Foreign Legal Systems category: 1801 books
Governments, NGOs and Anti-Corruption
The New Integrity Warriors
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
The purpose of this book is to understand the rise, future and implications of two important new kinds of "integrity warriors" - official anti-corruption agencies (ACAs) and anti-corruption NGOs – and to locate them in a wider context and history of anti-corruption activity.
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China's Party Congress
Power, Legitimacy, and Institutional Manipulation
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2015
Nominally the highest decision-making body in the Chinese Communist Party, the Party Congress is responsible for determining party policy and the selection of China's leaders. Guoguang Wu provides the first analysis of how the Party Congress operates to elect Party leadership and decide Party policy,...
Representing Europeans
A Pragmatic Approach
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2013
Representing Europeans takes a fresh and quizzical look at the problems facing the European Union. Bringing decades of experience to bear on the deep, structural problems currently facing the EU, Richard Rose spells out why it can no longer carry on with integration by stealth. Extraordinary challenges...
The United States and Asia
Regional Dynamics and Twenty-First-Century Relations
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
This book offers a cogent overview of the historical context and enduring patterns of US relations with Asia. Noted scholar Robert G. Sutter provides a balanced analysis of post–Cold War dynamics in Asia, which involve interrelated questions of security, economics, national identity, and regional...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2010
Over the last hundred years the history of capitalism hardly supports the idea of a dynamic equilibrium between democracy and capitalism. The unprecedented triumph of global capitalism and its stronger power of transformation are changing the nature of political community and its institutions, transforming...
Unexpected Outcomes
How Emerging Economies Survived the Global Financial Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
This volume documents and explains the remarkable resilience of emerging market nations in East Asia and Latin America when faced with the global financial crisis in 2008-2009. Their quick bounceback from the crisis marked a radical departure from the past, such as when the 1982 debt shocks produced...
Neoliberalism, Accountability, and Reform Failures in Emerging Markets
Eastern Europe, Russia, Argentina, and Chile in Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2010
The agenda of neoliberal market reform known as the Washington Consensus, which was meant to turn around the economies of developing and postcommunist countries and provide the bedrock of economic success on which stable democracies could be built, has largely proved to be a failure, with Russia and...
Reforming the Public Sector
How to Achieve Better Transparency, Service, and Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2012
Many countries are still struggling to adapt to the broad and unexpected effects of modernization initiatives. As changes take shape, governments are challenged to explore new reforms. The public sector is now characterized by profound transformation across the globe, with ramifications that are yet...
Measuring International Authority
A Postfunctionalist Theory of Governance, Volume III
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2017
This is the third of five ambitious volumes theorizing the structure of governance above and below the central state. This book is written for those interested in the character, causes, and consequences of governance within the state. This book sets out a measure of authority for seventy-six international...
Building Coalitions, Making Policy
The Politics of the Clinton, Bush, and Obama Presidencies
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2012
In an age when partisan politics has reached a deafening—and arguably impotent—pitch, how does the real work of politics get done? This book opens the door on backroom politics and gives readers an insider's perspective on the efforts of policymakers from three presidential administrations to...
State-Directed Development
Political Power and Industrialization in the Global Periphery
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2004
Why have some developing country states been more successful at facilitating industrialization than others? An answer to this question is developed by focusing both on patterns of state construction and intervention aimed at promoting industrialization. Four countries are analyzed in detail - South...
by Shalendra D. Sharma
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2009
The rise of China and India is the story of our times. The unprecedented expansion of their economic and power capabilities raises profound questions for scholars and policymakers. What forces propelled these two Asian giants into global pacesetters, and what does their emergence mean for the United...
European Politics
A Comparative Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
A fully revised fourth edition of a popular introduction to the comparative politics of Europe, written by a highly respected authority on the subject. This lively and thematically organised text provides an accessible guide to the institutions and the issues that matter in a continent where the boundaries...
Introducing Comparative Politics
Concepts and Cases in Context
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2017
Organized thematically around important questions in comparative politics, Introducing Comparative Politics, Fourth Edition by Stephen Orvis and Carol Ann Drogus integrates a set of extended case studies of 11 core countries into the narrative. Serving as touchstones, the cases are set in chapters...