Foreign Legal Systems category: 1801 books
The Institutional Origins of Communal Violence
Indonesia's Transition from Authoritarian Rule
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2014
Why are transitions from authoritarian rule often marked by spikes in communal violence? Through examining Indonesia's recent transition to democracy, this book develops a novel theoretical explanation for this phenomenon that also accounts for why some communities are vulnerable to violence during...
Challenging Institutional Analysis and Development
The Bloomington School
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009
Challenging Institutional Analysis and Development demonstrates the importance of one of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economics winners Elinor Ostrom's research program. The Bloomington School has become one of the most dynamic, well recognized and productive centers of the New Institutional Theory movement....
Deepening Local Democracy in Latin America
Participation, Decentralization, and the Left
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2011
The resurgence of the Left in Latin America over the past decade has been so notable that it has been called “the Pink Tide.” In recent years, regimes with leftist leaders have risen to power in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Uruguay, and Venezuela. What does...
Provinces
Canadian Provincial Politics, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2006
Provinces is both a study of Canadian provincial government and a review of comparative politics. As such, it represents a long overdue return to the comparative tradition with its emphasis on subject-specific studies across the country. The chapters in this revised edition of Provinces, each...
Property and Political Order in Africa
Land Rights and the Structure of Politics
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2014
In sub-Saharan Africa, property relationships around land and access to natural resources vary across localities, districts and farming regions. These differences produce patterned variations in relationships between individuals, communities and the state. This book captures these patterns in an analysis...
The African and Conscientization
A Critical Approach to African Social and Political Thought with Particular Reference to Nigeria
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
The withdrawal of imperial colonizers from Africa in the second half of the 20th century precipitated the need for newly independent African nations to establish political, economic, and social structures that would ensure the development of cohesive, stable, and functional nations. While Africans...
Africa’s Big Men
Predatory State-Society Relations in Africa
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
This book spotlights, analyzes and explains varying forms and patterns of state-society relations on the African continent, taking as point of departure the complexities created by the emergence, proliferation and complicated interactions of so-called ‘big men’ across Africa's fifty-four states....
by Anna Cento Bull, Philip Cooke
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
Ending Terrorism in Italy analyses processes of disengagement from terrorism, as well as the connected issues of reconciliation, truth and justice. It examines in a critical and original way how terrorism came to an end in Italy (Part I), and the legacy it has left behind (Part II). The book interrogates...
Party and Democracy
The Uneven Road to Party Legitimacy
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
Party and Democracy questions why political parties today are held in such low estimation in advanced democracies. The first part of the volume reviews theoretical motivations behind the growing disdain for the political party. In surveying the parties' lengthy attempt to gain legitimacy, particular...
Radical Theatrics
Put-Ons, Politics, and the Sixties
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
From burning draft cards to staging nude protests, much left-wing political activism in 1960s America was distinguished by deliberate outrageousness. This theatrical activism, aimed at the mass media and practiced by Abbie Hoffman and the Yippies, the Black Panthers, and the Gay Activists Alliance,...
Democracies and Dictatorships in Latin America
Emergence, Survival, and Fall
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
This book presents a new theory for why political regimes emerge, and why they subsequently survive or break down. It then analyzes the emergence, survival and fall of democracies and dictatorships in Latin America since 1900. Scott Mainwaring and Aníbal Pérez-Liñán argue for a theoretical approach...
Latin American State Building in Comparative Perspective
Social Foundations of Institutional Order
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2013
Latin American State Building in Comparative Perspective provides an account of long-run institutional development in Latin America that emphasizes the social and political foundations of state-building processes. The study argues that societal dynamics have path-dependent consequences at two critical...
by Tamara Kay
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2011
When NAFTA went into effect in 1994, many feared it would intensify animosity among North American unions, lead to the scapegoating of Mexican workers and immigrants, and eclipse any possibility for cross-border labor cooperation. But far from polarizing workers, NAFTA unexpectedly helped stimulate...
Referendums and Representative Democracy
Responsiveness, Accountability and Deliberation
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
This volume analyses how the use of referendums affects the central functions and characteristics of representative democracy. It provides a balanced account of the interaction between referendums and representative institutions and actors, seeking to evaluate whether referendums supplement or undermine...