Foreign Legal Systems category: 1801 books
Corruption and Reform in India
Public Services in the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2012
Why do some governments improve public services more effectively than others? Through the investigation of a new era of administrative reform, in which digital technologies may be used to facilitate citizens' access to the state, Jennifer Bussell's analysis provides unanticipated insights into this...
Democratization from Above
The Logic of Local Democracy in the Developing World
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2016
Democratization from Above seeks to explain why some national and state governments in the developing world introduce reforms to make local governance more democratic while others neglect or actively undermine democracy at local levels of government. The study challenges conventional wisdom that local...
Marxisms in the 21st Century
Crisis, Critique And Struggle
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
The current resurgence of Marxism is based on new sources of inspiration and creativity from movements that seek democratic, egalitarian and ecological alternatives to capitalism. The Marxism of many of these movements is neither dogmatic nor prescriptive, but rather, open, searching, utopian. It...
by Dr. Rajendra Prasad
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Mahatma Gandhi’s visit to Champaran synchronized with the great push given to the Home Rule Movement by that great and indefatigable worker in the cause of Indian uplift. Throughout the country, a large number of workers were going about delivering lectures and rousing and organizing the people. Bihar...
Dictators and Democrats
Masses, Elites, and Regime Change
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
From the 1980s through the first decade of the twenty-first century, the spread of democracy across the developing and post-Communist worlds transformed the global political landscape. What drove these changes and what determined whether the emerging democracies would stabilize or revert to authoritarian...
The Community of States
A Study in International Political Theory
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
This volume is a successor volume to The Reason of States. Part 1 discusses ways in which to understand the nature, possibility and limits of community beyond the state. Specific chapters are devoted to the practical attempts of statesmen, lawyers, strategists and economists to devise morally defensible...
Looking for Leadership
The Dilemma of Political Leadership in Japan
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
Democratic leaders around the world are finding it increasingly difficult to exercise strong leadership and maintain public support. However, there is nowhere that this has proven to be as challenging of a task as Japan, which has seen its top leaders change more often over the past 25 years than...
by Dongtao Qi
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2016
This book is a study of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), the Taiwan Independence Movement (TIM) and electoral politics in Taiwan during 2000–2012. It consists of two parts: the first part proposes a movement government framework to understand the fluctuating popular support for the DPP government...
by CIA, Jean Ambeau
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2014
The World Factbook provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities. Our Reference tab includes: maps of the major world regions, as well as Flags of the World, a Physical Map of the...
Nations in Transit 2010
Democratization from Central Europe to Eurasia
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010
Since 1995, the Nations in Transit series has monitored the status of democratic change from Central Europe to Eurasia and pinpointed for policymakers, researchers, journalists, and democracy advocates alike the greatest reform challenges and reform opportunities facing the countries and territories...
Nations in Transit 2013
Democratization from Central Europe to Eurasia
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2013
Since 1995, Freedom House’s Nations in Transit series has monitored the status of democratic change from Central Europe to Eurasia, pinpointing the region’s greatest reform opportunities and challenges for the benefit of policymakers, researchers, journalists, and democracy advocates alike.
Covering...
by Frank Cooney, David Sheerin, Gary Hughes
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2018
Exam Board: SQA
Level: National 5
Subject: Modern Studies
First Teaching: September 2017
First Exam: Summer 2018
This second edition comprehensively covers the changes made to the course content and prepares students to cope with the increased emphasis on knowledge and understanding in the...
by Frank Cooney, George Clarke, Pauline Kelly
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
The complete resource for National 4 & 5 Modern Studies endorsed by SQA.
National 4 & 5 Modern Studies titles from Hodder Gibson provide up-to-date resources for the National 4 &5 syllabus outlines offered by the Scottish Qualifications Authority for examination from 2014 onwards....