Foreign Legal Systems category: 1801 books
by Don Gumball
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2017
As President Trump strives to make America great again -- accomplishing more in his first 5 months than his predecessor was able to destroy in the previous 8 years -- he faces several enemies. The Democrats, the MSM, and many of the feckless GOP (not to mention countless leakers and sabotage agents intent...
Candidates and Voters
Ideology, Valence, and Representation in U.S Elections
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
Candidates and Voters extends our understanding of voting, elections, and representation by elaborating a simple theory of voting choice based on voters' interest in policy and in the suitability of candidates to hold elective office ('leadership valence'). Voters' choices must be understood in the...
Love and Hate in the Heartland
Dispatches from Forgotten America
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Meet the “deplorables.” Meet the majority that was silent until the election of President Donald Trump. Meet the Middle Americans whom globalism and the modern economy have left behind.
In a collection of vignettes telling of family history and bar stool interviews and stubborn beliefs...
Governing Europe
Discourse, Governmentality and European Integration
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Governing Europe is the first book to systematically link Michel Foucault's hypotheses on power and 'governmentality' with the study of European integration. Through a series of empirical encounters that spans the fifty-year history of European integration, it explores both the diverse political dreams...
The Political Uses of Expert Knowledge
Immigration Policy and Social Research
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2009
Why do politicians and civil servants commission research and what use do they make of it in policymaking? The received wisdom is that research contributes to improving government policy. Christina Boswell challenges this view, arguing that policymakers are just as likely to value expert knowledge...
Citizenship and Democracy in an Era of Crisis
Essays in honour of Jan W. van Deth
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2015
Democracies are transforming worldwide, but at the same time political inequality is increasing. This development threatens to leave growing portions of mass publics effectively ‘outside’ the political process.
This volume brings together leading authorities in the field of democratic citizenship...
States Against Migrants
Deportation in Germany and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2009
In this comparative study of the contemporary politics of deportation in Germany and the United States, Antje Ellermann analyzes the capacity of the liberal democratic state to control individuals within its borders. The book grapples with the question of why, in the 1990s, Germany responded to vociferous...
by Professor Şener Aktürk
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Akturk discusses how the definition of being German, Soviet, Russian and Turkish radically changed at the turn of the twenty-first century. Germany's ethnic citizenship law, the Soviet Union's inscription of ethnic origins in personal identification documents and Turkey's prohibition on the public...
The Jonathan Presidency
The First Year
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2013
The Jonathan Presidency provides a comprehensive and unique analysis of Nigerian president Goodluck Jonathan’s first twelve months in office. The Jonathan Presidency analyzes the ability of the featured Nigerian politicians to deliver their electoral promises, protect and uphold the Nigerian Constitution, and sustain a transparent, citizen-friendly administration.
Israel and South Africa
The Many Faces of Apartheid
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Within the already heavily polarised debate on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, parallels between Israel and apartheid South Africa remain highly contentious. A number of prominent academic and political commentators, including former US president Jimmy Carter and UN Special Rapporteur John Dugard,...
Centuries of Genocide
Essays and Eyewitness Accounts
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
The fourth edition of Centuries of Genocide: Essays and Eyewitness Accounts addresses examples of genocides perpetrated in the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries. Each chapter of the book is written by a recognized expert in the field, collectively demonstrating a wide range of disciplinary...
Palestinian Politics and the Middle East Peace Process
Consensus and Competition in the Palestinian Negotiating Team
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2010
Eight years after the second Palestinian uprising, the Oslo accords signed in 1993 seem to have failed. The reasons for the failure continue to fascinate students, politicians, researchers and policymakers alike. This book explores one of the major aspects of the bilateral peace process – the composition...
by Banu Eligür
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2010
The Mobilization of Political Islam in Turkey explains why political Islam, which has been part of Turkish politics since the 1970s but on the rise only since the 1990s, has now achieved governing power. Drawing on social movement theory, the book focuses on the dominant form of Islamist activism...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
This book examines the decade in office of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) and its efforts to transform the Turkish republic toward a more Islamist-oriented system. If it succeeds, Turkey’s dramatic shift will be the most important change in the Middle East power balance since the 1979 Iranian...