Foreign Legal Systems category: 1801 books
Do Presidential Systems Imperil Democratization
How and to what extent have the Presidents of Russia (Vladimir Putin) and Venezuela (Hugo Chavez) influenced the democratic consolidation of their countries?
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2009
Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject Politics - Political Systems - General and Comparisons, grade: 1,3 , University of Bath (Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences ), course: Transitions to Democracy , language: English, abstract: In political science it is commonly accepted that...
Why Nations Realign
Foreign Policy Restructuring in the Postwar World
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
This book, originally published in 1982, analyzes the process of radical foreign policy change – how states restructure their foreign relations, and why they do so. Using a common analystical framework, the authors examine Bhutan, Burma, Canada, Child, China and Tanzania. They distinguish between...
by Holger Klahn
Language: German
Release Date: October 4, 2004
Language: German
Release Date: October 4, 2004
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2004 im Fachbereich Politik - Politische Systeme - Politisches System Deutschlands, Note: 1,3, Universität Hamburg (Politische Wissenschaft), Veranstaltung: Übung: Kooperative Staatstätigkeit: umweltpolitische Steuerung durch Vereinbarung, 14 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis,...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Community indicators measuring systems represent a mechanism to improve monitoring and evaluation in planning, incorporating citizen involvement and participation. They reflect the interplay between social, environmental and economic factors affecting a region's or community's well-being, and, as...
Mastering The U.S. Legal System
A Beginner's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2014
Mastering the U.S. Legal System: A Beginner’s Guide provides an introduction to the U.S. legal system through easy to understand text accompanied by explanatory cases and other materials. Topics include the U.S. Constitution, the system of courts, sources of law, and the U.S. system of litigation.
Popular Sovereignty and the Crisis of German Constitutional Law
The Theory and Practice of Weimar Constitutionalism
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 1997
Popular Sovereignty and the Crisis of German Constitutional Law is a historical analysis of competing doctrines of constitutional law during the Weimar Republic. It chronicles the creation of a new constitutional jurisprudence both adequate to the needs of a modern welfare state and based on the principle...
by Frank Tannenbaum
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2012
Slave & Citizen deals with one of the most intriguing problems presented by the development of the New World: the contrast between the legal and social positions of the Negro in the United States and in Latin America. It is well-known that in Brazil and in the Caribbean area, Negroes do not suffer...
No Illusions
The Voices of Russia's Future Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
How will the future leaders of Russia regard the world scene? How will they regard the United States, democracy, free speech, and immigration? What do they think of their current leaders? And what sorts of tactics will they bring to international negotiating tables, political and otherwise? No Illusions:...
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...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2009
'Bara and Pennington's edited volume successfully fills a huge void in the market for introductory textbooks to comparative politics which previously offered either descriptions of political processes and systems or overviews of the methodology of comparative analysis. By applying major political...
Between Tyranny and Anarchy
A History of Democracy in Latin America, 1800-2006
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2009
Between Tyranny and Anarchy provides a unique comprehensive history and interpretation of efforts to establish democracies over two centuries in the major Latin American countries. Drake takes an unusual interdisciplinary approach, combining history and political science with an emphasis on political...
by Ellen Hofmann
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2010
Essay from the year 2007 in the subject Politics - Political Systems - General and Comparisons, grade: 1,0 (A), , course: Canada in the World, From Laurier to 21st Century, language: English, abstract: Immigration policy is a crucial element of a country's policy making. In each country it developed...
Power, Perception and Foreign Policymaking
US and EU Responses to the Rise of China
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2017
This book examines the changing dynamics of power in the international arena since the end of the Cold War. Brown engages in analysis of how the United States and the European Union have responded to the so-called rise of China through an examination of how policymakers’ perceptions of China have...
Does the Elephant Dance?
Contemporary Indian Foreign Policy
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2011
India today looms large globally, where it hardly loomed at all twenty years ago. It is likely to be a key global actor throughout the twenty-first century and could well emerge soon as one of the top five global powers. Does the Elephant Dance? seeks to survey the main features of Indian foreign...