Author : Pablo Ruiz-Tagle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 37,64 MB
Release : 2021-10-21
Category : History
ISBN : 1108835317
The first comprehensive study of Chilean constitutional history in the English language.
Author : Edward G. Berenson
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 13,22 MB
Release : 2011-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0801460646
In this invaluable reference work, the world’s foremost authorities on France’s political, social, cultural, and intellectual history explore the history and meaning of the French Republic and the challenges it has faced. Founded in 1792, the French Republic has been defined and redefined by a succession of regimes and institutions, a multiplicity of symbols, and a plurality of meanings, ideas, and values. Although constantly in flux, the Republic has nonetheless produced a set of core ideals and practices fundamental to modern France's political culture and democratic life. Based on the influential Dictionnaire critique de la république, published in France in 2002, The French Republic provides an encyclopedic survey of French republicanism since the Enlightenment. Divided into three sections—Time and History, Principles and Values, and Dilemmas and Debates—The French Republic begins by examining each of France’s five Republics and its two authoritarian interludes, the Second Empire and Vichy. It then offers thematic essays on such topics as Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity; laicity; citizenship; the press; immigration; decolonization; anti-Semitism; gender; the family; cultural policy; and the Muslim headscarf debates. Each essay includes a brief guide to further reading. This volume features updated translations of some of the most important essays from the French edition, as well as twenty-two newly commissioned English-language essays, for a total of forty entries. Taken together, they provide a state-of-the art appraisal of French republicanism and its role in shaping contemporary France’s public and private life.
Author : Henry Alexander Redwood
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 47,32 MB
Release : 2021-08-26
Category : History
ISBN : 110884474X
Offers the first analysis of international courts' archives and of how these constitute the international community as a particular reality.
Author : Whitney K. Taylor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 46,83 MB
Release : 2023-06-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 1009367765
Shows how legal mobilization embeds constitutions in everyday life, pushing newly codified rights from words on paper to meaningful tools.
Author : Xingzhi TAO
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 19,12 MB
Release : 2016-11-21
Category : Education
ISBN : 9004302859
This book introduces Tao Xingzhi’s ideas and thoughts on education. Tao Xingzhi, one of the very few figures in whose name a national association has been established to commemorate his life and work, has been influential in education and social reforms in contemporary China. Over twenty articles written by Tao Xingzhi have been selected for this book and these articles touch on key aspects of Tao’s ideas on education and his plans in developing China’s educational system. Influenced by John Dewey, Tao’s writings were grounded in the Chinese social and cultural context. This book provides an important angle to examine the social and historical roots of recent educational reforms in China. Tao’s unmistakable emphasis on providing equal education opportunities to people from different social groups is especially relevant for China today.
Author : Tu Phuong Nguyen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 48,75 MB
Release : 2023-02-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1009180479
Offers an original understanding of the mutually reinforcing relationship between law and precarity in daily life in Vietnam.
Author : Denise Sienli van der Kamp
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 46,8 MB
Release : 2023-01-19
Category : Law
ISBN : 1009183710
China's green transition is often perceived as a lesson in authoritarian efficiency. In just a few years, the state managed to improve air quality, contain dissent, and restructure local industry. Much of this was achieved through top-down, 'blunt force' solutions, such as forcibly shuttering or destroying polluting factories. This book argues that China's blunt force regulation is actually a sign of weak state capacity and ineffective bureaucratic control. Integrating case studies with quantitative evidence, it shows how widespread industry shutdowns are used, not to scare polluters into respecting pollution standards, but to scare bureaucrats into respecting central orders. These measures have improved air quality in almost all Chinese cities, but at immense social and economic cost. This book delves into the negotiations, trade-offs, and day-to-day battles of local pollution enforcement to explain why governments employ such costly measures, and what this reveals about a state's powers to govern society.
Author : Fiona de Londras
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 31,83 MB
Release : 2022-02-24
Category : Law
ISBN : 1107022738
Explores the problems of rights, legitimacy and accountability in transnational counter-terrorism.
Author : Christoph Sperfeldt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 25,42 MB
Release : 2022-07-07
Category : Law
ISBN : 1009178814
Combining interdisciplinary techniques with original ethnographic fieldwork, Christoph Sperfeldt examines the first attempts of international criminal courts to provide reparations to victims of mass atrocities. The observations focus on two case studies: the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, where Sperfeldt spent over ten years working at and around, and the International Criminal Court's interventions in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Enriched with first-hand observations and an awareness of contextual dynamics, this book directs attention to the 'social life of reparations' that too often get lost in formal accounts of law and its institutions. Sperfeldt shows that reparations are constituted and contested through a range of practices that produce, change, and give meaning to reparations. Appreciating the nature and effects of these practices provides us with a deeper understanding of the discrepancies that exist between the reparations ideal and how it functions imperfectly in different contexts.
Author : Martin Krygier
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 27,82 MB
Release : 2022-03-31
Category : Law
ISBN : 1009033344
Around the world, populist parties have sprung up in formerly and formally liberal-democratic polities, challenging their existing political parties and leaders, and frequently overwhelming them. These challenges and successes were rarely predicted, arriving so soon after the wave of liberal democratic and constitutional enthusiasms, proclamations and institution-building which peaked in the 1990s. Bringing together scholars from law, political science and philosophy, this collection explores the character of contemporary populisms and their relationships to constitutional democracy. With contributors from around the world, it offers a diverse range of nuanced perspectives on populism as a global phenomenon. Using comparative and multi-disciplinary techniques, this book considers the specifics and similarities of populisms, and raises general questions about their nature and potential futures.
