Foreign Legal Systems category: 1801 books
by Frank Cooney, Gary Hughes, Pauline Kelly
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2019
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...
Manipulating Political Decentralisation
Africa's Inclusive Autocrats
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
Can autocrats establish representative subnational governments? And which strategies of manipulation are available if they would like to reduce the uncertainty caused by introducing political decentralisation? In the wake of local government reforms, several states across the world have introduced...
Canada and Africa in the New Millennium
The Politics of Consistent Inconsistency
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
Chapter 5
David R. Black
Canadian Aid to Africa: The elusive search for purpose.
Provides a historical account of development assistance as the most persistent and important basis for Canadian links with Africa. Shows how it can be explained as a manifestation of good international...
Voice and Power in Africa's Democracy
Institutions, Participation and Accountability
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2017
Africa has made notable progress in its nascent democracy but with uneven performance across countries. However, across the board, challenges abound. Central to Africa’s checkered democratic narrative is the weakness of its democratic institutions, participatory mechanisms and accountability platforms....
by Alex Warleigh
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2002
Understanding the institutions of the European Union is vital to understanding how it functions. This book provides students with a user-friendly introduction to the main institutions, and explains their different roles in the functioning and development of the European Union.
Key features:
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Who Speaks for the Poor?
Electoral Geography, Party Entry, and Representation
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
Who Speaks for the Poor? explains why parties represent some groups and not others. This book focuses attention on the electoral geography of income, and how it has changed over time, to account for cross-national differences in the political and partisan representation of low-income voters. Jusko...
by Roland Marchal, Ned Dalby, Faouzi Kilembe
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
Lying at the centre of a tumultuous region, the Central African Republic and its turbulent history have often been overlooked. Democracy, in any kind of a meaningful sense, has eluded the country. Since the mid-1990s, army mutinies and serial rebellion in CAR have resulted in two major successful...
The Politics of National Capitalism
Peronism and the Argentine Bourgeoisie, 1946–1976
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2009
In mid-twentieth-century Latin America there was a strong consensus between Left and Right—Communists working under the directives of the Third International, nationalists within the military interested in fostering industrialization, and populists—about the need to break away from the colonial...
The Good Politician
Folk Theories, Political Interaction, and the Rise of Anti-Politics
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
Surveys show a lack of trust in political actors and institutions across much of the democratic world. Populist politicians and parties attempt to capitalise on this political disaffection. Commentators worry about our current 'age of anti-politics'. Focusing on the United Kingdom, using responses...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2013
Civil wars are the dominant form of violence in the contemporary international system, yet they are anything but local affairs. This book explores the border-crossing features of such wars by bringing together insights from international relations theory, sociology, and transnational politics with...
Why Communism Did Not Collapse
Understanding Authoritarian Regime Resilience in Asia and Europe
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
This volume brings together a distinguished group of scholars working to address the puzzling durability of communist autocracies in Eastern Europe and Asia, which are the longest-lasting type of non-democratic regime to emerge after World War I. The volume conceptualizes the communist universe as...
by V. Kubalkova, A. Cruickshank
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
Refuting the assumption that orthodox Marxist theory contains anything of relevance on international relations, this book, originally published in 1980, clarifies, reconstructs, and summarizes the theories of international relations of Marx and Engels, Lenin, Stalin and the Soviet leadership of the...
After the Fall
1989 and the Future of Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2001
Did the U.S. really "win" the Cold War? Is the fall of Communism only a temporary setback for Marxism, or has the freemarket prevailed, once and for all? In this work, the last ten years are examined by the most important Marxist scholars and journalists.
Honecker's Germany (RLE: German Politics)
Moscow's German Ally
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
Picking up many of themes of David Childs’ earlier book, The GDR: Moscow’s German Ally, this book discusses the German Democratic Republic (GDR) from 1971 until the mid 1980s. Written at a time when the GDR was one of the most modern and successful socialist states, with a growing importance within...