(Part 2) Best non-us legal systems law books according to redditors
We found 459 Reddit comments discussing the best non-us legal systems law books. We ranked the 112 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 21-40. You can also go back to the previous section.
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> As always, there is a temptation to dismiss what Trump says or reportedly thinks as mere bluster, but here once again, this actually means something significant. Trump’s view that he’s being treated unfairly hints at his actual view of how the law should treat him, which is to say, that it shouldn’t apply to him.
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> Trump’s objection to the raid on Cohen’s office isn’t that law enforcement victimized him by abusing the process. It’s that legitimate law enforcement scrutiny is being applied to him.
he's already got a massive ego. but then when you have evangelicals calling donnie King david, moses, solomon, appointed by god and even 'getting a mulligan' for his adultery; that of course makes him think he has a divine dispensation to break any law. him being 'special' in that sense will be why he'll fire mueller.
I think it's useful to distinguish between fascist ideology, whether on the part of large segments of the public or on the part of leaders, and an actual fascist power structure. If you look at the talk Amber moderated on fascism here, especially the section of Vivek Chibber's talk that I transcribed in this comment, they make a pretty plausible-sounding argument that a fascist power structure requires the ceding of power to fascist leaders by the capitalist class as a whole (as a response to fear of socialism), and we aren't seeing that in the way that powerful capitalist leaders like CEOs are responding to Trump.
On subject of Republicans becoming increasingly fascist in their ideology, I think Dave Neiwert's writings on pseudo-fascism from the early 2000s were pretty prescient (I'd disagree with the facebook post in the OP saying this is a major shift from the Bush years, there may be some slight shift but I think it's mainly a matter of internet communities that help these people gather and become more visible, if there'd been a subreddit for Rush Limbaugh fans in the early 2000s I don't know that it'd have looked much different from the_Donald). I'm looking forward to reading Neiwert's new book on the current state of the right.
Every party has its connections with data miners and manipulators. They can't afford not to. It's the new frontier. I'm not defending it, only acknowledging it. No party is going to want to concede an edge to their competitors.
That is where he's going with it though; limited government, direct democracy, technology based.
The irony being that Carswell is a huge fan but he's going to be excluded from the first DD party. The schadenfreude is going to be strong.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/End-Politics-Birth-iDemocracy-x/dp/1849544220
The Politics Book (Big Ideas Simply Explained)
Provides kind of an overview and historical perspective without getting too bogged down in the details.
Here are some books I found on Amazon that might be decent:
[Henrik Meinander: A History of Finland] (https://www.amazon.com/History-Finland-Henrik-Meinander/dp/0199327211/ref=mp_s_a_1_7?keywords=finnish+history&qid=1573978622&sprefix=Finnish+his&sr=8-7)
[Anu Partanen: The Nordic Theory of Everything: In Search of a Better Life] (https://www.amazon.com/Nordic-Theory-Everything-Search-Better/dp/0062316559/ref=mp_s_a_1_13?keywords=finnish+history&qid=1573978622&sprefix=Finnish+his&sr=8-13)
Katja Pantzar:
The Finnish Way: Finding Courage, Wellness, and Happiness Through the Power of Sisu
Aino Havukainen: This is Finland
We spent an entire semester on it in grad school.
There are people with PhD's in it.
I don't think I can summarize the results in a reddit reply.
Go forth and educate yourself:
Understanding Survey Design and Data
Understanding Opinion Polls
I love The Little Book of Hygge - it's a fun read!
You might also like The Cozy Life. It is very similar.
I also enjoyed The Nordic Theory of Everything. It's not about hygge particularly. It's more about relationships and Danish culture/lifestyles, but it's a nice read.
And this might be an odd recommendation, but I love to read children's books like [The Christmas Wish] (https://www.amazon.com/Christmas-Wish-Lori-Evert/dp/0449816818), The Polar Express, and The Snowman - and not just at Christmastime! They're a great way to spend 15 minutes relaxing by the window on a cool, rainy evening.
Happy reading!
> that i simply can't go through it all myself.
You could, if you hadn't left your research until a week before you hand your dissertation in. That kind of laziness will bite you on the ass in future.
> What were the factors involved in crash in april? What caused it's spike? And why was the drop so significant?
There's plenty of primary source material both here in /r/bitcoin and at https://bitcointalk.org/ that are accessible for free and without registration. While they amount to educated guesswork, I read widely over the Internet and I have to say that I've seen nothing elsewhere that isn't essentially ill-educated guesswork. The Economist is probably the best of the rest. Certainly this forum saw a massive increase in the number of undesirable posters leading up to the crash, all of whom were wanting to buy in, none of whom wanted to do any of the work of understanding why. Panic among them ensued.
> How was the cyprus crisis a factor?
It wasn't. The time taken to download a client, open an exchange account, fund it and get trading means the crash had started before the Cyprus confiscation could get going, never mind that ordinary Cypriots themselves couldn't obtain funds as at March 25th. There was an increase in interest from the Spanish in Bitcoin at the time, but that's about it.
> Where in the world has it been taken to heart and used?
Kreuzberg, Germany.
> Who gains and who loses from its existence?
At the moment, almost no-one. It's thought that in future, those who are involved in transfer payments will be most affected, starting with the likes of Western Union and Paypal, then onto the banks. That will then reach the sovereigns who'd be less able to detain or tax international transactions. That inability, coupled with the Internet, would lead to an increase in 'international' companies that would previously have been national, migrating online for the tax benefit. Transfer payments would then start drying up for many welfare recipients, by which I mean both corporates who benefit from defense budgets, as well as people who benefit from State pensions.
> Anything you deem important in a comprehensive analysis of Bitcoin and Cryptography.
The first half of this book, covering the context we find itself in: http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-End-Politics-Birth-iDemocracy/dp/1849544220
The http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_chip saga from years back which was among the first occasions where individual rights vs the State with respect to cryptography was played out
The http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cypherpunk history, which informs much of where those individual rights were first expressed
The (ongoing) story of the Darkmarkets will tell you much about nation state (in)ability to get a grip on what's happening.
Good luck with your work! I look forward to seeing it here in due course!
> the ancap view of socialism is a bogeyman made out of blood and its cutting the head off a puppy with a giant axe that says "PRIVATE PROPERTY IS BAD, ACTUALLY" written on it
So in other words, people like Cleon Skousen. Hmm, I'd agree with that.
All three of the above aspects in comparative politics are discussed in detail in the Comparative Politics textbook edited by Lichbach.
http://www.amazon.ca/Comparative-Politics-Rationality-Culture-Structure/dp/0521712343/ref=dp_ob_title_bk
If you're really interested in learning more, see if your University library carries this book, there's a whole chunk of the textbook about those three categories.
> Never Allow a Crisis To Go To Waste
Hey, I'd like to read the book. Is this it? http://www.amazon.com/Never-Allow-Crisis-Waste-Evolution/dp/0615537871
Nunca li, mas ouvi dizer que What Is Populism também é bom. Não sei se tem em português.
If you want to read books which have been a major influence on the American right-wing, specifically the Tea-Party, I'd recommend reading the works of W. Cleon Skousen and his son, Paul B. Skousen. These two men are responsible for a significant portion of America's misunderstanding of Socialism. W. Cleon Skousen was even praised by Ronald Reagan himself. If you truly want to understand the enemy, then you really ought to read these books:
Wikipedia — Amazon.com
YouTube Video: The Message of The Naked Socialist — Amazon.com
https://gowans.wordpress.com/2009/10/25/democracy-east-germany-and-the-berlin-wall/
https://www.amazon.com/Stasi-State-Socialist-Paradise-Democratic-ebook/dp/B014E9ESQO
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-eTgjCs2lzpMl92U3JzQ0pIa3c/view?usp=sharing
https://gowans.wordpress.com/2011/12/20/we-lived-better-then/
Except that we misunderstand 'strong'. 'Strong majority governments' get their own way - but also make a lot of mistakes. Governments that are less dominant in relation to Parliament are typically more effective over the longer term.
I'd recommend 'The Blunders of our Governments' and 'Patterns of Democracy' as good starting points.
I don't support the idea people will be fair to each other if left alone. I don't know where you got that idea. I'm a very strong state libertarian. If you want to know how people are when left alone, you should read, Rule of the Clan.
For me leaning libertarian is about the starting point when I think about policy. The question isn't is the current outcome good, but would more regulation produce a better outcome, the answer to that is often no. This is my starting point, if your starting point is I don't like this lets ban it than we disagree.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Rule-Clan-Organization-Individual/dp/0374252815
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Social Democratic America by Lane Kenworthy was highly influential for me. He just released a new book called Social Democratic Capitalism which I have not yet read.
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If you're interested in reading more, I found the textbook I used. It's an older edition (cheap now), but it's easy to read and understand.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0205745431/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o05_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
The Enough Said segment? Good topic, but he sure had a hard time getting words out a couple of times.
Sure, we have our problems and we're working to improve as everybody should.
I would recommend this book to you, if you'd like to know more:
The Nordic Theory of Everything by Anu Partanen - https://www.amazon.com/Nordic-Theory-Everything-Search-Better-ebook/dp/B018QLGBF2/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1520342896&sr=1-1
If logic doesn't work out in simple scenario it won't work in a more complex one. It's like when libertarians ask people who FightFor15 why don't they FightFor1000000?
Hans-Hermann Hoppe actually solves this problem via covenant mechanics. When owners establish a covenant they renounce their property rights (both over themselves and over their stuff) to the covenant, thus their property rights stop being absolute (they become dependend on them respecting the provisions of the covenant). Post-establishment one is not free to break the provisions of the covenant, lest he be physically removed. Note that this means only the founding fathers of the convenant consented to it. Children are born into the covenant. Now this means that Hoppe essentially reinvented the clan. Clan is not the state, but it is also not individualist non-coercive institution. But that is the only solution. Either you have a clan, or you have a state.
Watching and reading the news, real news, not Fox news, will be the best things you can do for exposure to politics. (al-Jazeera and BBC are my favorites, Last Week Tonight has some good in depth pieces)
Additionally, you are most interested in the current election, try finding a voter's guide for your county. Most counties (that I'm aware of) produce a partisan guide where each candidate gets to write about themselves.
Assuming that you mean US politics:
Here is a basic civics lesson, click on the different parts of the flow chart to read about the different parts of government.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/americas/04/us_election/govt_system/html/introduction.stm
here is two full online free courses you can take on US politics: http://www.saylor.org/courses/polsc231/
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/political-science/17-20-introduction-to-american-politics-spring-2013/
Here is a fact checking website that explains different claims made by various people/groups:
http://www.politifact.com/
If you want to know about political science, I would suggest Theories of International Relations and Zombies for a good intro to IR theory and Principles of Comparative Politics.
http://www.amazon.com/Theories-International-Politics-Zombies-Drezner/dp/0691147833
http://www.amazon.com/Principles-Comparative-Politics-William-Roberts/dp/1608716791/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1414722373&sr=1-1&keywords=principles+of+comparative+politics
While I'm linking to things,
Here is the US Constitution http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/constitution_transcript.html
The declaration of independence http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/declaration_transcript.html
The UN universal declaration of human rights http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/
I'm sorry if it wasn't clear on the wiki. To be precise, I actually read it in this book (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Principles-Comparative-Politics-William-Roberts/dp/1608716791), but I wasn't sure how to cite it properly, so I linked to the man who'd discovered the information in the first place.
It's a political science textbook, and you can find this on page 343 in the first paragraph.
I'm kind of new to Reddit, so I wasn't sure...
The best explanation I've seen of different voting systems is David M. Farrell's book, Electoral Systems: A Comparative Introduction.
>Electoral Systems: A Comparative Introduction by David M. Farrell
https://www.amazon.ca/Electoral-Systems-Introduction-David-Farrell/dp/1403912319/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1536676870&sr=8-1&keywords=Electoral+Systems%3A+A+Comparative+Introduction+by+David+M.+Farrell
I'm not sure what level of intro you're wanting, but this might be be good for comparative politics (some of the chapters are a bit dense though): https://www.amazon.com/Comparative-Politics-Rationality-Structure-Cambridge/dp/0521712343. Also this is often assigned or required those going into CP and is an easier read (it's just interviews of how some of the big names in CP feel about their research, the discipline, etc): https://www.amazon.com/Passion-Craft-Method-Comparative-Politics/dp/0801884640. You can probably find bits of these books around publicly so you don't have to pay for the whole texts if you just want to check them out first. Good luck!
Jan-Werner Muller's What is Populism? pretty much explains it perfectly.
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You're missing the forest for the trees.
Even if you suppose more real issue dimensions (which is another way in which FPTP restricts voter choice), the Democratic Party will move toward policy n-dimensional policy positions that appeal to greater densities of voters. Given how voters are distributed, there are more voters available by moving away from the Greens than moving toward them in this n-dimensional policy space.