Foreign Legal Systems category: 1801 books
The Legitimacy Puzzle in Latin America
Political Support and Democracy in Eight Nations
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2009
Political scientists have worried about declining levels of citizens' support for their regimes (legitimacy), but have failed to empirically link this decline to the survival or breakdown of democracy. This apparent paradox is the 'legitimacy puzzle', which this book addresses by examining political...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2010
Federalism has experienced a remarkable renaissance in recent decades – as an alternative way to accommodate ethnic differences; as a tool to combat remote, undemocratic and ineffective central governments; and lastly, as a means to promote economic performance in the developing world through decentralisation.
This...
Democratic Equilibrium
The Supply and Demand of Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2015
Democratic Equilibrium: The Supply and Demand of Democracy defines a model for political change, change that results in either an increase or decrease in democracy. The book presents a model that builds upon the existing literature to bridge several major gaps in political change theory.
This book...
Courts in Federal Countries
Federalists or Unitarists?
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
Courts are key players in the dynamics of federal countries since their rulings have a direct impact on the ability of governments to centralize and decentralize power. Courts in Federal Countries examines the role high courts play in thirteen countries, including Australia, Brazil, Canada, Germany,...
Oil in the Soil
The Politics of Paying to Preserve the Amazon
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
Paradise may have been found in the Western Amazon, but it is on the brink of destruction. Oil in the Soil analyzes the campaign to save the Ishpingo-Tambococha-Tiputini (ITT) block of Yasuní National Park in Ecuador's Amazon and the global networks that have resulted in one of the world's most innovative...
Latin American Democracy
Emerging Reality or Endangered Species?
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
More than thirty years have passed since Latin America began the arduous task of transitioning from military-led rule to democracy. In this time, more countries have moved toward the institutional bases of democracy than at any time in the region’s history. Nearly all countries have held free, competitive...
The Civic Culture Transformed
From Allegiant to Assertive Citizens
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2014
This book re-evaluates Almond, Verba, and Pye's original ideas about the shape of a civic culture that supports democracy. Marshaling a massive amount of cross-national, longitudinal public opinion data from the World Values Survey Association, the authors demonstrate multiple manifestations of a...
After Victory
Institutions, Strategic Restraint, and the Rebuilding of Order after Major Wars, New Edition - New Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
The end of the Cold War was a "big bang" reminiscent of earlier moments after major wars, such as the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815 and the end of the world wars in 1919 and 1945. But what do states that win wars do with their newfound power, and how do they use it to build order? In After Victory,...
Women’s Rights in Democratizing States
Just Debate and Gender Justice in the Public Sphere
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2010
This study offers an explanation for why advances in women's rights rarely occur in democratizing states. Drawing on deliberative theory, Denise Walsh argues that the leading institutions in the public sphere are highly gendered, meaning women's ability to shape the content of public debate and put...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2016
China continues to transform apace, flowing from the forces of deregulation, privatization and globalization unleashed by economic reforms which began in late 1978. The dramatic scope of economic change in China is often counterposed to the apparent lack of political change as demonstrated by continued...
Citizenship as a Regime
Canadian and International Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2018
State building is an ongoing process that first defines legitimate citizenship and then generates citizens. Political analysts and social scientists now use the concept of citizenship as a lens for considering both the evolution of states and the development of their societies. In Citizenship as a...
by Patti Tamara Lenard
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Banning minarets by referendum in Switzerland, publicly burning Korans in the United States, prohibiting kirpans in public spaces in Canada—these are all examples of the rising backlash against diversity that is spreading across multicultural societies. Trust has always been precarious, and never...
Non-Sovereign Futures
French Caribbean Politics in the Wake of Disenchantment
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
As an overseas department of France, Guadeloupe is one of a handful of non-independent societies in the Caribbean that seem like political exceptions—or even paradoxes—in our current postcolonial era. In Non-Sovereign Futures, Yarimar Bonilla wrestles with the conceptual arsenal of political modernity—challenging...
Nightwatch
The Politics of Protest in the Andes
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 1999
Organized in the mid-1970s as a means of communal protection against livestock rustling and general thievery in Peru’s rugged northern mountains, the rondas campesinas (peasants who make the rounds) grew into an entire system of peasant justice and one of the most significant Andean social movements...