Legal History category: 1513 books
God in the Tumult of the Global Square
Religion in Global Civil Society
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2015
How is religion changing in the twenty-first century? In the global era, religion has leapt onto the world stage, often in contradictory ways. Some religious activists are antagonistic and engage in protests, violent acts, and political challenges. Others are positive and help to shape an emerging...
by Edward E. Telles, Howard Winant, Michael Mitchell
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 1999
Bringing together U.S. and Brazilian scholars, as well as Afro-Brazilian political activists, Racial Politics in Contemporary Brazil represents a significant advance in understanding the complexities of racial difference in contemporary Brazilian society. While previous scholarship on this subject...
Nightwatch
The Politics of Protest in the Andes
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 1999
Organized in the mid-1970s as a means of communal protection against livestock rustling and general thievery in Peru’s rugged northern mountains, the rondas campesinas (peasants who make the rounds) grew into an entire system of peasant justice and one of the most significant Andean social movements...
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...
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...
Chinese Models of Development
Global, Local, and Comparative Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
This book approaches Chinese development from theoretical, historical, and comparative perspectives. Scholars in political science, sociology, economics, and history will find it useful for teaching and research purposes, and it is appropriate for courses in Chinese politics, comparative politics, foreign policy analysis, and political economy of East Asia.
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...
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...
The Militant Song Movement in Latin America
Chile, Uruguay, and Argentina
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
The Militant Song Movement in Latin America examines the history of the militant song movement in Chile, Uruguay, and Argentina, considering their different political stances and musical deportments. The book analyzes the complex relationship that the aesthetic of the movement established between...
by Mary Alice Haddad
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
How is democracy made real? How does an undemocratic country create new institutions and transform its polity such that democratic values and practices become integral parts of its political culture? These are some of the most pressing questions of our times, and they are the central inquiry of Building...
An Uncanny Era
Conversations between Václav Havel and Adam Michnik
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
Czech playwright and dissident Vaclav Havel first encountered Polish historian and dissident Adam Michnik in 1978 at a clandestine meeting on a mountaintop along the Polish-Czechoslovak border. This initial meeting of two extraordinary thinkers who “plotted” democracy, and designed an effective peaceful...
Conceptions of Chinese Democracy
Reading Sun Yat-sen, Chiang Kai-shek, and Chiang Ching-kuo
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
Conceptions of Chinese Democracy provides a coherent and critical introduction to the democratic thought of three fathers of modern Taiwan—Sun Yat-sen, Chiang Kai-shek, and Chiang Ching-kuo—in a way that is accessible and grounded in broader traditions of political theory.
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by Merilee S. Grindle
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2012
Patronage systems in public service are reviled as undemocratic and corrupt. Yet patronage was the prevailing method of staffing government for centuries, and in some countries it still is. Grindle considers why patronage has been ubiquitous in history and explores the processes through which it is replaced by merit-based civil service systems.
by Michael Arnheim
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2019
This book offers a fresh and original analysis of the power structure of a number of societies, past and present. There are and ever have been only two essential models of government: minority rule of all types (labelled "oligocracy") and regimes in which power is concentrated in the hands...