Foreign Legal Systems category: 1801 books
Provinces
Canadian Provincial Politics, Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Provinces is now established as the most comprehensive yet accessible exploration of Canadian provincial politics and government. The authors of each chapter draw on their particular expertise to examine themes and issues pertaining to all the provinces from a comparative perspective.
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Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
How can we conceptualize identity and legitimacy in the context of the European union? What is the role of narratives, political symbols, public debate and institutional practices in the process of identity formation and legitimacy consolidation?
Debating Political Identity and Legitimacy in...
by Melissa Ziegler Rogers
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
Numerous scholars have noticed that certain political institutions, including federalism, majoritarian electoral systems, and presidentialism, are linked to lower levels of income redistribution. This book offers a political geography explanation for those observed patterns. Each of these institutions...
by Jane Vetter
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2008
Essay from the year 2007 in the subject Politics - Political Systems - General and Comparisons, University of North Florida, 4 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The contemporary information revolution is due to technological progress in the computing and communication sector...
A Comparative Introduction to Political Science
Contention and Cooperation
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
When are legislators inclined to cast votes in cooperation with their parties, and when do they go their own way? When and why do nations contend with each other, and when are they more likely to cooperate? Thematically arranged around the interplay of contention and cooperation, A Comparative Introduction...
Coalitional Presidentialism in Comparative Perspective
Minority Presidents in Multiparty Systems
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2018
This book provides the first cross-regional study of an increasingly important form of politics: coalitional presidentialism. Drawing on original research of minority presidents in the democratising and hybrid regimes of Armenia, Benin, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Kenya, Malawi, Russia, and Ukraine, it...
Democracy (Made in Taiwan)
The 'Success' State as a Political Theory
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2008
Democracy (Made in Taiwan) argues that post-colonialism and Confucianism met at the historical moment when democratization and liberalization occurred in Taiwan. The familiar political science standards take little note of either Confucianism or postcolonialism. In fact, these standards are unbalanced,...
UNPROFOR AND UNTAC - A Comparative Analysis
A Comparative Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2006
Essay from the year 2005 in the subject Politics - Political Systems - General and Comparisons, grade: 2,0, Bilkent University , course: Peacekeeping Operations, 20 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The war in Bosnia, and in particular the failure of the international community...
Democracy in East Asia
A New Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
In their introduction to the 1998 edition of Democracy in East Asia, Larry Diamond and Marc F. Plattner predicted that East Asia, with its remarkable diversity of political regimes, economies, and religions, would likely be the most critical arena in the global struggle for democracy, a prediction...
by Professor Erik Albæk, Professor Arjen van Dalen, Dr Nael Jebril
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
Political journalism is often under fire. Conventional wisdom and much scholarly research suggest that journalists are cynics and political pundits. Political news is void of substance and overly focused on strategy and persons. Citizens do not learn from the news, are politically cynical, and are...
Comparing Political Regimes
A Thematic Introduction to Comparative Politics, Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Comparing Political Regimes provides a comprehensive assessment of the world's political systems by outlining and contrasting the aspects of four different regime types: liberal democracies, electoral democracies, semi-liberal autocracies, and closed autocracies.
The third edition is thoroughly...
The Politics of Modern Central America
Civil War, Democratization, and Underdevelopment
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2012
This book analyzes the origins and consequences of civil war in Central America. Fabrice Lehoucq argues that the inability of autocracies to reform themselves led to protest and rebellion throughout the twentieth century and that civil war triggered unexpected transitions to non-military rule by the...
Essay Collections in International Relations
A Classified Bibliography
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
This bibliography, originally published in 1977, details original material on international relations since 1870 written in English and appearing in non-recurrent multi-author works published between 1945 and 1975. The authors have distinguished between core topics such as foreign policy, defence,...
Scaling Identities
Nationalism and Territoriality
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2017
This comprehensive book examines the crucial connections between national identity, territory, and scale. Providing a powerful theoretical and organizational framework, the volume identifies four ways in which scale operates dynamically in the formation and maintenance of national identity. Consolidating...