Foreign Legal Systems category: 1801 books
by M. Anne Pitcher
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2012
In Party Politics and Economic Reform in Africa's Democracies, M. Anne Pitcher offers an engaging new theory to explain the different trajectories of private sector development across contemporary Africa. Pitcher argues that the outcomes of economic reforms depend not only on the kinds of institutional...
Politics in Contemporary Southeast Asia
Authority, Democracy and Political Change
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
The countries of Southeast Asia continue to change, evolve and chart courses that sometimes leave outside observers puzzled. Politics in Contemporary Southeast Asia thoroughly assesses the political challenges and changes faced by the countries of Southeast Asia in the 21st century. Focusing on political...
After Austerity
Welfare State Transformation in Europe after the Great Recession
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2017
European welfare states are undergoing profound change, driven by globalization, technical changes, and population ageing. More immediately, the aftermath of the Great Recession and unprecedented levels of immigration have imposed additional pressures. This book examines welfare state transformations...
Multi-Ethnic Coalitions in Africa
Business Financing of Opposition Election Campaigns
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Why are politicians able to form electoral coalitions that bridge ethnic divisions in some countries and not others? This book answers this question by presenting a theory of pecuniary coalition building in multi-ethnic countries governed through patronage. Focusing on sub-Saharan Africa, the book...
The China Triangle
Latin America's China Boom and the Fate of the Washington Consensus
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
Since 1980, China has evolved from a poor and mostly rural society into one of the largest economies in the world. As it grew into a major industrial power, it demanded enormous amounts of steel for new factories and cities, copper for electronic wires, petroleum for cars and manufacturing plants,...
Of Empires and Citizens
Pro-American Democracy or No Democracy at All?
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2012
In the post-Cold War era, why has democratization been slow to arrive in the Arab world? This book argues that to understand support for the authoritarian status quo in parts of this region--and the willingness of its citizens to compromise on core democratic principles--one must factor in how a strong...
Governing for the Long Term
Democracy and the Politics of Investment
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2011
In Governing for the Long Term, Alan M. Jacobs investigates the conditions under which elected governments invest in long-term social benefits at short-term social cost. Jacobs contends that, along the path to adoption, investment-oriented policies must surmount three distinct hurdles to future-oriented...
The Logic of Connective Action
Digital Media and the Personalization of Contentious Politics
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2013
The Logic of Connective Action explains the rise of a personalized digitally networked politics in which diverse individuals address the common problems of our times such as economic fairness and climate change. Rich case studies from the United States, the United Kingdom and Germany illustrate a...
The Role of Business in the Development of the Welfare State and Labor Markets in Germany
Containing Social Reforms
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
This book assesses the role of employers in the development of welfare state and labour market institutions. Building on an in-depth analysis of Germany, a market economy known to often provide economic benefits to firms, this book explores one of the most contested issues in the comparative and historical...
Europe Today
A Twenty-first Century Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2014
Now in its fifth edition, Europe Today presents unrivaled coverage of developments in major European countries and across the region. Thoroughly revised and updated—with a new introduction and an added chapter on Spain—this is the only work that offers a sustained and unified set of both country...
by Dr. William Roberts Clark, Sona N. Golder, Matt Golder
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
William Roberts Clark, Matt Golder, and Sona Nadenichek Golder’s groundbreaking Principles of Comparative Politics offers the most comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to comparative inquiry, research, and scholarship. In this thoroughly revised Third Edition, readers have an even better guide...
Righteous Transgressions
Women's Activism on the Israeli and Palestinian Religious Right
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
How do women in conservative religious movements expand spaces for political activism in ways that go beyond their movements' strict ideas about male and female roles? How and why does this activism happen in some movements but not in others? Righteous Transgressions examines these questions by comparatively...
Our Divided Political Heart
The Battle for the American Idea in an Age of Discontent
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
America today is at a political impasse; we face a nation divided and discontented. Acclaimed political commentator E.J. Dionne argues that Americans can't agree on who we are as a nation because we can't agree on who we've been, or what it is, philosophically and spiritually, that makes us "Americans."
Dionne...
The Politics of Northern Ireland
Beyond the Belfast Agreement
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2005
In this book, one of the leading authorities on contemporary Northern Ireland politics provides an original, sophisticated and innovative examination of the post-Belfast agreement political landscape. Written in a fluid, witty and accessible style, this book explores:
how the Belfast Agreement...