African Politics in Comparative Perspective, 2 edition

African Politics in Comparative Perspective, 2 edition by Goran Hyden


English | 2012 | ISBN: 1107030471, 1107651417 | 322 pages | PDF | 1,3 MB

This revised and expanded second edition of African Politics in Comparative Perspective reviews fifty years of research on politics in Africa and addresses some issues in a new light, keeping in mind the changes in Africa since the first edition was written in 2004. The book synthesizes insights from different scholarly approaches and offers an original interpretation of the knowledge accumulated in the field. Goran Hyden discusses how research on African politics relates to the study of politics in other regions and mainstream theories in comparative politics. He focuses on such key issues as why politics trumps economics, rule is personal, state is weak and policies are made with a communal rather than an individual lens. The book also discusses why in the light of these conditions agriculture is problematic, gender contested, ethnicity manipulated and relations with Western powers a matter of defiance.

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Party Primaries in Comparative Perspective

Party Primaries in Comparative Perspective by Giulia Sandri and Antonella Seddone


English | 2015 | ISBN: 1472450388 | 226 pages | PDF | 1,5 MB

Review


"This book offers useful observations about why many parties in parliamentary democracies have been adopting or expanding their use of primaries, and about why and how this change may matter. Several chapters helpfully explore differences between primaries for selecting legislative candidates and those for selecting party leaders." –Susan Scarrow, University of Houston, USA




"This book represents a valuable attempt to think through the concept of the primary election, and to analyse the empirical reasons for, and the consequences of, its adoption by political parties. Given the spread of primaries to parties beyond the USA specifically and presidential systems more generally, this book is a timely and very useful addition to the comparative literature on party politics." –Paul Webb, University of Sussex, UK

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Verb Movement and Expletive Subjects in the Germanic Languages (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax) [Repost]

Verb Movement and Expletive Subjects in the Germanic Languages (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax) by Sten Vikner


English | Apr. 13, 1995 | ISBN: 0195083946 | 304 Pages | PDF | 16.01 MB

This book is the study of two different kinds of variation across the Germanic languages. One involves the position of the finite verb, and the other the possible positions of the "logical" subject in constructions with expletive (or "dummy") subjects. The book applies the theory of Principles-and-Parameters to the study of comparative syntax. Several languages are considered, including less frequently discussed ones like Danish, Faroese, Icelandic, and Yiddish.

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Israel in Comparative Perspective: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom (Suny Series in Israeli Studies)

Israel in Comparative Perspective: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom (Suny Series in Israeli Studies) by Michael N. Barnett


English | Feb. 1996 | ISBN: 0791428311 | 296 Pages | PDF | 5.03 MB

Because Israel is unique in many dimensions, many social scientists consider it a historical peculiarity. Neither East nor West, developed nor undeveloped, capitalist nor socialist, Third World nor First World, Israel has little in common with other countries and their historical experiences. This book of original essays challenges the image of Israeli uniqueness and the status of the Israeli case and at the same time corrects some common misperceptions about the comparative method in general and case selection in particular. At the same time, it compares Israeli and Arab experiences and addresses critical issues in Middle Eastern studies. To challenge the image of Israeli uniqueness, the authors situate Israel"s history in comparative context; employ macrohistorical concepts both to reexamine the Israeli case and to build bridges between Israel and other historical experiences; and use the Israeli case to reconsider existing social science theories. [Articles by Michael Barnett, Yehezkal Dror, Rebecca Kook, Ian Lustick, Joel Migdal, Gershon Shafir, Gabriel Sheffer, Shibley Telhami, and Mark Tessler and Ina Warriner] Israel in Comparative Perspective demonstrates how our understanding of the region can be enriched by using models and theories developed in other regions to reexamine Israeli history.

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The Syntax of Ellipsis: Evidence from Dutch Dialects (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax) [Repost]

The Syntax of Ellipsis: Evidence from Dutch Dialects (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax) by Jeroen Van Craenenbroeck


English | Feb. 22, 2010 | ISBN: 0195375653 | 334 Pages | PDF | 2.12 MB

The Syntax of Ellipsis investigates a number of elliptical constructions found in Dutch dialects within the framework of the Minimalist Program. Using two case studies, Van Craenenbroeck argues that both the P.F.-deletion and the pro-theory of ellipsis are needed to account for the full range of elliptical phenomena attested in natural language. The first case study focuses on instances of stranding to the right of a sluiced wh-phrase: prepositions in English (What about? ) and demonstrative pronouns in southern Dutch dialects (Wie dat? "who that"). Van Craenenbroeck gives both of these phenomena a P.F.-deletion analysis, which turns out to have considerable repercussions for the structure of the left periphery and the syntax of wh-movement. Specifically, while minimal wh-phrases move from their I.P.-internal base position to spec C.P., complex ones are base-generated in the (split) left periphery. The second case study is concerned with Short Do Replies in southern Dutch dialects, a type of contradictory reply that at first sight bears a close resemblance to English V.P.-ellipsis. Van Craenenbroeck shows that in this case the ellipsis site is best represented as a null, structureless proform that is licensed by the head of a high Po.l.P. . Moreover, this pronominal is argued to occur in two other dialectal constructions as well: contradictory replies of the type Da"s nie "that is not" found in Brabant Dutch, and the occurrence of subject clitics and agreement endings on the words for yes and no in Southern Dutch dialects (e.g. Ja-n-s "yes-Plural-they"). The Syntax of Ellipsis will be of interest to scholars of the left periphery, wh-movement, and Dutch dialects.

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Canon Law: A Comparative Study with Anglo-American Legal Theory

Canon Law: A Comparative Study with Anglo-American Legal Theory by John J. Coughlin O.F.M.


English | 2010 | ISBN: 0195372972 | 248 pages | PDF | 1 MB

Exclusionary Rules in Comparative Law (repost)

Exclusionary Rules in Comparative Law (Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice) by Stephen C. Thaman


English | 2012-12-30 | ISBN: 9400753470, 9400798490 | PDF | 456 pages | 3,3 MB

This book is a comparative study of the exclusion of illegally gathered evidence in the criminal trial , which includes 15 country studies, a chapter on the European Court of Human Rights, and a comparative synthetic conclusion. No other book has undertaken such a broad comparative study of exclusionary rules, which have now become a world-wide phenomenon. The topic is one of the most controversial in criminal procedure law, because it reveals a constant tension between the criminal court’s duty to ascertain the truth, on the one hand, and its duty to uphold important constitutional rights on the other, most importantly, the privilege against self-incrimination and the right to privacy in one"s home and one"s private communications.


The chapters were contributed by noted world experts on the subject for the XVIII Congress of the International Academy of Comparative Law in Washington in July 2010.

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