Michael Becker & Hans-Joachim Lauth 
Rechtsstaat und Demokratie [PDF ebook] 
Theoretische und empirische Studien zum Recht in der Demokratie

The emergence of Green parties throughout Europe during the 1980s marked the arrival of a new form of political movement and a challenge to existing party models. This work presents an in-depth, them …

First Published in 1984. In this volume, the reader will find seven papers which deal with a broad spectrum of issues not necessarily confined to civil-military relations in their more limited and na …

This book provides a groundbreaking analysis of democratization in Poland by placing Solidarity in the context of the major democratic upheavals of modernity: the French and American Revolutions. Thi …

First Published in 1992. This is a collection of eight articles looking at consociationalism in the Austrian political system. Areas covered are the decline of the »Lager Mentality», parties and th …

The 1996 Israeli elections were the first elections by direct vote for the position of prime minister in which a newcomer — Binyamin Netanyahu — defeated the most veteran Israeli politician, Shimon P …

The application of complexity theory to management and the social sciences has been a key development in theory and practice over the last decade. This approach questions the possibility of finding u …

The past quarter of a century has seen extensive change throughout Europe. There have been significant changes in local government, and the European Union has come to play an increasing role in relat …

This new volume presents a wealth of fresh data documenting and analyzing the different positions taken by governments in the development of the European Constitution. It examines how such& …

This work approaches the phenomenon of guild socialism from a new perspective, focusing on the Douglas Social Credit movement. It explores the key ideas, gives an overview of the main theories and tr …

This book discusses whether and to what extent there are widespread injustices and inequities caused by the distribution of environmental hazards in America today. …