Foreign Legal Systems category: 1801 books
Remaking Policy
Scale, Pace, and Political Strategy in Health Care Reform
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2018
One of the most persistent puzzles in comparative public policy concerns the conditions under which discontinuous policy change occurs. In Remaking Policy, Carolyn Hughes Tuohy advances an ambitious new approach to understanding the relationship between political context and policy change.
Focusing...
The Deregulatory Moment?
A Comparative Perspective on Changing Campaign Finance Laws
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
For those who assume that increased regulation of political spending is inevitable in democratic nations, recent developments in U.S. campaign finance law appear puzzling. Is deregulation, exemplified by the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United v. FEC, a harbinger of things to come elsewhere...
Technocracy and Democracy in Latin America
The Experts Running Government
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2014
Praised by some as islands of efficiency in a sea of unprofessional, politicized and corrupt states, and criticized by others for removing wide areas of policy making from the democratic arena, technocrats have become prominent and controversial actors in Latin American politics. Nonelected state...
European Governance and Democracy
Power and Protest in the EU
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2008
Considering the future of European integration, this clear and compelling study explores the interplay between collective action and democracy in the European Union and its member states. Richard Balme and Didier Chabanet analyze the influence of supranational governance on democratization through...
by Harry Blutstein
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
The ascent of globalisation tells the sweeping historical drama of the development of globalisation, from the Second World War to the present day.
The story is told through the richly detailed accounts of eighteen remarkable men and women, describing how these architects reshaped the modern...
Leadership and Uncertainty Management in Politics
Leaders, Followers and Constraints in Western Democracies
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
Through a range of international case studies from the USA, UK, France, Germany and Italy, this text assesses the conditions necessary for effective leadership and emphasizes the part played by uncertainty and division amongst followers.
Shaping Immigration News
A French-American Comparison
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2013
This book offers a comprehensive portrait of French and American journalists in action as they grapple with how to report and comment on one of the most important issues of our era. Drawing on interviews with leading journalists and analyses of an extensive sample of newspaper and television coverage...
The Making of Regions in Post-Socialist Europe — the Impact of Culture, Economic Structure and Institutions
Case Studies from Poland, Hungary, Romania and Ukraine Volume I
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The study combines the debate on regionalisation with transformation research. It regards the formation of regional actors and institutions not primarily from the perspective of formal organisational structures, but also a consequence of the macro-political transformation regime and region-specific...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
This volume attempts to draw debates on governance, at both of these levels, into spaces of cross-border regionalism in Europe today. Embodying both supra-national and sub-national dynamics of contemporary forms of governance, cross-border regions (or euregions) enable observation of the fitful progress...
Inside the Radical Right
The Development of Anti-Immigrant Parties in Western Europe
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2011
What explains the cross-national variation in the radical right's electoral success over the last several decades? Challenging existing structural and institutional accounts, this book analyzes the dynamics of party building and explores the attitudes, skills and experiences of radical right activists...
Decolonising Intervention
International Statebuilding in Mozambique
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Building, or re-building, states after war or crisis is a contentious process. But why? Sabaratnam argues that to best answer the question, we need to engage with the people who are supposedly benefiting from international ‘expertise’.
This book challenges and enhances standard ‘critical’...
Local Partnership and Social Exclusion in the European Union
New Forms of Local Social Governance?
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
This book explores local partnership-based initiatives to tackle European-wide problems of poverty and social exclusion. A major comparative study of the fast developing theme of social exclusion, the contributors look at its causes, effects and at the ways it might be combatted. Based on in-depth,...
Understanding Tahrir Square
What Transitions Elsewhere Can Teach Us about the Prospects for Arab Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
Amid the current turmoil in the Middle East, Understanding Tahrir Square sounds a rare optimistic note. Surveying countries in other parts of the world during their transitions to democracy, author Stephen Grand argues that the long-term prospects in many parts of the Arab world are actually quite...
The China Horizon
Glory and Dream of a Civilizational State
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
This is a book of China's own political narrative written by one of China's leading and best-known thinkers. It is the last part of the author's "China Trilogy", which is a best-seller in China, with over one million copies sold. The book in itself is a centerpiece of the unfolding debate...