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  • Measuring Intra-Party Democracy

    A Guide for the Content Analysis of Party Statutes with Examples from Hungary, Slovakia and Romania

    by Benjamin von dem Berge, Thomas Poguntke, Peter Obert, Diana Tipei ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book presents an integrated approach to measuring the level of intra-party democracy through deductive and standardized content analysis of party statutes. Following the two main criteria of intra-party democracy – inclusiveness and decentralization – three main categories of intra-party democracy are theoretically derived: members’ rights, organizational structure and decision-making. On the ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

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  • The Politics of Bitcoin

    Software as Right-Wing Extremism

    by David Golumbia ...
    Series series Forerunners: Ideas First
    Since its introduction in 2009, Bitcoin has been widely promoted as a digital currency that will revolutionize everything from online commerce to the nation-state. Yet supporters of Bitcoin and its blockchain technology subscribe to a form of cyberlibertarianism that depends to a surprising extent on far-right political thought. The Politics of Bitcoin exposes how much of the economic and ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • The Seductions of Quantification

    Measuring Human Rights, Gender Violence, and Sex Trafficking

    by Sally Engle Merry ...
    Series series Chicago Series in Law and Society
    We live in a world where seemingly everything can be measured. We rely on indicators to translate social phenomena into simple, quantified terms, which in turn can be used to guide individuals, organizations, and governments in establishing policy. Yet counting things requires finding a way to make them comparable. And in the process of translating the confusion of social life into neat categories ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Data Privacy Law

    An International Perspective

    by Lee Andrew Bygrave ...
    Although over 100 countries have developed data privacy laws, there is a lack of expert guidance on these laws. This text examines the fundamental aims and principles of data privacy law, along with the mechanisms for its enforcement in an international context. Bygrave analyses relevant law from around the globe, paying particular attention to international instruments and using these as a ... Read more

    $172.79 CAD

  • Conflict of Laws in Intellectual Property

    The CLIP Principles and Commentary

    by European Max Planck Group on Conflict of Laws in Intellectual Property ...
    The Conflict of Laws in Intellectual Property (CLIP) Principles address issues of private law for disputes involving intellectual property rights. They were produced by a Max Planck Institute research project, in which the authors of this work were heavily involved. The Principles are intended to provide a model European framework to respond to the increasing need for guidance on the applicable ... Read more

    $149.99 CAD

  • Governance by Indicators

    Global Power through Quantification and Rankings

    Edited by Kevin Davis, Angelina Fisher, Benedict Kingsbury, Sally Engle Merry ...
    Series series Law And Global Governance
    The use of indicators as a technique of global governance is increasing rapidly. Major examples include the World Bank's Doing Business Indicators, the World Bank's Good Governance and Rule of Law indicators, the Millennium Development Goals, and the indicators produced by Transparency International. Human rights indicators are being developed in the UN and regional and advocacy organizations. The ... Read more

    $56.79 CAD

  • Global Power Transition and the Future of the European Union

    by Birol A. Yeşilada, Jacek Kugler, Gaspare Genna, Osman Göktuğ Tanrıkulu ...
    Series series Routledge/UACES Contemporary European Studies
    Today, the European Union faces challenges that threaten not only internal cohesion but also its position in the global system. This book is about the future of the EU in the light of global power transition taking place in the twenty-first century and demonstrates how its future rests on a delicate balance between policy challenge, member states’ interests, and convergence or divergence of ... Read more

    $90.68 CAD

  • The Regional Integration Manual

    Quantitative and Qualitative Methods

    Edited by Philippe De Lombaerde, Renato Flores, Lelio Iapadre, Michael Schulz ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Globalisation
    The Regional Integration Manual brings together different methods for monitoring and analysing regional integration processes in a systematic way. Employing a multi-disciplinary approach, it seeks to provide officials in regional organisations, researchers in think tanks, academics and students worldwide with an accessible set of both quantitative and qualitative tools, useful in their day-to-day ... Read more

    $114.04 CAD

  • EU Cohesion Policy

    Reassessing performance and direction

    Edited by John Bachtler, Peter Berkowitz, Sally Hardy, Tatjana Muravska ...
    The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.tandfebooks.com/doi/view/10.4324/9781315401867, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license.This book brings together academics, members of European institutions, and regional and national level policymakers in order to assess the performance and direction of EU Cohesion policy ... Read more

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  • Sustainable Governance Indicators 2009

    Policy Performance and Executive Capacity in the OECD

    Edited by Bertelsmann Stiftung ...
    Despite the limiting effects of growing interdependencies in a globalized world, national governments still have a considerably broad scope of action when it comes to ensuring sustainable policy outcomes. The key question is, however, to what extent governments can identify, formulate and implement effective reforms that render a society well-equipped to meet future challenges. The goal of the ... Read more

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  • Seasteads

    Opportunities and Challenges for Small New Societies

    Edited by Victor Tiberius ...
    Seasteads - artificial settlements on the open sea - represent a near-future chance for multiple societal restarts. Where nation states suffer from ineffectiveness and inefficiency, both politically and economically, and cannot be changed due to path-dependency and rigidity, the open sea is a clean slate. Here, we can test new ways of doing things differently. This book discusses the opportunities ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Ranking the World

    Grading States as a Tool of Global Governance

    Edited by Alexander Cooley, Jack Snyder ...
    Over the last decade, international rankings have emerged as a critical tool used by international actors engaged in global governance. State practices and performance are now judged by a number of high-profile indices, including assessments of their levels of corruption, quality of democracy, creditworthiness, media freedom, and business environment. However, these rankings always carry value ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD