Foreign Legal Systems category: 1801 books
Gendered Paradoxes
Women's Movements, State Restructuring, and Global Development in Ecuador
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2005
Since the early 1980s Ecuador has experienced a series of events unparalleled in its history. Its “free market” strategies exacerbated the debt crisis, and in response new forms of social movement organizing arose among the country’s poor, including women’s groups. Gendered Paradoxes focuses...
Contesting the Iron Fist
Advocacy Networks and Police Violence in Democratic Argentina and Chile
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2005
This work analyzes the interactions and international connections of the "civil rights" and "pro-order" coalitions of state and societal actors in the two countries. The author demonstrates that in democratizing contexts, protecting citizens from police abuse and becomes part of...
Nuclear Politics
The Strategic Causes of Proliferation
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
When do states acquire nuclear weapons? Overturning a decade of scholarship focusing on other factors, Debs and Monteiro show in Nuclear Politics that proliferation is driven by security concerns. Proliferation occurs only when a state has both the willingness and opportunity to build the bomb. A...
Oil Is Not a Curse
Ownership Structure and Institutions in Soviet Successor States
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2010
This 2010 book makes two central claims: first, that mineral-rich states are cursed not by their wealth but, rather, by the ownership structure they choose to manage their mineral wealth and second, that weak institutions are not inevitable in mineral-rich states. Each represents a significant departure...
Politics of Energy Dependency
Ukraine, Belarus, and Lithuania between Domestic Oligarchs and Russian Pressure
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
Energy has been an important element in Moscow’s quest to exert power and influence in its surrounding areas both before and after the collapse of the USSR. With their political independence in 1991, Ukraine, Belarus, and Lithuania also became, virtually overnight, separate energy-poor entities...
by Michael Hechter
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
This book argues that alien rule can become legitimate to the degree that it provides governance that is both effective and fair. Governance is effective to the degree that citizens have access to an expanding economy and an ample supply of culturally appropriate collective goods. Governance is fair...
by Anthony J Bennett
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
Let trusted author Anthony Bennett build your students political knowledge and understanding with our bestselling textbook, fully updated for the new specifications.
Combining informed discussion with the latest facts and figures, this textbook provides accessible coverage of key topics for...
The Polarized Congress
The Post-Traditional Procedure of Its Current Struggles
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2016
The Polarized Congress: The Post-Traditional Procedure of Its Current Struggles argues that the rise of the polarized Congress means a totally different Congressional procedure, especially after 2007, compared to the accustomed "traditional" one. Polarized Congress explores a host of lesser-known,...
The Americanization of France
Searching for Happiness after the Algerian War
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
This engaging, knowledgeable book traces the American path France has followed since resolving its searing Algerian conflict in 1962. Barnett Singer convincingly demolishes two pervasive clichés about modern France: first, that the country never has been fit to fight wars, including wars on terror;...
Framing the European Union
The Power of Political Arguments in Shaping European Integration
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2015
What is the impact of political language upon public opinion towards European integration? Based upon media analysis, public opinion data and over 140 in-depth interviews with senior officials and campaigners, Ece Özlem Atikcan examines six EU referendum votes: in Spain, France, the Netherlands and...
by Nicolás Maquiavelo
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 7, 2017
En los duros momentos de su reclusión en San Casciano, acusado de conspiración contra los Médici, Maquiavelo compuso este tratado de doctrina política con la finalidad tanto de alcanzar el favor de aquellos que le habían privado de la libertad y recuperar su antiguo empleo de canciller como de...
by Clyde Coughenour
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2010
Anyone Th at Works for a Living and Votes Republican Is an Idiot provides an overview of the political plight of the U.S. worker, primarily over the last century. It is intended for those citizens of the United States who work for a living in times of peace and war and who wear a uniform and bear...
The Wages of Oil
Parliaments and Economic Development in Kuwait and the UAE
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
The contrast between Kuwait and the UAE today illustrates the vastly different possible futures facing the smaller states of the Gulf. Dubai's rulers dream of creating a truly global business center, a megalopolis of many millions attracting immigrants in great waves from near and far. Kuwait, meanwhile,...
by Stathis N. Kalyvas
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2006
By analytically decoupling war and violence, this book explores the causes and dynamics of violence in civil war. Against the prevailing view that such violence is an instance of impenetrable madness, the book demonstrates that there is logic to it and that it has much less to do with collective emotions,...