Foreign Legal Systems category: 1801 books
Multi-Level Electoral Politics
Beyond the Second-Order Election Model
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
National-level elections receive more attention from scholars and the media than elections at other levels, even though in many European countries the importance of both regional and European levels of government has grown in recent years. The growing importance of multiple electoral arenas suggests...
by Ato Kwamena Onoma
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2009
Why do some political leaders create and strengthen institutions like title registries and land tribunals that secure property rights to land while others neglect these institutions or destroy those that already exist? How do these institutions evolve once they have been established? This book answers...
Post-Soviet Power
State-led Development and Russia's Marketization
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
Post-Soviet Power tells the story of the Russian electricity system and examines the politics of its transformation from a ministry to a market. Susanne A. Wengle shifts our focus away from what has been at the center of post-Soviet political economy - corruption and the lack of structural reforms...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2012
This timely book explores Russia’s political development since the collapse of the USSR and how inextricably it has been bound up with economic change. Tracing the evolution of Russia’s political economy, leading scholars consider how it may continue to develop going forward. They assess the historical...
Where Did the Revolution Go?
Contentious Politics and the Quality of Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2016
Where Did the Revolution Go? considers the apparent disappearance of the large social movements that have contributed to democratization. Revived by recent events of the Arab Spring, this question is once again paramount. Is the disappearance real, given the focus of mass media and scholarship on...
Governance and Democracy
Comparing National, European and International Experiences
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
For the first time, this new collection brings together country specialists, researchers on the European Union, and leading international relations scholars to tackle a crucial question: how compatible are today’s new patterns of ‘policy networks’ and ‘multi-level’ governance with democratic...
by Maria Victoria Murillo
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2009
This book studies policymaking in the Latin American electricity and telecommunication sectors. Murillo's analysis of the Latin American electricity and telecommunications sectors shows that different degrees of electoral competition and the partisan composition of the government were crucial in resolving...
Power and the Vote
Elections and Electricity in the Developing World
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
How do developing states decide who gets access to public goods like electricity, water, and education? Power and the Vote breaks new ground by showing that the provision of seemingly universal public goods is intricately shaped by electoral priorities. In doing so, this book introduces new methods...
Political Regimes in the Arab World
Society and the Exercise of Power
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
One of the implications of Orientalism is that the Arab world, as a homogenous entity, is often analysed as an anomaly within the international system. This book argues that, despite their differences, societies across the globe ultimately construct their own history according to very similar dynamics...
The Other World
Issues and Politics in the Developing World
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
The Other World combines a thematic and area studies approach to explore contemporary global issues in the developing world. Accessible and interdisciplinary, this text offers political, economic, social, and historical analysis plus case studies on Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia and Eurasia,...
Negotiating Armenian-Azerbaijani Peace
Opportunities, Obstacles, Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Conflict resolution, conflict management and conflict transformations are major themes in this unique book which examines, explores and analyses the mediation attempts of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Ohannes Geukjian shows the most striking...
Diploma Democracy
The Rise of Political Meritocracy
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2017
Lay politics lies at the heart of democracy. Political offices are the only offices for which no formal qualifications are required. Contemporary political practices are diametrically opposed to this constitutional ideal. Most democracies in Western Europe are diploma democracies - ruled by those...
The Scourge of War
New Extensions on an Old Problem
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2010
J. David Singer's legendary Correlates of War project represented the first comprehensive effort by political scientists to gather and analyze empirical data about the causes of war. In doing so, Singer and his colleagues transformed the face of twentieth-century political science. Their work provoked...
Gendering Legislative Behavior
Institutional Constraints and Collaboration
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
In democracies, power is obtained via competition. Yet, as women gain access to parliaments in record numbers, worldwide collaboration appears to be on the rise. This is puzzling: why, if politicians can secure power through competition, would we observe collaboration in Congress? Using evidence from...