Author: David M. Olso
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
Keywords: comparative, view, politics, institutions, legislative, democratic
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1994-06-01
List price: $92.95
ISBN-10: 1563243148
ISBN-13: 9781563243141

This text summarizes the research on, and experiences of, democratic legislatures around the world. It focuses on what legislatures are and what they do - as both consequence of and contributor to democratic self-government.

Author: John Bell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: comparative, international, law, studies, review, europe, judiciaries, cambridge
Number of Pages: 420
Published: 2006-08-28
List price: $129.00
ISBN-10: 0521860725
ISBN-13: 9780521860727

An in-depth study, originally published in 2006, of the careers and roles of judges in France, Germany, Spain, Sweden and England, this book is based on original language materials and investigations of judges and judicial institutions in each country. On the basis of these detailed case studies, the book suggests factors that shape the character of the judiciary in different countries, focusing on issues such as women’s careers and the relationship between judicial careers and politics. Bell’s investigations offer lessons on issues which the English judiciary was having to confron

Author: Kisor Kumar Chakrabarti
Publisher: University of Hawaii Pre
Keywords: comparative, society, asian, philosophy, monograph, study, induction, historical, definition
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 1995-01-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0824816587
ISBN-13: 9780824816582

Authors:James Mahoney, Dietrich Rueschemeyer,
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: comparative, studies, politics, cambridge, social, historical, analysis, sciences
Number of Pages: 468
Published: 2003-02-10
List price: $27.99
ISBN-10: 0521016452
ISBN-13: 9780521016452

This review of the accomplishments and future agendas of comparative historical research in the social sciences explores its strengths in explaining important worldwide outcomes (e.g., revolutions, social provision, democracy). It includes sections on substantive research accomplishments, methodology, and theory, and features essays by some of the most important political scientists and sociologists currently working.Book DescriptionThe book considers the past accomplishments and future agendas of comparative-historical research in the social sciences. It defines the distinctiveness of this ty

Author: Raffaella Zanuttini
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: comparative, oxford, studies, syntax, languages, study, clausal, structure, negation, romance
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 1997-09-04
List price: $85.00
ISBN-10: 0195080556
ISBN-13: 9780195080551

Every human language has some syntactic means of distinguishing a negative from a non-negative sentence; in other words, every speaker’s syntactic competence provides a means to express sentential negation. This ability, however, may be expressed in different ways, as shown by the fact that individual languages employ different syntactic strategies for the expression of the same semantic function of negating a sentence. Zanuttini’s goal here is to characterize the range of such variation by comparing the different syntactic means for expressing sentential negation exhibited by the

Authors:Thomas Janoski, Alexander M. Hicks,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: comparative, studies, politics, cambridge, welfare, political, economy, state
Number of Pages: 413
Published: 1994-01-28
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0521436028
ISBN-13: 9780521436021

Comparative research is exploding with new methodological and theoretical approaches. In this book, scholars who are expert in each one of these methods provide the first comprehensive explanation and application of time-series, pooled, event history, and Boolean methods to substantive problems of the welfare state. Each section of the book focuses on a new method with a general introduction to the method and then two papers using the method to deal with analysis concerning welfare state problems in a political economy perspective. Scholars and graduate students concerned with methodology in t

Author: Elabbas Benmamou
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: comparative, dialects, oxford, studies, syntax, arabic, study, structure, functional, categories, feature
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2000-02-24
List price: $70.00
ISBN-10: 0195119959
ISBN-13: 9780195119954

Focusing on the relation between functional categories and lexical and phrasal categories in Arabic dialects, Benmamoun proposes that universally functional categories are specified for categorial features which determine their relation with lexical categories. Language variation is attributed to differences with respect to the categorial feature specifications of functional categories and how they interact with lexical categories. The book brings new insights to issues related to the syntax of functional categories, the relation between syntax and the morpho-phonological component, and compar