Foreign Legal Systems category: 1801 books
Debating civilisations
Interrogating civilisational analysis in a global age
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2017
Contemporary civilisational analysis has emerged in the post-Cold War period as a forming but already controversial field of scholarship. Debating civilisations seeks to evaluate the main currents of the field and its principal competitors. The author draws a unique comparison of many key scholars...
by Professor Milan W. Svolik
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2012
What drives politics in dictatorships? Milan W. Svolik argues authoritarian regimes must resolve two fundamental conflicts. Dictators face threats from the masses over which they rule - the problem of authoritarian control. Secondly from the elites with whom dictators rule - the problem of authoritarian...
Français, encore un effort si vous voulez être républicains
Manifeste politique
Language: French
Release Date: May 27, 2016
Un extrait de La Philosophie dans le boudoir mit en lumière pour en saisir toute l’importanceFrançais, encore un effort si vous voulez être républicains est un extrait de La Philosophie dans le boudoir, ensemble de dialogues publiés anonymement en 1795. S’il n’est pas une œuvre à part entière,...
Transatlantic traumas
Has illiberalism brought the West to the brink of collapse?
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
A new addition to the Pocket Politics series*, Transatlantic traumas* takes a timely, compelling look at connections between external and internal threats that challenge the concept and coherence of the West and its leading institutions, NATO and the European Union. Frank and direct, in a style that’s...
Executive Politics in Semi-Presidential Regimes
Power Distribution and Conflicts between Presidents and Prime Ministers
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
This book analyzes the power variations between political executives in semi-presidential regimes. It contrasts institutional, partisan, and extra-institutional explanations and identifies patterns of change for the power distribution between presidents and prime ministers. It provides an empirical...
Revolution, Revolt and Reform in North Africa
The Arab Spring and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
Providing an account of the recent revolutions or reform movements that constituted part of the Arab Spring, this book focuses on these transformative processes in a North African context.
Whilst the longer term outcomes of the Arab Spring revolts are not entirely clear, the revolutionary or...
Middle East and North Africa
Governance, Democratization, Human Rights
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
This collection contains articles by highly regarded scholars assessing governance, democratisation and human rights in the contemporary Middle East and North Africa. It also assesses the role that Islam plays in these areas. In the spirit of the 50th anniversary year of the United Nations Declaration...
Taking to the Streets
The Transformation of Arab Activism
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
Taking to the Streets critically examines the conventional wisdom that the 2011 Arab Spring uprisings happened spontaneously and were directed by tech-savvy young revolutionaries. Pairing first-hand observations from activists with the critical perspectives of scholars, the book illuminates the concept...
The Politics of Secularism
Religion, Diversity, and Institutional Change in France and Turkey
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Discussions of modernity—or alternative and multiple modernities—often hinge on the question of secularism, especially how it travels outside its original European context. Too often, attempts to answer this question either imagine a universal model derived from the history of Western Europe,...
Nordic Cooperation
A European region in transition
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
The recent crises in global economy and in European integration have caused a considerable revival of interest in the Nordic Welfare Model. However, less attention has been given to the ways in which the nations that form Scandinavia or ‘Norden’ are connected through various forms of inter- and...
by Douglas I. Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2017
At the heart of Montaigne's Essais lies a political conception of religious tolerance that we have largely forgotten today. In contemporary popular and academic discourse, tolerance of religious and other differences most often appears as an individual ethical disposition or a moral principle of public...
by John McCormick
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2010
In Europeanism the author attempts to identify and outline the political, economic, and social norms and values associated with Europe and Europeans. He argues that regardless of the doubts associated with the exercise of European integration and the work of the European Union, and regardless of residual...
Far Right Parties and Euroscepticism
Patterns of Opposition
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
Why do parties that belong to the same party family address the EU question differently? This book addresses this question through a systematic analysis of the EU positions of far right parties in Europe.
Starting from the assumption that far right parties are rational actors, the book argues that...
by Andrew Heywood
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2019
The fifth edition of this seminal textbook by best-selling author Andrew Heywood continues to lead the way in providing a comprehensive and authoritative introduction to politics. Renowned for its engaging and accessible style, this book helps students to understand the discipline’s foundational...