Foreign Legal Systems category: 1801 books
Parliamentary Oversight Tools
A Comparative Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
This book investigates Parliaments’ capacity to oversee government activities, policies and expenditures. Utilising a comparative approach, the book presents a new examination of oversight tools and discusses the conditions under which such tools are employed effectively.
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Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
Voting in Old and New Democracies examines voting behavior and its determinants based on 26 surveys from 18 countries on five continents between 1992 and 2008. It systematically analyzes the impact on voting choice of factors rooted in the currently dominant approaches to the study of electoral...
Resolving Controversy in the European Union
Legislative Decision-Making before and after Enlargement
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
How does the EU resolve controversy when making laws that affect citizens? How has the EU been affected by the recent enlargements that brought its membership to a diverse group of twenty-seven countries? This book answers these questions with analyses of the EU's legislative system that include the...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
Although ambivalence characterizes the stance of scholars toward the desirability of close opinion-policy linkages in general, it is especially evident with regard to immigration. The controversy and disagreement about whether public opinion should drive immigration policy are among the factors making...
Political Campaigning, Elections and the Internet
Comparing the US, UK, France and Germany
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
The Internet first played a minor role in the 1992 U.S. Presidential election, and has gradually increased in importance so that it is central to election campaign strategy. However, election campaigners have, until very recently, focused on Web 1.0: websites and email.
Political Campaigning,...
The Politics of Italy
Governance in a Normal Country
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2010
This innovative text offers a completely fresh approach to Italian politics by placing it in its historical, institutional, social and international contexts. Students will get to grips with the theories and concepts of comparative politics and how they apply specifically to Italy, while gaining real...
Italy in the European Union
Redefining National Interest in a Compound Polity
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2007
Based on an analytical evaluation of both the weaknesses and strengths of the Italian political system, Italy in the European Union is the first book to offer a detailed and comprehensive description of Italy's contribution to European Union policy-making. The contributors to this volume systematically...
Defending Democratic Norms
International Actors and the Politics of Electoral Misconduct
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2013
Although nearly every country in the world today holds multiparty elections, these contests are often blatantly unfair. For governments, electoral misconduct is a tempting but also a risky practice, because it represents a violation of Although nearly every country in the world today holds multiparty...
Representation in Congress
A Unified Theory
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2015
Representation in Congress provides a theory of dyadic policy representation intended to account for when belief sharing, delegate, responsible party, trustee, and 'party elite led' models of representational linkage arise on specific policy issues. The book also presents empirical tests of most of...
U.S.-Iran Misperceptions
A Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2014
Can Iranians and Americans find common ground to overcome their troubled history? U.S.-Iran Misperceptions is the first written dialogue on the key issues that separate these two great countries. Bringing together former policy makers and international relations experts from the United States and...
Deadly Clerics
Blocked Ambition and the Paths to Jihad
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2017
Deadly Clerics explains why some Muslim clerics adopt the ideology of militant jihadism while most do not. The book explores multiple pathways of cleric radicalization and shows that the interplay of academic, religious, and political institutions has influenced the rise of modern jihadism through...
Iran Divided
The Historical Roots of Iranian Debates on Identity, Culture, and Governance in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2014
Iranian politics after the revolution have been marked by sharp ideological divisions within the Islamic ranks. Many of the divisions and power struggles date back to the Shah’s era and the ideologically-diverse coalition formed against the Pahlavi system. In fact, two opposed visions of an Islamic...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2019
The Oxford Handbook of Terrorism systematically integrates the substantial body of scholarship on terrorism and counterterrorism before and after 9/11. In doing so, it introduces scholars and practitioners to state of the art approaches, methods, and issues in studying and teaching these vital phenomena....
Elite Recruitment and Coherence of the Inner Core of Power in Finland
Changing Patterns during the Economic Crises of 1991-2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
The book outlines the approaches of classical elite theory and democratic elitism for the study of national power structures. The book displays different research methods for elite study as well as the power conceptions included within these methods. An elite structure typology is derived from the...