Foreign Legal Systems category: 1801 books
Why the left loses
The Decline of the Centre-Left in Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Social Democracy is on the back-foot, and increasingly centre-left political parties are struggling to win office. Bringing together a range of leading academics and experts on social democratic politics and policy, Why the left loses offers an international, comparative view of the changing political...
Germany Today (RLE: German Politics)
Introductory Studies
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
This book, originally published in 1971, provides clear analysis of German affairs at the end of the 1960s. Without neglecting the historical dimension of recent developments, it examines some of the problems the German people faced in the post-war years. Written by experts, but nonethless in an accessible...
The Politics of Scientific Advice
Institutional Design for Quality Assurance
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2011
Controversies over issues such as genetically engineered food, foot-and-mouth disease and the failure of risk models in the global financial crisis have raised concerns about the quality of expert scientific advice. The legitimacy of experts, and of the political decision-makers and policy-makers...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
What reforms must governments initiate in order to ensure the sustainability of their societies? What examples of success can we identify by systematically comparing countries around the world? And who will shape the political and economic future in the 21st century? This E-Book Reader is a supplement...
Escaping the Escape
Toward Solutions for the Humanitarian Migration Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
Conflict and war, but most of all overwhelming despair are driving massive numbers of mostly young people from the Middle East and North Africa, Central Africa, the Balkan, Ukraine and Central Asia to leave their homes for Europe in search of safety. What do they need most in order to lead their lives...
Comparative Politics
Interests, Identities, and Institutions in a Changing Global Order
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2014
Twelve in-depth case studies of the EU and countries across the globe, written by the leading country specialists and combining insights of cutting-edge institutional analysis and deep study of national histories, explore how the concepts of interests, identities and institutions shape the politics...
Comparative Politics
Interests, Identities, and Institutions in a Changing Global Order
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2008
Now in its third edition, this unique textbook remains a favourite for introductory undergraduate courses in comparative politics. It features twelve theoretically and historically grounded country studies that show how the three major concepts of comparative analysis - interests, identities, and...
by Deendayal Upadhyay
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
distinguished by originality, lucidity and analytical faculty, this book presents a critical study of the two (first & second five year) plans. its penetrating analysis and sound approach shed a great deal of light on conception, inception, execution, promises and performance of the plans. not only that,...
by M. Khajooria
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
“Good governance and Coalition Politics” is a tale of two coalition governments of Jammu and Kashmir -(PDP-Congress(2002-2008) and NC-Congress ( 2008-2014)- prefaced by concept and contours of Good Governance in historical and philosophical contexts. The focus was on dynamic changes in the philosophy,...
by Lal Krishna Advani
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
L.K. Advani’s blogs cut across generations: for his contemporaries, they have a recall value. For the young Indian, restless to do his bit in shaping the future of his country, Advani’s blogs provide a rare insight into history. They take him through the turmoil and toil of leaders like Sardar Patel...
Democracy in Iran
History and the Quest for Liberty
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2006
Today Iran is once again in the headlines. Reputed to be developing nuclear weapons, the future of Iraq's next-door neighbor is a matter of grave concern both for the stability of the region and for the safety of the global community. President George W. Bush labeled it part of the "Axis of Evil,"...
by Paul Fairclough, Philip Lynch, Toby Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
Exam Board: AQA, Edexcel, OCR & WJEC
Level: A-level
Subject: Politics
First Teaching: September 2017
First Exam: June 2018
Inspire political thinking with our bestselling politics textbook and help students get their best grade with political commentary and analysis; , fully updated the...
by Christopher Hood, Ruth Dixon
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2015
The UK is said to have been one of the most prolific reformers of its public administration. Successive reforms have been accompanied by claims that the changes would make the world a better place by transforming the way government worked. Despite much discussion and debate over government makeovers...
The Reason of States
A Study in International Political Theory
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
Originally published in 1978, this book examines how the states-system grew over generations, first within Europe, then world wide and how the idea of the state came to monopolise our vision of the world. It discusses the grounds for the division of humanity into separate states in reason and history...