Foreign Legal Systems category: 1801 books
Cities and Stability
Urbanization, Redistribution, and Regime Survival in China
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2014
China's management of urbanization is an under-appreciated factor in the regime's longevity. The Chinese Communist Party fears "Latin Americanization" -- the emergence of highly unequal megacities with their attendant slums and social unrest. Such cities threaten the survival of nondemocratic regimes....
by Gurpreet Mahajan
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2011
Social scientists explain events by identifying reasons and causes. Occasionally they weave a series of events into a historical narrative. What is entailed in each kind of explanation? What form of explanation is adequate for the social sciences? In this lucid book, Gurpreet Mahajan surveys each...
by Philip Resnick
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2012
What exactly does it mean to be North American? Europeans have been engaged in a long-running debate about the meaning and nature of Europe. The Labyrinth of North American Identities generates a similar discussion in the context of North America: what do we learn about North America as a unit and...
The Ironies of Citizenship
Naturalization and Integration in Industrialized Countries
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2010
Explanations of naturalization and jus soli citizenship have relied on cultural, convergence, racialization, or capture theories, and they tend to be strongly affected by the literature on immigration. This study of naturalization breaks with the usual immigration theories and proposes an approach...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
This book offers wide-ranging insights into the organising capacities of workers in Asia today. Nine case-studies examine workers' responses to class relations through independent unions, non-government organisations (NGOs) and more (dis)organised struggles. Countering the notion that globalisation...
Protest and Politics
The Promise of Social Movement Societies
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Scholars and students of contentious politics, social movements, and Canadian history will appreciate this detailed analysis of social movement societies, both within the Canadian context and in comparison to other countries and the transnational sphere.
by Mark I. Lichbach
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
Barrington Moore bequeathed comparativists a problem: how to reconcile his causal claim of 'no bourgeoisie, no democracy' with his normative 'dream of a free and rational society'. Lichbach harmonizes causal methodology and normative democratic theory, illustrating their interrelationship. Using a...
The Conservative Party and the nation
Union, England and Europe
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
This book re-examines the claim of the Conservative Party to be the ‘national party’ and in its politics to express the enduring ‘national interest’. It explores the historical character of the Conservative Party, in particular the significance of the nation in its self-understanding. It addresses...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Ceremony and Ritual in Parliament breaks new ground in the study of legislatures. It combines mainstream historical and social science approaches with cultural theory to consider how parliamentary ritual is constructed through ceremony, space and socialisation. The focus is on the marginalised...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2000
The onset of a new millennium has given renewed impetus to the study of religion and its place in the secular world. Religion and Mass Electoral Behaviour in Europe is an innovative, cutting-edge study, which focuses on the question of whether - and how - religion continues to influence and shape...
Africa
The Politics of Suffering and Smiling
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
The question usually asked about Africa is: 'why is it going wrong?' Is the continent still suffering from the ravages of colonialism? Or is it the victim of postcolonial economic exploitation, poor governance and lack of aid? Whatever the answer, increasingly the result is poverty and violence. In...
Producing globalisation
Politics of discourse and institutions in Greece and Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Producing globalisation attempts to scrutinise the nature of the interplay between globalisation and national institutional settings. Rather than taking globalisation as a given, this book explores how concrete political actors produced the phenomenon of globalisation.
Women and Representation in Local Government
International Case Studies
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Women and Representation in Local Government opens up an opportunity to critique and move beyond suppositions and labels in relation to women in local government.
Presenting a wealth of new empirical material, this book brings together international experts to examine and compare the presence...
The Diffusion of Social Movements
Actors, Mechanisms, and Political Effects
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2010
It is widely recognized that social movements may spread - or 'diffuse' - from one site to another. Such diffusion, however, is a complex and multidimensional process that involves different actors, networks, and mechanisms. This complexity has spawned a large body of literature on different aspects...