Foreign Legal Systems category: 1801 books
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...
The Quest for Good Governance
How Societies Develop Control of Corruption
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
Why do some societies manage to control corruption so that it manifests itself only occasionally, while other societies remain systemically corrupt? This book is about how societies reach that point when integrity becomes the norm and corruption the exception in regard to how public affairs are run...
The Historical Roots of Corruption
Mass Education, Economic Inequality, and State Capacity
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
Why does corruption persist over long periods of time? Why is it so difficult to eliminate? Suggesting that corruption is deeply rooted in the underlying social and historical political structures of a country, Uslaner observes that there is a powerful statistical relationship between levels of mass...
by Álvaro Vargas Llosa, AA. VV.
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Mario Vargas Llosa, Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo, Enrique Krauze, Yoani Sánchez y Álvaro Vargas Llosa, entre muchos otros, abordan en esta obra el desastre que acompaña la llegada del populismo y diseccionan sus diferentes formas y máscaras, desde el populismo nacionalista de Trump o Le Pen hasta...
Political Consumerism
Global Responsibility in Action
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2013
Political Consumerism captures the creative ways in which citizens, consumers and political activists use the market as their arena for politics. This book theorizes, describes, analyzes, compares and evaluates the phenomenon of political consumerism and how it attempts to use market choice to solve...
Making Governments Accountable
The Role of Public Accounts Committees and National Audit Offices
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Over the past two decades, there has been a paradigm shift in public administration and public sector accounting around the world, with increasing emphasis on good governance and accountability processes for government entities. This is all driven both by economic rationalism, and by changing expectations...
The Land of Too Much
American Abundance and the Paradox of Poverty
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
Monica Prasad’s powerful demand-side hypothesis addresses three questions: Why does the United States have more poverty than any other developed country? Why did it experience an attack on state intervention in the 1980s, known today as the neoliberal revolution? And why did it recently suffer the greatest economic meltdown in seventy-five years?
by Mark Hallerberg, Rolf Rainer Strauch, Jürgen von Hagen
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2009
This book presents a theoretical framework to discuss how governments coordinate budgeting decisions. There are two modes of fiscal governance conducive to greater fiscal discipline, a mode of delegation and a mode of contracts. These modes contrast with a fiefdom form of governance, in which the...
Explaining Civil Society Development
A Social Origins Approach
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
The civil society sector—made up of millions of nonprofit organizations, associations, charitable institutions, and the volunteers and resources they mobilize—has long been the invisible subcontinent on the landscape of contemporary society. For the past twenty years, however, scholars under the...
The Captured Economy
How the Powerful Enrich Themselves, Slow Down Growth, and Increase Inequality
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2017
For years, America has been plagued by slow economic growth and increasing inequality. In The Captured Economy, Brink Lindsey and Steven M. Teles identify a common factor behind these twin ills: breakdowns in democratic governance that allow wealthy special interests to capture the policymaking process...
The Logic of Discipline
Global Capitalism and the Architecture of Government
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2010
Even before the global economic crisis of 2007-2009, the logic of discipline was under assault. Faced with many failed reform projects, advocates of discipline realized that they had underestimated the complexity of governmental change. Opponents of discipline emphasized the damage to democratic values...
Are We Rome?
The Fall of an Empire and the Fate of America
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2008
What went wrong in imperial Rome, and how we can avoid it: “If you want to understand where America stands in the world today, read this.” —Thomas E. Ricks
The rise and fall of ancient Rome has been on American minds since the beginning of our republic. Depending on who’s doing the...
THE FUTURE OF DEMOCRACY
Lessons From the Past and Present To Guide us on our Path Forward
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
What is democracy and where did it come from? Is it a new development or was it always present in human society? And perhaps the most important question: what can we do to preserve and strengthen democracy among the forces that oppose it? In this book we explore trends throughout history that have...
by James Raymond Vreeland
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2003
Why do governments turn to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and with what effects? This book argues that governments enter IMF programs for economic and political reasons, and finds that the effects are negative on economic growth and income distribution. By bringing in the IMF, governments gain...