Foreign Legal Systems category: 1801 books
by Clifford Bob
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2012
This book is an eye-opening account of transnational advocacy, not by environmental and rights groups, but by conservative activists. Mobilizing around diverse issues, these networks challenge progressive foes across borders and within institutions. In these globalized battles, opponents struggle...
The Making of a European Public Sphere
Media Discourse and Political Contention
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2010
This book investigates an important source of the European Union's recent legitimacy problems. It shows how European integration is debated in mass media, and how this affects democratic inclusiveness. Advancing integration implies a shift in power between governments, parliaments, and civil society....
The European Union and South East Europe
The Dynamics of Europeanization and Multilevel Governance
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
This book explores the interaction of the EU in Greece, Slovenia, Croatia, and Macedonia in three key policy sectors – cohesion, border managements and the environment – and assesses the degree to which the European Union’s engagement with the democracies of South East Europe has promoted Europeanization...
Social Capital in Developing Democracies
Nicaragua and Argentina Compared
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2010
Drawing on extensive field work in Nicaragua and Argentina, as well as public opinion and elite data, Leslie E. Anderson's Social Capital in Developing Democracies explores the contribution of social capital to the process of democratization and the limits of that contribution. Anderson finds that...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
After more than a century of assorted dictatorships and innumerable fiscal crises, the majority of Latin America's states are governed today by constitutional democratic regimes. Some analysts and scholars argue that Latin America weathered the 2008 fiscal crisis much better than the United States....
Roots of the State
Neighborhood Organization and Social Networks in Beijing and Taipei
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2012
Most social science studies of local organizations tend to focus on "civil society" associations, voluntary associations independent from state control, whereas government-sponsored organizations tend to be theorized in totalitarian terms as "mass organizations" or manifestations...
Nuclear Deterrence in a Multipolar World
The U.S., Russia and Security Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
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Colonialism and Postcolonial Development
Spanish America in Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2010
In this comparative-historical analysis of Spanish America, Mahoney offers a new theory of colonialism and postcolonial development. He explores why certain kinds of societies are subject to certain kinds of colonialism and why these forms of colonialism give rise to countries with differing levels...
Boundary Control
Subnational Authoritarianism in Federal Democracies
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2013
The democratization of a national government is only a first step in diffusing democracy throughout a country's territory. Even after a national government is democratized, subnational authoritarian 'enclaves' often continue to deny rights to citizens of local jurisdictions. Gibson offers new theoretical...
Institutions on the Edge
The Origins and Consequences of Inter-Branch Crises in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2017
Why does institutional instability pervade the developing world? Examining contemporary Latin America, Institutions on the Edge develops and tests a novel argument to explain why institutional crises emerge, spread, and repeat in some countries, but not in others. The book draws on formal bargaining...
by Sabine Lang
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Nongovernmental organizations act on behalf of citizens in politics and society. Yet many question their legitimacy and ask who they speak for. This book investigates how NGOs can become stronger advocates for citizens and better representatives of their interests. Sabine Lang analyzes the choices...
Transforming Provincial Politics
The Political Economy of Canada's Provinces and Territories in the Neoliberal Era
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
Over the past thirty-five years, Canada’s provinces and territories have undergone significant political changes. Abandoning mid-century Keynesian policies, governments of all political persuasions have turned to deregulation, tax reduction, and government downsizing as policy solutions for a wide...
The Politics of Rural Reform in China
State Policy and Village Predicament in the Early 2000s
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010
Based on a treasure trove of information collected through fieldwork interviews and painstaking documentary research through the Chinese and Western language presses, this book analyzes one of the most important reforms implemented in China over the past decade – the rural tax and fee reform, also...
Democracy in Latin America, 1760-1900
Volume 1, Civic Selfhood and Public Life in Mexico and Peru
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Carlos Forment's aim in this highly ambitious work is to write the book that Tocqueville would have written had he traveled to Latin America instead of the United States. Drawing on an astonishing level of research, Forment pored over countless newspapers, partisan pamphlets, tabloids, journals, private...