological and Comparative Study
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Little has been written on Japanese contract law and anti-trust law in Western languages. This book describes the role of this law in protecting the distributor against unilateral terminations of distribution agreements. There have been significant pressures both to lower prices and restructure distribution...