Political Science : Government - Comparative

Greeks wrote mostly on papyrus, but the Romans wrote solemn religious, public, and legal documents on wooden tablets often coated with wax. This book investi......

Policy-Making and Diversity in Europe examines the European polity and its policy-making processes. In particular, it asks how an institution which is so rid......

The book examines the reform of the communication sector in South Africa as a detailed and extended case study in political transformation - the transition f......

Analysing the law of the talion - an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth - William Ian Miller presents an original meditation on the concept of 'pay...

Some legal rules are not laid down by a legislator but grow instead from informal social practices. In contract law, for example, the customs of merchants ar......

Over the last two decades, and in the wake of increases in recorded crime and other social changes, British criminal justice policy has become increasingly p......

Considerably expanded to include the impact of the 2003 war in Iraq and its aftermath, this new edition of Waging Peace provides a unique insight into the cr......

This book offers novel perspectives and insights into key themes of French foreign policy in the de Gaulle years (1958-69). Globalizing research on the ideas......

Drawing on extensive field work in Nicaragua and Argentina, as well as public opinion and elite data, Leslie E. Andersonís Social Capital in Developing Democ......

In this book, Andrew Riggsby offers a survey of the main areas of Roman law, both substantive and procedural, and how the legal world interacted with the res......

The English-speaking world has historically been Israel's greatest ally in the world; and Israel the greatest ally of the United States in the Near East. Th......

A discussion of the political system of Norway focusing on political parties, democracy and accountability in one of the richest countries in the world that ......

On April 26, 1986, Unit Four of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor exploded in then Soviet Ukraine. More than 3.5 million people in Ukraine alone, not to mention ......

Every year the United States spends millions of dollars to help the war-ravaged country of Colombia. But help it with what? In Colombia and the U.S. Mario Mu......

In The Battle for Saudi Arabia: Royalty, Fundamentalism, and Global Power , Professor Asad AbuKhalil confronts the contradictory nature of Saudi Arabia—......

This volume attempts to multiply the angles from which we can look at North Korea by reassessing the international environment in which it is placed, the pro......

This book offers novel perspectives and insights into key themes of French foreign policy in the de Gaulle years (1958-69). Globalizing research on the ideas......

An investigation into the meaning and principles of imperialism. This digital edition was derived from ACLS Humanities E-Book's (http://www.humanitiesebook.o. .....

Women entered the political scene in Africa after the 1990s, claiming more than one third of the parliamentary seats in countries like Mozambique, South Afri......

Why have Russian generals acquired an important political position since the Soviet Union's collapse while at the same time the effectiveness of their forces......