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Market investigations

a new competition tool for Europe?

In many economic sectors - the digital industries being first and foremost - the market power of dominant firms has been steadily increasing and is rarely challenged by competitors. Existing competition laws and regulations have been unable to make markets more contestable. The book argues that a ...

Citizenship in hard times

how ordinary people respond to democratic threat

What do citizens do in response to threats to democracy? This book examines the mass politics of civic obligation in the US, UK, and Germany. Exploring threats like foreign interference in elections and polarization, Sara Wallace Goodman shows that citizens respond to threats to democracy ...

Rethinking Liberty before liberalism

Opens up new histories of freedom and republicanism by building on Quentin Skinner's ground-breaking Liberty before Liberalism nearly twenty five years after its initial publication. Leading historians and philosophers reveal the neo-Roman conception of liberty that Skinner unearthed as a normative and historical hermeneutic ...

Checks in the balance

legislative capacity and the dynamics of executive power

How access to resources and policymaking powers determines the balance of power between the legislative and executive branches The specter of unbridled executive power looms large in the American political imagination. Are checks and balances enough to constrain ambitious executives? Checks in the Balance presents ...

How growth really happens

the making of economic miracles through production, governance, and skills

A groundbreaking study that shows how countries can create innovative, production-based economies for the twenty-first century Achieving economic growth is one of today's key challenges. In this groundbreaking book, Michael Best argues that to understand how successful growth happens we need an economic framework ...

Hannah Arendt and Isaiah Berlin

freedom, politics and humanity

For the first time, the full story of the conflict between two of the twentieth century's most important thinkers-and how their profound disagreements continue to offer important lessons for political theory and philosophy Two of the most iconic thinkers of the twentieth century, Hannah ...

The Israeli economy

a story of success and costs

An authoritative economic history of Israel from its founding to the present In 1922, there were ninety thousand Jews in Palestine, a small country in a poor and volatile region. Today, Israel has a population of nine million and is one of the richest countries ...

The (un)written constitution

Illuminates the unwritten ideas that underlie our deepest debates about the written Constitution. The late Justice Scalia relished pointing to departures from the written text of the Constitution as a departure from Constitutional law itself, but in fact his own jurisprudence relied on unwritten ideas ...

The daily plebiscite

federalism, nationalism, and Canada

From the mid-1960s through the mid-1990s, Canada was in a state of ongoing political crisis. Within this thirty-year period, David R. Cameron was an active participant and observer of Canada's crisis of national unity. As a political scientist and former senior public servant, Cameron ...

The enablers

how the West supports kleptocrats and corruption - endangering our democracy

Authoritarian regimes in many countries, and the men that lead them, depend on the international management of licit and illicit funds under their control. Frank Vogl shows that curbing their activities for their kleptocratic clients is critical to secure democracy, enhance national security, and ensure ...

Data protection and compliance

Large-scale data loss and data privacy compliance breaches continue to make headline news, highlighting the need for stringent data protection policies, especially when personal or commercially sensitive information is at stake. While regulations and legislation exist to address these issues, how organisations can best tailor ...

The new economics

a manifesto

In 1517, Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the wall of Wittenberg church. He argued that the Church's internally consistent but absurd doctrines had pickled into a dogmatic structure of untruth. It was time for a Reformation. Half a millennium later, Steve Keen ...

Rethinking statehood in Palestine

self-determination and decolonization beyond partition

The quest for an inclusive and independent state has been at the center of the Palestinian national struggle for a very long time. This book critically explores the meaning of Palestinian statehood and the challenges that face alternative models to it. Giving prominence to a ...

La enajenación de la unidad productiva en el concurso de acreedores

Se analiza la enajenación de la unidad productiva en el concurso de acreedores con la pretensión de evidenciar que esta operación constituye una modalidad idónea no sólo para satisfacer los intereses de los acreedores, sino también para garantizar la continuidad de la actividad que venía ...

Comentario articulado a la reforma civil y procesal en materia de discapacidad

Esta obra pretende analizar, explicar e interpretar normas recogidas en la Ley 8/2021, de 2 de junio, por la que se reforma la legislación civil y procesal para el apoyo a las personas con discapacidad en el ejercicio de su capacidad jurídica; ley que ...

Jubilación forzosa y negociación colectiva

La institución de la jubilación forzosa ha vuelto a «resurgir» con el RDLey 28/2018, de 28 de diciembre, cuya Disposición Final Primera modifica el Estatuto de los Trabajadores, aprobado por RDLeg 2/2015, de 23 de octubre, de modo que se habilita, nuevamente, a ...

Legislación Hipotecaria

Esta obra comprende: en primer lugar, la Ley Hipotecaria, con la regulación del Registro de la Propiedad y de los derechos reales sobre bienes inmuebles con efectos respecto a terceros, especialmente el derecho real de hipoteca, la finca como elemento fundamental del sistema, la forma ...

Intervención de terceros en el proceso civil español

Toda sentencia tiene efectos jurídicos inmediatos para quienes litigan ante la jurisdicción -y, en ocasiones, para otros sujetos- y puede producir efectos jurídicos secundarios o indirectos en la esfera de determinados terceros, ya sea por la naturaleza accesoria de ciertos negocios jurídicos (como sucede en ...

Sobre la Ley Penal

(De Lege Poenali)

Esta obra es una introducción al Derecho penal, mediante el estudio de la ley penal. Se dirige a tres tipos distintos de lectores: los alumnos, pueden prescindir de la letra pequeña; los abogados y otros profesionales pueden leer la letra grande y la letra pequeña ...

Respuesta institucional y normativa al crimen organizado

perfiles estratégicos para una lucha eficaz

En esta obra se han articulado cinco secciones, en las que se abordan con extraordinario rigor y acierto perfiles estratégicos básicos para el diseño y articulación de una respuesta institucional y normativa eficaz al crimen organizado. En primer lugar, se tratan los retos y amenazas ...