Foreign Legal Systems category: 1801 books
Putin's Oil
The Yukos Affair and the Struggle for Russia
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2010
Putin's Oil relates Vladimir Putin's war for control of Russia's vast oil reserves, in particular Mikhail Khodorkovsky's oil firm, Yukos.
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Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
This authoritative study, written by experts in their fields and originally published in 1989, provides a comprehensive introduction to aspects of West German society, politics and economics. Individual chapters investigate West German politics, education, industrial relations, the media and the relations between the two German states.
by Sarra Jenkins
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2018
Exam Board: AQA, Edexcel, WJEC/Eduqas
Level: A-level
Subject: Politics
First teaching: September 2017
First exams: Summer 2019
Master the skills you need to set yourself apart and hit the highest grades; this year-round course companion develops the higher-order thinking skills that top-achieving...
Globalization and Welfare Restructuring in China
The Authoritarianism That Listens?
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
In the past few decades, the change in China’s welfare system has been characterised by a balanced distribution of benefits across social sectors and the institutionalization of welfare redistribution. This process has occurred without significant political change that would empower politically...
Singapore and Switzerland
Secrets to Small State Success
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
The cases of Singapore and Switzerland present a fascinating puzzle: how have two small states achieved similar levels of success through divergent pathways? Are both approaches equally sustainable, and what lessons do they hold for each other? While Singapore is the archetypal developmental state,...
Strength in Numbers
The Political Power of Weak Interests
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012
Consumers feel powerless in the face of big industry, and the dominant view of economic regulators agrees with them. Trumbull argues that this represents a misreading of the historical record and the core logic of interest representation. Weak interests, he reveals, quite often emerge the victors in policy battles, by forging unlikely alliances.
Quebec-Ontario Relations
A Shared Destiny?
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Ontario–Quebec relations have flourished in recent years. Environmental and economic agreements have proliferated (infrastructure, trade, investment, labour mobility) and a total of three joint provincial -cabinet meetings were held between 2008, 2009, and 2010. These closer ties provide a good...
Minority Nations in the Age of Uncertainty
New Paths to National Emancipation and Empowerment
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014
For thirty years, Alain-G. Gagnon has been one of the world’s leading experts on federalism and multinational democracies. In Minority Nations in the Age of Uncertainty, he presents an articulate and accessible introduction to the ways in which minority nations have begun to empower themselves in...
Faithful to Secularism
The Religious Politics of Democracy in Ireland, Senegal, and the Philippines
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Religion and democracy can make tense bedfellows. Secular elites may view religious movements as conflict-prone and incapable of compromise, while religious actors may fear that anticlericalism will drive religion from public life. Yet such tensions are not inevitable: from Asia to Latin America,...
by JR Ballard
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2015
Due to the fact that we have been living in an environment of scarcity for thousands of years almost every aspect of our society is designed to facilitate human exploitation. The defining reality of 21st century life is that such exploitation is not as beneficial to humanity as it once was, and it...
Reimagining the American Pacific
From South Pacific to Bamboo Ridge and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2000
In this compelling critique Rob Wilson explores the creation of the “Pacific Rim” in the American imagination and how the concept has been variously adapted and resisted in Hawai‘i, the Pacific Islands, New Zealand, and Australia. Reimagining the American Pacific ranges from the nineteenth century...
Harper's Team
Behind the Scenes in the Conservative Rise to Power
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
Harper's team fought four campaigns in five years: two leadership races and two national elections. Through trial and error - and determination - they learned to combine the Reform Party's strength in grassroots politics with the Progressive Conservative expertise in advertising and media relations,...
Blazing the Neoliberal Trail
Urban Political Development in the United States and the United Kingdom
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2015
In Blazing the Neoliberal Trail, Timothy Weaver asks how and why urban policy and politics have become dominated, over the past three decades, by promarket thinking. He argues that politicians such as Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher targeted urban areas as part of their far broader effort to remake...
by Jody Heymann
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
Children’s Chances urges a shift from focusing on survival to targeting children’s full and healthy development. Drawing on comparative data on policies in 190 countries designed to combat poverty, discrimination, child labor, illiteracy, and child marriage, Heymann and McNeill tell what works to ensure equal opportunities for all children.