Foreign Legal Systems category: 1801 books
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Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2010
The only textbook to provide a complete introduction to post-1989 Central and Southeast European politics, this dynamic volume provides a comprehensive account of the collapse of communism and the massive transformation that the region has witnessed. It brings together 23 leading specialists to trace...
Bridging the Information Gap
Legislative Member Organizations as Social Networks in the United States and the European Union
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Legislative member organizations (LMOs)—such as caucuses in the U.S. Congress and intergroups in the European Parliament—exist in lawmaking bodies around the world. Unlike parties and committees, LMOs play no obvious, predefined role in the legislative process. They provide legislators with opportunities...
by P. J. McLoughlin
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
The book, available at last in paperback, explores the politics of the most important Irish nationalist leader of his generation, and one of the most influential figures of twentieth-century Ireland: the Nobel Peace Prize winner, John Hume. Given his central role in the reformulation of Irish nationalist...
Rethinking right-wing women
Gender and the Conservative Party, 1880s to the present
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Rethinking Right-Wing Women explores the institutional structures for and the representations, mobilisation, and the political careers of women in the British Conservative Party since the late 19th century. From the Primrose League (est.1883) to Women2Win (est.2005), the party has exploited women’s...
Waiting for the revolution
The British far left from 1956
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
A companion piece to 2014's Against the grain, this collection of essays explores trajectories in the British far left from 1956 to the present day.
Nostalgia and the post-war Labour Party
Prisoners of the past
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2018
Through a detailed examination of the party’s post-war development, this book outlines how nostalgia has shaped the party’s trajectory. It argues that Labour’s nostalgically-informed identity has determined the extent to which the party has been able to respond effectively to the changing nature of Britain.
The Politics of Good Intentions
History, Fear and Hypocrisy in the New World Order
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2009
Tony Blair has often said that he wishes history to judge the great political controversies of the early twenty-first century--above all, the actions he has undertaken in alliance with George W. Bush. This book is the first attempt to fulfill that wish, using the long history of the modern state to...
by Eliza Manningham-Buller
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
How do we balance our belief in human freedom with the need to defend ourselves against those who believe the use of terror can be justified? Can our handling of security risk and the laws we pass to deal with them distort our response to the threat of terrorism?
In this sobering and remarkably...
Unfinished Revolutions
Yemen, Libya, and Tunisia after the Arab Spring
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
Post-revolution states often find that once dictators have been deposed, other problems arise, such as political polarization and the threat of civil war. A respected commentator on Middle Eastern politics, Ibrahim Fraihat examines three countries grappling with political transitions in the wake of the...
by J.A. Cook
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
For all the bombast and rhetoric demonizing one side by the other, here is a little book of humor which explores the actual differences between so called conservatives and liberals. It is an apolitical jaunt through the characteristics that supposedly divide our citizenry. Composed of simple two line...
Local Governance Innovation in China
Experimentation, Diffusion, and Defiance
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Despite a centralized formal structure, Chinese politics and policy-making have long been marked by substantial degrees of regional and local variation and experimentation. These trends have, if anything, intensified as China’s reform matures. Though often remarked upon, the politicsof policy formation,...
Quiet Politics and Business Power
Corporate Control in Europe and Japan
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2010
Does democracy control business, or does business control democracy? This study of how companies are bought and sold in four countries - France, Germany, Japan and the Netherlands - explores this fundamental question. It does so by examining variation in the rules of corporate control - specifically,...
by Vineeta Yadav, Bumba Mukherjee
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2015
The Politics of Corruption in Dictatorships studies how institutional and social factors influence corruption in dictatorships. Dictatorships are often synonymous with high levels of corruption, yet Vineeta Yadav and Bumba Mukherjee argue otherwise. The authors ask why corruption has declined in some...
The Institutional Imperative
The Politics of Equitable Development in Southeast Asia
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2011
Why do some countries in the developing world achieve growth with equity, while others do not? If democracy is the supposed panacea for the developing world, why have Southeast Asian democracies had such uneven results? In exploring these questions, political scientist Erik Martinez Kuhonta argues...