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“robert g moser”

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  • Electoral Systems and Political Context

    How the Effects of Rules Vary Across New and Established Democracies

    by Robert G. Moser, Ethan Scheiner ...
    Electoral Systems and Political Context illustrates how political and social context conditions the effects of electoral rules. The book examines electoral behavior and outcomes in countries that use 'mixed-member' electoral systems – where voters cast one ballot for a party list under proportional representation (PR) and one for a candidate in a single member district (SMD). Based on comparisons ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

  • Is Democracy Exportable?

    Edited by Zoltan Barany, Robert G. Moser ...
    Can democratic states transplant the seeds of democracy into developing countries? What have political thinkers going back to the Greek city-states thought about their capacity to promote democracy? How can democracy be established in divided societies? This books answers these and other fundamental questions behind the concept known as 'democracy promotion.' Following an illuminating concise ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

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    From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy

    by Francis Fukuyama ...
    The second volume of the bestselling landmark work on the history of the modern stateWriting in The Wall Street Journal, David Gress called Francis Fukuyama's Origins of Political Order "magisterial in its learning and admirably immodest in its ambition." In The New York Times Book Review, Michael Lind described the book as "a major achievement by one of the leading public intellectuals of our ... Read more

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  • Whiteshift

    Populism, Immigration, and the Future of White Majorities

    by Eric Kaufmann ...
    "This ambitious and provocative work . . . delves into white anxiety about the demographic decline of white populations in Western nations" ( Publishers Weekly)."Whiteshift" is defined as the turbulent journey from a world of racially homogeneous white majorities to one of racially hybrid majorities. In this dada-driven study, political scientist Eric Kaufmann explores how these demographic ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Do States Have the Right to Exclude Immigrants?

    by Christopher Bertram ...
    States claim the right to choose who can come to their country. They put up barriers and expose migrants to deadly journeys. Those who survive are labelled ‘illegal’ and find themselves vulnerable and unrepresented. The international state system advantages the lucky few born in rich countries and locks others into poor and often repressive ones.In this book, Christopher Bertram skilfully weaves a ... Read more

    $10.00 USD

  • World Politics

    Progress and its Limits

    by James Mayall ...
    Series series Themes for the 21st Century
    At the end of the Cold War, there was much talk of a new world order in which the sovereign state would be held to democratic account, fundamental rights would be respected, and conflict would be replaced by cooperation based on the rule of law. At the start of the new millenium most of this optimism has evaporated.This book examines why it is so difficult to improve standards of international ... Read more

    $19.00 USD

  • Human Rights

    by Michael Freeman ...
    Series series Key Concepts
    Human Rights, now in its fourth edition, is an introductory text that is both innovative and challenging. Its unique interdisciplinary approach invites students to think imaginatively and rigorously about one of the most important and influential political concepts of our time.Tracing the history of the concept, the book shows that there are fundamental tensions between legal, philosophical and ... Read more

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  • Comparative Politics

    Principles of Democracy and Democratization

    by John T. Ishiyama ...
    Series Book 8 - Principles of Political Science
    By revealing the contextual conditions which promote or hinder democratic development, Comparative Politics shows how democracy may not be the best institutional arrangement given a country's unique set of historical, economic, social, cultural and international circumstances.Addresses the contextual conditions which promote or hinder democratic developmentReveals that democracy may not be the ... Read more

    $42.00 USD

  • Strangers No More

    Immigration and the Challenges of Integration in North America and Western Europe

    by Richard Alba, Nancy Foner ...
    An up-to-date and comparative look at immigration in Europe, the United States, and CanadaStrangers No More is the first book to compare immigrant integration across key Western countries. Focusing on low-status newcomers and their children, it examines how they are making their way in four critical European countries—France, Germany, Great Britain, and the Netherlands—and, across the Atlantic, in ... Read more

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  • The No-Nonsense Guide to Human Rights

    by Olivia Ball, Paul Gready ...
    Series series No-Nonsense Guides
    Since the Declaration of Human Rights over fifty years ago, we acknowledge that universal rights exist, but what does this mean to someone who is tortured or denied education, work, or asylum?This No-Nonsense Guide to Human Rights looks at the theories of rights and universalism. It explores the difficult task of trying to protect human rights in war, the legal advances that have led to some ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Populism

    Edited by Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser, Paul A. Taggart, Paulina Ochoa Espejo, Pierre Ostiguy ...
    Populist forces are becoming increasingly relevant across the world, and studies on populism have entered the mainstream of the political science discipline. However, so far no book has synthesized the ongoing debate on how to study the populist phenomenon. This handbook provides state of the art research and scholarship on populism, and lays out, not only the cumulated knowledge on populism, but ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • How to Do Things with International Law

    by Ian Hurd ...
    A provocative reassessment of the rule of law in world politicsConventionally understood as a set of limits on state behavior, the “rule of law” in world politics is widely assumed to serve as a progressive contribution to a just, stable, and predictable world. In How to Do Things with International Law, Ian Hurd challenges this received wisdom. Bringing the study of law and legality together with ... Read more

    $17.99 USD