Foreign Legal Systems category: 1801 books
by Deepak Kumar Rath
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This book is a collection of the 100 choicest edits, written by Deepak Kumar Rath, Editor, Uday India English weekly. Every line of the content introduces the author and his original ideas based on his years of research and experience. The book deals with a variety of issues the country is afflicted...
A Middle Class Without Democracy
Economic Growth and the Prospects for Democratization in China
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
What kind of role can the middle class play in potential democratization in such an undemocratic, late developing country as China? To answer this profound political as well as theoretical question, Jie Chen explores attitudinal and behavioral orientation of China's new middle class to democracy and...
by Clive Archer
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2008
Making often complex concepts easily comprehended, this book enables the reader to quickly build a solid and well-rounded understanding of the EU's history and present, covering:
key debates on Europe
the ambiguous relationship with the US
the EU's internal and external activities
structure and institutions
future developments and new directions.
The National Origins of Policy Ideas
Knowledge Regimes in the United States, France, Germany, and Denmark
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2014
In politics, ideas matter. They provide the foundation for economic policymaking, which in turn shapes what is possible in domestic and international politics. Yet until now, little attention has been paid to how these ideas are produced and disseminated, and how this process varies between countries....
Normative Foundations of the Welfare State
The Nordic Experience
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2007
This is a sharp analysis of the unique Nordic welfare system with urgent lessons for governments and societies across the globe.
Welfare programs and institutions tend to be analyzed as instrumental arrangements, overlooking the fact that welfare programs are essentially expressions of moral conceptions...
The Quality of Government
Corruption, Social Trust, and Inequality in International Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
The relationship between government, virtue, and wealth has held a special fascination since Aristotle, and the importance of each frames policy debates today in both developed and developing countries. While it’s clear that low-quality government institutions have tremendous negative effects on...
Politics of the European Union in Bosnia-Herzegovina
Between Conflict and Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
Politics of the European Union in Bosnia-Herzegovina: Between Conflict and Democracy, by Doga Ulas Eralp, evaluates the European Union's ability to transform the escalating political tensions at a period where the postconflict balance of the Dayton Peace Agreement is turning increasingly unsustainable....
All Politics Is Global
Explaining International Regulatory Regimes
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2008
Has globalization diluted the power of national governments to regulate their own economies? Are international governmental and nongovernmental organizations weakening the hold of nation-states on global regulatory agendas? Many observers think so. But in All Politics Is Global, Daniel Drezner argues...
Border Politics in a Global Era
Comparative Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017
Initially, research in border studies relied mainly on generalizations from cases in the US-Mexico borderlands before subsequently burgeoning in Europe. Border Politics in a Global Era seeks to expand the study further to include the post-colonial South in response to the major challenge of interdisciplinary...
Liberation Technology
Social Media and the Struggle for Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
The revolutions sweeping the Middle East provide dramatic evidence of the role that technology plays in mobilizing citizen protest and upending seemingly invulnerable authoritarian regimes. A grainy cell phone video of a Tunisian street vendor’s self-immolation helped spark the massive protests...
Revenge of the Forbidden City
The Suppression of the Falungong in China, 1999-2005
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2009
The Falungong movement originated in 1992 as a system of breathing exercises designed to promote health and well-being. Riding on the coattails of the qigong fever that swept through China, it attracted an extensive following until 1994, when the Chinese government suppressed the qigong movement....
Hard Choices
Challenging the Singapore Consensus
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Singapore is changing. The consensus that the PAP government has constructed and maintained over five decades is fraying. The assumptions that underpin Singaporean exceptionalism are no longer accepted as easily and readily as before. Among these are the ideas that the country is uniquely vulnerable,...
Looking for Work in Post-Socialist China
Governance, Active Job Seekers and the New Chinese Labour Market
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Unemployment is one of the most politically explosive issues in China and has gained further prominence as a result of the present global financial crisis. The novelty, urgency, and complexity of Chinese unemployment have compelled the government to experiment with policy initiatives that originate...
Human Rights, Power and Civic Action
Comparative analyses of struggles for rights in developing societies
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Human Rights, Power and Civic Action examines the interrelationship between struggles for human rights and the dynamics of power, focusing on situations of poverty and oppression in developing countries. It is argued that the concept of power is a relatively neglected one in the study of rights-based...