Foreign Legal Systems category: 1801 books
Democratic Transition in the Muslim World
A Global Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
In early 2011, widespread protests ousted dictatorial regimes in both Tunisia and Egypt. Within a few years, Tunisia successfully held parliamentary and presidential elections and witnessed a peaceful transition of power, while the Egyptian military went on to seize power and institute authoritarian...
Presidents and Terminal Logic Behavior
Term Limits and Executive Action in the United States, Brazil, and Argentina
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2014
Presidents of nations with constitutionally imposed term limits are often viewed as growing weaker as they approach the end of their time in office. However, in this important new study, political scientist Genevieve M. Kehoe argues that because such chief executives are free from reelection constraint...
Party System Change in Legislatures Worldwide
Moving Outside the Electoral Arena
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2013
In this book, Carol Mershon and Olga Shvetsova explore one of the central questions in democratic politics: how much autonomy do elected politicians have to shape and reshape the party system on their own, without the direct involvement of voters in elections? Mershon and Shvetsova's theory focuses...
by Ashutosh Kumar
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Comparative politics involves both a comparative study of the political structures and functions of national political systems of various states and also a comparative study of the political institutions at work within a single state. The former is called horizontal comparative studies and the latter...
by Joannes Maria De Luca
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
What is the European Union's role in the third millennium geopolitical environment in Sub-Saharan Africa? What are Rural Development Policies in Tanzania? In agriculture they are considered a driver for the development of the entire Country System. What can be created from convergence and...
by Michael Arnheim
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2019
This book offers a fresh and original analysis of the power structure of a number of societies, past and present. There are and ever have been only two essential models of government: minority rule of all types (labelled "oligocracy") and regimes in which power is concentrated in the hands...
Decentralization and Corruption
A Cross-Country Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2010
Scientific Essay from the year 2010 in the subject Politics - Political Systems - General and Comparisons, grade: 1,3, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (Institut für Politikwissenschaft), language: English, abstract: Corruption is one of the most widespread political problems throughout the world....
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Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2012
Why do some nations fail while others succeed? How can we compare the political capacity of a totalitarian regime to a democracy? Are democracies always more efficient? The Performance of Nations answers these key questions by providing a powerful new tool for measuring governments’ strengths and...
A Different Democracy
American Government in a 31-Country Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
Four distinguished scholars in political science analyze American democracy from a comparative point of view, exploring how the U.S. political system differs from that of thirty other democracies and what those differences ultimately mean for democratic performance. This essential text approaches the...
Social Justice through Inclusion
The Consequences of Electoral Quotas in India
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Across the world, governments design and implement policies with the explicit goal of promoting social justice. But can such institutions change entrenched social norms? And what effects should we expect from differently designed policies? Francesca R. Jensenius' Social Justice through Inclusion is...
by Nina Westermann
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2006
Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject Politics - Political Systems - General and Comparisons, grade: 1,3, University of Bonn, course: Einführung in die Innenpolitik der USA, 18 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The position of the first lady of the United States...
Between Europeanization and National Collaps
What are the reasons for the crises in Belgian politics?
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2012
Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject Politics - Political Systems - General and Comparisons, grade: 1,3, University of Erfurt, language: English, abstract: Since the 1960 the situation in Belgium is embossed by a conflict between two cultural groups and recurrent political crisis. 2007...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
This volume brings together some of the most recent scholarship on government and civil society. It examines the axis of the relationship between national governments and civil society organisations (NGOs) by highlighting commonalities as well as differences among four key regions in the world. Using...
Globalising Democracy
Party Politics in Emerging Democracies
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
This volume brings together expert contributors to explore the intersection of two major contemporary themes: globalization, and the contribution that both domestic party politics and international party support make to democratization.
Globalising Democracy clearly shows what globalization...