Foreign Legal Systems category: 1801 books
The Politics of Crisis Management
Public Leadership under Pressure
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
Crisis management has become a defining feature of contemporary governance. In times of crisis, communities and members of organizations expect their leaders to minimize the impact, while critics and bureaucratic competitors make use of social media to blame incumbent rulers and their policies. In...
Fixing Failed States
A Framework for Rebuilding a Fractured World
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
Today between forty and sixty nations, home to more than one billion people, have either collapsed or are teetering on the brink of failure. The world's worst problems--terrorism, drugs and human trafficking, absolute poverty, ethnic conflict, disease, genocide--originate in such states, and the international...
O CAPITAL - Karl Marx
Mercadoria, Valor e Mais valia
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: February 2, 2017
O Capital (em alemão: Das Kapital) é um conjunto de livros de Karl Marx, sendo o primeiro deles publicado em 1867. A obra que é uma análise crítica do capitalismo é considerada por muitos como o marco do pensamento socialista marxista e que serviu de base para o socialismo implantados posteriormente...
Preventing Regulatory Capture
Special Interest Influence and How to Limit it
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2013
When regulations (or lack thereof) seem to detract from the common good, critics often point to regulatory capture as a culprit. In some academic and policy circles it seems to have assumed the status of an immutable law. Yet for all the ink spilled describing and decrying capture, the concept remains...
The Paradox of American Power
Why the World's Only Superpower Can't Go It Alone
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2003
Not since the Roman Empire has any nation had as much economic, cultural, and military power as the United States does today. Yet, as has become all too evident through the terrorist attacks of September 11th and the impending threat of the acquisition of nuclear weapons by Iran, that power is not...
Tangled Titans
The United States and China
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2012
Tangled Titans offers a current and comprehensive assessment of the most important relationship in international affairs—that between the United States and China. How the relationship evolves will have a defining impact on the future of world politics, the Asian region, and the citizens of many...
by Valerie J. Bunce, Sharon L. Wolchik
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2011
From 1998 to 2005, six elections took place in postcommunist Europe that had the surprising outcome of empowering the opposition and defeating authoritarian incumbents or their designated successors. Valerie J. Bunce and Sharon L. Wolchik compare these unexpected electoral breakthroughs. They draw...
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...
Adaptable Autocrats
Regime Power in Egypt and Syria
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2012
The decades-long resilience of Middle Eastern regimes meant that few anticipated the 2011 Arab Spring. But from the seemingly rapid leadership turnovers in Tunisia and Egypt to the protracted stalemates in Yemen and Syria, there remains a common outcome: ongoing control of the ruling regimes. While...
The Promise and Limits of Private Power
Promoting Labor Standards in a Global Economy
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
This book examines and evaluates various private initiatives to enforce fair labor standards within global supply chains. Using unique data (internal audit reports and access to more than 120 supply chain factories and 700 interviews in 14 countries) from several major global brands, including NIKE,...
China Dreams
20 Visions of the Future
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
After celebrating their country's three decades of fantastic economic success, many Chinese are now asking, "What comes next?" How can China convert its growing economic power into political and cultural influence around the globe? William A. Callahan's China Dreams gives voice to China's...
The New Development Politics
The Age of Empire Building and New Social Movements
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
A critique of current conceptions of international political economy, the role of the state and contemporary social movements, The New Development Politics challenges the dominant paradigms in the field of development studies. Raising fundamental theoretical and empirical questions, it provides a...
Reorganizing Popular Politics
Participation and the New Interest Regime in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2010
A historic shift has occurred in the organizational structures through which the lower classes in Latin America express voice and find political representation. With the political and economic reforms of the 1980s and 1990s, networks of community-based associations and nongovernmental organizations...
Off Center
The Republican Revolution and the Erosion of American Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
The Republicans who run American government today have defied the normal laws of political gravity. They have ruled with the slimmest of majorities and yet have transformed the nation’s governing priorities. They have strayed dramatically from the moderate middle of public opinion and yet have faced...