Foreign Legal Systems category: 1801 books
Democratic Dynasties
State, Party, and Family in Contemporary Indian Politics
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
Dynastic politics, usually presumed to be the antithesis of democracy, is a routine aspect of politics in many modern democracies. This book introduces a new theoretical perspective on dynasticism in democracies, using original data on twenty-first-century Indian parliaments. It argues that the roots...
African Realism?
International Relations Theory and Africa's Wars in the Postcolonial Era
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
African Realism explains Africa’s international conflicts of the post-colonial era through international relations theory. It looks at the relationship between Africa’s domestic and international conflicts, as well as the impact of factors such as domestic legitimacy, trade, and regional economic...
Quotas for Women in Politics
Gender and Candidate Selection Reform Worldwide
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2010
In recent years, political parties and national legislatures in more than one hundred countries have adopted quotas for the selection of female candidates to political office. Despite the rapid international diffusion of these measures, most research has focused on single countries - or, at most,...
Ethnic Minority Migrants in Britain and France
Integration Trade-Offs
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2012
This book addresses why some ethnic minority migrant groups have better economic and political integration outcomes than others. The central claim is that social integration leads to trade-offs with economic and political integration. The logic behind this claim is that socially segregated groups...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2015
Against the backdrop of an explosion of interest in new techniques for data collection and theory testing, this volume provides a fresh programmatic statement about comparative-historical analysis. It examines the advances and distinctive contributions that CHA has made to theory generation and the...
Bringing Down the Educational Wall
Political Regimes, Ideology, and the Expansion of Education
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017
Bringing Down the Educational Wall studies the causes of educational expansion in a global sample of developing and developed countries from 1960 to 2005. The book explores how the interaction between the economic context of nations (economic development and inequality) and political factors (the...
Authoritarianism
What Everyone Needs to Know®
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
Despite the spread of democratization following the Cold War's end, all signs indicate that we are living through an era of resurgent authoritarianism. Around 40 percent of the world's people live under some form of authoritarian rule, and authoritarian regimes govern about a third of the world's...
Dictators and Dictatorships
Understanding Authoritarian Regimes and Their Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2011
Dictators and Dictatorships is a qualitative enquiry into the politics of authoritarian regimes. It argues that political outcomes in dictatorships are largely a product of leader-elite relations. Differences in the internal structure of dictatorships affect the dynamics of this relationship. This...
by M. Cherif Bassiouni
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
This book is about the Egyptian people's 2011 Revolution for freedom, justice, and human dignity, and its aftermath. The Revolution succeeded in toppling the authoritarian Mubarak regime in less than three weeks. It was then co-opted by the Muslim Brotherhood through Egypt's first free and fair elections...
Taking Aim at Attack Advertising
Understanding the Impact of Negative Campaigning in U.S. Senate Races
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2019
Negative campaigning is a central component of politics in the United States. Yet, until now, demonstrating the impact of combative advertising on voters has been elusive. How can we reconcile the findings of a plethora of studies with the methods of politicians? This book cuts through to the central...
Telling Our Stories
The Lives of Latina Women
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Stereotypes of Mexican American women and the lack of their representation in research literature contribute to misrepresentations of Mexican American culture and their invisibility. In this qualitative study, Mexican American women were interviewed and their life histories were examined using an ethnographic and hermeneutical phenomenological approach.
The Foundations of the British Conservative Party
Essays on Conservatism from Lord Salisbury to David Cameron
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
This book provides a range of essays on aspects of the British Conservative Party from the late 19th century to the present day. It offers fresh perspectives on Margaret Thatcher and Thatcherism; Britain and Europe; UK policy towards Ireland; Conservatism and reform, and the conservative ideology,...
Why Bother?
Rethinking Participation in Elections and Protests
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2019
Why do vote-suppression efforts sometimes fail? Why does police repression of demonstrators sometimes turn localized protests into massive, national movements? How do politicians and activists manipulate people's emotions to get them involved? The authors of Why Bother? offer a new theory of why people...
Polemical Austria
The Rhetorics of National Identity from Empire to the Second Republic
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2013
Austria today offers the picture of a small, neutral, and economically successful country in the heart of Europe. Yet modern Austria is the product of a complex and violent history. After the First World War, Vienna changed overnight from being the capital of a large continental and multi-ethnic Empire...