Foreign Legal Systems category: 1801 books
The Gender of Informal Politics
Russia, Iceland and Twenty-First Century Male Dominance
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
This book argues that the primary political obstacle holding women back in the twenty-first century is a bait and switch promising but simultaneously undercutting gender equality. Through a comparison of Russia and Iceland, the book shows how this revised form of male dominance came about, how it...
Manufacturing Political Trust
Targets and Performance Measurement in Public Policy
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Measurement and targets have been widely criticised as distorting policy and engendering gaming - yet they continue to be widely used in government. This book offers an original new account explaining the persistent appeal of performance measurement. It argues that targets have been adopted to address...
Lobbying
The dark side of politics
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Is lobbying, particularly by ‘lobbyists for hire’, resulting in a distortion of the democratic process? Does business, with its highly sophisticated and well-resourced lobbying operations, have an undue influence on decisions by politicians? The book assess the impact of lobbying on the UK political...
Hybrid Public Policy Innovations
Contemporary Policy Beyond Ideology
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
Political discourse in much of the world remains mired in simplistic ideological dichotomies of market fundamentalism for efficiency versus substantial socialism for equity. Contemporary public policy design is far more sophisticated. It blends market, government and community tools to simultaneously...
Uncertain Europe
Building a New European Security Order?
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2002
This timely book considers the topical issue of the enlargement processes of the European Union and NATO. The contributors examine issues including: the dual enlargement process and German and Russian relationships with it; NATO and the pan-European security agenda; East European reactions to enlargement;...
Europe's Contending Identities
Supranationalism, Ethnoregionalism, Religion, and New Nationalism
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2014
How 'European' are Europeans? Is it possible to balance national citizenship with belonging to the European Union overall? Do feelings of citizenship and belonging respond to affiliations to regions, religions or reactionary politics? Unlike previous volumes about identity in Europe, this book offers...
Abandoning historical conflict?
Former political prisoners and reconciliation in Northern Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Most accounts of the peace process are ‘top-down’, relying upon the views of political elites. This book is ‘bottom-up’, analysing the voices of those who actually ‘fought the war’. What made them fight, why did they stop and what are the lessons for other conflict zones?
Crisis and Class War in Egypt
Social Reproduction, Factional Realignments and the Global Political Economy
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2016
In 2011, capital’s crisis erupted in Egyptian society. This eruption, and subsequent politics, have been misrepresented as revolutionary, as the working class was – and is increasingly so – devalued and disempowered.
In Crisis and Class War in Egypt, Sean F. McMahon critically analyses...
Religion and Authoritarianism
Cooperation, Conflict, and the Consequences
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
This book provides a rare window into the micropolitics of contemporary authoritarian rule through a comparison of religious-state relations in Russia and China - two countries with long histories of religious repression, and even longer experiences with authoritarian politics. Drawing on extensive...
Media Bias, Perspective, and State Repression
The Black Panther Party
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2009
This book examines information reported within the media regarding the interaction between the Black Panther Party and government agents in the Bay Area of California (1967–1973). Christian Davenport argues that the geographic locale and political orientation of the newspaper influences how specific...
Toward Better Governance in China
An Unconventional Pathway of Political Reform
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2009
Toward Better Governance in China takes a fresh look at the latest efforts made by Chinese leaders to promote governance-based reform. It asserts that the improvement of governance has now become one of the breakthrough points of the much anticipated political reform. Although the Chinese government...
China's Political Development
Chinese and American Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2014
China's path to political reform over the last three decades has been slow, but discourse among Chinese political scientists continues to be vigorous and forward thinking. China's Political Development offers a unique look into the country's evolving political process by combining chapters authored...
Conceptualizing Cultural and Social Dialogue in the Euro-Mediterranean Area
A European Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2007
Previously published as a special issue of Mediterranean Politics, this collection critically analyzes the dynamics and complexities of the wider Euro-Mediterranean area on the basis of individual theory-informed designs and conceptual frameworks.Since the predominant focus has been on the first (political and security partnership) and the second b
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
This book seeks to understand the role of regions in the provision of security (and insecurity) practices across the globe. Specialists with expertise in the regions they examine present eight case studies and analyses of the Americas, Africa and the Middle East, South and East Asia, and Europe.
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