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Taylor & Francis Ltd A Legislature in Transition The Yemeni Parliament
Book SynopsisLegislatures are vital to new democracies and to date no democracy has survived without one. Exploring the dynamics and mechanisms that facilitate or weaken the role of the Parliament, Ahmed Abdul Kareem Saif reinforces the importance of placing the Parliament in a context that shows how it reflects its socio-political surroundings. A detailed analysis of the development of the elected legislative body in Yemen, from its establishment after unification in 1990, this work enables researchers to clearly identify not only the similarities between societies, but also the crucial differences.Table of ContentsContents: A model of legislature; Historical background; The political system of the republic of Yemen; Dynamics of the informal political structure; The structure of the parliament; External environment of the parliament; Internal characteristics of the parliament; The parliament’s policy outcomes; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Judicial Power Democracy and Legal Positivism
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Law and Democracy
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Democracy and International Law
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Chinas Economic Development and Democratization
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Rewriting Democracy Cultural Politics in Postmodernity
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Democratization in Taiwan Challenges in Transformation
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Political Development and Democratic Theory
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Taylor & Francis Ltd To Kill the King PostTraditional Governance and Bureaucracy
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Taylor & Francis Ltd To Kill the King PostTraditional Governance and Bureaucracy
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Democracy and Public Administration
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Modernizing Democracy Innovations in Citizen Participation Innovations in Citizen Participation Innovations in Citizen Participation Transformational Trends in Government Democracy S
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Modernizing Democracy Innovations in Citizen Participation Innovations in Citizen Participation Innovations in Citizen Participation Transformational Trends in Government Democracy S
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Democracy and Public Administration
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Taylor & Francis The SocioCultural Ethnic and Historic Foundations of Kenyaâs Electoral Violence
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Taylor & Francis Multiple Populisms Italy as Democracys Mirror
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Taylor & Francis Contemporary LeftWing Activism Vol 2
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Taylor & Francis Contemporary LeftWing Activism Vol 2
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Taylor & Francis Designing Social Equality
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Taylor & Francis Performing Citizenship
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Taylor & Francis Rethinking Liberalism for the 21st Century
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Taylor & Francis Deliberative Systems in Theory and Practice
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Democracies in Peril
Book SynopsisThis insightful text rigorously examines and accounts for contemporary developments and crucially a reversal of democraticness in democratic polities and related political processes comparing 38 democracies across the world. The focus is on contemporary developments and recent volatile levels of democraticness.Democracies in Peril? introduces theoretical backgrounds of what makes democracy tick and scrutinises empirical trends and development in democraticness in an accessible manner. It explores what democracy as a political regime implies and how the liberal democratic model developed, as well as examining the present state of affairs in democracies, the challenges democracies encounter and the perils of democracy as a legitimate system of governance in the 21st century. The book provides a systemic approach to adjudicate the effects of this assumed reversal in democratisation in terms of popular preferences, party behaviour, institutional architecture and policy pTrade Review'Democracies in Peril proceeds with the evenhandedness of a diplomat and the incisive analytical insight of a superbly informed scholar. In it Hans Keman explains the value of democracy, with all its limitations, and how the rising menaces of anti-pluralism and populism are slowly derailing liberal democratic practices from within. All who care to understand what is at stake—and we all should—will gain a clear-eyed appreciation of the stakes by pondering the ideas Keman puts on offer.'Michael McDonald, Professor of Political Science, State University of New York at Binghamton, USA'This is a thoughtful and realistic account of the much discussed crisis of democracies today making us to understand their weaknesses and defects with ensuing diminishing policy performance and a loss of trust in government. The comprehensive analysis of democracies allows the author to suggest ways out of the current legitimacy crisis by making proposals for building higher levels of confidence in the democratic system. The book sets new standards in the discussion on the democratic backlash. A must read!'Dietmar Braun, Professor of Political Science, University of Lausanne, SwitzerlandTable of ContentsList of tables List of figures List of boxes Preface1 Prologue: democracy in the 21st century 1.1 Democracies in peril: backsliding and de-democratisation 1.2 The concept of democraticness: proto-types 1.3 Levels of democraticness: the yard-stick for comparison1.4 The storyline as a “road trip”: democratisation and political decay1.5 Value-free and value-related knowledge: a realist position PART 1Studying democracy: detecting flaws, defects and perils 2 Reversing trends in “democraticness” 2.1 Democracy in peril? 2.2 Are “full” democracies indeed reverting? 2.3 Full democracies in contrast to flawed and defective democracies 2.4 Perilous developments: potential reasons and questions to ask 3 Comparative political science and the study of democracy 3.1 The academic debate: room for improvement3.2 Omissions in the study of democratic politics 3.3 Comparing democratic states: full, flawed and defective polities 4 Thinking about democracy: the origins of the liberal model 4.1 From ideas to design 4.2 The enlightenment and the concept of the democratic state 4.3 John Stuart Mill and liberal democracy 4.4 The roots of liberal democracy laid out: still work in progress PART 2Pathways towards liberal Democratisation 5 Designing liberal democracy: institutionalising the polity 5.1 Constitutional trajectories toward “representative” governance5.2 Missing dimensions, institutional progress and constraints5.3 The shaping of the polity towards liberal democracy 5.4 Considerations on the road to liberal democratisation6 Towards universal suffrage and representation of the people 6.1 Electoral inclusiveness and fair representation 6.2 Finding the optimal solution to fair and effective representation 6.3 The effects of electoral systems: inclusiveness and pluriform representation 6.4 Institutional engineering: the choice of an optimal electoral system 7 Who governs at the end of the day in a democracy? 7.1 Power distribution and indirect democracy: inevitable or containable?7.2 Democracy and selected leadership: the role of political elites 7.3 Indirect democracy: selecting accountable leadership 7.4 Elitism versus pluralism: power concentration or dispersion? 7.5 The scope and limits of liberal democracyPART 3Contemporary approaches to the development of democracy 978 Polyarchy and pluralism: waves of democratisation 8.1 Polyarchy: the route to “full” democracy? 8.2 Pathways of democratisation: sequences towards polyarchy 8.3 Waves of democratisation: path dependencies and critical junctures8.4 The second wave of democratisation and reversal (1920–1939) 8.5 Post-war waves towards polyarchy and beyond 8.6 Conceptual considerations on polyarchy 9 Consensus democracy: the alternative to polyarchy? 9.1 Cleavage theory and the coming about of consensus democracy9.2 Institutional engineering a peaceful polity: consensus democracy 9.3 Consensus democracy and a better and kinder society 9.4 Considerations on the theory of consensus democracy 10 Parties and democracy: does politics matter? 10.1 Politics – polity – policy and democracy 10.2 Complexities of democracy: political parties and policy performance10.3 Electoral politics and parties in competition and government 10.4 To what extent does democratic politics matter? PART 4The liberal model as a yardstick of full democracy? 11 Ranking the stars of democraticness 11.1 The end of history or political decay? 11.2 Liberal democracy: the paradigm to follow? Ranking the stars 11.3 The state of democracy in the 21st century 11.4 Towards fuller democracies or the end of the liberal model? 12 The limits of the liberal democratic model 12.1 From liberal to full democracy? Variations of democraticness 12.2 The paradigm of liberal democracy contested: toward a fuller democracy? 12.3 Challenging liberal democracy: reforming the system 12.4 The state of the liberal model: embeddedness or moving away? 12.5 The limits to liberal democracy 13 Signs of backsliding: illiberalism and populism 13.1 “Illiberalism” and “anti-pluralism” and the level of democraticness 13.2 Anti-pluralism and the impact of populism 13.3 The growth of anti-democratic tendencies: illiberalism and populism 13.4 Backsliding towards defective democracyPART 5Liberal democracy, the national state and governing society 14 Macro-politics and micro-performance of the “state” 14.1 The problem-solving capability of the democratic state 14.2 Public policy formation: political choice and policy performance14.3 Trust is hard to gain but easy to lose: output legitimacy 15 Liberal democracy, legitimacy and stateness: micro performance 15.1 Democratic politics, public policy and societal performance 15.2 The crisis-solving capacity of democratic state: coping with a pandemic 15.3 Avoiding misery, inequalities and the pursuit of happiness? 15.4 The democratic advantage and effective stateness as a sine qua non 16 Legitimacy and the liberal democratic state in the 21st century 16.1 Democracy and the state: entering a new age16.2 Trust and confidence in institutions16.3 The rise of social media and its role in politics and society16.4 The battle for the people: mainstream party politics in disregard16.5 The shift to provocative parliamentarism: harbouring populist illiberalism17 Epilogue: backsliding into the 21st century: outmoded or viable and resilient?17.1 Liberal democracy: state of affairs17.2 Fear for autocratisation: institutional decay and anti-democratic ethos17.3 Positive conditions and negative consequences of democraticnessIndex
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Taylor & Francis Ltd A British Education Control Officer in Occupied
Book SynopsisEdward Aitken-Davies (1899-1981) served as an Education Control Officer in the British Zone of occupied Germany from the early summer of 1945 until December 1949. He thus experienced the implementation of policy in the Zone from the very beginnings of the occupation until the founding of the Federal Republic of German y in 1949. During the period 1945 to 1947 he wrote weekly letters home to his mother. Those letters, together with the many speeches he gave in Germany during his time as a leading British officer in the Hanover region have not hitherto been available to researchers but can now be made accessible in edited form. The letters are placed in the context of developments in British policy and with explanatory notes on the detail. Taken together, his letters and other documents provide insights into the day-to-day lives of the impressive group of individuals who oversaw the development of education in Germany from post-war chaos to the reform and stability which restorTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Education in the British Zone of Germany, 1945-1949 3. Edward Aitken-Davies, 1899-1981 4. Edward Aitken-Davies’s Letters to his Mother, May 1945-December 1947 5. Postscript, 1948-1949 and After
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Rise and Decline of Modern Democracy
Book SynopsisThe Rise and Decline of Modern Democracy assesses the rise of, subsequent political challenges to, and decline of, contemporary liberal democratic processes, in particular since the third wave' of democratization from the 1990s.Democracy is in global decline. Fewer countries are democratic and fewer people, globally, live in substantive democracies. Autocracy is now the dominant political form and the future looks, at best, challenging for the retention of such democracies that remain. As they did a century ago, nationalism and populism have again reared their ugly heads, and more people are claiming that democracy no longer addresses their most compelling needs or interests. This book examines what democracy is and the circumstances that allowed even encouraged it to arise. Democracy has been a product of a need to find a political model that mediates between competing interests, building on conducive conditions. However, there have since been fundamental changes Table of Contents1 Introduction 2 Drivers of Political Change 3 Ebb and Flow 4 Challengers 5 Compromise 6 Decline 7 The Radical Right 8 The Future is Not Written 9 Conclusion: With a Bang?
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Economic and Political Democracy in Complex Times
Book SynopsisThe concept of economic democracy is traditionally identi?ed with workplace democracy and participation at the enterprise level. This is a very important dimension, but the concept of new economic democracy also recognizes that, in a world of increasing complexity, the principles of democratic deliberation and social participation have to be applied to other areas as well.This book takes a fresh look at economic democracy from various perspectives. It provides rich historical narratives of episodes of social participation in the economy and society, more broadly, from the 19th to the 21st century. It dissects the various analytical underpinnings informing the theory of economic democracy connecting it with collective choice, social contract theory, Marxian analysis and libertarian critiques. The book identi?es new areas of application of the principles of democratic deliberation and oversight such as the adoption of austerity policies, the signing of free trade agreements, thTable of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction, Chapter 2. Economic Democracy and Socio-Political Change in Historical Perspective, Chapter 3. Political Democracy, Economic Democracy and Distributive Justice, Chapter 4. Austerity Policies, Neoliberal Restructuring and Human Rights, Chapter 5. Economic and Political Rights and Social Policy, Chapter 6. Democratizing Monetary Systems and Bitcoin (with Pedro Solimano), Chapter 7. Global Economic Democracy, Chapter 8. Synthesis, References
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Taylor & Francis Defensive Federalism
Book SynopsisDefensive Federalism presents an original contribution to the field of federalism and multinational democracies, exploring the concept of defensive federalism as a protection of self- government against the tyranny of the majority.The empirical evidence on federal and regional polities often shows critical imbalances in the territorial division of powers beyond what has been formally established in the constitutional rules. This volume highlights the rights, institutions, decision- making processes and procedural rules that can protect and develop the practical political, economic and cultural powers of federated and regional entities, especially those linked to territorial national minorities. The authors focus on federalism as a safeguard of self- rule, as well as a set of institutional and procedural rules to avoid the territorial dimension of the tyranny of the majority. They answer two fundamental questions: how is it possible to design new stable and fairer fed
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Democratization and Autocratization in Comparative Perspective
This book provides balanced, critical, and comprehensive coverage of the theories and realities of autocratization and democratization. It sketches developments in the conceptions of democracy, discusses how to distinguish between different forms of political rule, and maps the development of democracy and autocracy across space and time. The book reviews the major debates and findings about domestic and international causes and consequences of democratization and autocratization. It synthesizes theoretical models and empirical relationships based on an explicit comparative perspective which focuses on similarities and differences across countries and historical periods. Key features: Offers a coherent framework, which students and scholars can use to grasp the literature on democratization and autocratization as a whole. Includes tables and figures as well as plentiful, illustrative in-text features, including chapter summaries, text boxes, concluding bullet
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Still the Age of Populism
Book SynopsisStill the Age of Populism? investigates current conceptions of populism and its relevance across the globe. Using contextualized case studies, cross-national comparisons, and theoretical interventions, this volume addresses key conceptual debates in comparative politics and political sociology.This essential volume brings together scholars from different traditions in political sociology, political science and cultural studies, and comparativists and area experts working on Latin America, Western and Eastern Europe, and the US. Chapters in the book employ innovative theoretical approaches to study aspects of populism in global comparative perspective whilst regional case studies, including Brazil, Venezuela, Germany, and the US, are utilised to explore populism in geographically specific contexts. In doing so, the volume addresses the key issues for those seeking to understand contemporary populism. What are the advantages and limits of the category of populism to unde
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Taylor & Francis How Autocrats Are Held Accountable
Book SynopsisChronicling and analyzing resistance to the threat that autocracy poses to American liberal democracy, this book provides the definitive account of the roles that courts and elections played in holding Trump accountable for his actions.This book describes the many lawsuits brought against Trump and his supporters for their autocratic actions. Trump was found liable in two civil lawsuits: for nearly $100 million for sexually abusing and defaming E. Jean Carroll and for nearly $500 million for fraudulently valuing his real estate properties. Trump supporters and associates suffered even greater liabilities for defamation. And many of his lawyers were disciplined by professional associations. New York successfully prosecuted Trump for falsifying business records in connection with hush money payments to Stormy Daniels. Georgia obtained guilty pleas from four Trump associates implicated in efforts to change that stateâs electoral votes, although the case against Trump was derailed by prosecutorial misconduct. Special Counsel Jack Smith initiated two prosecutions against Trump: for concealing classified papers and for seeking to overturn the 2020 election. But the Supreme Court created a novel doctrine of presidential immunity; and those cases were dismissed before Trumpâs second inauguration. The book also analyzes the 2024 election, which Trump won with a bare 1.5 percent majority. It exposes his intensifying vilification of immigrants and transgender people and the numerous falsehoods he and his supporters disseminated. The book concludes by evaluating all the varied forms of resistance to autocracy described in the five volumes of the âœDefending American Democracyâ mini-series.This definitive account and analysis of Trumpism and the resistance to it will appeal to scholars, students, and others with interests in politics, populism, and the rule of law and, more specifically, to those concerned with resisting the threat that autocracy poses to liberal democracy.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Civic Education at a Crossroads
Book SynopsisThis book turns to political theory as a framework for understanding the rise of political and religious extremism, and in particular the Christian Nationalist position, identifying solutions to civic challenges, and arguing for the vital role that public schools play in providing the civic education that prepares young people for participation in democratic self-government.Drawing on scholarly debates between liberal and republican political theorists, the author maintains that if we want to preserve our republic, then policymakers and educators must unapologetically promote a normative âœvision of good citizenshipâ that cultivates in students the requisite civic virtue and rational autonomy needed to defend democracy from the rise of illiberal extremism. A timely contribution to academic debates about the role of civic education in the preservation of democracy, it will appeal to scholars, educators and policymakers concerned with the future of civic education, as well as the philosophy of education, political science, and educational policy.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Small State Referendums
Book SynopsisThis book explores the unusual and unique experience of direct democracy in the small state of New Zealand, where referendums have been a persistent feature of the political landscape for over a century. Referendums have been the site of renewed interest from scholars, seeking to respond to what they term the democratic deficit in otherwise stable and functional Western democracies. They have also been at the heart of many divisive and important political and social moments in recent history, from the UK's Brexit referendum in 2016 to the disputed legitimacy of the 2022 referendums in Russian-occupied Ukraine. This book fills an important gap in the literature through an extended study of the law and practice of referendums in the small Commonwealth state of New Zealand. It also expands the field of small state democracy studies by applying the insights of this field to the direct democracy experience of a small state. With the inclusion of comprehensive tables of referendums and le
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Taylor & Francis The Global Rise of Autocracy
Book SynopsisThis book revitalizes the discourse on backsliding democracy and the global rise of autocracy, extending the consequences of their changes to a sustainable future.In three sections, the book systematically examines diverse pathways leading autocracies to rise and spread worldwide and debates the future consequences. Using a multidisciplinary approach, the book conceptualizes the rise of autocracy and the backsliding of democracy by studying dictatorship, authoritarianization processes, autocracyâs diffusion, and populism. It reveals the global spread of autocracy and reflects on the challenges this poses to, and the likely impacts on, a sustainable future.This book is of key interest to scholars and students of autocracy/autocratization, democracy and democratization, political sociology, sustainability and more broadly to international relations and comparative politics.
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Taylor & Francis Mechanisms of European Integration
Book SynopsisThis book posits the possibility of a reasons-based account of the European integration process.The book pursues the force of public reason in getting to agreement beyond the nation state and spells out the fundamentals of the European integration process, theorizing the mechanisms that brought the European Union (EU) into existence. The book combines insights from social and political theory, law, and political science in setting out a novel theory of European integration and reconstructing the normative foundation of the EU. It goes on to establish the problem of arbitrary rule (dominance) created by political differentiation, examines the place of democracy in the multilevel constellation that makes up the EU, and proposes a set of democratic reforms.This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of EU studies, European integration, democracy, and international political theory/philosophy.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) The New Mediterranean Democracies
Book SynopsisThis volume, first published in 1984, discusses the viability of applying the âMediterranean modelâ to three countries that were transitioning to democracy, â Spain, Greece and Portugal â combining both comparative and national case-study approaches. In particular, Spain, Greece and Portugal offer comparable examples of the problems of establishing new democratic systems within relatively unstable and economically less developed environments. This title applies different theories of regime transition to the countries in question. This volume will be of interest to students of politics.Table of ContentsNotes on the Contributors; Comparative Perspectives on the New Mediterranean Democracies: A Model of Regime Transition?; Part 1: The Process of Regime Transition: Three Parallel Roads to Democracy; 1. Spain’s Evolutionary Pathway from Dictatorship to Democracy 2. Transition to, and Consolidation of, Democratic Politics in Greece, 1974-83: A Tentative Assessment 3. Continuity and Change in Portuguese Politics: Ten Years after the Revolution of 25 April 1974; Part 2: Party Systems and Party Development: Their Role in Democratic Transition; 4. Spain: Parties and the Party System in Transition 5. Political Parties in Post-Junta Greece: A Case of ‘Bureaucratic Clientelism’? 6. Social Cleavages and Electoral Performance: The Social Basis of Portuguese Political Parties, 1976-83; Part 3: Comparative Themes of Regime Transition in Mediterranean Europe; 7. Southern European Socialism in Transition 8. The International Context of Democratic Transition 9. Government Performance: An Issue and Three Cases in Search of Theory; Abstracts; Index
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Cambridge University Press PostCommunist Democratization Political Discourses Across Thirteen Countries Theories of Institutional Design
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Cambridge University Press Robben Island and Prisoner Resistance to Apartheid
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Cambridge University Press In Search of Chinese Democracy
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Cambridge University Press Traditional Politics and Regime Change in Brazil
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Cambridge University Press The Invention of the Modern Republic
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Cambridge University Press Stuffing the Ballot Box
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Cambridge University Press Legislative Institutions and Ideology in Chile
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Cambridge University Press Government Survival in Parliamentary Democracies
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Cambridge University Press Democracy and Development Hadenius
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Cambridge University Press Ideology in a Socialist State
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Cambridge University Press Rationalizing Parliament
Book SynopsisThis book examines how institutional arrangements in the French Constitution shape the bargaining strategies of political parties.Trade ReviewReview of the hardback: 'The argument is clear and well presented … and well referenced. This short work is a good text for courses on political institutions and comparative politics, as well as French politics.' John Gaffney, Political StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Parliamentary government in the Fifth Republic; 2. Choosing institutions; 3. Restrictive procedures and policy conflict; 4. Restrictive procedures and bargaining among parties; 5. The confidence vote procedure and electoral politics; 6. Electoral politics, procedural choice, and the French budget; 7. Institutional arrangements, political parties, and parliamentary democracy.
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Cambridge University Press Understanding Democracy
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Cambridge University Press Pluralism Socialism and Political Legitimacy
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