Oil wealth and the poverty of politics

Algeria compared

How can we make sense of Algeria's post-colonial experience - the tragedy of unfulfilled expectations, the descent into violence, the resurgence of the state? Oil Wealth and the Poverty of Politics explains why Algeria's domestic political economy unravelled from the mid-1980s, and how the ...

American government

power and purpose

Aut. Theodore J. Lowi...[et al]. In this major revision, new co-author Stephen Ansolabehere sharpens the contemporary analytical perspective in the political behaviour chapters and a new primer on 'Analyzing Evidence' in Chapter 1 sets the stage for sections in every chapter that highlight the ...

Eternal colonialism

Eds. Russell Benjamin, Gregory O. Hall. This book examines "eternal colonialism," a term used to describe the policies that were designed by the Western world and the United States in order to keep most of the world in a permanently subordinate political, economic, social, and ...

Russia's foreign policy

change and continuity in national identity

CONTENTS: Chronology of key foreign policy events, 1985-2009 1 Understanding change and continuity in Russia's foreign policy 2 The Cold War crisis and the Soviet new thinking 3 The post-Cold War euphoria and Russia's liberal Westernism 4 The new security challenges and Great ...

The global New Deal

economic and social Human Rights in world politics

CONTENTS: Introduction to second edition The elimination of world poverty 1 Global policy choices : there are alternatives 2 International political economy and economic and social human rights 3 The United Nations and economic and social human rights 4 The environment and economic and social human ...

Latin American politics

an introduction

Highlighting eleven different topics in separate chapters, the thematic approach of Latin American Politics offers students the conceptual tools they need to analyze the political systems of all twenty Latin American nations. Such a structure makes the book self-consciously comparative, allowing students to become stronger ...

The no-nonsense guide to greek politics

In the near future there will be no politics but green politics - Climate chaos and pollution, deforestation and consumerism: the crisis facing human civilization is clear enough. But the response of politicians to it has been cowardly and inadequate, while environmental activists have tended to ...

The evolution of modern States

Sweden, Japan, and the United States

The Evolution of Modern States is a significant contribution to the literatures on political economy, globalization, historical institutionalism, and social science methodology. The book begins with a simple question: why do rich capitalist democracies respond so differently to the common pressures they face in the ...

American immigration policy

confronting the nation's challenges

The mission of this book is to counter the apocalyptic vision of the American 'invasion' with a more balanced account of the consequences of immigration. The book will examine how the United States has dealt with immigration through enactment of various public policies over time ...

Cases in comparative politics

Cases in Comparative Politics, Third Edition, is a set of thirteen country studies that describe politics in the United Kingdom, the United States, France, Germany, Japan, Russia, China, India, Iran, Brazil, Mexico, South Africa, and Nigeria. This casebook applies the conceptual framework developed in the ...

Constitutional protection of Human Rights in Latin America

a comparative study of Amparo proceedings

Together with the expansive process of human rights constitutional declarations, in addition to the writ of habeas corpus and of habeas data, Latin American constitutions created a specific judicial remedy for the protection of constitutional rights, known as the suit, action, recourse, or writ of ...

Presidential constitutionalism in perilous time

From the constitution's adoption, presidents, Congress, judges, scholars, the press, and the public have debated the appropriate scope of presidential power during a crisis, especially when presidents see bending or breaking the rules as necessary to protect the country from serious, even irreparable, harm ...

American Government

brief version

This popular brief edition text for the one-semester or one-quarter American Government course maintains the framework of Wilson's comprehensive text, emphasizing the historical development of the American political system, who governs, and to what end. Completely up to date, AMERICAN GOVERNMENT, BRIEF, 9e offers ...

La cultura de la violencia de EE.UU.

choques con culturas distantes

Mientras la realización de una política exterior es considerada, en general, como un proceso racional, indiferente y sofisticado, el presente análisis de las políticas norteamericanas hacia el Golfo Pérsico, el conflicto palestino-israelí y el conflicto bosnio sugieren que los valores culturales subyacentes de la mayoría ...

Derecha radical

votantes y partidos políticos en el mercado electoral

Trad., Josep Ventura López. Este libro amplía nuestros conocimientos sobre las bases de apoyo de los partidos de derecha radical mediante la presentación y sistemática puesta a prueba de una teoría novedosa e integradora, así como por la abundancia de los datos analizados, que abarcan ...

Russian foreign policy

the return of great power politics

This thoughtful and balanced text examines the development of Russian foreign policy since the end of the Cold War. Jeffrey Mankoff argues that Russia's more assertive behavior since Vladimir Putin became president in 2000 has resulted from both a deep-seated consensus among its elite ...

Comparing political regimes

a thematic introduction to comparative politics

There are now 193 sovereign states in the world. Contrary to many assumptions (or hopes), hardly any of these have developed into a liberal democratic model; instead, there is still great variation in national political regimes. In this new edition, Alan Siaroff provides a comprehensive ...

After Putin´s Russia

past imperfect, future uncertain

Edited by Stephen K. Wegren and Dale R. Herspring. Now in a thoroughly revised, expanded, and updated edition, this classic text provides the most authoritative and current analysis available of contemporary Russia and the challenges facing Vladimir Putin and his successor, Dmitri Medvedev. Leading scholars ...

Comparative politics

Eds. Judith Bara, Mark Pennington. 'Bara and Pennington's edited volume successfully fills a huge void in the market for introductory textbooks to comparative politics which previously offered either descriptions of political processes and systems or overviews of the methodology of comparative analysis. By applying ...

Misinterpreting modern Russia

western views of Putin and his presidency

Bruno Sergi argues, in this new study, that the way to know the complete story behind how Putin's presidency has been viewed in Russia, is to examine closely the hard realities that conditioned Putin's policies and responses. "Misinterpreting Modern Russia: Western Views of ...