Empirical legitimacy, defined as social acceptance of the right to rule, constitutes a key
condition for effective governance in areas of limited statehood. Most work on legitimacy …

Over all businesses are ever changing competition environment, organization are always
required to make modification internally and externally to compete globally successfully into …

What is democracy? What are the pitfalls and the positive potentials in the growing trend
toward democratization? This book examines the prospects for democracy in the world …

Legal pluralism has vast policy and governance implications. In developing countries, for
instance, non-state justice systems often handle most disputes and retain substantial …

Understanding Development offers a comprehensive introduction to the multidimensional
and evolving nature of international development in the contemporary world. This new …

In February of 2011, Libyan citizens rebelled against Muammar Qaddafi and quickly
unseated him. The speed of the regime's collapse confounded many observers, and the …

Résumé L'ouvrage traite des mécanismes de diffusion de “modèles” de politiques publiques
pour l'agriculture familiale du Brésil vers d'autres pays d'Amérique Latine et des Caraïbes. Il …

'Peace in Political Unsettlement'is a result of the academic endeavour initiated by the
Political Settlements Research Programme (PSRP) at the University of Edinburgh Law …

This book explores the last 25 years of international peacebuilding and recasts them as a
growing crisis of confidence in universal ideas of peacebuilding and self-government. Since …

The role that state capacity plays in development has been the subject of growing cross-
disciplinary research. The state capacity concept has faced criticism on numerous fronts …