Foreign Legal Systems category: 1801 books
Dispossession without Development
Land Grabs in Neoliberal India
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018
Winner of the 2019 Global and Transnational Sociology Best Book Award, American Sociological Association Winner of the 2019 Political Economy of World System (PEWS) Distinguished Book Award, American Sociological Association Received Honorable Mention for the 2019 Asia/Transnational Book Award, American...
by Professor Rina Agarwala
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2013
Since the 1980s, the world's governments have decreased state welfare and thus increased the number of unprotected 'informal' or 'precarious' workers. As a result, more and more workers do not receive secure wages or benefits from either employers or the state. This book offers a fresh and provocative...
Constitutional Bargaining in Russia, 1990-93
Institutions and Uncertainty
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
The years 1990-93 were a critical moment in Russia’s political development. This book provides a systematic explanation of outcomes of constitutional bargaining processes in Russia, which radically reshaped the institutions of the Russian state: removing Russia from constitutional subordination...
Community, Scale, and Regional Governance
A Postfunctionalist Theory of Governance, Volume II
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
This is the second of five ambitious volumes theorizing the structure of governance above and below the central state. This book is written for those interested in the character, causes, and consequences of governance within the state. The book argues that jurisdictional design is shaped by the functional...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
This volume explores the foundations of trust, and whether social and political trust have common roots. Contributions by noted scholars examine how we measure trust, the cultural and social psychological roots of trust, the foundations of political trust, and how trust concerns the law, the economy,...
Why the Electoral College Is Bad for America
Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2019
A new edition of the best†‘known book critiquing the U.S. electoral college
In this third edition of the definitive book on the unique system by which Americans choose a president—and why that system should be changed—George Edwards includes a new chapter focusing on the 2016 election.
“As...
Politics and the European Commission
Actors, Interdependence, Legitimacy
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
The European Commission is an organization which has come to fascinate or repulse a range of national politicians, journalists and social scientists. In contrast to the prevailing image of the Commission as a 'bureaucrat's paradise', however, and by using the results of original research, this book...
by Christopher J. Bailey
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
The United States is often perceived as sceptical, if not hostile, to the need to address man-made climate change. US government policy has undoubtedly disappointed environmentalists and scientists who believe more concerted action is needed, but a careful examination of the evidence reveals a number...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
Since the global financial crisis, government debt has soared globally by 40 percent and now exceeds an astonishing $100 trillion. Not all countries, though, have fared the same. Indeed, even prior to the financial crisis, the fiscal fates of countries have been diverging, despite predictions that...
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An 88-Word Initiative To Enrich Indians 1100%
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
Singapore has a 2000% higher population density than India, but is yet slum-free. At the same time, India is full of slums. Why? Why do the Chinese pay 4.9% for 30-year fixed mortgage rates and Indians pay 10%? China has 800 million jobs and India has 520 million. Our populations are identical....
Organizing Leviathan
Politicians, Bureaucrats, and the Making of Good Government
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2017
Why are some countries less corrupt and better governed than others? Challenging conventional explanations on the remarkable differences in quality of government worldwide, this book argues that the organization of bureaucracy is an often overlooked but critical factor. Countries where merit-recruited...
The Politics of Technological Progress
Parties, Time Horizons and Long-term Economic Development
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Why are some countries richer than others and why do some economies grow more rapidly? The Politics of Technological Progress answers these vital questions by highlighting the importance of technological progress for sustained economic development. The author also explains why some countries exhibit...
Crossroads
Comparative Immigration Regimes in a World of Demographic Change
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
In this ambitious study, Anna K. Boucher and Justin Gest present a unique analysis of immigration governance across thirty countries. Relying on a database of immigration demographics in the world's most important destinations, they present a novel taxonomy and an analysis of what drives different...
Informal Institutions and Citizenship in Rural Africa
Risk and Reciprocity in Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2010
This book challenges previous assumptions about institutions, social capital, and the nature of the African state by investigating the history of political and economic change in villages on either side of the Ghana-Cote d'Ivoire border. Prior to European colonial rule, these Akan villages had very...