Foreign Legal Systems category: 1801 books
Local Politics in Jordan and Morocco
Strategies of Centralization and Decentralization
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
In recent years, authoritarian states in the Middle East and North Africa have faced increasing international pressure to decentralize political power. Decentralization is presented as a panacea that will foster good governance and civil society, helping citizens procure basic services and fight corruption....
by DENNIS DEWOLF
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
THE PHILOSOPHY OF SELF DESTRUCTION is the second of two books exploring war in all its complexity. In the first book, THE BOOK TO END ALL WARS, it was posited that war acts upon the human psyche like a destructive mental virus. The first book looked into the history of that deadly virus. The current...
Social Capital and Its Institutional Contingency
A Study of the United States, China and Taiwan
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
This volume is a collection of original studies based on one of the first research programs on comparative analysis of social capital. Data are drawn from national representative samples of the United States, China and Taiwan. The three societies selected for study allow the examination of how political-economic...
The Poor's Struggle for Political Incorporation
The Piquetero Movement in Argentina
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
This book offers an innovative perspective on the ever-widening gap between the poor and the state in Latin American politics. It presents a comprehensive analysis of the main social movement that mobilized the poor and unemployed people of Argentina to end neoliberalism and to attain incorporation...
Reflections on Uneven Democracies
The Legacy of Guillermo O'Donnell
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2014
The third wave of democratization produced a wealth of enduring social science. Beginning in the 1970s, it prompted scholars to develop important theories on authoritarian breakdowns and transitions to democracy. No one in the field was more influential than Guillermo O’Donnell (1936–2011), whose...
Life after Dictatorship
Authoritarian Successor Parties Worldwide
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2018
Life after Dictatorship launches a new research agenda on authoritarian successor parties worldwide. Authoritarian successor parties are parties that emerge from authoritarian regimes, but that operate after a transition to democracy. They are one of the most common but overlooked features of the...
Democracy's Double-Edged Sword
How Internet Use Changes Citizens' Views of Their Government
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2014
The beauty of democracy is not only that citizens can vote a candidate into office but that they can also vote one out. As digital media grows omnipresent, it becomes more important for political scientists and communication scholars to understand its influence on all aspects of the political process,...
Democratic Transitions
Conversations with World Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
National leaders who played key roles in transitions to democratic governance reveal how these were accomplished in Brazil, Chile, Ghana, Indonesia, Mexico, the Philippines, Poland, South Africa, and Spain. Commissioned by the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International...
by James Hosek,Paco Martorell
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
This research sought to understand how recent deployments have affected reenlistment by examining trends in deployments and reenlistments, developing a theoretical model, and conducting an econometric analysis of survey and administrative data to identify the effect of deployment, by service, on reenlistment....
Civic Engagement in Postwar Japan
The Revival of a Defeated Society
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010
Despite reduced incomes, diminished opportunities for education, and the psychological trauma of defeat, Japan experienced a rapid rise in civic engagement in the immediate aftermath of World War II. Why? Civic Engagement in Postwar Japan answers this question with a new general theory of the growth...
Social Democracy and European Integration
The politics of preference formation
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
What kind of Europe do social democratic parties prefer? What is the origin of their preferences? Are they shaped by interests, institutions or ideas? If so, how? Why do social democratic political parties respond differently to the crucial question of the future of the European Union? While many...
Ethnic Conflict
A Systematic Approach to Cases of Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2010
As ethnic groups clash, the international community faces the challenge of understanding the multiple causes of violence and formulating solutions that will bring about peace. Allowing for greater insight, Jesse and Williams bridge two sub-fields of political science in Ethnic Conflict—international...
Presidential Decrees in Russia
A Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
The book examines the way Russian presidents Yeltsin, Medvedev, and Putin have used their constitutional decree powers since the end of the Soviet regime. The Russian constitution gives the Russian president extremely broad decree-making power, but its exercise is constrained by both formal and informal...
by Margit Tavits
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2013
Scholars of post-communist politics often argue that parties in new democracies lack strong organizations - sizable membership, local presence, and professional management - because they do not need them to win elections and they may hinder a party's flexibility and efficiency in office. Post-Communist...