Foreign Legal Systems category: 1801 books
Postwar British Politics
From Conflict to Consensus
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2005
This book offers a fresh view of postwar British politics, very much at odds to the dominant view in contemporary scholarship. The author argues that postwar British politics, up to and including the Blair Government, can be largely characterised in terms of continuity and a gradual evolution from...
by Pippa Norris
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
Today a general mood of pessimism surrounds Western efforts to strengthen elections and democracy abroad. If elections are often deeply flawed or even broken in many countries around the world, can anything be done to fix them? To counter the prevailing ethos, Pippa Norris presents new evidence for...
by Pippa Norris
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2015
Too often, elections around the globe are, unfortunately, deeply flawed or even fail. What triggers these problems? In this second volume of her trilogy on electoral integrity, Pippa Norris compares structural, international, and institutional accounts as alternative perspectives to explain why elections...
by Claudius Wagemann
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2014
Private Interest Governments were identified in the 1980s as a special form of public regulation in selected economic sectors, rivalling conventional market, state, or community-based forms of public order. This book examines how these institutional arrangements have changed since their identification....
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Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2008
This is a clear, comprehensive and authoritative introduction to the institutional regimes of countries in Western Europe written by an outstanding group of political scientists. Completely revised and updated throughout, Comparative European Politics 3rd edition:
provides a complete coverage...
Brokers, Voters, and Clientelism
The Puzzle of Distributive Politics
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2013
Brokers, Voters, and Clientelism addresses major questions in distributive politics. Why is it acceptable for parties to try to win elections by promising to make certain groups of people better off, but unacceptable - and illegal - to pay people for their votes? Why do parties often lavish benefits...
The Changing Face of European Identity
A Seven-Nation Study of (Supra)National Attachments
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2004
Drawing upon systematic research using Q Methodology in seven countries - Denmark, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Italy, Netherlands and Sweden - this volume presents the results of the most extensive effort yet at cross-cultural, subjective assessment of national and supranational identity....
The Political Power of Bad Ideas
Networks, Institutions, and the Global Prohibition Wave
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2010
In The Political Power of Bad Ideas, Mark Schrad uses one of the greatest oddities of modern history--the broad diffusion throughout the Western world of alcohol-control legislation in the early twentieth century--to make a powerful argument about how bad policy ideas achieve international success....
Immigration and Welfare State Retrenchment
Why the US Experience is not Reflected in Western Europe
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
Is large-scale immigration to Europe incompatible with the continent's generous and encompassing welfare states? Are Europeans willing to share welfare benefits with ethnically different and often less well-off immigrants? Or do they regard the newcomers as undeserving and their claim for welfare...
Gun Policy in the United States and Canada
The Impact of Mass Murders and Assassinations on Gun Control
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
The shooting at Virginia Tech in 2007 was one of the worst mass murders in the U.S., but it did not lead to any new federal gun control policy. In contrast, following a similar event in Montreal in 1989, Canada created new comprehensive gun policy.
Such different outcomes are the focus of this...
Pathways to Judicial Power in Transitional States
Perspectives from African Courts
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
This book examines the complex relationship that exists between the construction of judicial power, and the institutional characteristics of the courts and their regime setting. It examines the intriguing connection between the construction of judicial power on the one hand, and the institutional...
Constitutional Policy in Multilevel Government
The Art of Keeping the Balance
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2016
The search for a robust balance of power is a continuous challenge for multilevel political system. Institutions like parliaments or courts can protect the existing order. However, necessary adjustments to economic, social, or international challenges or policies determined to improve ineffective...
by Drude Dahlerup
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2012
The introduction of electoral gender quotas in diverse contexts around the globe has attracted a great deal of scholarly and political interest. To date, research on these measures has focused primarily on quota design, adoption, and effects on the numbers of women elected. While this remains a crucial...
Democratization in America
A Comparative-Historical Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
The essays in this volume examine democracy’s development in the United States, demonstrating how that process has shaped—and continues to shape—the American political system.
Scholars of American politics commonly describe the political development of the United States as exceptional...