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  • The Roles of Independent Children’s Rights Institutions in Advancing Human Rights of Children

    Edited by Agnes Lux, Brian Gran ...
    Series Book 28 - Sociological Studies of Children and Youth
    Independent children’s rights institutions (ICRIs) have been established across the world. Endorsed by the UN, they are independent of their governments and endowed with legal powers. Yet we know little about how ICRIs function. How do they work? What impacts their success? What objectives do ICRIs seek to achieve?The contributors to this edited collection provide first-hand experiences in ... Read more

    $95.99 USD

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  • EU Criminal Law after Lisbon

    Rights, Trust and the Transformation of Justice in Europe

    by Valsamis Mitsilegas ...
    Series series Hart Studies in European Criminal Law
    This monograph is the first comprehensive analysis of the impact of the entry into force of the Treaty of Lisbon on EU criminal law. By focusing on key areas of criminal law and procedure, the book assesses the extent to which the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty has transformed European criminal justice and evaluates the impact of post-Lisbon legislation on national criminal justice systems. ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Agenda Setting, Policies, and Political Systems

    A Comparative Approach

    by Peter John, Shaun Bevan, Will Jennings, Bryan D. Jones, Michelle C. Whyman, Sylvain Brouard, Emiliano Grossman, Isabelle Guinaudeau, Arco Timmermans, Gerard Breeman, Frédéric Varone, Isabelle Engeli, Pascal Sciarini, Roy Gava, Christian Breunig, Brandon Zicha, Anne Hardy, Jeroen Joly, Tobias Van Assche, Enrico Borghetto, Marcello Carammia, Francesco Zucchini, Laura Chaqués-Bonafont, Anna M. Palau, Luz M. Muñoz Marquez, Martial Foucault, Éric Montpetit ...
    What will gain the system's attention? "Explores the dynamics of a broad range of policy issues in different countries . . . an important scholarly contribution." — Political Studies ReviewBefore making significant policy decisions, political actors and parties must first craft an agenda designed to place certain issues at the center of political attention. The agenda-setting approach in political ... Read more

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  • The Politics of Transatlantic Trade Negotiations

    TTIP in a Globalized World

    by Jean-Frederic Morin, Tereza Novotná, Frederik Ponjaert, Mario Telò ...
    Series series Globalisation, Europe, and Multilateralism
    By focusing on the wider process of negotiations, this novel volume presents the first systematic analysis of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). The authors include outstanding scholars and relevant practitioners from across disciplines and various academic institutions around Europe and North America, but also from outside of the transatlantic basin. While presenting a ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • The European Union and Human Rights

    Analysis, Cases, and Materials

    by Jan Wouters, Michal Ovádek ...
    The European Union and Human Rights: Analysis, Cases, and Materials maps and critiques the EU's commitment to human rights in both internal and external affairs. The book covers the evolution as well as the current state of the EU's engagement with human rights, focusing, on the internal side, on the role of the EU law in the multi-faceted system of human rights protection and, on the external ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Making a Difference

    A Comparative View of the Role of the Internet in Election Politics

    by Richard Davis, Diana Owen, Ian McAllister, Rachel Gibson, Randolph Kluver, Tamara A. Small, David Danchuk0, Wainer Lusoli1, Jose-Luis Dader2, Marc Hooghe3, Sara Vissers4, Gerrit Voerman5, Marcel Boogers6, Sara Bentivegna7, Eva Schweitzer8, David T. Hill9, Taylor Boas0 ...
    This book is a cross-national analysis of the role of the internet in national electoral campaigns. It covers an array of electoral and party systems throughout the globe from parliamentary to presidential, party-based to candidate-oriented, multi-party to two-party, and stable party system to dynamic party system. It takes a look at three groups of nations with varying levels of Internet access ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • The Comparative Politics of Education

    Teachers Unions and Education Systems around the World

    Edited by Susanne Wiborg, Terry M. Moe ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in the Comparative Politics of Education
    Public education is critically important to the human capital, social well-being, and economic prosperity of nations. It is also an intensely political realm of public policy that is heavily shaped by power and special interests. Yet political scientists rarely study education, and education researchers rarely study politics. This volume attempts to change that by promoting the development of a ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Steering from the Centre

    Strengthening Political Control in Western Democracies

    Edited by Jon Pierre, Carl Dahlström, B. Guy Peters ...
    Governments face new challenges in an era marked by globalization, shifting economic and national security policies, pervasive electronic media, and policy reform. Steering from the Centre details how chief executives in ten Western democracies have responded to governance challenges in the wake of reform ideas such as the New Public Management which stress deregulation and decentralization.This ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • The Sociology of Children's Rights

    by Brian Gran ...
    Children’s rights appear universal, inalienable, and indivisible, intended to advance young people’s interests. Yet, in practice, evidence suggests the contrary: the international framework of treaties, procedures, and national policies contains fundamental contradictions that weaken commitments to children’s real-world protections.Brian Gran helps us understand what is at stake when children’s ... Read more

    $19.00 USD

  • Bridging the Information Gap

    Legislative Member Organizations as Social Networks in the United States and the European Union

    by Christopher Jan Carman, Prof. Jennifer Nicoll Victor, Prof. Nils Ringe ...
    Legislative member organizations (LMOs)—such as caucuses in the U.S. Congress and intergroups in the European Parliament—exist in lawmaking bodies around the world. Unlike parties and committees, LMOs play no obvious, predefined role in the legislative process. They provide legislators with opportunities to establish social networks with colleagues who share common interests. In turn, such ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Migration Control Logics and Strategies in Europe

    A North-South Comparison

    Edited by Claudia Finotelli, Irene Ponzo ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Building upon the concept of migration regime, this open access book brings together the works of scholars who have investigated logics and routines of action in the field of immigration control within a single and innovative theoretical framework. The chapters cover a wide range of policy domains, from visa policy to the externalisation of controls, labour migration to asylum, internal controls ... Read more

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  • Africa and China

    How Africans and Their Governments are Shaping Relations with China

    Edited by Aleksandra W. Gadzala ...
    The China-Africa relationship has so far largely been depicted as one in which the Chinese state and Chinese entrepreneurs control the agenda, with Africans and their governments as passive actors exercising little or no agency. This volume examines the African side of the relation, to show how African state and non-state actors increasingly influence the China-Africa partnership and, in so doing, ... Read more

    $46.99 USD