Legal History category: 1513 books
World Report 2013
Events of 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
“The reports of the New York-based Human Rights Watch have become extremely important. . . . Cogent and eminently practical, these reports have gone far beyond an account of human rights abuses. . . .”—Ahmed Rashid in *The New York Review of Books
“*An attempt to bring rationality...
If Mayors Ruled the World
Dysfunctional Nations, Rising Cities
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Force and Fanaticism
Wahhabism in Saudi Arabia and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2015
Wahhabism is an Islamic reform movement found mainly in Saudi Arabia. Closely linked to the Saudi monarchy, it enforces a strict code of morality and conduct monitored by mutawa (religious police), and governs every facet of Saudi life according to its own strict interpretation of Shariah, including...
by Yang Su
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2011
The violence of Mao's China is well known, but its extreme form is not. In 1967 and 1968, during the Cultural Revolution, collective killings were widespread in rural China in the form of public execution. Victims included women, children, and the elderly. This book is the first to systematically...
Pluralism by Default
Weak Autocrats and the Rise of Competitive Politics
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
Pluralism by Default explores sources of political contestation in the former Soviet Union and beyond. Lucan Way proposes that pluralism in "new democracies" is often grounded less in democratic leadership or emerging civil society and more in the failure of authoritarianism. Dynamic competition...
by Anne-Marie Slaughter
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2009
Global governance is here--but not where most people think. This book presents the far-reaching argument that not only should we have a new world order but that we already do. Anne-Marie Slaughter asks us to completely rethink how we view the political world. It's not a collection of nation states...
Authoritarianism Goes Global
The Challenge to Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Over the past decade, illiberal powers have become emboldened and gained influence within the global arena. Leading authoritarian countries—including China, Iran, Russia, Saudi Arabia, and Venezuela—have developed new tools and strategies to contain the spread of democracy and challenge the liberal...
Post-Imperial Democracies
Ideology and Party Formation in Third Republic France, Weimar Germany, and Post-Soviet Russia
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
This book examines the causal impact of ideology through a comparative-historical analysis of three cases of 'post-imperial democracy': the early Third Republic in France (1870–86); the Weimar Republic in Germany (1918–34); and post-Soviet Russia (1992–2008). Hanson argues that political ideologies...
by Rachel Beatty Riedl
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2014
Why have seemingly similar African countries developed very different forms of democratic party systems? Despite virtually ubiquitous conditions that are assumed to be challenging to democracy - low levels of economic development, high ethnic heterogeneity, and weak state capacity - nearly two dozen...
Africa in International Politics
External Involvement on the Continent
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2004
Locating Africa on the global stage, this book examines and compares external involvement in the continent, exploring the foreign policies of major states and international organizations towards Africa. The contributors work within a political economy framework in order to study how these powers have...
Neoliberalism, Accountability, and Reform Failures in Emerging Markets
Eastern Europe, Russia, Argentina, and Chile in Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2010
The agenda of neoliberal market reform known as the Washington Consensus, which was meant to turn around the economies of developing and postcommunist countries and provide the bedrock of economic success on which stable democracies could be built, has largely proved to be a failure, with Russia and...
Measuring International Authority
A Postfunctionalist Theory of Governance, Volume III
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2017
This is the third of five ambitious volumes theorizing the structure of governance above and below the central state. This book is written for those interested in the character, causes, and consequences of governance within the state. This book sets out a measure of authority for seventy-six international...
State-Directed Development
Political Power and Industrialization in the Global Periphery
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2004
Why have some developing country states been more successful at facilitating industrialization than others? An answer to this question is developed by focusing both on patterns of state construction and intervention aimed at promoting industrialization. Four countries are analyzed in detail - South...
by Gwyneth H. McClendon
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
How envy, spite, and the pursuit of admiration influence politics
Why do governments underspend on policies that would make their constituents better off? Why do people participate in contentious politics when they could reap benefits if they were to abstain? In Envy in Politics, Gwyneth McClendon...