Foreign Legal Systems category: 1801 books
Party Mandates and Democracy
Making, Breaking, and Keeping Election Pledges in Twelve Countries
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2019
When people discuss politics, they often mention the promises politicians make during election campaigns. Promises raise hopes that positive policy changes are possible, but people are generally skeptical of these promises. Party Mandates and Democracy reveals the extent to and conditions under which...
Between growth and security
Swedish social democracy from a strong society to a third way
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
The notion of social policy as a productive investment and a prerequisite for economic growth became a core feature in the ideology of Swedish social democracy, and a central component of the universalism of the Swedish welfare state. However as the Swedish Social Democratic Party (SAP) embarked on...
by Raúl L. Madrid
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2012
The Rise of Ethnic Politics in Latin America explores why indigenous movements have recently won elections for the first time in the history of the region. Raúl L. Madrid argues that some indigenous parties have won by using inclusive populist appeals to reach out to whites and mestizos. Indigenous...
Template for peace
Northern Ireland, 1972–75
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
At no time in Northern Ireland’s history did so many significant political initiatives occur as between 1972 and 1975, the most violent and polarised years of the region’s conflict. Using archival sources, this book analyses the political events and processes that informed the British government’s...
Policy change in the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice
How EU institutions matter
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
The EU plays an increasingly important role in issues such as the fight against organised crime and the management of migration flows, transforming the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice (AFSJ) into a priority of the EU’s political and legislative agenda.
This book investigates whether...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2013
How does religion affect the lives of professional soldiers? How does religion shape militaries, their organization, procedures, and performance? This volume is the first to address these questions by comparing religious symbols and practices in nine countries: Japan, Canada, the United Kingdom, Pakistan,...
A History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe
Volume II: Negotiating Modernity in the 'Short Twentieth Century' and Beyond, Part I: 1918-1968
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2018
A History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe is a synthetic work, authored by an international team of researchers, covering twenty national cultures and 250 years. It goes beyond the conventional nation-centered narratives and presents a novel vision especially sensitive to the cross-cultural...
Scots and Catalans
Union and Disunion
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2018
A landmark account that reveals the long history behind the current Catalan and Scottish independence movements
A distinguished historian of Spain and Europe provides an enlightening account of the development of nationalist and separatist movements in contemporary Catalonia and Scotland. This...
Digging into Chaos
Security Sector Reconstruction and State-Building in Afghanistan
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2018
With the terrorist attacks of 9/11, international attention has shifted to Afghanistan. This event also marked the beginning of a fundamental transformation in the country: It was and is target of an enormous military campaign that toppled the Taliban in a "War on Terror". With the previous...
by Rudrangshu Mukherjee
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2018
After more than seven decades of Independence, Jawaharlal Nehru (1889–1964) is still an overarching presence in India’s collective memory. One of the central figures in the country’s freedom struggle, he was also an eminent writer. This short introduction to Nehru traces his personal–political...
Proportionality Balancing and Constitutional Governance
A Comparative and Global Approach
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2019
In this book, Alec Stone Sweet and Jud Mathews focus on the law and politics of rights protection in democracies, and in human rights regimes in Europe, the Americas, and Africa. After introducing the basic features of modern constitutions, with their emphasis on rights and judicial review, the authors...
Growth without Development
Peru in Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2018
This book examines how some growing countries are experiencing economic development, while others are falling behind. It addresses the fundamental issues of development strategies by examining country-specific policies that have resulted in success or failure. The author focuses on Peru and makes...
The Middle East in the World
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
The Middle East in the World offers students a fresh, comprehensive, multidisciplinary entry point to the broader Middle East. After a brief introduction to the study of the region, the early chapters of the book survey the essentials of Middle Eastern history; important historical narratives; and...
Moscow Rules
What Drives Russia to Confront the West
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2019
From Moscow, the world looks different. It is through understanding how Russia sees the world-and its place in it-that the West can best meet the Russian challenge.
Russia and the West are like neighbors who never seem able to understand each other. A major reason, this book argues, is that...