Fully revised and updated from the successful first edition, this title analyses the practice of international courts and tribunals with regard to the valuation of investment claims against states, paying specific attention to the question of interest.
Much of the voting equipment acquired with federal funds after the enactment of the Help America Vote Act in 2002 may now be reaching the end of its life span, and some states and local election jurisdictions-which number about 10,300 and generally have responsibility for conducting federal elections-have or are considering whether to replace their equipment.
State Voting Laws in America documents changing views on voting rights, emphasizing court rulings which shaped our understanding of what constitutes a legitimate right to vote.
Die von den Besatzungsmächten angeordneten Kommunal- und Landtagswahlen der Jahre 1946/47 waren ein bedeutender Schritt auf dem Weg zum demokratischen Wiederaufbau Deutschlands nach dem Ende des NS-Regimes.
Southern Europe has been at the heart of the European sovereign debt crisis and in the vanguard of the programmes of radical economic austerity implemented to confront it.
Based on research fieldwork conducted in France and Germany, this study seeks to explain how public actors have taken part in the regulation of the expression of right-wing radicalism.
This study of the 1995 French presidential election explains why Jacques Chirac was elected the fifth President of the Fifth French Republic; it also places Chirac's election in the context of some of the more longstanding issues and debates in contemporary French politics, examining the Fifth Republic's institutional structures, the behaviour of its political parties, the attitudes of its citizens and the nature of its governance.
American politics is most notably characterized by the heated debates on constitutional interpretation at the core of its ever-raging culture wars, and the coverage of these lingering disputes are often inundated with public-opinion polls.
Während die bisherige Forschung zu Wahlprogrammen den Fokus sehr stark auf deren Inhalt legt, richtet dieses Buch den Blick auf die innerparteiliche Dimension von Wahlprogrammen.
Class arbitration first developed in the United States in the 1980s as a means of providing large numbers of individuals with the opportunity to assert their claims at the same time and in the same proceeding.
This special issue of the German Political Science Quarterly addresses the transformation and the sustainability of European party democracies, both at the level of party organization as well as party systems and competition.
In this book, a distinguished group of presidential campaign staff, journalists, and political observers take us inside the 2012 race for the Republican nomination and general election, guiding us through each candidate's campaign from the time each candidate announced his or her intention to seek the presidency through the primaries, conventions, and up to election day.
This book places the 2014 elections in Florida in historical perspective and provides an analysis of the outcomes of each of the state and federal races held in that year: Governor, State Constitutional Offices, the US Congress and the Florida State House of Representatives and the State Senate.
Dieses Lehrbuch bietet eine umfassende Einführung in das deutsche und internationale Schiedsverfahrensrecht - ein Gebiet, welches nicht nur im internationalen Geschäftsverkehr, sondern auch in der juristischen Ausbildung zunehmend an Bedeutung gewinnt.
In recent decades, governments and NGOs--in an effort to promote democracy, freedom, fairness, and stability throughout the world--have organized teams of observers to monitor elections in a variety of countries.
The purpose of the book is to ascertain whether there is a generic impact that 'religion' brings to bear on recent political changes in the modern world.
Nach der ersten grün-roten Landesregierung in einem deutschen Bundesland von 2011 bis 2016 in Baden-Württemberg führte Winfried Kretschmann von 2016 bis 2021 zum zweiten Mal eine grün-geführte Landesregierung an – eine lagerübergreifend grün-schwarze Kiwi-Koalition.
