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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
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1997-03-27
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From Moses to Nelson Mandela, speeches have changed the way we see the world and the way the world is shaped.The Penguin Book of Historic Speeches gathers together the world's greatest speeches, bringing together the words of over one hundred men and women. These...
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Penguin
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1996-09-26
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The increasingly multicultural fabric of modern societies has given rise to many new issues and conflicts, as ethnic and national minorities demand recognition and support for their cultural identity. This book presents a new conception of the rights and status of...
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Clarendon Press
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1996-09-19
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Constitutional Democracy systematically examines how the basic constitutional structure of governments affects what they can accomplish. This relationship is especially important at a time when Americans are increasingly disillusioned about government's fundamental...
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Oxford University Press
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1996-03-28
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Why would parties continue to care about membership enrollment in an age of television campaigning and direct-mail fundraising? To answer this question, Parties and their Members traces organizing strategies employed by British and German membership parties during the...
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Clarendon Press
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1996-03-21
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Liberal education has always had its share of theorists, believers, and detractors, both inside and outside the academy. The best of these have been responsible for the development of the concept, and of its changing tradition.
Drawn from a symposium jointly sponsored...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
1996-01-11
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This is an impressive re-examination of the theories of Marx and Engels on nationalism. The author challenges the conventional view that Marx and Engels lacked the theoretical resources needed to understand nationalism. It argues that the two men had a much better...
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Clarendon Press
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1995-12-28
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Fears that representative democracy in western Europe is in crisis are examined on the basis of trends in mass attitudes over the past two or three decades. The evidence suggests not crisis but a changing relationship between citizens and the state. This change poses a...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
1995-11-23
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The increasingly multicultural fabric of modern societies has given rise to many new issues and conflicts, as ethnic and national minorities demand recognition and support for their cultural identity. This book presents a new conception of the rights and status of...
Editeur :
Clarendon Press
Parution :
1995-06-01
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This work shows in detail the emergence and consolidation of U.S. commercial broadcasting economically, politically, and ideologically.This process was met by organized opposition and a general level of public antipathy that has been almost entirely overlooked by...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
1995-01-26
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In this important new historical study, Mária Kovács examines the struggle between liberal and anti-Semitic policies among professional groups--doctors, lawyers, engineers--in Hungary. Kovács's main emphasis is on the interwar period when unemployment, expansion of the...
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Woodrow Wilson Center Press
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1994-12-01
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The Conservative Party is one of the most successful political parties in the western world. Its success has been built on its large grass roots membership. And yet that membership appears to be increasingly disaffected and in decline.
This book is the first in depth...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
1994-10-13
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The collapse of the Soviet Union would seem to sound the death knell for Marxism as a blueprint for social change. Why has this doctrine - the repository of so many hopes and dreams - failed in its grand ambition to liberate the human race from poverty and oppression?...
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Clarendon Press
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1993-06-24
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This book is an original critique of contemporary liberal theories of justice, focusing on the problem of how to relate the personal point of view of the individual to the impartial perspective of justice.
Margaret Moore's examination of prominent contemporary...
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Clarendon Press
Parution :
1993-02-18
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A LANDMARK WORK OF POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY.A GLOBAL BESTSELLER. STILL AS RELEVANT TODAY. With the fall of Berlin Wall in 1989 the threat of the Cold War which had dominated the second half of the twentieth century vanished. And with it the West looked to the future with...
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Penguin
Parution :
1993-01-28
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In the examination of the conception of human nature, a duality is commonly perceived--the liberal self as atomistic, self-contained, even selfish; and the communitarian self as socially situated and defined through its environment. Crittenden argues that neither view...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
1992-08-13
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Lord Hugh Cecil, commenting in 1912 on the British Conservative party's staying power, said that the party's success was largely a matter of temperament, "recruited from...the natural conservatism that is found in almost every human mind." The Conservatives regarded the...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
1990-06-28
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Parties and Democracy studies the actual behaviour of some four hundred governments in twenty post-war democracies. The conclusion that parties do function in accordance with modern democratic theory will serve to put moral justifications of democracy and descriptions...
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OUP Oxford
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1990-05-10
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BL With a new preface by the authors
This is an important work of original scholarship by two of the most distinguished East European economists now working in the West. The authors, both of whom were involved in the Planning Office of the Polish economy in the 1950s...
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Clarendon Press
Parution :
1989-11-23
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Over the five years following the Russian revolution of 1917 there occurred a brilliant outburst of theory and criticism among Russian intellectuals struggling to comprehend their country's vast social upheaval. Much of their intense speculation focused on issues that...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
1989-01-12
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