Foreign Legal Systems category: 1801 books
World Report 2008
Events of 2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Human Rights Watch is increasingly recognized as the world’s leader in building a stronger awareness for human rights. Their annual World Report is the most probing review of human rights developments available anywhere.
Written in straightforward, non-technical language, Human Rights Watch World...
World Report 2007
Events of 2006
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Human Rights Watch is increasingly recognized as the world’s leader in building a stronger awareness for human rights. Their annual World Report is the most probing review of human rights developments available anywhere.
Written in straightforward, non-technical language, Human Rights Watch World...
Development in Multiple Dimensions
Social Power and Regional Policy in India
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
Why do some states provide infrastructure and social services to their citizens, and others do not? In Development in Multiple Dimensions, Alexander Lee examines the origins of success and failure in the public services of developing countries. Comparing states within India, this study examines how...
Democratic Decline and Democratic Renewal
Political Change in Britain, Australia and New Zealand
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
The story of liberal democracy over the last half century has been a triumphant one in many ways, with the number of democracies increasing from a minority of states to a significant majority. Yet substantial problems afflict democratic states, and while the number of democratic countries has expanded,...
The Internet and European Parliamentary Democracy
A Comparative Study of the Ethics of Political Communication in the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
This book investigates the ethical challenges the internet presents to contemporary parliamentary democracy in Europe and how these challenges are being addressed. It fills an important gap: current literature until now has largely focused on the study of internet usage by politicians and institutions.
With...
Modern Greece
What Everyone Needs to Know®
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2015
When Greece's economic troubles began to threaten the stability of the European Union in 2010, the nation found itself in the center of a whirlwind of international finger-pointing. In the years prior, Greece appeared to be politically secure and economically healthy. Upon its emergence in the center...
by Israel Rajan
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2017
The book provides a glimpse of construction of non corrupted government
Presidents, Parties, and Prime Ministers
How the Separation of Powers Affects Party Organization and Behavior
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2010
This book provides a framework for analyzing the impact of the separation of powers on party politics. Conventional political science wisdom assumes that democracy is impossible without political parties, because parties fulfil all the key functions of democratic governance. They nominate candidates,...
Making Constitutions
Presidents, Parties, and Institutional Choice in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Negretto provides the first systematic explanation of the origins of constitutional designs from an analytical, historical and comparative perspective. Based on analysis of constitutional change in Latin America from 1900 to 2008 and four detailed case studies, Negretto shows the main determinants...
The Madisonian Turn
Political Parties and Parliamentary Democracy in Nordic Europe
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2011
Parliamentary democracy is the most common regime type in the contemporary political world, but the quality of governance depends on effective parliamentary oversight and strong political parties. Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden have traditionally been strongholds of parliamentary democracy....
Afghanistan
The Mirage of Peace
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Widely portrayed as the 'success of the war on terror', Afghanistan is now in crisis. Increasingly detached from the people it is meant to serve, and unable to manage the massive amounts of aid that it has sought, the administration in Kabul struggles to govern even the diminishing areas of the country...
Competitive Authoritarianism
Hybrid Regimes after the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2010
Based on a detailed study of 35 cases in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and post-communist Eurasia, this book explores the fate of competitive authoritarian regimes between 1990 and 2008. It finds that where social, economic, and technocratic ties to the West were extensive, as in Eastern Europe and...
by Daniel Ziblatt
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2017
How do democracies form and what makes them die? Daniel Ziblatt revisits this timely and classic question in a wide-ranging historical narrative that traces the evolution of modern political democracy in Europe from its modest beginnings in 1830s Britain to Adolf Hitler's 1933 seizure of power in...
Structuring the State
The Formation of Italy and Germany and the Puzzle of Federalism
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2008
Germany's and Italy's belated national unifications continue to loom large in contemporary debates. Often regarded as Europe's paradigmatic instances of failed modernization, the two countries form the basis of many of our most prized theories of social science. Structuring the State undertakes one...