Political structure and processes

This book examines the issues of urban governance and local democracy in South India.

This edited volume revolves around two sets of questions.

Von den Wirtschaftsnobelpreisträgern 2024Wie viel Staat muss sein?

This book explores the dynamics of party politics in Taiwan and cross-Strait relations over the past decade.

This book is the second in the series Sources for the Study of Irish Politics, which is produced by the Political Studies Association of Ireland (PSAI).

Why do some countries in the developing world achieve growth with equity, while others do not?

Britain Unwrapped provides a wide-ranging discussion of the contemporary system of government.

Katrin Jungnickel befasst sich aus kommunikationswissenschaftlicher Sicht mit Meinungsführern als Personen, die andere in besonderem Maße informieren und beeinflussen.

Never in the lifetime of most British adults has there been such uncertainty about the future of the political and governing institutions of the state.

Alexander Hamilton rose from his humble beginnings as an illegitimate West Indian orphan and emigrant to become the premier statebuilder and strategic thinker of the American Founding generation.

This book examines US foreign policy in the Eastern Mediterranean and the region's key role in the practice and evolution of American exceptionalism.

This book analyzes the impact of the U.

Considered the "e;gold standard"e; of political parties texts, this new, eighteenth edition of Party Politics in America moves its comprehensive and authoritative coverage into the age of deepened partisan conflict, expanded presidential power, and global health threats.

This book explains some of the ways in which deteriorated socioeconomic conditions (inequality in particular) and institutional limitations (corruption, electoral exclusion, and a weak rule of law, among others) affect political stability in extremely unequal developing countries, like Mexico, where democracy is not yet fully consolidated.

While legal scholars, psychologists, and political scientists commonly voice their skepticism over the influence oral arguments have on the Court's voting pattern, this book offers a contrarian position focused on close scrutiny of the justices' communication within oral arguments.

This book looks at texts produced before and after 9/11 by novelists with Muslim backgrounds in Britain.

En este libro se estudia en detalle el fallido experimento chileno de reemplazar la Constitución.

In this book Fred Dallmayr lays the groundwork for a new understanding of democracy.

In Unfulfilled Union Garth Stevenson examines such topics as the origins and objectives of Confederation and the BNA Act of 1867, the interpretation of Canada's federal constitution by the courts, the impact of economic regionalism and Quebec nationalism, financial relations between the federal and provincial levels of government, the consequences of federalism for economic policy, the sources of federal-provincial conflicts and the means to resolve them, and the lengthy but inconclusive efforts to reform the constitution through federal-provincial agreement, particularly since Quebec's Quiet Revolution in the 1960s.

Explains the adoption, diffusion of, and resistance to gender quotas in politics, corporate boards and public administration across Europe.

This book looks at contemporary political violence, in the form of jihadism, through the lens of a philosophical polemic between Hannah Arendt and Frantz Fanon: intellectual representatives of the global north and global south.

Offering a comprehensive introduction to the comparison of governments and political systems, this new edition helps students to understand not just the institutions and political cultures of their own countries but also those of a wide range of democracies and authoritarian regimes from around the world.

This book gives a historical and contemporary overview of the redistricting process, using North Carolina for the different political, electoral, and legal issues and debates over the practice of drawing legislative district boundaries.

From a young age Albie Sachs played a prominent part in the struggle for justice in South Africa.

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This book takes stock of political reform in Ethiopia and the transformation of Ethiopian society since the adoption of multi-party politics and ethnic federalism in 1991.

After more than seventy years of uninterrupted authoritarian government headed by the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI), Mexico formally began the transition to democracy in 2000.

Explores ''low policing'' of interpersonal disputes in Jordan to show the inconspicuous methods the state uses to maintain social order.

As almost all newspaper or magazine readers know, Canada figured prominently in the turbulent U.

Until President Jimmy Carter launched an effort to diversify the lower federal courts, the U.

This book examines why some rebel groups abuse civilians and factionalize, presenting an inside look at Liberia''s rebels and using innovative quantitative methods.

The "e;secret garden of politics"e;, where some win and others lose their candidate selection bids, and why some aspirant candidates are successful while others fail have been enduring puzzles within political science.

The report provides a description and an assessment of the recent actions carried out by the Mexican government to enhance the quality of regulation and regulatory governance in the rail sector in Mexico.

This 2004 book describes the transformation of politics from a territorial voting behavior to one of national homogeneity.

This comparative study examines what kinds of societal forces shape European relationships towards democratic political life in contemporary Europe.

This book explores the concept of advertising and the different ways advertising is understood and evaluated.

A definitive biography of the French aristocrat who became one of democracy's greatest championsIn 1831, at the age of twenty-five, Alexis de Tocqueville made his fateful journey to America, where he observed the thrilling reality of a functioning democracy.

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Popular struggles in the global south suggest the need for the development of new and politically enabling categories of analysis, and new ways of understanding contemporary social movements.

Presidential campaigns in recent years have shifted their strategy to focus increasingly on base partisans, a shift that has had significant consequences for democracy in America.

This volume provides a critical and in-depth investigation of the relationship between alter-globalist thinking and practices and their popular discourses.

Within the democratisation literature, opposition unity is widely seen as an important requisite to successfully pressure authoritarian rulers into liberalising reforms and in bringing about democratic change.

Tawfiq Zayyad (1929-94) was a renowned Palestinian poet and a committed communist activist.

Constitutional law provides the legal framework for the Australian political and legal systems, and thus touches almost every aspect of Australian life.

Vorwort Vorwort Diese Arbeit hat der Philosophischen Fakultät der Westfälischen Wilhelms- Universität Münster vorgelegen und wurde im Sommersemester 2008 als Diss- tation angenommen.