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Topical and up to the minute, Minority Policy explores the influence of marginal parliamentarians both within the major parties and on the cross benches in the formations of contemporary public policy. Drawing on the experiences of two former policy advisers, this title takes the discussion up to and beyond the introduction of the new Senate in July 2014.

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This full-scale study of Punjabi politics since Indian Independence in 1947 considers the major political problem confronting virtually every new nation: how to create a functioning political system in the face of divisive internal threats. Originally published in 1966. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to ag

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Looks beyond the stereotypes to the hard logic of the 1990s, and asks a range of provocative questions about the disintegration of the old Soviet empire and the extraordinary riches that have caused so much opportunity and turmoil over the years.

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The Bill of Rights-the first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution-are widely misunderstood by many Americans. This book explores the widely held myths about the Bill of Rights, how these myths originated, why they have persisted, and the implications for contemporary politics and policy.

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While the 2000 presidential election had a number of unique features, including the decisive role of the Supreme Court, it actually was quite similar to three earlier television-age campaigns. For the fourth time since 1960, an incumbent president retired and his party nominated the vice president as a potential successor.

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Most books on missile proliferation focus on the spread of ballistic missiles or cruise missiles, not both.

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This study focuses on the regimes that governed Brazil over the 21-year span ending in 1985. It examines the organization and the record established by the military, and the ideologic tendencies and internal divisions within the military elite.

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Revisiting classic texts by writers such as Simone de Beauvoir, James Connolly and Paulo Freire, this book provides a series of rich reflections on the interaction between radical ideas and political action in Ireland. -- .

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This collection of entries offers a front seat view of the rise, reign, and fall of powerful modern political families and examines the effects they have had on political, social, and economic issues in American society.

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Presents the history of Anglophone political science which argues that the field's transformation shouldn't be mistaken for a case of simple progress and increasing scientific precision. This book shows that political science is deeply historically contingent, driven both by its own inherited ideas and by the history in which it has developed.

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A comparative analysis of the presidential selection process in the United States, Russia, and France.

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Offers a study of modern tyrants, both revealing the forces that allow them to come to power and helping us to predict where they may arise in the future.

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Reveals how the French military in Indochina fought fierce rearguard actions against ideologically motivated insurgents in the 1940s and 1950s to a far greater extent than their American counterparts later did in Vietnam. This edition includes the original introduction by Bernard B Fall and a fresh foreword prepared by Eliot A Cohen.

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Part of the "Praeger Security International Classics of Counterinsurgency" series, this work reveals how the French military fought fierce rearguard actions against ideologically motivated insurgents in Indochina during the 1940's and 1950's, to much greater extent than the Americans ever did in the later Vietnam conflict.

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This book is an enlightening, inspiring, and sobering account of the social and economic transformation of Poland. If Poland is to survive the crisis of the early 1990s, a new and authentic program of economic and human development must be adopted by West and East alike.

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Recognizing these themes allows the consideration of possible remedies for change in the Muslim world.

The distinguished scholars contributing to this volume identify key factorssome intrinsic to the Muslim world, and some externalthat contribute to Islam's current predicament.