Foreign Legal Systems category: 1801 books
Popular Support for an Undemocratic Regime
The Changing Views of Russians
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2011
To survive, all forms of government require popular support, whether voluntary or involuntary. Following the collapse of the Soviet system, Russia's rulers took steps toward democracy, yet under Vladimir Putin Russia has become increasingly undemocratic. This book uses a unique source of evidence,...
Negotiating in Civil Conflict
Constitutional Construction and Imperfect Bargaining in Iraq
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
In 2005, Iraq drafted its first constitution and held the country’s first democratic election in more than fifty years. Even under ideal conditions, drafting a constitution can be a prolonged process marked by contentious debate, and conditions in Iraq are far from ideal: Iraq has long been racked...
by Nader Sohrabi
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
In his book on constitutional revolutions in the Ottoman Empire and Iran in the early twentieth century, Nader Sohrabi considers the global diffusion of institutions and ideas, their regional and local reworking and the long-term consequences of adaptations. He delves into historic reasons for greater...
The Schematic State
Race, Transnationalism, and the Politics of the Census
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
By examining the political development of racial classifications on the national censuses of the United States, Canada, and Great Britain, The Schematic State maps the changing nature of the census from an instrument historically used to manage and control racial populations to its contemporary purpose...
Social Democracy in Power
The Capacity to Reform
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2008
Globalization, European integration, and social change have devaluated traditional social democratic policy instruments. This book compares and explores how social democratic governments have had to adapt and whether they have successfully managed to uphold old social democratic goals and values in...
Forging Power
Coalition Politics in India
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2005
This volume looks at the evolution of coalition politics in India, both at the national and provincial levels. It investigates the processes that led to coalition governments. It explores the formation of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA), the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), the Janata Party...
Electoral competition in Ireland since 1987
The politics of triumph and despair
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2016
This major new account of the politics of modern Ireland offers a rigorous analysis of the forces which shaped both how the Irish state governed itself from the period since 1987 and how it lost its economic sovereignty in 2010. This study comprehensively assess the last quarter century in Irish electoral...
Intelligence Governance and Democratisation
A Comparative Analysis of the Limits of Reform
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
This book analyses changes in intelligence governance and offers a comparative analysis of intelligence democratisation.
Within the field of Security Sector Reform (SSR), academics have paid significant attention to both the police and military. The democratisation of intelligence structures...
The Government of No One
The Theory and Practice of Anarchism
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2019
A magisterial study of the history and theory of one of the most controversial political movements
Anarchism routinely gets a bad press. It's usually seen as meaning chaos and disorder -- or even nothing at all. And yet, from Occupy Wall Street to Pussy Riot, Noam Chomsky to David Graeber,...
by Prof Balakrishna
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
As the Constitution came into force on the 26th January 1950, President Dr. Rajendra Prasad was faced with the challenge of intrepreting his role based on the given provisions. He queried with Prime Minister of India Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru and Attorney General M.C. Setalvad. Being a distinguished Lawyer...
Interest Group Politics in Europe
Lessons from EU Studies and Comparative Politics
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Interest organizations have always assumed a prominent place in European politics because they link states with citizens, institutionalize the resolution of social conflicts, regulate important sectors of the economy and society, contribute to workable policy outcomes and socialize members into democratic...
Reproducing Jews
A Cultural Account of Assisted Conception in Israel
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2000
There are more fertility clinics per capita in Israel than in any other country in the world and Israel has the world's highest per capita rate of in-vitro fertilization procedures. Fertility treatments are fully subsidized by Israeli national health insurance and are available to all Israelis, regardless...
Another World Is Possible
World Social Forum Proposals for an Alternative Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2015
In 2001 the first World Social Forum was held in Porto Alegre, Brazil. The meeting was viewed by many at the time as a new manifestation of the global Left, a people's opposition to the World Economic Forum that stood as the first real front to global capitalism since the collapse of the Soviet Union....
Key Thinkers of the Radical Right
Behind the New Threat to Liberal Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
Since the start of the twenty-first century, the political mainstream has been shifting to the right. The liberal orthodoxy that took hold in the West as a reaction to the Second World War is breaking down. In Europe, populist political parties have pulled the mainstream in their direction; in America,...