Foreign Legal Systems category: 1801 books
by David M. Willumsen
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Despite the central role of policy preferences in the subsequent behaviour of legislators, preferences at the level of the individual legislator have been almost entirely neglected in the study of parliaments and legislative behaviour. The main reason for this is the difficulty of obtaining measures...
Constraining Elites in Russia and Indonesia
Political Participation and Regime Survival
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2016
This is a thought-provoking analysis on why democracy succeeds in some countries but not others, comparing the post-transition experiences of two cases of contemporary democratisation: Russia and Indonesia. Following authoritarian regimes, democracy eroded in Russia but flourished in Indonesia - so...
Constructing Policy Change
Early Childhood Education and Care in Liberal Welfare States
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
In Constructing Policy Change, Linda A. White examines the expansion of early childhood education and care (ECEC) policies and programs in liberal welfare states, including Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK, and the USA.
In the first part of the book, the author investigates the sources...
Myth and Reality of the Legitimacy Crisis
Explaining Trends and Cross-National Differences in Established Democracies
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
Theories about the decline of legitimacy or a legitimacy crisis are as old as democracy itself. Yet, representative democracy still exists, and the empirical evidence for a secular decline of political support in established democracies is limited, questionable, or absent. This lack of conclusive...
Measuring Intra-Party Democracy
A Guide for the Content Analysis of Party Statutes with Examples from Hungary, Slovakia and Romania
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
This book presents an integrated approach to measuring the level of intra-party democracy through deductive and standardized content analysis of party statutes. Following the two main criteria of intra-party democracy – inclusiveness and decentralization – three main categories of intra-party...
The Political Economy of European Social Democracy
A Critical Realist Approach
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2009
This book takes an in-depth look into recent developments in European social democracy. It begins by highlighting the somewhat paradoxical turn by a number of social democratic parties towards enhanced support for European integration, a move that has occurred despite the apparently ‘neoliberal’...
by Dinsha Mistree
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
What should states in the developing world do and how should they do it? How have states in the developing world addressed the challenges of promoting development, order, and inclusion? States in the developing world are supposed to build economies, control violence, and include the population. How...
by Jesse Driscoll
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2015
The break-up of the USSR was unexpected and unexpectedly peaceful. Though a third of the new states fell prey to violent civil conflict, anarchy on the post-Soviet periphery, when it occurred, was quickly cauterized. This book argues that this outcome had nothing to do with security guarantees by...
Memoria, Política y Cultura
Estudios sobre la transición democrática I
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 16, 2012
Los artículos que integran esta producción colectiva representan un esfuerzo por formar parte de un movimiento muchos más amplio que insiste en la relevancia del rol político-performativo de la "memoria". La diversidad y heterogeneidad de los objetos tratados en cada uno de los capítulos...
The Politics of Institutional Choice
The Formation of the Russian State Duma
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2000
Events in Russia since the late 1980s have created a rare opportunity to watch the birth of democratic institutions close at hand. Here Steven Smith and Thomas Remington provide the first intensive, theoretically grounded examination of the early development of the State Duma, the lower house of the...
Why Governments and Parties Manipulate Elections
Theory, Practice, and Implications
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2013
Why do parties and governments cheat in elections they cannot lose? This book documents the widespread use of blatant and excessive manipulation of elections and explains what drives this practice. Alberto Simpser shows that, in many instances, elections are about more than winning. Electoral manipulation...
Historic Firsts
How Symbolic Empowerment Changes U.S. Politics
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
The 2008 presidential election made American history. Yet before Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, there were other "historic firsts": Shirley Chisholm, who ran for president in 1972, and Jesse Jackson, who ran in 1984 and 1988. While unsuccessful, these campaigns were significant, as they rallied...
by Howard Handelman, Rex Brynen
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2019
The updated ninth edition of Challenges of the Developing World examines political, social, and economic development in the diverse countries of Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America. In doing so, it explores the political economy of policymaking, investigates the uncertain dynamics of...
by Professor Fotini Christia
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Some of the most brutal and long-lasting civil wars of our time involve the rapid formation and disintegration of alliances among warring groups, as well as fractionalization within them. It would be natural to suppose that warring groups form alliances based on shared identity considerations - such...