Foreign Legal Systems category: 1801 books
Diffusion of Democracy
The Past and Future of Global Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
This book explores the course and causes of the worldwide diffusion of democracy through an assessment of the political and economic development of individual countries from the year 1800 to 2005. Using this extended range of data and examining multiple variables, Barbara Wejnert creates a conceptual...
Economic Crises and the Breakdown of Authoritarian Regimes
Indonesia and Malaysia in Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2009
Why do some authoritarian regimes topple during financial crises, while others steer through financial crises relatively unscathed? In this book, Thomas B. Pepinsky uses the experiences of Indonesia and Malaysia and the analytical tools of open economy macroeconomics to answer this question. Focusing...
Policy Metamorphosis in China
A Case Study of Minban Education in Shanghai
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
China has been experiencing great economic and social changes since the late 1970s when the Reform and Opening-Up policies were accepted. While some Sinologists argue that such changes have made the Chinese structure of authority fragmented and discrepant, and have weakened the directive power of...
China's Asia
Triangular Dynamics since the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2018
This balanced and deeply informed book provides a comprehensive account of China’s Asia policy since the Cold War. Lowell Dittmer traces the PRC’s policy toward its Asian neighbors in the context of the country’s move from a developing nation to a great power, capable of playing a role in world...
Political Booms
Local Money and Power in Taiwan, East China, Thailand, and the Philippines
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2009
Why have Taiwan, rich parts of China, and Thailand boomed famously, while the Philippines has long remained stagnant both economically and politically? Do booms abet democracy? Does the rise of middle “classes” promise future liberalization? Why has Philippine democracy brought no boom and barely...
Central Asia and the Caucasus
Transnationalism and Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2004
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, a number of linkages have been established between newly independent Central Asian states, or populations within them, and diaspora ethnic groups. This book explores the roles that diaspora communities play in the recent and ongoing emergence of national identities...
Territory and Ideology in Latin America
Policy Conflicts between National and Subnational Governments
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2017
Around the world, familiar ideological conflicts over the market are becoming increasingly territorialized in the form of policy conflicts between national and subnational governments. Thanks to a series of trends like globalization, democratization, and especially decentralization, subnational governments...
Faith in Moderation
Islamist Parties in Jordan and Yemen
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2006
Does political inclusion produce ideological moderation? Schwedler argues that examining political behaviour alone provides insufficient evidence of moderation because it leaves open the possibility that political actors might act as if they are moderate while harbouring radical agendas. Through a...
The Concert of Civilizations
The Common Roots of Western and Islamic Constitutionalism
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Are Western and Islamic political and constitutional ideas truly predestined for civilizational clash? In order to understand this controversy The Concert of Civilizations begins by deriving and redefining a definition of constitutionalism that is suitable for comparative, cross-cultural analysis....
Religion, Secularism and Politics
A Mediterranean View
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2018
Political debates in many Mediterranean countries today are increasingly framed in dichotomous terms, highlighting divisions between religious and secular worldviews. The role of religion in public life or, put another way, the ‘public return of religion’, is a pertinent and controversial political...
The Freedom to Be Racist?
How the United States and Europe Struggle to Preserve Freedom and Combat Racism
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2011
We love freedom. We hate racism. But what do we do when these values collide? In this wide-ranging book, Erik Bleich explores policies that the United States, Britain, France, Germany, and other liberal democracies have implemented when forced to choose between preserving freedom and combating racism....
by Shahar Hameiri, Caroline Hughes, Fabio Scarpello
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2017
International peace- and state-building interventions have become ubiquitous in international politics since the 1990s, aiming to tackle the security problems stemming from the instability afflicting many developing states. Their frequent failures have prompted a shift towards analysing how the interaction...
Elections in Hard Times
Building Stronger Democracies in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2016
Why are 'free and fair' elections so often followed by democratic backsliding? Elections in Hard Times answers this critical question, showing why even clean elections fail to advance democracy when held amidst challenging structural conditions. The book opens with a comprehensive, accessible synthesis...
Democracy Protests
Origins, Features, and Significance
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
Why do democracy protests emerge in some countries at certain times, but not in others? Why do governments accommodate these protests, undertaking sweeping reforms in some cases, and in others find ways to suppress protests? In Democracy Protests, Brancati highlights the role of economic crises in...