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If democracy without political parties is unthinkable, what would happen if the role of political parties if the democratic process is weakened? The ongoing debate about the vitality of political parties is also a debate about the vitality of representative democracy....
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OUP Oxford
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2000-11-30
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The decade and a half since Gorbachev came to power has been a tumultuous time for Russia. It has seen the expectations raised by perestroika dashed, the collapse of the Soviet superpower, and the emergence of a new Russian state claiming to base itself on democratic,...
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OUP Oxford
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2000-03-23
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European integration is at a turning point with implications for all member states and their citizens. The Amsterdam treaty marks a shift towards constitutional issues. Integration has involved a continually evolving process of constitution making. A group of leading...
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OUP Oxford
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2000-03-16
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The last few decades has seen a prolonged debate over the nature and importance of social class as a basis for ideology, class voting and class politics.The prevailing assumption is that, in western societies, class inequalities are no longer important in determining...
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OUP Oxford
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1999-09-23
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Why have British and North American governments adopted illiberal social policies during this century? In the Name of Liberalism investigates examples of social policy in Britain and the United States that conflict with liberal democratic ideals. The book examines the...
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OUP Oxford
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1999-09-02
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One of the first book-length studies devoted to religion and African-American political activism in a generation, Something Within explores how Afro-Christianity, in various ways, promotes the political activism of African-Americans. Combining ethnography, history,...
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Oxford University Press
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1999-08-26
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Elections have always been an integral part of post-independence African politics and have assumed utmost importance in the course of recent democratisation processes. However, comparative research on the political development in Africa lacks reliable electoral data....
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OUP Oxford
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1999-07-22
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This wide-ranging overview of the processes of democratization in post-Communist Europe, places the transitions in East-Central Europe within a broad European and global context.
The authors begin with a introduction to the concept and theories of democracy and then...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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1999-05-26
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The New Red Negro surveys African-American poetry from the onset of the Depression to the early days of the Cold War. It considers the relationship between the thematic and formal choices of African-American poets and organized ideology from the proletarian early 1930s...
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Oxford University Press
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1999-04-15
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The design of electoral systems and executive types is increasingly being recognized the key lever of constitutional engineering to be applied in the interests of political accommodation and stability in ethnically divided societies. In this groundbreaking comparative...
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OUP Oxford
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1999-01-28
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The "definitive" (Los Angeles Times), award-winning history of Cambodia and Pol Pot's rise to power, tracing the country's modern origins to the human rights abuses that reshaped it forever Award-winning journalist Elizabeth Becker started...
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PublicAffairs
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1998-11-10
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This book presents a novel and compelling thesis about technological risk, liberalism, and policy making in liberal societies. Opposed to most theories of risk that focus on individual decision makers and models or rational choice, this book argues that risks must be...
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Oxford University Press
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1998-10-08
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This spirited analysis--and defense--of American liberalism demonstrates the complex and rich traditions of political, economic, and social discourse that have informed American democratic culture from the seventeenth century to the present. The Virtues of Liberalism...
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Oxford University Press
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1998-08-06
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The power of the European Parliament has been steadily and visibly increasing in recent years. This arises from EU treaty changes and from the fact that more and more decisions are being made at the European level. At the same time, however, the already low rate of...
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Clarendon Press
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1998-07-30
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The second half of the twentieth century has witnessed several waves of democratization in Europe, the Americas, and in other regions of the world, such as South East Asia. Although for the most part these democratic regimes are no longer haunted by the prospect of a...
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OUP Oxford
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1998-07-02
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When President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the 1965 Voting Rights Act, he explained that it flowed from "a clear and simple wrong." But a generation later, whites still remain resistant to the election of blacks to public office. That widespread resistance, Keith Reeves...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
1997-10-23
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Any liberal democratic state must honour religious and cultural pluralism in its educational policies. To fail to honour them would betray ideals of freedom and toleration fundamental to liberal democracy. Yet if such ideals are to flourish from one generation to the...
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Clarendon Press
Parution :
1997-09-19
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Although few want to deny their importance, many political theorists have recently complained that too much weight is now attached to individual rights. The result, as they see it, is an excessive individualism that blinds people to the needs of the community or state...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
1997-06-19
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Why do some citizens vote while others do not?Why does less than half of the American voting public routinely show up at the polls?Why is it that the vast majority of political issues affecting our day-to-day lives fail to generate either public interest or...
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Oxford University Press
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1997-05-01
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This unique and important new book looks at how we interpret the evidence of change and stability in modern parties and party systems. Focusing primarily on processes of political adaptation and control, it also concerns how parties and party systems generate their own...
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Clarendon Press
Parution :
1997-03-27
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