Foreign Legal Systems category: 1801 books
Money for Votes
The Causes and Consequences of Electoral Clientelism in Africa
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
Politicians distribute money to voters during campaigns in many low-income democracies. Many observers call this practice 'vote buying'. Money for Votes develops an alternative theory of electoral clientelism that emphasizes the role of monetary handouts in conveying information to voters, helping...
by Neil Hamblin
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2017
The United States is the dominant world power today, but that has not always been the case, and may not always be the case. Great Britain, Rome, and ancient Sumer were once leaders in their own time, but their empires dissolved into history. Understanding how a leader emerges is critical to understanding...
Nation-Building in Turkey and Morocco
Governing Kurdish and Berber Dissent
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2014
Why do some ethno-national groups live peacefully with the states that govern them, whereas others develop into serious threats to state authority? Through a comparative historical analysis, this book compares the evolution of Kurdish mobilization in Turkey with the Berber mobilization in Morocco...
by Jennifer Stromer-Galley
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2019
As the plugged-in presidential campaign has arguably reached maturity, Presidential Campaigning in the Internet Age challenges popular claims about the democratizing effect of Digital Communication Technologies (DCTs). Analyzing campaign strategies, structures, and tactics from the past six presidential...
Diplomacy
Communication and the Origins of International Order
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
How do adversaries communicate? How do diplomatic encounters shape international orders and determine whether states go to war? Diplomacy, from alliance politics to nuclear brinkmanship, almost always operates through a few forms of signaling: choosing the scope of demands on another state, risking...
Risk Inequality and Welfare States
Social Policy Preferences, Development, and Dynamics
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
The transformation of night-watchman states into welfare states is one of the most notable societal developments in recent history. In 1880, not a single country had a nationally compulsory social policy program. A few decades later, every single one of today's rich democracies had adopted programs...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2014
As an important research field in mathematics, chaos theory impacts many different disciplines such as physics, engineering, economics, and biology. Most recently, however, chaos theory has also been applied to the social sciences, helping to explain the complex and interdependent nature of international...
From Party Politics to Personalized Politics?
Party Change and Political Personalization in Democracies
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
What do Beppe Grillo, Silvio Berlusconi, Emmanuel Macron (and also Donald Trump) have in common? They are prime examples of the personalization of politics and the decline of political parties. This volume systematically examines these two prominent developments in contemporary democratic politics...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
For almost a decade, Freedom House’s annual survey has highlighted a decline in democracy in most regions of the globe. While some analysts draw upon this evidence to argue that the world has entered a "democratic recession," others dispute that interpretation, emphasizing instead democracy’s...
Authoritarian Landscapes
Popular Mobilization and the Institutional Sources of Resilience in Nondemocracies
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2013
The turbulent year of 2011 has brought the appearance of mass popular unrest and the collapse of long lived autocratic regimes in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya and possibly Syria. The sudden and unanticipated fall of these regimes – often thought of as exemplars of authoritarian resilience - has brought...
Dancing with the Devil
The Political Economy of Privatization in China
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
From 1978 through the turn of the century, China was transformed from a state-owned economy into a predominantly private economy. This fundamental change took place under the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), which has been ideologically and politically predisposed to suppress private ownership. In Dancing...
Beyond Realism
Human Security in India and Pakistan in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2008
As the world is changing, many scholars, analysts, and policy makers agree that even as governments need to confront external threats, creating sustainable domestic environments is imperative as a policy priority. As events surrounding September 11, 2001 continue to remind us, marginalized sections...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2015
China and India have huge potential to exert global influence due to their geography, population size and material resources. Now their spectacular economic growth has led many commentators to predict a shift in power from West to East and the dawn of an “Asian century” based on Asian values....
by Stephen Calleya
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
This book examines and assesses the main security factors influencing Euro-Mediterranean relations at the start of the twenty-first century.
Developing a theoretical framework based on the security complex, this book provides an empirical analysis of security challenges in the Euro-Mediterranean...