Foreign Legal Systems category: 1801 books
Constructing National Security
U.S. Relations with India and China
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2013
Jarrod Hayes explores why democracies tend not to use military force against each other. He argues that democratic identity - the shared understanding within democracies of who 'we' are and what 'we' expect from each other - makes it difficult for political leaders to construct external democracies...
Recasting Welfare Capitalism
Economic Adjustment in Contemporary France and Germany
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2009
In Recasting Welfare Capitalism, Mark Vail employs a sophisticated and original theoretical approach to compare welfare states and political-economic adjustment in Germany and France. He examines how and why institutional change takes place and what factors characterize economic evolution when moving...
Reinventing the Left in the Global South
The Politics of the Possible
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
This book offers a fresh appraisal of the nature and significance of the democratic Left in the Global South. The moral and intellectual leadership of the Left is shifting south from its European birthplace. It is in the Global South, most notably in Latin America, that one finds newly self-confident...
by Michael Coppedge
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
Democratization and Research Methods is a coherent survey and critique of both democratization research and the methodology of comparative politics. The two themes enhance each other: the democratization literature illustrates the advantages and disadvantages of various methodological approaches,...
Income Inequality in Capitalist Democracies
The Interplay of Values and Institutions
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2009
There has been much concern about rising levels of income inequality in the societies of advanced industrial democracies. Commentators have attributed this increase to the impact of globalization, the decline of the welfare state, or the erosion of the power of labor unions and their allies among...
Determinants of Democratization
Explaining Regime Change in the World, 1972–2006
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2010
What are the determinants of democratization? Do the factors that move countries toward democracy also help them refrain from backsliding toward autocracy? This book attempts to answer these questions through a combination of a statistical analysis of social, economic, and international determinants...
by José María Maravall
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
Why are representative democracies extensively criticised, yet remain widely aspired to throughout the world? Many citizens believe that democratic politicians operate with privileged information that allows them autonomy from genuine democratic controls, a phenomenon reinforced by the opacity of...
The White Working Class
What Everyone Needs to Know®
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
Powered by original field research and survey analysis in the United States and United Kingdom, The White Working Class: What Everyone Needs to Know® provides a comprehensive and accessible exploration of white working-class politics and the populism that is transforming the transatlantic social...
New Directions for International Relations
Confronting the Method-of-Analysis Problem
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2005
Why does the academic study of international relations have limited impact on the policy community? When research results are inconsistent, inconclusive, and contradictory, a lack of scholarly consensus discourages policy makers, the business community, and other citizens from trusting findings and...
by David Warfield Brown
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2012
The Real Change-Makers: Why Government Is Not the Problem or the Solution is based on a straightforward premise: it is everyday Americans who have always been the real change-makers and whose efforts are now more necessary than ever given the financial squeeze that local, state, and federal governments...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2014
New Challenges for Maturing Democracies in Korea and Taiwan takes a creative and comparative view of the new challenges and dynamics confronting these maturing democracies. Numerous works deal with political change in the two societies individually, but few adopt a comparative approach—and most...
From East Germans to Germans?
The New Postcommunist Elites
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
In 1990 Germany launched an experiment to transplant democracy into a formerly communist country, effectively dismantling the system of the German Democratic Republic and rebuilding it in the likeness of the democratic Federal Republic of Germany. From East Germans to Germans? examines the role of...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
The term ‘social dumping’ regularly appears in public debates and in policymaking circles. However, due to its ambiguity it is used in a manner that is convenient for individual discourse participants, thus opening the door for misconceptions and ill-grounded accusations.
This book systematically...
Steering from the Centre
Strengthening Political Control in Western Democracies
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2011
Governments face new challenges in an era marked by globalization, shifting economic and national security policies, pervasive electronic media, and policy reform. Steering from the Centre details how chief executives in ten Western democracies have responded to governance challenges in the wake of...