Foreign Legal Systems category: 1801 books
by B. K. Pandey
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Legislative power in India is exercised by the Parliament, a bicameral legislature consisting of the President of India, the Rajya Sabha, and the Lok Sabha. Of the two houses of Parliament, the former is considered to be the upper house and consists of members appointed by the president and elected...
by Kenneth Newton, Jan W. van Deth
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2009
This student-friendly introduction to the key theories and concepts of comparative politics now provides even broader coverage of the world's democracies, with examples drawn from across the globe. Foundations of Comparative Politics contains a wealth of information, clearly structured and easy to...
Democracy in Small States
Persisting Against All Odds
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2018
Populism and the personalization of politics appears to be threatening the existence of democracy as we know it all over the world. It is now more important than ever to understand the history of this form of regime: why it has thrives and fails. But, existing studies are limited by their focus on...
Clients and Constituents
Political Responsiveness in Patronage Democracies
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2019
Scholars of distributive politics often emphasize partisanship and clientelism. However, as Jennifer Bussell demonstrates in Clients and Constituents, legislators in "patronage democracies" also provide substantial constituency service: non-contingent, direct assistance to individual citizens. Bussell...
by Gary Bonham
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
This book addresses major theoretical issues in the fields of public administration and comparative politics. It discusses the role which ideology played as a unifying force for at least parts of the German state bureaucracy in Wilhelmine Germany . The examination of a modernizing ideology in the...
Non-Policy Politics
Richer Voters, Poorer Voters, and the Diversification of Electoral Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2019
Calvo and Murillo consider the non-policy benefits that voters consider when deciding their vote. While parties advertise policies, they also deliver non-policy benefits in the form of competent economic management, constituency service, and patronage jobs. Different from much of the existing research,...
Extralegal Groups in Post-Conflict Liberia
How Trade Makes the State
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
In the aftermath of the Liberian civil war, groups of ex-combatants seized control of natural resource enclaves in the rubber, diamond, and timber sectors. With some of them threatening a return to war, these groups were widely viewed as the most significant threats to Liberia's hard-won peace. Building...
Co-Managing International Crises
Judgments and Justifications
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
Markus Kornprobst examines the common assumption that states usually respond to crises individually, rather than together. He develops an innovative approach to analyse how crisis co-management comes to succeed or fail. He argues that actors draw from repertoires of taken-for-granted ideas, forming...
A Converging Post-War European Discourse
War Experience, Changing Security Concepts, and Research and Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2014
This book explores the most important components and contributing factors to the European integration process during the 1950s. It seeks to combine comparative politics and political history to examine core themes such as war experience, national security, military security, economic security, societal...
Fuels Paradise
Seeking Energy Security in Europe, Japan, and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
In recent years, the efforts of nations to promote energy security have been hotly debated. Fuels Paradise examines how five major developed democracies—Britain, France, Germany, Japan, and the United States—have sought to enhance their energy security since the oil shocks of the 1970s and in...
by Daya Sagar
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
After 1945, the face of Indian State of J&K was allowed to be painted by some to the benefit of external and internal disruptive elements. Not only this, questions like delayed accession of Indian State of Jammu and Kashmir, ‘conditional’ accession, Article 370 of Constitution of India, dual ‘citizenship’...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
This book provides a concise set of thirteen essays looking at various aspects of the British left, movements of protest and the cumulative impact of the First World War. There are three broad areas this work intends to make a contribution to; the first is to help us further understand the role the...
Das Rentenproblem - Ist die Rente in Zukunft noch sicher?
Ist die Rente in Zukunft noch sicher?
Language: German
Release Date: July 18, 2003
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2003 im Fachbereich Politik - Politische Systeme - Politisches System Deutschlands, Note: 2,3, Freie Universität Berlin (Otto Suhr Institut), Veranstaltung: Proseminar Sozialstaat, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Meine Hausarbeit bezieht sich im Kern auf die Rentenproblematik...
by M. Donald Hancock, Henry Krisch
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2008
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Introduction
Chapter 1
Germans born in the second decade of the last century will have been a subject of...