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| Tony Blair's strong start to his third term, with his role in capturing the Olympic Games for Britain, his statesman-like handling of the... As new federations take shape and old ones are revived around the world, a difficult challenge is to create incentives for fiscal...
This book addresses two of the most important trends in political economy during the last two decades - globalization and decentralization... Russia poses a major puzzle for theorists of democracy: virtually every classic work takes parties to be inevitable and essential to...
The Yugoslav break up and conflict have given rise to a considerable literature offering dramatically different interpretations of what... Gender and Elections offers a systematic, lively, multi-faceted account of the role of gender in the electoral process through the 2004...
This book develops a framework for analyzing the creation and consolidation of democracy. Different social groups prefer different... This book reviews fifty years of research on politics in Africa. It synthesizes insights from different scholarly approaches and offers...
This study demonstrates that in a time of massive change characterized by the emergence of entirely new political systems and a... With political controversies raging over issues such as the wearing of headscarves in schools and the mention of Christianity in the...
Using the United States as a basis of comparison, the book makes extensive use of roll call data to explore patterns of legislative... This book is a comparative study of the American legal development in the mid-nineteenth century. Focusing on Illinois and Virginia,...
This book examines the political behavior of Afro-Caribbean immigrants in New York City to answer a familiar, but nagging question about... Over the past half-century, Europe has experienced the most radical reallocation of authority that has ever taken place in peace-time,...
First published in 2004, Congress, Progressive Reform and the New American State uses a series of case-studies of reform legislation in... While the number of think tanks active in American politics has more than quadrupled since the 1970s, their influence has not expanded...
In the aftermath of the 2000 presidential election, campaigns suddenly seem to matter, as do questions about the electoral process.... Pork barrel projects would surely rank near the top of most observers' lists of Congress's most widely despised products. Yet, political...
This book adapts a formal model of elections and legislative politics to study party politics in Israel, Italy, the Netherlands, Britain,... European legislation affects countless aspects of daily life in modern Europe but just how does the European Union make such significant...
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