Unlock a deeper understanding of political systems with One Party State, a vital part of the Political Science series. This book offers an in-depth exploration of political landscapes dominated by a single party, focusing on their structure, governance, and implications for democracy. Whether you're a student, professional, or curious about political power dynamics, this book provides invaluable insights into a significant form of government. Chapters Brief Overviews: 1: One-party State - Explore key features and mechanisms of a one-party system. 2: Marxism–Leninism - Examine how Marxism-Leninism shapes one-party states. 3: Politics of China - Analyze China's unique one-party system and global influence. 4: Politics of Cuba - Study Cuba's one-party system and its historical development. 5: Communist State - Understand how communist states enforce single-party rule. 6: Dominant-party System - Investigate systems where one party dominates despite multiparty settings. 7: Communism - Review the principles of communism and its role in one-party governance. 8: Authoritarianism - Discover the connection between one-party rule and authoritarian regimes. 9: Authoritarian Socialism - Explore authoritarian socialism and its influence on one-party systems. 10: People’s Democracy - Learn about people’s democracy within Marxist-Leninist states. 11: Dictatorship - Understand how dictatorship shapes governance in one-party systems. 12: Autocracy - Examine autocracy’s impact on political stability and freedoms. 13: Illiberal Democracy - Analyze illiberal democracy and its effects on civil liberties under one-party rule. 14: Elections in China - Understand the role of elections in legitimizing China’s one-party rule. 15: Revolutions of 1989 - Reflect on the revolutions of 1989 and their effect on one-party states. 16: Democratic Consolidation - Study the transition challenges from one-party rule to democracy. 17: Civic Nationalism - Investigate how civic nationalism interacts with one-party systems. 18: Waves of Democracy - Explore global democratization waves and their impact on one-party rule. 19: Bloc Party - Learn about bloc parties and their role in one-party political dynamics. 20: Hybrid Regime - Understand hybrid regimes that blend one-party elements with other forms of governance. 21: Conservatism in Russia - Analyze conservatism's influence on Russia’s political landscape and its ties to one-party systems. One Party State serves as an essential guide to the complexities of one-party dominance and its effect on governance in today’s world. With rich analysis and global perspectives, this book equips readers with the tools to understand how one-party systems function and their lasting impact on society. Dive in to broaden your understanding of these powerful political systems.

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The field of international business is dynamic, complex, and challenging, vulnerable to fast-breaking events such as economic shifts, political turmoil, and natural disasters. This concise and affordable textbook will help future international business executives acquire the skills to function effectively under these challenging conditions. "Basics of International Business" incorporates coverage of the ongoing turmoil in the world financial markets. It's designed to familiarize students with the external environments that affect international businesses, to show them how to recognize the processes in identifying potential foreign markets, and to help them understand the functional strategies that can be developed to succeed in this highly competitive environment. The text focuses on 'must-know' core concepts in international business. The concepts, theories, and techniques are organized around seven major topical areas: introduction and overview of international business; environmental variables of culture, politics, and economics; entry strategies for new markets and countries; international trade and foreign direct investments; integration of functional areas; specific functioning areas (marketing, finance, accounting, etc.); global outsourcing and its role in international operations. The text is filled with helpful charts, chapter summaries, exercises, and applied cases. A detailed instructor's manual including course outlines, classroom exercises, and a complete test bank is available to adopters on the MES website.

Democracy is often associated with Western liberal values, such as free markets, individual rights and secularism. Some scholars assert that liberal democracy is the end of history. Disputing such claims, this work presents the concept of Universal Democracy to think beyond the values of Western democracy. A Theory of Universal Democracy empowers cultures and communities across the world to custom design democracy in consonance with their traditional values. For example, the book makes concrete proposals for Muslim countries to democratize their constitutions without accepting Western values and without violating the principles of Islamic law. More importantly, Universal Democracy further develops the idea of Free State, which the author first presented in his previous book, The Extinction of Nation-States. The proposed fusion of Universal Democracy and Free State is designed to revolutionize the classical theory of government and to offer a new paradigm that accommodates both universality and uniqueness.

An examination of how the constitutional frameworks for autonomies around the world really work.

This book presents a collection of lessons on how best to run elections and politics, using examples from the Japanese experience and showing how elections operate in a non-Western democracy. Featuring extensive data and evidence from both Japan and the United States, the themes covered include one-party rule, ballot security and voting procedures, election regulations, malapportionment and gerrymandering, court interventions, voter attachments, and distortions of the public will by election rules. In so doing, the analysis challenges conventional wisdom in both Japan and the United States, highlighting surprising and counterintuitive findings from decades of observation. This book also explicitly compares Japan to other, similarly situated democracies. Japan is therefore not treated as a standalone case but, rather, the lessons from Japan are contextualized for greater understanding and can be used to inform discussions about comparative elections and democracy. Offering practical advice in relation to elections and the functions of democracy, Japanese Democracy and Lessons for the United States will be useful to students and scholars of Japanese, US, and comparative politics.

Analysis of the political history of Zambia through a study of Michael Sata. It shows the interaction between party politics and populism since the 1950s, the nature and competitiveness of electoral politics in single or dominant party regimes, and the importance of individual political leadership to the success of opposition parties in Africa. Javier Milei in Argentina, Donald Trump in the United States, Giorgia Meloni in Italy, Narendra Modi in India, Julius Malema in South Africa - populist leaders are thriving in party politics across the world. Structural changes like the globalisation of the economy, rising inequality, and increased voter detachment from traditional parties have given rise to distinct social grievances on which the populist leader feeds. But how does such a leader emerge? This book uses the study of Michael Sata, former president of Zambia and one of the most intriguing political figures of modern African history, to provide insight into the origins and personality of the populist. It argues that three factors - the structural, the economic and, importantly, the personal - are needed to understand when and how populism develops. Based on exclusive interviews with Sata, as well as with his friends, allies, opponents, and journalists, and on newspapers, archives, personal correspondence, and participant observation, Sata's election to the Zambian presidency in 2011 is explained as the culmination of a political journey spanning the late colonial period (1953-1964), the years of one-party rule (1973-1991), and the era of multiparty democracy (since 1991). The book explores the nature and style of his political strategy, the grievances that he articulated and played on, the constituencies he targeted and mobilised, the policy appeals around which he rallied support, and the language with which he expressed those appeals. At the same time, it uses the prism of Sata's political life to examine the growth of populism in Zambia and its practice in party politics since the 1950s. As well as providing new insights into the long shadow of late colonialism on the country's contemporary politics, this book illustrates the evolution of political ideas and populist strategies.

This volume traces the historical processes in thought by which American political leaders slowly edged away from their complete philosophical rejection of a party and hesitantly began to embrace a party system. The author's analysis of the idea of party and the development of legitimate opposition offers fresh insights into the political crisis of 1797-1801, on the thought of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, Martin Van Buren, and other leading figures, and on the beginnings of modern democratic politics.