Foreign Legal Systems category: 1801 books
by Pushplata Jawa
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The book sails you through the intrinsic journey of life in its culminating facet.Life is a celebration in itself. Every dawn brings new opportunities and as one grows and matures in life, it is time to nourish the soul. The greying hair is a mark of a life well lived. Embrace it in all humility. Return...
Crafting Democracy
Regional Politics in Post-Communist Europe
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2013
The importance of subnational regions to politics, governance, and economic development in Western Europe has long been recognized. However, far less is known about recent steps to introduce a regional level of politics in East Central Europe. Reforms there are part of the larger process of crafting...
by Daniel A. Amerson
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2017
An Intimate Study of the Right"Why are right-wingers getting in the way of progress?""Why can't the 'right' just shut up and get with the times?""Why are right-wingers so certain of themselves?""If the right-wingers had never existed, then the world would be such a great place."If you've ever...
Nonviolent Revolutions
Civil Resistance in the Late 20th Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2011
In the spring of 1989, Chinese workers and students captured global attention as they occupied Tiananmen Square, demanded political change, and were tragically suppressed by the Chinese army. Months later, East German civilians rose up nonviolently, brought down the Berlin Wall, and dismantled their...
Exile, Diaspora, and Return
Changing Cultural Landscapes in Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
During the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, dictatorships in Latin America hastened the outward movement of intellectuals, academics, artists, and political and social activists to other countries. Following the coups that toppled democratically elected governments or curtailed parliamentary...
Mexico's Evolving Democracy
A Comparative Study of the 2012 Elections
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
In 2012, the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI)—which had governed Mexico with an iron grip for 71 years before being ousted in 2000—was surprisingly returned to power. In Mexico's Evolving Democracy, a team of distinguished political scientists delivers an exceptional analysis of the remarkable...
by Mihaela Mihai
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Vehement resentment and indignation are pervasive in societies emerging from dictatorship or civil conflict. How can institutions channel these emotions without undermining the prospects for democracy?
Emphasizing the need to recognize and constructively engage negative public emotions, Mihaela...
by Brian Doherty, Matthew Paterson, Benjamin Seel
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
Direct action has become a key part of the strategy of the radical environmental movement since the early 1990s, used to address issues such as road building and car culture, genetically modified foods, consumerism and global finance institutions. It has helped shape the political climate and has...
Dictators and their Secret Police
Coercive Institutions and State Violence
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
How do dictators stay in power? When, and how, do they use repression to do so? Dictators and their Secret Police explores the role of the coercive apparatus under authoritarian rule in Asia - how these secret organizations originated, how they operated, and how their violence affected ordinary citizens....
Securitizing Balance of Power Theory
A Polymorphic Reconceptualization
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2011
Securitizing Balance of Power Theory: A Polymorphic Reconceptualization by Ilai Z. Saltzman examines different reactions to changes in the balance of power and the way different states formulate their grand strategies in order to engage these changes. Saltzman offers a neoclassical realist interpretation...
Useful Complaints
How Petitions Assist Decentralized Authoritarianism in China
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
This book develops an informational theory to account for the coexistence of China’s exceptionally resilient authoritarianism and its high decentralization. The nuanced information contained in citizens’ complaints, which are filed through the petition system, helps to sustain China’s decentralized...
Peace and Conflict in Inter-Group Relations
The Role of Economic Inequality
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
The book ventures into the explanation of intra-state communal conflict, more narrowly of the conflict between majority and minority communal groups, and develops arguments that highlight the causal impact of intergroup economic inequality. Its quest for empirical support has led to the compilation...
Latin America's Multicultural Movements
The Struggle Between Communitarianism, Autonomy, and Human Rights
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
Bringing together the expertise of dozens of Latin American scholars, Latin America's Multicultural Movements examines multicultural rights recognition in theory and in practice. The authors move beyond abstract debates common in the literature on multiculturalism to examine indigenous rights recognition...
In the Name of Reason
Technocrats and Politics in Chile
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2009
The major role played by a technocratic elite in Chilean politics was perhaps most controversial when the “Chicago Boys” ran the economic program of Augusto Pinochet’s military regime from 1973 to 1990. But technocrats did not suddenly come upon the scene when Pinochet engineered the coup against...