Foreign Legal Systems category: 1801 books
The Challenge of Pluralism
Church and State in Six Democracies
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
In a thoroughly revised and expanded edition that now includes France, this essential text offers a rigorous, systematic comparison of church-state relations in six Western nations: the United States, France, England, Germany, the Netherlands, and Australia. As successful and stable political democracies,...
Party Brands in Crisis
Partisanship, Brand Dilution, and the Breakdown of Political Parties in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
Why have so many established political parties across Latin America collapsed in recent years? Party Brands in Crisis offers an explanation that highlights the effect of elite actions on voter behavior. During the 1980s and 1990s, political elites across the region implemented policies inconsistent...
A World of Three Cultures
Honor, Achievement and Joy
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2015
In this book, Miguel Basáñez presents a provocative look at the impact of culture on global development. Drawing on data from governments, NGOs, the World Values Survey and more addressing over one hundred countries, he argues that values, as the "building blocks" of culture, are directly related...
Acting Alone
A Scientific Study of American Hegemony and Unilateral Use-of-Force Decision Making
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2010
Acting Alone: A Scientific Study of American Hegemony and Unilateral Use-of-Force Decision Making is a straight-forward analysis of unilateral U.S. military actions, which are dependent upon the power disparity between the U.S. and the rest of the world. In solving the puzzle as to why individual...
by Kenneth Good
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Democratization is a sociopolitical process and the society that may grow out of it
where people make decisions on matters affecting them. It is an unending struggle to win such rights and power, to hold and to extend them. The contending classes are essentially the poor and weak majority of the people...
Towards Responsible Government in East Asia
Trajectories, Intentions and Meanings
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2009
This book explores the idea of responsible government in East Asia, arguing that many recent governance crises have resulted from responsibility failures on a huge scale. It distinguishes between accountability, which it argues has been overemphasised recently, and responsibility, which it argues...
by Professor Oxana Shevel
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011
Why do similar postcommunist states respond differently to refugees? Why do some states privilege certain refugee groups, while other states do not? This book presents a theory to account for this puzzle, and it centers on the role of the politics of nation-building and of the office of the UN High...
Power, luck and freedom
Collected essays
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
This book presents thirteen essays from a leading contemporary political scientist, with a substantial introduction bringing together the themes. The topics covered include political and social power, freedom, choice, rights, responsibility, the author's unique account of luck and systematic luck...
by Paul Brooker
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
A comprehensive assessment of the nature and evolving character of authoritarian regimes, their changing character and the main theoretical explanations of their incidence, character and performance. The third edition covers the rise of new forms of disguised dictatorship and semi-competitive democracy in the 21st Century.
Social Movements and the New State
The Fate of Pro-Democracy Organizations When Democracy Is Won
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
The world's democracies cheered as the social movements of the Arab Spring ended the reigns of longstanding dictators and ushered in the possibility of democracy. Yet these unique transitions also fit into a broader pattern of democratic breakthroughs around the globe, where political leaders emerge...
by Diana Kapiszewski
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
High Courts and Economic Governance in Argentina and Brazil analyzes how high courts and elected leaders in Latin America interacted over neoliberal restructuring, one of the most significant socioeconomic transformations in recent decades. Courts face a critical choice when deciding cases concerning...
Political Science Revitalized
Filling the Jigsaw Puzzle with Metatheory
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Political science has been described as a jigsaw puzzle with many specializations and subfields that do not talk to one another. This book offers a solution that will advance the field from mid-level theory to engage in cross-fertilization through metatheoretical paradigms. The book begins with a...
by Pippa Norris
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
This book is the first in a planned trilogy by Pippa Norris on challenges of electoral integrity to be published by Cambridge University Press. Unfortunately too often elections around the globe are deeply flawed or even fail. Why does this matter? It is widely suspected that such contests will undermine...
Democratic Innovations
Designing Institutions for Citizen Participation
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2009
Can we design institutions that increase and deepen citizen participation in the political decision making process? At a time when there is growing disillusionment with the institutions of advanced industrial democracies, there is also increasing interest in new ways of involving citizens in the political...