Foreign Legal Systems category: 1801 books
Party Responses to Social Movements
Challenges and Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
Across the West, the explosion of social movement activity since the late 1960s has constituted a “participatory revolution” that has posed profound challenges for formal political parties. Through an analysis of new interviews, institutional documents, and a host of other largely unexploited...
Power and Change in Iran
Politics of Contention and Conciliation
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2016
This volume provides an unparalleled and timely look at political, social, economic, and ideological dynamics in contemporary Iran. Through chapters on social welfare and privatization, university education, the role and authority of the Supreme Leader, the rule of law, the evolving electoral system,...
Between two unions
Europeanisation and Scottish devolution
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
This book is the first in-depth comparative study of Scottish devolution and the first to analyse the impact of the European dimension. With focus on the periods leading up to the referendums in 1979 and 1997, it investigates positions and strategies of political parties and interest groups and how...
by Moira Maguire
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
This fascinating study reveals the desperate plight of the poor, illegitimate and abused children in an Irish society that claimed to "cherish" and hold them sacred, but in fact marginalised and ignored them. It closely examines the history of childhood in post-independence Ireland, and it breaks...
Democracy in the Woods
Environmental Conservation and Social Justice in India, Tanzania, and Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2017
How do societies negotiate the apparently competing agendas of environmental protection and social justice? Why do some countries perform much better than others on this front? Democracy in the Woods addresses these question by examining land rights conflicts-and the fate of forest-dependent peasants-in...
by Charles Hauss
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
France has shifted toward more “normal” politics since the mid 1960s. That’s saying a lot for a country that has had three monarchies, five republics, two empires, and a neo-fascist regime in the years since its revolution in 1789. Hauss’s lively and up-to-date new text looks beyond “de...
Governance Indicators
Approaches, Progress, Promise
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2018
As difficult as it might seem to define governance, it appears to be that much more difficult to measure it. Since the World Bank Institute launched the Worldwide Governance Indicators in the late 1990s, the governance indicators field has flourished and experienced significant advances in terms of...
Protesting Culture and Economics in Western Europe
New Cleavages in Left and Right Politics
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
In this far-reaching work, Swen Hutter demonstrates the usefulness of studying both electoral politics and protest politics to better understand the impacts of globalization. Hutter integrates research on cleavage politics and populist parties in Western Europe with research on social movements. He...
Party Attitudes Towards the EU in the Member States
Parties for Europe, Parties against Europe
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
In a moment where the EU is facing an important number of challenges, there is growing interest in understanding how parties influence the way Europe evolves as a political issue, notably how parties structure domestic competition over European issues and they mobilise sentiments in referenda over...
Making social democrats
Citizens, mindsets, realities: Essays for David Marquand
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
This book, a collection of essays by some of Britain’s leading academics, public intellectuals and political practitioners, seeks to engage with the ‘big picture’ of British social democracy, both historical and contemporary, and point to grounds for greater optimism for its future prospects.
Remaking Global Order
The Evolution of Europe-China Relations and its Implications for East Asia and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2009
Relations between the European Union and China have grown at a sustained pace across the board in recent times, transforming the relationship from one of previous neglect into a matter of global strategic significance. This book offers an examination of the evolution of contemporary EU-China relations...
Failed States and Institutional Decay
Understanding Instability and Poverty in the Developing World
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
What do we mean by failed states and why is this concept important to study? The "failed states†? literature is important because it aims to understand how state institutions (or lack thereof) impact conflict, crime, coups, terrorism and economic performance. In spite of this objective, the...
by F.N. Forman, N.D.J. Baldwin
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2007
Containing all the information and analysis needed to understand the British system of Government and politics, Mastering British Politics is an essential text. This fifth edition has been fully revised and updated to reflect the results of and developments since the 2005 General Election.
The Many Hands of the State
Theorizing Political Authority and Social Control
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
The state is central to social scientific and historical inquiry today, reflecting its importance in domestic and international affairs. States kill, coerce, fight, torture, and incarcerate, yet they also nurture, protect, educate, redistribute, and invest. It is precisely because of the complexity...