Foreign Legal Systems category: 1801 books
Renegotiating the World Order
Institutional Change in International Relations
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017
Rising powers often seek to reshape the world order, triggering confrontations with those who seek to defend the status quo. In recent years, as international institutions have grown in prevalence and influence, they have increasingly become central arenas for international contestation. Phillip Y....
Are Politics Local?
The Two Dimensions of Party Nationalization around the World
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
Are politics local? Why? Where? When? How do we measure local versus national politics? And what are the effects? This book provides answers to these questions, within an explicitly comparative framework, including both advanced and developing democracies. It does so by using a statistically-based...
The European Union beyond the Crisis
Evolving Governance, Contested Policies, and Disenchanted Publics
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2014
This volume explores institutional and policy developments in the EU and its member states in a parallel examination of citizens’ views of the effectiveness of crisis response reflected in public trust, output legitimacy, and satisfaction with democracy. Our approach to understanding the crisis...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
Governance in South America is signified by strategies pursued by state and non-state actors directed to enhancing (some aspect of) their capabilities and powers of agency. It is about the spaces and the practices available, demanded or created to ‘make politics happen’. This framework lends explanatory...
by James A. Caporaso, David P. Levine
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 1992
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 1992
'Political economy' has been the term used for the past 300 years to express the interrelationship between the political and economic affairs of the state. In Theories of Political Economy, first published in 1992, James A. Caporaso and David P. Levine explore some of the more important frameworks...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2004
Following the end of the Cold War and in the context of globalization, this book examines the extent to which member states dominate decision making in international organizations and whether non-state actors, for example non-governmental organizations and multinational corporations, are influential....
by Dr. William Roberts Clark, Matt Golder, Sona N. Golder
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2018
Adapted from the groundbreaking bestseller Principles of Comparative Politics, Third Edition!
Foundations of Comparative Politics presents a scientific approach to the rich world of comparative inquiry, research, and scholarship, providing you a guide to cross-national comparison and why it...
The Right in Latin America
Elite Power, Hegemony and the Struggle for the State
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Most current analysis on Latin American politics has been directed at examining the shift to the left in the region. Very little attention, however, has been paid to the reactions of the right to this phenomenon. What kind of discursive, policy, and strategic responses have emerged among the right...
The Politics of Environmental Performance
Institutions and Preferences in Industrialized Democracies
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
As the world faces the prospect of climate change, nuclear disasters, and water scarcity, it is clear that environmental degradation is an increasingly serious challenge with economic and social consequences. In this book, Detlef Jahn analyzes political processes in a macro-comparative study in order...
Comparative Policy Agendas
Theory, Tools, Data
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2019
This book summarizes recent advances in the work on agenda-setting in a comparative perspective. The book first presents and explains the data-gathering effort undertaken within the Comparative Agendas Project over the past ten years. Individual country chapters then present the research undertaken...
Gender, Institutions and Political Representation
Reproducing Male Dominance in Europe’s New Democracies
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
This book traces the struggles over the institutions of political representation in Central and Eastern Europe, focusing on the factors that have held women back over the post-communist period, as well as on the growing evidence for change throughout the region. Post-communist Europe has long raised...
by Mary Hilson
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
The book examines the history of co-operation in the broad context of the history of consumerism and consumption; of internationalism and the development of international organisations; and debates about international trade during the inter-war period. The fundamental question explored in the book...
by Kristian Skrede Gleditsch, Halvard Buhaug, Lars-Erik Cederman
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2013
This book argues that political and economic inequalities following group lines generate grievances that in turn can motivate civil war. Lars-Erik Cederman, Kristian Skrede Gleditsch, and Halvard Buhaug offer a theoretical approach that highlights ethnonationalism and how the relationship between...
by Elim Papadakis
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
The Green Movement in Germany is widely regarded as one of the most powerful expressions of popular opposition to government policies. A broad analysis of this powerful group is made in this book, showing that the origins of the movement relate to the general protests against industrialisation in...